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Ebullitive methane emissions from oxygenated wetland streams

Overview of attention for article published in Global Change Biology, May 2014
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Title
Ebullitive methane emissions from oxygenated wetland streams
Published in
Global Change Biology, May 2014
DOI 10.1111/gcb.12614
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John T. Crawford, Emily H. Stanley, Seth A. Spawn, Jacques C. Finlay, Luke C. Loken, Robert G. Striegl

Abstract

Stream and river carbon dioxide emissions are an important component of the global carbon cycle. Methane emissions from streams could also contribute to regional or global greenhouse gas cycling, but there are relatively few data regarding stream and river methane emissions. Furthermore, the available data do not typically include the ebullitive (bubble-mediated) pathway, instead focusing on emission of dissolved methane by diffusion or convection. Here, we show the importance of ebullitive methane emissions from small streams in the regional greenhouse gas balance of a lake and wetland-dominated landscape in temperate North America and identify the origin of the methane emitted from these well-oxygenated streams. Stream methane flux densities from this landscape tended to exceed those of nearby wetland diffusive fluxes as well as average global wetland ebullitive fluxes. Total stream ebullitive methane flux at the regional scale (103 Mg C yr(-1) ; over 6400 km(2) ) was of the same magnitude as diffusive methane flux previously documented at the same scale. Organic-rich stream sediments had the highest rates of bubble release and higher enrichment of methane in bubbles, but glacial sand sediments also exhibited high bubble emissions relative to other studied environments. Our results from a database of groundwater chemistry support the hypothesis that methane in bubbles is produced in anoxic near-stream sediment porewaters, and not in deeper, oxygenated groundwaters. Methane interacts with other key elemental cycles such as nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur, which has implications for ecosystem changes such as drought and increased nutrient loading. Our results support the contention that streams, particularly those draining wetland landscapes of the northern hemisphere, are an important component of the global methane cycle.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 5 3%
Mexico 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 149 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 33 21%
Student > Master 33 21%
Researcher 23 15%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 8%
Student > Bachelor 11 7%
Other 22 14%
Unknown 22 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 67 43%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 26 17%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 21 13%
Chemistry 4 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 2%
Other 8 5%
Unknown 27 17%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 34. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 May 2014.
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#1,127,553
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#1,373
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