Methane cycle in terrestrial amd submarine permafrost deposits of the Laptev Sea region
Permafrost environments within the Siberian Arctic are natural sources of the climate relevant trace gas methane. In order to improve our understanding of the present and future carbon dynamics in high latitudes, we studied the methane concentration, the quantity and quality of organic matter, and t...
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ftawi:oai:epic.awi.de:18167 2024-09-15T18:17:32+00:00 Methane cycle in terrestrial amd submarine permafrost deposits of the Laptev Sea region Wagner, Dirk Koch, Kristina Gattinger, A. Lipski, A. 2008 https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/18167/ https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.28702 unknown Wagner, D. , Koch, K. , Gattinger, A. and Lipski, A. (2008) Methane cycle in terrestrial amd submarine permafrost deposits of the Laptev Sea region , Ninth International Conference on Permafrost, Fairbanks, Alaska, June 29 - July 3 . hdl:10013/epic.28702 EPIC3Ninth International Conference on Permafrost, Fairbanks, Alaska, June 29 - July 3, 2008 p. Conference notRev 2008 ftawi 2024-06-24T04:00:13Z Permafrost environments within the Siberian Arctic are natural sources of the climate relevant trace gas methane. In order to improve our understanding of the present and future carbon dynamics in high latitudes, we studied the methane concentration, the quantity and quality of organic matter, and the activity and biomass of the methanogenic community in terrestrial and submarine permafrost deposits. For these investigations permafrost cores of Holocene and Pleistocene ages were drilled in the Laptev Sea region. The organic carbon of the permafrost sediments varied between 0.6% and 4.9% and was characterized by an increasing humification index with permafrost depth. A high methane concentration was found in distinct horizons of the deposits, which correlates well with the methanogenic activity and archaeal biomass (expressed as PLEL concentration). Even the incubation of core material at 3 and 6°C with and without substrates showed a significant methane production (range: 0.040.78 nmol CH4 h 1 g 1). The results indicated that the methane in Holocene and Pleistocene permafrost deposits of the Laptev Sea region originated from modern methanogenesis by cold-adapted methanogenic archaea. Owing to the subzero experiments and the in situ temperatures of permafrost sediments, we can conclude that the methanogenic community is dominated by psychrotolerant or even psychrophilic microorganisms. Despite this adaptation to cold environments, we show that a slight increase of the temperature can lead to a substantial increase of methanogenic activity. In case of permafrost degradation, this would lead to an extensive expansion of the methane deposits with their subsequent impacts on total methane emission. A future in-depth characterization of the metabolism of these cold-adapted methanogens will reveal biotic and abiotic factors, which influence the methanogenic activity of these organisms.Furthermore, the results further show that methane in permafrost, which originates from modern methanogenesis, represents contribution ... Conference Object laptev Laptev Sea permafrost Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research (AWI): ePIC (electronic Publication Information Center) |
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Permafrost environments within the Siberian Arctic are natural sources of the climate relevant trace gas methane. In order to improve our understanding of the present and future carbon dynamics in high latitudes, we studied the methane concentration, the quantity and quality of organic matter, and the activity and biomass of the methanogenic community in terrestrial and submarine permafrost deposits. For these investigations permafrost cores of Holocene and Pleistocene ages were drilled in the Laptev Sea region. The organic carbon of the permafrost sediments varied between 0.6% and 4.9% and was characterized by an increasing humification index with permafrost depth. A high methane concentration was found in distinct horizons of the deposits, which correlates well with the methanogenic activity and archaeal biomass (expressed as PLEL concentration). Even the incubation of core material at 3 and 6°C with and without substrates showed a significant methane production (range: 0.040.78 nmol CH4 h 1 g 1). The results indicated that the methane in Holocene and Pleistocene permafrost deposits of the Laptev Sea region originated from modern methanogenesis by cold-adapted methanogenic archaea. Owing to the subzero experiments and the in situ temperatures of permafrost sediments, we can conclude that the methanogenic community is dominated by psychrotolerant or even psychrophilic microorganisms. Despite this adaptation to cold environments, we show that a slight increase of the temperature can lead to a substantial increase of methanogenic activity. In case of permafrost degradation, this would lead to an extensive expansion of the methane deposits with their subsequent impacts on total methane emission. A future in-depth characterization of the metabolism of these cold-adapted methanogens will reveal biotic and abiotic factors, which influence the methanogenic activity of these organisms.Furthermore, the results further show that methane in permafrost, which originates from modern methanogenesis, represents contribution ... |
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Methane cycle in terrestrial amd submarine permafrost deposits of the Laptev Sea region |
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Methane cycle in terrestrial amd submarine permafrost deposits of the Laptev Sea region |
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Methane cycle in terrestrial amd submarine permafrost deposits of the Laptev Sea region |
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Methane cycle in terrestrial amd submarine permafrost deposits of the Laptev Sea region |
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Methane cycle in terrestrial amd submarine permafrost deposits of the Laptev Sea region |
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methane cycle in terrestrial amd submarine permafrost deposits of the laptev sea region |
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https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/18167/ https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.28702 |
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EPIC3Ninth International Conference on Permafrost, Fairbanks, Alaska, June 29 - July 3, 2008 p. |
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Wagner, D. , Koch, K. , Gattinger, A. and Lipski, A. (2008) Methane cycle in terrestrial amd submarine permafrost deposits of the Laptev Sea region , Ninth International Conference on Permafrost, Fairbanks, Alaska, June 29 - July 3 . hdl:10013/epic.28702 |
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