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The active methanotrophic community in a wetland from the High Arctic.
Environ Microbiol Rep
August 2011
Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics, University of Tromsø, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway. Max-Planck-Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, D-35043 Marburg, Germany.
The dominant terminal process of carbon mineralization in most freshwater wetlands is methanogenesis. With methane being an important greenhouse gas, the predicted warming of the Arctic may provide a positive feedback. However, the amount of methane released to the atmosphere may be controlled by the activity of methane-oxidizing bacteria (methanotrophs) living in the oxic surface layer of wetlands.
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