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A mathematical model to predict the heating-up in open air wood chip piles has been developed. This model includes the heat production from chemical, physical and microbial exothermal processes. In the manuscript the laboratory experiments needed to develop and validate the model are described. In addition, temperature and gas concentrations were measured in two large-scale wood piles (volumes bigger than 1000 m³), in order to provide the applicability of the model to large-scale scenarios. The predictions of the model and the large-scale experimental data showed good agreement concerning the maximum temperature reached inside an open air wood pile. Special attention has been devoted to the microbial processes, since they proved to be the most important cause of heat production in the early stages of storage. This work is intended to help in predicting and thus avoiding possible self-ignition scenarios for this type of wood storage.
The microbial community in anoxic rice field soil produces CH4 over a wide temperature range up to 55°C. However, at temperatures higher than about 40°C, the methanogenic path changes from CH4 production by hydrogenotrophic plus acetoclastic methanogenesis to exclusively hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis and simultaneously, the methanogenic community consisting of Methanosarcinaceae, Methanoseataceae, Methanomicrobiales, Methanobacteriales and Rice Cluster I (RC-1) changes to almost complete dominance of RC-1. We studied changes in structure and function of the methanogenic community with temperature to see whether microbial members of the community were lost or their function impaired by exposure to high temperature. We characterized the function of the community by the path of CH4 production measuring δ13C in CH4 and CO2 and calculating the apparent fractionation factor (αapp) and the structure of the community by analysis of the terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) of the microbial 16S rRNA genes. Shift of the temperature from 45°C to 35°C resulted in a corresponding shift of function and structure, especially when some 35°C soil was added to the 45°C soil. The bacterial community (T-RFLP patterns), which was much more diverse than the archaeal community, changed in a similar manner upon temperature shift. Incubation of a mixture of 35°C and 50°C pre-incubated methanogenic rice field soil at different temperatures resulted in functionally and structurally well-defined communities. Although function changed from a mixture of acetoclastic and hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis to exclusively hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis over a rather narrow temperature range of 42-46°C, each of these temperatures also resulted in only one characteristic function and structure. Our study showed that temperature conditions defined structure and function of the methanogenic microbial community.
Exothermic processes in outdoor pine wood chip piles are linked to microbial community shifts
(2009)
Forefields of receding glaciers are unique and sensitive environments representing natural chronosequences. In such habitats, microbial nitrogen fixation is of particular interest since the low concentration of bioavailable nitrogen is one of the key limitations for growth of plants and soil microorganisms. Asymbiotic nitrogen fixation in the Damma glacier (Swiss Central Alps) forefield soils was assessed using the acetylene reduction assay. Free-living diazotrophic diversity and population structure were resolved by assembling four NifH sequence libraries for bulk and rhizosphere soils at two soil age classes (8- and 70-year ice-free forefield). A total of 318 NifH sequences were analyzed and grouped into 45 unique phylotypes. Phylogenetic analyses revealed a higher diversity as well as a broader distribution of NifH sequences among phylogenetic clusters than formerly observed in other environments. This illustrates the importance of free-living diazotrophs and their potential contribution to the global nitrogen input in this nutrient-poor environment. NifH diversity in bulk soils was higher than in rhizosphere soils. Moreover, the four libraries displayed low similarity values. This indicated that both soil age and the presence of pioneer plants influence diversification and population structure of free-living diazotrophs.