Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Commensalism of methane-producing and motile aerobic bacteria in certain freshwater wetlands

  • Note
  • Published:
Bulletin of Mathematical Biology Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

It is pointed out that the methane flux measured experimentally for certain ponds and swamps is quantitatively consistent with a commensal dependence of Methanobacteria on O2-chemotactic motile aerobic bacteria. The Methano species is thereby shielded from oxygen and provided with carbon dioxide for the anaerobic production of methane.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

Literature

  • Baker-Blocker, A., T. M. Donahue and K. H. Mancy. 1977. “Methane Flux from Wetland Areas.”Tellus 29, 245–250.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Carpenter, P. L. 1967.Microbiology, pp. 205–210, 314. Philadelphia, PA: W. B. Saunders.

    Google Scholar 

  • Harriss R. C. and D. I. Sebacher. 1981. “Methane Flux in Forested Freshwater Swamps of the Southeastern United States.”Geophys. Res. Lett. 8, 1002–1004.

    Google Scholar 

  • Koyama, T. 1963. “Gaseous Metabolism in Lake Sediments and Paddy Soils and the Production of Atmospheric Methane and Hydrogen.”J. geophys. Res. 68, 3971–3973.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rosen, G. 1978. “Steady-state Distribution of Bacteria Chemotactic Toward Oxygen.”Bull. math. Biol. 40, 671–674.

    Article  MATH  MathSciNet  Google Scholar 

  • — 1983a. “Theoretical Significance of the Conditions δ=2μ in Bacterial Chemotaxis.”Bull. math. Biol. 45, 151–153.

    MATH  Google Scholar 

  • — 1983b. “Analytical Solutions for Distributions of Chemotactic Bacteria.”Bull. math. Biol. 45, 837–847.

    Article  MATH  Google Scholar 

  • Sebacher, D. I. and R. C. Harriss. 1982. “A System for Measuring Methane Fluxes from Wetland Environments.”J. environ. Qual. 11, 34–37.

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Physics, Drexel University, 19104, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Gerald Rosen

Authors
  1. Gerald Rosen
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Rosen, G. Commensalism of methane-producing and motile aerobic bacteria in certain freshwater wetlands. Bltn Mathcal Biology 46, 333–336 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02460078

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02460078

Keywords

Search

Navigation