Resolving a methane mystery

Edward F. DeLong ()
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Edward F. DeLong: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

Nature, 2000, vol. 407, issue 6804, 577-579

Abstract: Little of the vast stock of methane buried beneath the oceans’ floors seems to escape into the overlying water. Marine sediments are low in oxygen, and it has been suspected that microbes can consume methane in such conditions. Two of the organisms concerned have now been identified.

Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1038/35036677

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