Half of global methane emissions come from highly variable aquatic ecosystem sources

JA Rosentreter, AV Borges, BR Deemer… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Atmospheric methane is a potent greenhouse gas that plays a major role in controlling the
Earth's climate. The causes of the renewed increase of methane concentration since 2007 …

Recent intensification of wetland methane feedback

Z Zhang, B Poulter, AF Feldman, Q Ying, P Ciais… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
The positive response of wetland methane (CH4) emissions to climate change is an
important yet uncertain Earth-system feedback that amplifies atmospheric CH4 …

Microbial methane emissions from the non-methanogenesis processes: A critical review

LY Liu, GJ Xie, J Ding, BF Liu, DF Xing, NQ Ren… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Methane, a potent greenhouse gas of global importance, has traditionally been considered
as an end product of microbial methanogenesis of organic matter. Paradoxically, growing …

Practical guide to measuring wetland carbon pools and fluxes

S Bansal, IF Creed, BA Tangen, SD Bridgham… - Wetlands, 2023 - Springer
Wetlands cover a small portion of the world, but have disproportionate influence on global
carbon (C) sequestration, carbon dioxide and methane emissions, and aquatic C fluxes …

Trends in atmospheric methane concentrations since 1990 were driven and modified by anthropogenic emissions

RB Skeie, Ø Hodnebrog, G Myhre - Communications Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
The atmospheric methane trend is not fully understood. Here we investigate the role of the
main sink, the main natural source, and anthropogenic emissions on the methane growth …

[HTML][HTML] Comparing national greenhouse gas budgets reported in UNFCCC inventories against atmospheric inversions

Z Deng, P Ciais, ZA Tzompa-Sosa… - Earth System …, 2022 - essd.copernicus.org
In support of the global stocktake of the Paris Agreement on climate change, this study
presents a comprehensive framework to process the results of an ensemble of atmospheric …

FLUXNET-CH4: A global, multi-ecosystem dataset and analysis of methane seasonality from freshwater wetlands

KB Delwiche, SH Knox, A Malhotra… - Earth System …, 2021 - essd.copernicus.org
Methane (CH 4) emissions from natural landscapes constitute roughly half of global CH 4
contributions to the atmosphere, yet large uncertainties remain in the absolute magnitude …

Extensive global wetland loss over the past three centuries

E Fluet-Chouinard, BD Stocker, Z Zhang, A Malhotra… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Wetlands have long been drained for human use, thereby strongly affecting greenhouse gas
fluxes, flood control, nutrient cycling and biodiversity,. Nevertheless, the global extent of …

Revealing the hidden carbon in forested wetland soils

AJ Stewart, M Halabisky, C Babcock… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Inland wetlands are critical carbon reservoirs storing 30% of global soil organic carbon
(SOC) within 6% of the land surface. However, forested regions contain SOC-rich wetlands …

Observational constraints reduce model spread but not uncertainty in global wetland methane emission estimates

KY Chang, WJ Riley, N Collier, G McNicol… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The recent rise in atmospheric methane (CH4) concentrations accelerates climate change
and offsets mitigation efforts. Although wetlands are the largest natural CH4 source …