Methane dynamics in vegetated habitats in inland waters: quantification, regulation, and global significance
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Abstract
Freshwater ecosystems, including lakes, wetlands, and running waters, are estimated to contribute over half the natural emissions of methane (CH 4 ) globally, yet large uncertainties remain in the inland water CH 4 budget. These are related to the highly heterogeneous nature and the complex regulation of the CH 4 emission pathways, which involve diffusion, ebullition, and plant-associated transport. The latter, in particular, represents a major source of uncertainty in our understanding of inland water CH 4 dynamics. Many freshwater ecosystems harbor habitats colonized by submerged and emergent plants, which transport highly variable amounts of CH 4 to the atmosphere but whose presence may also profoundly influence local CH 4 dynamics. Yet, CH 4 dynamics of vegetated habitats and their potential contribution to emission budgets of inland waters remain understudied and poorly quantified. Here we present a synthesis of literature pertaining CH 4 dynamics in vegetated habitats, and we (i) provide an overview of the different ways the presence of aquatic vegetation can influence CH 4 dynamics (i.e., production, oxidation, and transport) in freshwater ecosystems, (ii) summarize the methods applied to study CH 4 fluxes from vegetated habitats, and (iii) summarize the existing data on CH 4 fluxes associated to different types of aquatic vegetation and vegetated habitats in inland waters. Finally, we discuss the implications of CH 4 fluxes associated with aquatic vegetated habitats for current estimates of aquatic CH 4 emissions at the global scale. The fluxes associated to different plant types and from vegetated areas varied widely, ranging from−8.6 to over 2835.8 mg CH 4 m −2 d −1 , but were on average high relative to fluxes in non-vegetated habitats. We conclude that, based on average vegetation coverage and average flux intensities of plant-associated fluxes, the exclusion of these habitats in lake CH 4 balances may lead to a major underestimation of global lake CH 4 emissions. This synthesis highlights the need to incorporate vegetated habitats into CH 4 emission budgets from natural freshwater ecosystems and further identifies understudied research aspects and relevant future research directions.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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