Projektnummer

0062606

Zusammenfassung

Methane is produced in significant quantities in marine and lacustrine environments, and significant fractions can evade to the atmosphere contributing to global warming.It is well established that competitive effects between sulfate reducing, denitrifying and methanogenic communities, and inhibition of methanogenic Archaea by sulfide, produced during dissimilatory sulfate reduction, and nitrate and its reduction products, supress methane production. Yet, methanogenic activity in sedimentary environments observed in the presence of metabolically active sulfate-reducing and denitrifying...