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Methane Carbon Supports Aquatic Food Webs to the Fish Level

Overview of attention for article published in PLOS ONE, August 2012
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Title
Methane Carbon Supports Aquatic Food Webs to the Fish Level
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PLOS ONE, August 2012
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0042723
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Angela M. Sanseverino, David Bastviken, Ingvar Sundh, Jana Pickova, Alex Enrich-Prast

Abstract

Large amounts of the greenhouse gas methane (CH(4)) are produced by anaerobic mineralization of organic matter in lakes. In spite of extensive freshwater CH(4) emissions, most of the CH(4) is typically oxidized by methane oxidizing bacteria (MOB) before it can reach the lake surface and be emitted to the atmosphere. In turn, it has been shown that the CH(4)-derived biomass of MOB can provide the energy and carbon for zooplankton and macroinvertebrates. In this study, we demonstrate the presence of specific fatty acids synthesized by MOB in fish tissues having low carbon stable isotope ratios. Fish species, zooplankton, macroinvertebrates and the water hyacinth Eichhornia crassipes were collected from a shallow lake in Brazil and analyzed for fatty acids (FA) and carbon stable isotope ratios (δ(13)C). The fatty acids 16:1ω8c, 16:1ω8t, 16:1ω6c, 16:1ω5t, 18:1ω8c and 18:1ω8t were used as signature for MOB. The δ(13)C ratios varied from -27.7‰ to -42.0‰ and the contribution of MOB FA ranged from 0.05% to 0.84% of total FA. Organisms with higher total content of MOB FAs presented lower δ(13)C values (i.e. they were more depleted in (13)C), while organisms with lower content of MOB signature FAs showed higher δ(13)C values. An UPGMA cluster analysis was carried out to distinguish grouping of organisms in relation to their MOB FA contents. This combination of stable isotope and fatty acid tracers provides new evidence that assimilation of methane-derived carbon can be an important carbon source for the whole aquatic food web, up to the fish level.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 2%
Brazil 3 2%
United Kingdom 2 1%
Chile 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Mexico 1 <1%
Philippines 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 166 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 48 27%
Researcher 38 21%
Student > Master 30 17%
Student > Doctoral Student 16 9%
Student > Bachelor 9 5%
Other 24 13%
Unknown 15 8%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 76 42%
Environmental Science 46 26%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 14 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 8 4%
Engineering 7 4%
Other 11 6%
Unknown 18 10%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 July 2013.
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#2,570,304
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Outputs from PLOS ONE
#32,487
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#17,528
of 166,600 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#571
of 4,137 outputs
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