High affinity methanotrophs are an important overlooked methane sink in the pan-Arctic and global methane budget


Youmi Oh1, Qianlai Zhuang2, Licheng LIU3, Lisa R Welp1, Maggie Lau4, Tullis C Onstott4, David Medvigy5, Ludovica D'Imperio6, Bo Elberling6 and Stefan Schwietzke7, (1)Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (2)Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, United States, (3)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Biological Systems Engineering, Madison, United States, (4)Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, (5)University of Notre Dame, Biological Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States, (6)Center For Permafrost (CENPERM), Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, (7)NOAA Earth System Research Lab, Boulder, CO, United States