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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Microbial oxidation significantly reduces methane export from global groundwaters.

Beatrix M Heinze, Valérie F Schwab, Kirsten Küsel, Stefan Schloemer, Andreas Roskam, Xiaomei Xu, Susan Trumbore

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Microbial ecology of shallow groundwater ecosystems.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Beatrix M HeinzeDepartment Biogeochemical Processes, Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena 07745, Germany.ORCID 0009-0002-7670-4146
Valérie F SchwabDepartment Biogeochemical Processes, Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena 07745, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8089-1274
Kirsten KüselAquatic Geomicrobiology, Institute of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena 07743, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5396-0975
Stefan SchloemerFederal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Hanover 30655, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7706-4235
Andreas RoskamState Agency for Water Management, Coastal and Nature Conservation, Aurich 26603, Germany.
Xiaomei XuDepartment of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697.
Susan TrumboreDepartment Biogeochemical Processes, Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena 07745, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3885-6202

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Cluster of Excellence: Balance of the Microverse -EXC 2051 - Project-ID 390713860Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) CRC 1076 AquaDiva Project-ID 218627073
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Methane is ubiquitous in groundwater, and its release to surface environments through pumping, discharge, or diffusion is an emerging environmental concern. Microbial oxidation consumes methane and mitigates its release, but quantitative constraints in groundwater remain unknown. Using ultra-low-level

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GroundwaterMethaneArchaeaGermanyOxidation-ReductionMethane14C-rate measurementgroundwatermicrobial methane oxidation

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PMID41082667
PMCPMC12557531

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