Methane emissions by alpine plant communities in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Export

@article{citeulike:3482021, abstract = {For the first time to our knowledge, we report here methane emissions by plant communities in alpine ecosystems in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. This has been achieved through long-term field observations from June 2003 to July 2006 using a closed chamber technique. Strong methane emission at the rate of 26.2±1.2 and 7.8±1.1μg CH4 m−2h−1 was observed for a grass community in a Kobresia humilis meadow and a Potentilla fruticosa meadow, respectively. A shrub community in the Potentilla meadow consumed atmospheric methane at the rate of 5.8±1.3μg CH4 m−2h−1 on a regional basis; plants from alpine meadows contribute at least 0.13Tg CH4 yr−1 in the Tibetan Plateau. This finding has important implications with regard to the regional methane budget and species-level difference should be considered when assessing methane emissions by plants.}, author = {Cao, Guangmin and Xu, Xingliang and Long, Ruijun and Wang, Qilan and Wang, Changting and Du, Yangong and Zhao, Xinquan}, citeulike-article-id = {3482021}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2008.0373}, doi = {10.1098/rsbl.2008.0373}, journal = {Biology Letters}, keywords = {methane\_cycle, methanogenesis}, posted-at = {2008-11-05 10:48:28}, priority = {2}, title = {Methane emissions by alpine plant communities in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2008.0373} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3482021 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3482021 N2 - For the first time to our knowledge, we report here methane emissions by plant communities in alpine ecosystems in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. This has been achieved through long-term field observations from June 2003 to July 2006 using a closed chamber technique. Strong methane emission at the rate of 26.2±1.2 and 7.8±1.1μg CH4 m−2h−1 was observed for a grass community in a Kobresia humilis meadow and a Potentilla fruticosa meadow, respectively. A shrub community in the Potentilla meadow consumed atmospheric methane at the rate of 5.8±1.3μg CH4 m−2h−1 on a regional basis; plants from alpine meadows contribute at least 0.13Tg CH4 yr−1 in the Tibetan Plateau. This finding has important implications with regard to the regional methane budget and species-level difference should be considered when assessing methane emissions by plants. JF - Biology Letters TI - Methane emissions by alpine plant communities in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau KW - methane_cycle KW - methanogenesis AU - Cao, Guangmin AU - Xu, Xingliang AU - Long, Ruijun AU - Wang, Qilan AU - Wang, Changting AU - Du, Yangong AU - Zhao, Xinquan UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2008.0373 ER -