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Hydrobiological Journal

ISSN for PRINT: 0018-8166

Institutional price:	$1994.00
Issues per year:	6

Best Paper Award Selection - Editorial Board Site

2004, Volume40

125 pages

Issue price - $369.00

Microbiological Processes of Methane Transformation and Organic Matter Decomposition in Bottom Sediments of the Reservoirs of the Volga and Kama Rivers

A. N. Dzyuban
Institute of Biology of Inland Waters, Russian Academy of Sciences, Borok, Russia

ABSTRACT

The complex of microbiological processes of carbon cycle in various types of bottom sediments of the reservoirs of the Volga and Kama rivers was investigated. The processes of methane formation, oxidation, and release were studied. The role of the processes of methane cycle in organic matter decomposition depending on the environmental conditions, on the geographic dislocation of reservoirs, and on the composition of bottom sediments was revealed.