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Active methane processing microbes and the disproportionate role of NC10 phylum in methane mitigation in Amazonian floodplains

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Here we use a top-down and bottom-up approach in landscape ecology to analyze the active microbes processing methane fluxes (FCH4) in seasonally flooded-forest (FOR) and -traditional farming systems (TFS) in Amazonian floodplains flooded with black, white, and clear water. Our results revealed higher CH4 emissions from water-atmosphere interface in clear water floodplain, followed by black and white water floodplain, respectively. Active methanogenic and methanotrophic taxa were ubiquitous at 0–15 and 15–30 cm soil layer in FOR and TFS, with differences among the water types with respect to the richness, evenness and diversity of the methanogenic communities. These ecological results were not generalizable regarding to FOR and TFS sites, soil layers, and non-flooded and flooded periods. Despite the predominant oxidation of CH4 in the non-flooded period, higher richness and diversity of methanotrophs were revealed for FOR and TFS in the flooded period. In turn, the structure of the methanogenic and methanotrophic communities and their variation were influenced mainly by soil physicochemical factors, water type, soil depth and the presence of nitrifiers, as Nitrososphaera and Nitrospira. Our study reveals a signature across methanotrophic communities in soils from Amazon floodplain with different water types, with a putative disproportionate role of NC10 phylum in CH4 mitigation in natural and agricultural Amazonian floodplains. These findings open the possibilities to explore the role of NC10 phylum in the carbon cycling in Amazon.

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We wish to thank Dr. Leonardo M. Pitombo, Isadora Leme and Larissa F. Pereira for their excellent technical assistance in lab analysis. We thank Mattias De Hollander, Sainur Samad, Fleur Gawehns, Rodrigo G. Taketani and Tomás Gomes Reis Veloso for bioinformatics support. We also wish to thank João B. Rocha, Ivanildo L. S. Gaia and Domickson Costa for support during field work.

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This study was financed by a Grant from Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do São Paulo – Brasil (FAPESP) (2016/16687-3). MSB was supported by FAPESP 2017/06415-9 and 2018/02277-3. DJB and MGSA were supported by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – Brasil (CAPES) – Financial Code 001. RR was supported by FAPESP 2017/04665-8. AAN was supported by FAPESP 2017/03575-5. IL was supported by FAPESP 2017/13499-4. LFP was supported by FAPESP 2018/15847-2.

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Bento, M.S., Barros, D.J., Araújo, M.G.S. et al. Active methane processing microbes and the disproportionate role of NC10 phylum in methane mitigation in Amazonian floodplains. Biogeochemistry 156, 293–317 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-021-00846-z

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