Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

The thermal response of soil microbial methanogenesis decreases in magnitude with changing temperature

  • Hongyang Chen,
  • Ting Zhu,
  • Bo Li,
  • Changming Fang,
  • Ming Nie

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19549-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Soil microbes produce more methane as temperatures warm, but it is unclear if they acclimate to heat, or keep producing more of the greenhouse gas. Here the authors use artificial wetland warming experiments to show that after initial spikes in methane emissions after warming, emissions level out over time.