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- noun Plural form of
methanogen .
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The most challenging tasks were to determine what particular microbial organisms are responsible for the generation and uptake of methane (so-called methanogens and methanotrophs) in these northern ecosystems and what their reaction might be to warming of arctic soils.
Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic 2009
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Where soils are waterlogged and oxygen concentrations are low or zero, a group of microorganisms called methanogens may produce large amounts of methane as they respire carbon dioxide to derive energy.
Methane 2006
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Jemma Wadham, a geochemist at the University of Bristol in England, described the little-known role of methane-making microbes, called methanogens, below ice sheets on March 15 at an American Geophysical Union conference on Antarctic lakes.
U.S. News 2010
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This is because methane-producing bacteria, known as methanogens, live in groundwater and can release methane directly into the atmosphere when water rises above soil.
Scientific American 2010
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This is because methane-producing bacteria, known as methanogens, live in groundwater and can release methane directly into the atmosphere when water rises above soil.
Scientific American 2010
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Microbes known as methanogens help the ruminants get rid of the excess hydrogen by producing methane gases that the animals release into the atmosphere.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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This is because methane-producing bacteria, known as methanogens, live in groundwater and can release methane directly into the atmosphere when water rises above soil.
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The organisms - called methanogens - are suspected to have been living in water beneath underground ice, where they are disgorging tonnes and tonnes of methane.
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Billions of years ago, methane-producing bacteria called methanogens thrived in nickel-rich seas.
Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews 2009
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The team speculate that this drop in nickel starved primordial ocean-dwelling bacteria called methanogens that used dissolved nickel in seawater to help turn food into energy and methane.
Signs of the Times 2009
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