{
  "abstract": "Anthropogenic and climatic perturbations threaten to destabilize gas hydrates and release methane from its vast subseafloor reservoir. Yet the deep-sea ecosystem responses remain poorly understood. Our multi-year, in situ monitoring of a human-induced methane seep unveiled an exceptionally fast, de novo establishment of a methane-consuming ecosystem within 1–2 years, followed by a rapid succession toward natural mature seeps. Integrated biogeochemical and molecular analyses revealed an unexpectedly parallel proliferation of aerobic methanotrophs (Methyloprofundus), anaerobic methanotrophs (ANME-2e, ANME-3), and opportunistic fauna bioturbating the seabed to >50 cm depths. Within this intensively mixed zone, active animal-microbe interactions sustained rapid methane removal (30–60 mmol/m2/day) through intricate carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur redox coupling. Our work demonstrates that abrupt methane leakage can form an effective animal-microbe ‘methane biofilter’ far quicker than previously estimated, producing new insights into benthic natural mitigation capacity and limit that are critical for risk assessments and climate projections under increasing seabed methane efflux.",
  "abstract_shown": true,
  "affiliations": [
    "Guangzhou Marine Geological Survey, China Geological Survey , Guangzhou 511457 ,",
    "National Engineering Research Center of Gas Hydrate Exploration and Development , Guangzhou 511457 ,",
    "State Key Laboratory of Submarine Geoscience, Key Laboratory of Polar Ecosystem and Climate Change, Ministry of Education, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Polar Life and Environment Sciences, and School of Oceanography, Shanghai Jiao Tong University , Shanghai 200030 ,",
    "Key Laboratory of Marine Biogenetic Resources, Third Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources , Xiamen 361005 ,",
    "Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02543 ,",
    "University of Bremen , Bremen 28359 ,",
    "University of Georgia Department of Marine Sciences, , Athens, GA 30602 ,"
  ],
  "article_type": null,
  "arxiv": null,
  "author_total": 26,
  "authors": [
    {
      "affs": [
        0,
        1
      ],
      "name": "Qianyong Liang",
      "orcid": "0000-0002-9172-1828"
    },
    {
      "affs": [
        2
      ],
      "name": "Longhui Deng",
      "orcid": "0000-0002-5914-9833"
    },
    {
      "affs": [
        2
      ],
      "name": "Ruize Xie",
      "orcid": "0000-0002-9105-9141"
    },
    {
      "affs": [
        3
      ],
      "name": "Xinyue Liu"
    },
    {
      "affs": [
        0,
        1
      ],
      "name": "XJ Xiao",
      "orcid": "0000-0001-5926-4068"
    },
    {
      "affs": [
        2
      ],
      "name": "Jialin Hou",
      "orcid": "0000-0002-6983-5829"
    },
    {
      "affs": [
        2
      ],
      "name": "Jing Wang"
    },
    {
      "affs": [
        2
      ],
      "name": "Weikang Sui",
      "orcid": "0000-0002-8651-7881"
    },
    {
      "affs": [
        2
      ],
      "name": "Ningyuan Lu"
    },
    {
      "affs": [
        2
      ],
      "name": "Zian Tong"
    },
    {
      "affs": [
        2
      ],
      "name": "Danyue Huang",
      "orcid": "0000-0002-2106-0438"
    },
    {
      "affs": [
        2
      ],
      "name": "Yanwei Wang"
    },
    {
      "affs": [
        3
      ],
      "name": "Yingchun Han",
      "orcid": "0000-0003-3964-6768"
    },
    {
      "affs": [
        0
      ],
      "name": "Jing Zhao"
    },
    {
      "affs": [
        0,
        1
      ],
      "name": "Binbin Guo",
      "orcid": "0000-0003-2750-8640"
    },
    {
      "affs": [
        0,
        1
      ],
      "name": "W K Zhang",
      "orcid": "0000-0002-4355-2783"
    },
    {
      "affs": [
        0,
        1
      ],
      "name": "Minghui Geng",
      "orcid": "0000-0002-9145-378X"
    },
    {
      "affs": [
        2
      ],
      "name": "Tianxin Ren"
    },
    {
      "affs": [
        2
      ],
      "name": "Wenqi Ye"
    },
    {
      "affs": [
        2
      ],
      "name": "Zheng Xiong"
    },
    {
      "affs": [
        2
      ],
      "name": "Liang Dong"
    },
    {
      "affs": [
        4,
        5
      ],
      "name": "S. Emil Ruff",
      "orcid": "0000-0002-6872-6188"
    },
    {
      "affs": [
        6
      ],
      "name": "Christof D. Meile",
      "orcid": "0000-0002-0825-4596"
    },
    {
      "affs": [
        0
      ],
      "name": "Jun Tao"
    },
    {
      "affs": [
        3
      ],
      "name": "Xiyang Dong",
      "orcid": "0000-0002-9224-5923"
    },
    {
      "affs": [
        2
      ],
      "name": "Fengping Wang",
      "orcid": "0000-0002-3429-8410"
    }
  ],
  "bibtex": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/7gj66ds9mqs9v.bib",
  "cited_by": 6,
  "doi": "10.1093/nsr/nwag266",
  "fulltext_url": null,
  "id": "7gj66ds9mqs9v",
  "issns": [
    "2053-714X",
    "2095-5138"
  ],
  "landing_url": "https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwag266",
  "language": "en",
  "licence": "CC-BY",
  "licence_label": "CC BY",
  "licence_source": "journal",
  "licence_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "metadata_licence": null,
  "native_subjects": [
    [
      "openalex",
      "2304|Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena"
    ]
  ],
  "openalex": "W7161160617",
  "pdf_url": null,
  "pmcid": "PMC13296563",
  "pmid": "42369337",
  "published": "2026-05-14",
  "publisher": "Oxford University Press",
  "ris": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/7gj66ds9mqs9v.ris",
  "sources": [
    {
      "first_seen": "2026-10-30T13:26:59Z",
      "native_id": "W7161160617",
      "source": "openalex",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwag266"
    }
  ],
  "subjects": [
    {
      "field": "chemistry",
      "origin": "openalex:2304|Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena",
      "subfield": "environmental"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Rapid de novo assembly of animal-microbe biofilter to mitigate seabed methane leakage",
  "title_text": "Rapid de novo assembly of animal-microbe biofilter to mitigate seabed methane leakage",
  "type": "peer-reviewed",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-09T13:21:21Z",
  "url": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/7gj66ds9mqs9v",
  "venue": "National Science Review",
  "versions": []
}