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

摘要建议：北卡罗来纳大学格林斯伯勒分校的Anne E.Hershey Stephen C.WhalenUniversity of North Carolina Greensboro建议#0807094北卡罗来纳大学格林斯伯勒分校的研究人员已收到资金，用于确定北极湖泊食物网中甲烷循环的重要性。主要的假设是，在北极的许多小而浅的湖泊中，来自甲烷的碳的产生、氧化和并入食物网的程度大于来自光合作用的碳。该项目将对快速变化的北冰洋湖泊生态系统中甲烷生产者、甲烷氧化细菌和更高营养水平之间的能量和碳联系形成一种新的、综合的理解。

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.