FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Gas hydrate dissociation linked to contemporary ocean warming in the southern hemisphere BT AF Ketzer, Marcelo Praeg, Daniel Rodrigues, Luiz F. Augustin, Adolpho Pivel, Maria A. G. Rahmati-Abkenar, Mahboubeh Miller, Dennis J. Viana, Adriano R. Cupertino, José A. AS 1:1;2:2,3;3:3;4:3;5:4;6:1;7:5;8:5;9:3; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:;9:; C1 Department of Biology and Environmental Science, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences Linnaeus University, SE-391 81, Kalmar, Sweden Géoazur, 250 rue Albert Einstein, 06560, Valbonne, France Petroleum and Natural Resources Institute, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, CEP 91619-900, Brazil Instituto de Geociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, CEP 91509-900, Brazil Petrobras Petroleo Brasileiro SA, Rio de Janeiro, CEP 20031-170, Brazil C2 UNIV LINNAEUS, SWEDEN UNIV NICE, FRANCE PONTIFICIA UNIV CATOLICA RIO GRANDE SUL, BRAZIL UNIV FED RIO GRANDE DO SUL, BRAZIL PETROBRAS SA, BRAZIL IN DOAJ IF 14.919 TC 50 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00643/75473/76300.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00643/75473/76301.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00643/75473/76302.docx https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00643/75473/76303.xlsx https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00643/75473/76304.xlsx https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00643/75473/76305.xlsx https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00643/75473/76306.xlsx https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00643/75473/76307.mp4 https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00643/75473/76308.pdf LA English DT Article CR MD 195 / CONEGAS-2 BO Marion Dufresne AB Ocean warming related to climate change has been proposed to cause the dissociation of gas hydrate deposits and methane leakage on the seafloor. This process occurs in places where the edge of the gas hydrate stability zone in sediments meets the overlying warmer oceans in upper slope settings. Here we present new evidence based on the analysis of a large multidisciplinary and multi-scale dataset from such a location in the western South Atlantic, which records massive gas release to the ocean. The results provide a unique opportunity to examine ocean-hydrate interactions over millennial and decadal scales, and the first evidence from the southern hemisphere for the effects of contemporary ocean warming on gas hydrate stability. Widespread hydrate dissociation results in a highly focused advective methane flux that is not fully accessible to anaerobic oxidation, challenging the assumption that it is mostly consumed by sulfate reduction before reaching the seafloor. PY 2020 PD JUN SO Nature Communications SN 2041-1723 PU Springer Science and Business Media LLC VL 11 IS 1 UT 000558642500008 DI 10.1038/s41467-020-17289-z ID 75473 ER EF