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Microbial Oxidation of Atmospheric Methane in Natural and Agricultural Upland Soils

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Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas in terms of amounts and effect in the atmosphere. Upland soils of the European Russia are important participants in the global carbon budget, but their role as a sink for atmospheric methane is poorly documented, and little information on biodiversity of methanotrophic microorganisms is available. We have found that managed soils from different climatic regions showed decreased methane oxidation rates in both field and laboratory experiments. Large fluctuations were revealed in CH4 uptake process at different time scales (monthly, daily, hourly), and soil organic matter, water content, and temperature were seen as the main environmental controlling factors. Methanotrophic populations of unmanaged soils turned out to be much low diverse and dominated by uncultivated methanotrophs. In Podzoluvisol, Luvisol, and Meadow Kastanozem, we have identified deeply branching pmoA sequences of Alphaproteobacteria referred as NSUC (natural soil uncultivated cluster), formed novel monophyletic cluster with other uncultured methanotrophs. Pronounced shift to cultured methanotrophs was observed in the same soils after agricultural loading.

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Kravchenko, I.K. (2017). Microbial Oxidation of Atmospheric Methane in Natural and Agricultural Upland Soils. In: Singh, J., Seneviratne, G. (eds) Agro-Environmental Sustainability. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49727-3_10

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