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DOI | 10.1002/ece3.11147 |
Water table depth and plant species determine the direction and magnitude of methane fluxes in floodplain meadow soils | |
发表日期 | 2024 |
ISSN | 2045-7758 |
起始页码 | 14 |
结束页码 | 3 |
卷号 | 14期号:3 |
英文摘要 | Methane (CH4) is a powerful greenhouse gas with ongoing efforts aiming to quantify and map emissions from natural and managed ecosystems. Wetlands play a significant role in the global CH4 budget, but uncertainties in their total emissions remain large, due to a combined lack of CH4 data and fuzzy boundaries between mapped ecosystem categories. European floodplain meadows are anthropogenic ecosystems that originated due to traditional management for hay cropping. These ecosystems are seasonally inundated by river water, and straddle the boundary between grassland and wetland ecosystems; however, an understanding of their CH4 function is lacking. Here, we established a replicated outdoor floodplain-meadow mesocosm experiment to test how water table depth (45, 30, 15 cm below the soil surface) and plant composition affect CH4 fluxes over an annual cycle. Water table was a major controller on CH4, with significantly higher fluxes (overall mean 9.3 mg m-2 d-1) from the high (15 cm) water table treatment. Fluxes from high water table mesocosms with bare soil were low (mean 0.4 mg m-2 d-1), demonstrating that vegetation drove high emissions. Larger emissions came from high water table mesocosms with aerenchymatous plant species (e.g. Alopecurus pratensis, mean 12.8 mg m-2 d-1), suggesting a role for plant-mediated transport. However, at low (45 cm) water tables A. pratensis mesocosms were net CH4 sinks, suggesting that there is plasticity in CH4 exchange if aerenchyma are present. Plant cutting to simulate a hay harvest had no effect on CH4, further supporting a role for plant-mediated transport. Upscaling our CH4 fluxes to a UK floodplain meadow using hydrological modelling showed that the meadow was a net CH4 source because oxic periods of uptake were outweighed by flooding-induced anoxic emissions. Our results show that floodplain meadows can be either small sources or sinks of CH4 over an annual cycle. Their CH4 exchange appears to respond to soil temperature, moisture status and community composition, all of which are likely to be modified by climate change, leading to uncertainty around the future net contribution of floodplain meadows to the CH4 cycle. Using a combination of field measurements, mesocosm experiments, and hydrological modelling, we show that UK floodplain meadows are net emitters of the powerful greenhouse gas methane. These emissions are driven by high water tables and plant species with arenchymatous tissue.image |
英文关键词 | aerenchyma; ecosystem; greenhouse gas; hydrology; meadow; methane; plants; vegetation; water table; wetland |
语种 | 英语 |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Evolutionary Biology |
WOS类目 | Ecology ; Evolutionary Biology |
WOS记录号 | WOS:001181662200001 |
来源期刊 | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/305978 |
作者单位 | University of Liverpool; Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Open University - UK; University of Birmingham; University of Birmingham |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | . Water table depth and plant species determine the direction and magnitude of methane fluxes in floodplain meadow soils[J],2024,14(3). |
APA | (2024).Water table depth and plant species determine the direction and magnitude of methane fluxes in floodplain meadow soils.ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION,14(3). |
MLA | "Water table depth and plant species determine the direction and magnitude of methane fluxes in floodplain meadow soils".ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION 14.3(2024). |
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