Stable carbon isotope discrimination and microbiology of methane formation in tropical anoxic lake sediments
Methane is an important end product of degradation of organic matter in anoxic lake sediments. Methane is mainly produced by either reduction of CO<sub>2</sub> or cleavage of acetate involving different methanogenic archaea. The contribution of the different methanogenic...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2011-03-01
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Series: | Biogeosciences |
Online Access: | http://www.biogeosciences.net/8/795/2011/bg-8-795-2011.pdf |