Methane emissions from terrestrial plants under aerobic conditions

Frank Keppler (), John T. G. Hamilton, Marc Braß and Thomas Röckmann
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Frank Keppler: Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik
John T. G. Hamilton: Newforge Lane
Marc Braß: Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik
Thomas Röckmann: Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik

Nature, 2006, vol. 439, issue 7073, 187-191

Abstract: Natural natural gas plants The unexpectedly high levels of the green-house gas methane over tropical forests, and the recent decline in the atmospheric growth rate of methane concentrations, cannot be readily explained with the accepted global methane budget. Now a genuinely surprising discovery provides a possible explanation for these phenomena, and may have implications for modelling past and future climates. It was thought that methane formed naturally only in anaerobic conditions, in marshes for instance. In fact living plants, as well as plant litter, emit methane to the atmosphere under oxic conditions. This additional source of methane could account for 10–30% of the annual methane source strength and has been overlooked in previous studies

Date: 2006
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