Abundance and biogeography of methanogenic and methanotrophic microorganisms across European streams

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/jbi.14052" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/jbi.14052</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14052" target="_blank" >10.1111/jbi.14052</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Abundance and biogeography of methanogenic and methanotrophic microorganisms across European streams

Original language description

Aim Although running waters are getting recognized as important methane sources, large-scale geographical patterns of microorganisms controlling the net methane balance of streams are still unknown. Here we aim at describing community compositions of methanogenic and methanotrophic microorganisms at large spatial scales and at linking their abundances to potential sediment methane production (PMP) and oxidation rates (PMO). Location The study spans across 16 European streams from northern Spain to northern Sweden and from western Ireland to western Bulgaria. Taxon Methanogenic archaea and methane-oxidizing microorganisms. Methods To provide a geographical overview of both groups in a single approach, microbial communities and abundances were investigated via 16S rRNA gene sequencing, extracting relevant OTUs based on literature; both groups were quantified via quantitative PCR targeting mcrA and pmoA genes and studied in relation to environmental parameters, sediment PMP and PMO, and land use. Results Diversity of methanogenic archaea was higher in warmer streams and of methanotrophic communities in southern sampling sites and in larger streams. Anthropogenically altered, warm and oxygen-poor streams were dominated by the highly efficient methanogenic families Methanospirillaceae, Methanosarcinaceae and Methanobacteriaceae, but did not harbour any specific methanotrophic organisms. Contrastingly, sediment communities in colder, oxygen-rich waters with little anthropogenic impact were characterized by methanogenic Methanosaetaceae, Methanocellaceae and Methanoflorentaceae and methanotrophic Methylococcaceae and Cd. Methanoperedens. Representatives of the methanotrophic Crenotrichaceae and Methylococcaceae as well as the methanogenic Methanoregulaceae were characteristic for environments with larger catchment area and higher discharge. PMP increased with increasing abundance of methanogenic archaea, while PMO rates did not show correlations with abundances of methane-oxidizing bacteria. Main conclusions Methanogenic and methanotrophic communities grouping into three habitat types suggest that future climate- and land use changes may influence the prevailing microbes involved in the large-scale stream-related methane cycle, favouring the growth of highly efficient hydrogenotrophic methane producers. Based on these results, we expect global change effect on PMP rates to especially impact rivers adjacent to anthropogenically disturbed land uses.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project

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Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

ISSN

0305-0270

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

48

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

947-960

UT code for WoS article

000598652500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85097556921