RUI: Controls on methanogenesis, methane oxidation, and consumer utilization of methane-derived carbon in arctic lakes

摘要提案：RUI-北极湖泊甲烷生成、甲烷氧化和消费者利用甲烷衍生碳的控制P.I.：安妮·E Hershey Stephen C.北卡罗来纳州格林斯博罗的惠伦大学提案# 0807094来自北卡罗来纳州格林斯伯勒大学的研究人员已经获得了资金，以确定北极湖泊食物网中甲烷循环的重要性。主要的假设是，甲烷产生的碳的生产、氧化和融入食物网的程度大于北极众多小而浅的湖泊中光合作用产生的碳。该项目将对迅速变化的北极湖泊生态系统中甲烷产生者、甲烷氧化细菌和较高营养水平之间的能量和碳联系进行新颖、综合的了解。

AbstractProposal: RUI- Controls on methanogenesis, methane oxidation, and consumer utilization of methane-derived carbon in arctic lakesP.I.:Anne E. Hershey Stephen C. WhalenUniversity of North Carolina GreensboroProposal # 0807094 Investigators from the University of North Carolina Greensboro have received funding to determine the importance of methane cycling in food webs of Arctic lakes. The main hypothesis is that the production, oxidation, and incorporation in to food-webs of carbon derived from methane is greater than for carbon produced by photosynthesis in the numerous small, shallow lakes of the Arctic. The project will develop a novel, integrated understanding of the energy and carbon linkages among methane producers, methane oxidizing bacteria, and higher trophic levels in rapidly changing Arctic lake ecosystems.