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Selak, Lorena ; Meier, Dimitri ; Marinović, Maja ; Čačković, Andrea ; Kajan, Katarina ; Pjevac, Petra ; Orlić, Sandi:
Salinization alters microbial methane cycling in freshwater sediments.
In: Environmental Microbiome.
Bd. 20
(2025)
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- 73.
ISSN 2524-6372
Abstract
Climate change–induced salinization poses a global threat to freshwater ecosystems and challenges microbial communities driving crucial biogeochemical processes, particularly methane cycling. This study examined the impact of salinization and the accompanying sulfate concentration increases on microbial community dynamics and methane cycling in coastal freshwater lake sediments. We show that sulfate enrichment in sediment profiles enables the proliferation of distinct sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) that reshape microbial niches by competing with methanogens and promoting sulfate-dependent anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM). Freshwater SRB clusters, which compete with some methanogens for substrates but also degrade organic compounds into methanogenesis precursors, are replaced by the SEEP-SRB groups that form syntrophic relationships with ANME-1 in salinized sediments. As seawater intrudes and reshapes microbial communities, a methane pocket forms that escapes both aerobic and anaerobic oxidation. Underneath this methane pocket, SRB play a key role in enabling sulfate-dependent AOM, facilitating methane consumption at higher sediment depths. While all microorganisms demonstrated some physiological adaptability potential to elevated osmotic stress, SRB exhibited the highest resilience to increased salinity. These findings highlight how salinization-induced geochemical shifts, particularly sulfate enrichment, directly affect microbial community assembly and impact methane cycling in coastal freshwater ecosystems.
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| Publikationsform: | Artikel in einer Zeitschrift |
|---|---|
| Begutachteter Beitrag: | Ja |
| Institutionen der Universität: | Fakultäten > Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften > Fachgruppe Biologie > Lehrstuhl Ökologische Mikrobiologie > Lehrstuhl Ökologische Mikrobiologie - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Tillmann Lüders |
| Titel an der UBT entstanden: | Ja |
| Themengebiete aus DDC: | 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie |
| Eingestellt am: | 21 Okt 2025 07:35 |
| Letzte Änderung: | 21 Okt 2025 07:35 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/94950 |