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Riverbed methanotrophy sustained by high carbon conversion efficiency

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Trimmer, Mark, Shelley, Felicity C., Purdy, Kevin J., Maanoja, Susanna T., Chronopoulou, Panagiota-Myrsini and Jonathan, Grey (2015) Riverbed methanotrophy sustained by high carbon conversion efficiency. The ISME journal, 9 . pp. 2304-2314. doi:10.1038/ismej.2015.98

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Abstract

Our understanding of the role of freshwaters in the global carbon cycle is being revised, but there is still a lack of data, especially for the cycling of methane, in rivers and streams. Unravelling the role of methanotrophy is key to determining the fate of methane in rivers. Here we focus on the carbon conversion efficiency (CCE) of methanotrophy, that is, how much organic carbon is produced per mole of CH4 oxidised, and how this is influenced by variation in methanotroph communities. First, we show that the CCE of riverbed methanotrophs is consistently high (~50%) across a wide range of methane concentrations (~10–7000 nM) and despite a 10-fold span in the rate of methane oxidation. Then, we show that this high conversion efficiency is largely conserved (50%± confidence interval 44–56%) across pronounced variation in the key functional gene (70 operational taxonomic units (OTUs)), particulate methane monooxygenase (pmoA), and marked shifts in the abundance of Type I and Type II methanotrophs in eight replicate chalk streams. These data may suggest a degree of functional redundancy within the variable methanotroph community inhabiting these streams and that some of the variation in pmoA may reflect a suite of enzymes of different methane affinities which enables such a large range of methane concentrations to be oxidised. The latter, coupled to their high CCE, enables the methanotrophs to sustain net production throughout the year, regardless of the marked temporal and spatial changes that occur in methane.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: Q Science > QH Natural history
Divisions: Faculty of Science > Life Sciences (2010- )
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry)—Research, Freshwater microbiology, Methanotrophs
Journal or Publication Title: The ISME journal
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
ISSN: 1751-7362
Official Date: 9 June 2015
Dates:
DateEvent
9 June 2015Available
8 May 2015Accepted
16 October 2014Submitted
Volume: 9
Number of Pages: 11
Page Range: pp. 2304-2314
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2015.98
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access
Funder: Natural Environment Research Council (Great Britain) (NERC)

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