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Under high-pH conditions, a shift in dominance from acetoclastic to hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis is often observed. The goal of this work was to identify the pH tipping point for this metabolic shift and to elucidate the influence of alkalinity on this transition in a haloalkaliphilic methanogenic community enriched from anaerobic soda lake sediments. To this end, a haloalkaliphilic microbial community was cultivated across a pH range (8.20\u201310.00) at three different alkalinities (0.1, 0.6, 1.2\u00a0eq\/L). Specific qPCR probes were developed to quantify the two dominant methanogens for each catabolism: \u201c\n                    <jats:italic>Ca. Methanocrinis natronophilus<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u201d (acetoclastic) and\n                    <jats:italic>Methanocalculus alkaliphilus<\/jats:italic>\n                    (hydrogenotrophic). Results showed that the relative abundance of\n                    <jats:italic>Methanocalculus<\/jats:italic>\n                    increased with the rise of pH for all alkalinities, with alkalinity exerting a stronger influence than pH. At low alkalinity (0.1\u00a0eq\/L),\n                    <jats:italic>Methanocalculus<\/jats:italic>\n                    abundance doubled from 5.14\u2009\u00b1\u20091.95% to 9.15\u2009\u00b1\u20090.77% (pH 8.40\u201310.35). At moderate alkalinity (0.6\u00a0eq\/L), it increased from 8.33\u2009\u00b1\u20091.34% to 47.92\u2009\u00b1\u20093.76% (pH 8.41\u201310.00), and at the highest alkalinity (1.2\u00a0eq\/L), it increased from 6.78\u2009\u00b1\u20091.06% to 60.25\u2009\u00b1\u20092.00% (pH 8.26\u20139.68). 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing further identified \u201c\n                    <jats:italic>Candidatus<\/jats:italic>\n                    Contubernalis\u201d as a putative syntrophic acetate-oxidizing bacterium likely partnering with\n                    <jats:italic>Methanocalculus<\/jats:italic>\n                    in indirect hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis. 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