Methane Oxidation in Three Alberta Soils: Influence of Soil Parameters and Methane Flux Rates
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Abstract
Current concern over the potentially negative impacts of climate change has brought attention to anthropogenic sources of methane, a primary greenhouse gas. Two such emission sources are methane leakage at heavy oil wells and sanitary landfills. At both of these sources, substantial quantities of methane could potentially be oxidised by methanotrophic microbes living in soils. Optimisation of this phenomenon may serve as an inexpensive technique for reducing methane emissions. Soil column and batch incubation experiments were performed on a landfill loam, an agricultural loam and a sedge peat to gain a better quantitative understanding of the biological and physical processes limiting CH4 oxidation in soils that undergo the freeze-thaw cycles associated with northern climates. Moisture content emerged as a critical variable that can limit a soil's CH4 oxidation potential. For example, the oxidation rate of the agricultural soil was seen to increase by an order of magnitude after increasing its moisture content from 6% to 10% of its dry weight.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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