Department Surface Waters - Research and Management
Methanogenesis (dependence on organic material origin)
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Our interest is to understand the formation of methane in relation to the origin of the organic material.
We will investigate sediments of lakes with a different contribution of allochthonous (terrestrial derived) and autochthonous (aquatically derived) organic material. Additionally we will use experiments with labelled OM to understand which material is transformed to methane.