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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Methane emissions and production potentials of forest swamp wetlands in the eastern Great Xing'An Mountains, Northeast China |
Author: | Yu, B. Stott, P. Yu, H. Li, X. |
Citation: | Environmental Management (New York): an international journal for decision-makers, scientists and environmental auditors, 2013; 52(5):1149-1160 |
Publisher: | Springer-Verlag |
Issue Date: | 2013 |
ISSN: | 0364-152X 1432-1009 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Bing Yu, Philip Stott, Hongxian Yu, Xiaoyu Li |
Abstract: | Measurements of methane flux at a few inundated sites in China have been extrapolated to obtain estimates on a national scale. To enable those national estimates to be refined and to compare flux from geographically separated sites comprising the same wetland types, we used a closed chamber method to measure methane flux in uninundated Betula platyphylla-and Larix gmelinii-dominated peatlands in the Northeast China. Our measurements were taken from both vegetated and bare soil surfaces, and we compared flux with environmental measures including vegetation biomass, soil temperature and soil characteristics. We found that methane flux was low, and that there were no significant differences between wetland types, indicating that environmental influences were dominant. We found that flux was positively correlated to temperature in the surface layers of the soil, the above-ground biomass of the shrub and herb layers, total soil carbon and total soil nitrogen; and we suggest that emissions may be due to anaerobic microcosms in the surface layers. The methane production potentials of the soils were low and similar between both sites but inconsistent with the differences between fluxes, and inconsistent with production potentials and fluxes reported from the same wetland types elsewhere, indicating that there were subtle environmental differences between wetlands classed as being of the same type. Differences between fluxes in vegetated chambers with bare soil chambers were insignificant, indicating that no methane emission through aerenchyma occurred at our sites. We concluded that wetland type was not an accurate predictor of methane flux. |
Keywords: | Methane emission Production potential Temperature Soil property Forest swamp wetlands The eastern Great Xing’an Mountains |
Rights: | © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s00267-013-0161-2 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00267-013-0161-2 |
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