Biology PhD student Adrienne Narrowe and Assistant Professor Department of Integrative Biology Christopher S. Miller contributed to a recent publication in Nature Communications showing that microbially produced methane in a freshwater wetland is produced in parts of the wetland where it was previously assumed no methane was coming from, from a novel methane-producing archaea (microbe). Previously, it was assumed that no methanogenesis could happen in oxygenated soils, but we show this is not true. This has implications for global models of methane emissions.
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