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DOI10.1002/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
ISSN2045-7758
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
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
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. 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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