Methane related iron reduction processes in sediments: Hidden couplings and their significance for carbon and iron cycles

Project Information

MERIR

Grant agreement ID: 818450

DOI

10.3030/818450

Project closed

EC signature date 28 March 2019

Start date 1 April 2019

End date 31 March 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 000 000,00

EU contribution

€ 2 000 000,00

Coordinated by

BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV
Israel

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (14)

The reduction of environmentally abundant iron oxides by the methanogen Methanosarcina barkeri

Author(s): Efrat Eliani-Russak, Zohar Tik, Shaked Uzi-Gavrilov, Michael M. Meijler, Orit Sivan
Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology, Issue 14, 2023, ISSN 1664-302X
Publisher: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1197299

Modification of methane oxidation pathways during long-term incubations of methanic lake sediments

Author(s): Hanni Vigderovich, Werner Eckert, Michal Elul, Maxim Rubin-Blum, Marcus Elvert, Orit Sivan
Published in: Biogeosciences, 2025, ISSN 1726-4170
Publisher: European Geosciences Union (EGU).
DOI: 10.5194/bg-2021-223

Complex nitrogen redox couplings control methane emissions from Arctic upland yedoma taliks

Author(s): Oded Bergman, Katey Walter Anthony, E. Eliani-Russak, Orit Sivan
Published in: biorxiv, 2025, ISSN 2692-8205
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2025.02.09.637290

Aerobic methanotrophy increases the net iron reduction in methanogenic lake sediments

Author(s): Hanni Vigderovich, Werner Eckert, Marcus Elvert, Almog Gafni, Maxim Rubin-Blum, Oded Bergman, Orit Sivan
Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology, Issue 14, 2023, ISSN 1664-302X
Publisher: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1206414

Anaerobic oxidation of methane does not attenuate methane emissions from thermokarst lakes

Author(s): Noam Lotem, André Pellerin, Katey Walter Anthony, Almog Gafni, Valeria Boyko, Orit Sivan
Published in: Limnology and Oceanography, Issue 68, 2023, Page(s) 1316-1330, ISSN 0024-3590
Publisher: American Society of Limnonogy and Oceanography
DOI: 10.1002/lno.12349

The Effect of Early Diagenesis in Methanic Sediments on Sedimentary Magnetic Properties: Case Study From the SE Mediterranean Continental Shelf

Author(s): Nitai Amiel, Ron Shaar, Orit Sivan
Published in: Frontiers in Earth Science, Issue 8, 2020, ISSN 2296-6463
Publisher: Nitai Amiel, Ron Shaar, Orit Sivan
DOI: 10.3389/feart.2020.00283

Upland Yedoma taliks are an unpredicted source of atmospheric methane

Author(s): K. M. Walter Anthony, P. Anthony, N. Hasson, C. Edgar, O. Sivan, E. Eliani-Russak, O. Bergman, B. J. Minsley, S. R. James, N. J. Pastick, A. Kholodov, S. Zimov, E. Euskirchen, M. S. Bret-Harte, G. Grosse, M. Langer, J. Nitzbon
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 15, 2024, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-50346-5

Paleomagnetic imprints of sulfate reduction pathways in continental shelf sediments: organoclastic versus anaerobic oxidation of methane

Author(s): Yakar Zemach, Ron Shaar, Orit Sivan, Barak Herut, Orit Hyams-Kaphzan, Oded Katz, Andrew P. Roberts
Published in: Journal of Geophysical research, 2024, ISSN 0148-0227
Publisher: William Byrd Press for John Hopkins Press
DOI: 10.22541/essoar.171742656.69490414/v1

Metagenomic insights into the metabolism of microbial communities that mediate iron and methane cycling in Lake Kinneret iron-rich methanic sediments

Author(s): Michal Elul, Maxim Rubin-Blum, Zeev Ronen, Itay Bar-Or, Werner Eckert, Orit Sivan
Published in: Biogeosciences, Issue 18/6, 2021, Page(s) 2091-2106, ISSN 1726-4189
Publisher: EGU
DOI: 10.5194/bg-18-2091-2021

Modeling the controls on microbial iron and manganese reduction in methanic sediments

Author(s): Racheli Neumann Wallheimer, Itay Halevy, Orit Sivan
Published in: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2025, ISSN 0016-7037
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2025.05.026

Metagenomic insights into the metabolism of microbial communities that mediate iron and methane cycling in Lake Kinneret sediments

Author(s): Michal Elul, Maxim Rubin-Blum, Zeev Ronen, Itay Bar-Or, Werner Eckert, Orit Sivan
Published in: Biogeosciences, 2025, ISSN 1726-4170
Publisher: European Geosciences Union (EGU).
DOI: 10.5194/bg-2020-329

Methane production controls in a young thermokarst lake formed by abrupt permafrost thaw

Author(s): André Pellerin, Noam Lotem, Katey Walter Anthony, Efrat Eliani Russak, Nicholas Hasson, Hans Røy, Jeffrey P. Chanton, Orit Sivan
Published in: Global Change Biology, Issue 28, 2024, Page(s) 3206-3221, ISSN 1354-1013
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16151

Survival strategies of aerobic methanotrophs under hypoxia in methanogenic lake sediments

Author(s): Almog Gafni, Maxim Rubin-Blum, Colin Murrell, Hanni Vigderovich, Werner Eckert, Nasmille Larke-Mejía, Orit Sivan
Published in: Environmental Microbiome, Issue 19, 2024, ISSN 2524-6372
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1186/s40793-024-00586-1

Iron oxides impact sulfate-driven anaerobic oxidation of methane in diffusion-dominated marine sediments

Author(s): Omer Yorshansky, Lewen Liang, André Pellerin, Fengping Wang, Barak Herut, Orit Sivan
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, Issue 9, 2022, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2022.903918

Non-peer reviewed articles (3)

Integrated Approach to Investigate Magnetite Cycle in Marine Methanic Sediments

Author(s): Rivlin A., Bosco A., Boyko V., Sha'ar R., Zemach Y., Herut B., Henkel S., Dohrmann I., Weiss-Sarusi K. and Sivan O.
Published in: Biorxiv, 2025, ISSN 2692-8205
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2025.03.30.646174

Modeling the controls on microbial iron and manganese reduction in methanic sediments

Author(s): Neumann Wallheimer R., Halevy I. and Sivan O.
Published in: Biorxiv, 2025, ISSN 2692-8205
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2025.03.30.646147

The evolution of methane production rates from young to mature thermokarst 1 lakes

Author(s): Yarden Gerera, André Pellerin, Efrat Eliani Russak, Nicholas Hasson, Yoav Rosenberg, Katey Walter Anthony, Orit Sivan
Published in: Biorxiv, 2025, Page(s) 2692-8205, ISSN 2692-8205
Publisher: California Digital Library (CDL)
DOI: 10.31223/x5hb1w