Methane flux from wetlands areas

Anita Baker-Blocker; Thomas M. Donahue; Khalil H. Mancy

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v29i3.11353

Methane flux from wetlands areas

Tellus

Volume 29 (1977): Issue 3

By: Anita Baker-Blocker, Thomas M. Donahue and Khalil H. Mancy

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|Jan 1977

Abstract

Ebullient gases from Michigan wetlands have been collected and analyzed to deduce in situ methane fluxes. Methane flux has been found to be a function of mean air temperature. This relationship has been utilized to extrapolate observed methane fluxes to estimates of fluxes from the Pripet marshes, Sudd, Everglades, and Ugandan swamps. These four wetlands together provide a yearly source of 6.8 x 1013 g of methane to the atmosphere.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v29i3.11353 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554

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Language: English

Page range: 245 - 250

Submitted on: Jan 15, 1976

Accepted on: Jul 16, 1976

Published on: Jan 1, 1977

Published by: Stockholm University Press

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© 1977 Anita Baker-Blocker, Thomas M. Donahue, Khalil H. Mancy, published by Stockholm University Press
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