| AOM | Anaerobic methane oxidation |
| a.s.l. | Above sea level |
| ASV | Amplicon sequence variant |
| DOC | Dissolved organic carbon |
| Eh | Redox potential |
| FeOB | Fe(II)-oxidizing bacteria |
| FeRB | Fe(III)-reducing bacteria |
| PERMANOVA | Permutational multivariate analysis of variance |
| RDA | Redundancy analysis |
| SpC | Specific conductance |
| TDS | Total dissolved solids |