Publication Date:
2011-05-28
Description:
Kessler et al. (Reports, 21 January 2011, p. 312) reported that methane released from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout, approximately 40% of the total hydrocarbon discharge, was consumed quantitatively by methanotrophic bacteria in Gulf of Mexico deep waters over a 4-month period. We find the evidence explicitly linking observed oxygen anomalies to methane consumption ambiguous and extension of these observations to hydrate-derived methane climate forcing premature.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Joye, Samantha B -- Leifer, Ira -- MacDonald, Ian R -- Chanton, Jeffery P -- Meile, Christof D -- Teske, Andreas P -- Kostka, Joel E -- Chistoserdova, Ludmila -- Coffin, Richard -- Hollander, David -- Kastner, Miriam -- Montoya, Joseph P -- Rehder, Gregor -- Solomon, Evan -- Treude, Tina -- Villareal, Tracy A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2011 May 27;332(6033):1033; author reply 1033. doi: 10.1126/science.1203307.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA. mjoye@uga.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21617058" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Atlantic Ocean
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Biodegradation, Environmental
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Biomass
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*Environmental Pollution
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Hydrocarbons/analysis/metabolism
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Methane/analysis/*metabolism
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Oxidation-Reduction
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Oxygen/*analysis
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Oxygen Consumption
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*Petroleum
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Proteobacteria/growth & development/*metabolism
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Seawater/chemistry/*microbiology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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