Nature Communications (Jan 2022)

Phenology is the dominant control of methane emissions in a tropical non-forested wetland

  • Carole Helfter,
  • Mangaliso Gondwe,
  • Michael Murray-Hudson,
  • Anastacia Makati,
  • Mark F. Lunt,
  • Paul I. Palmer,
  • Ute Skiba

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27786-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Tropical wetlands are a significant but understudied source of methane. Here, methane emissions were measured over three years in a perennial tropical swamp in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, finding phenology was the overarching control of emissions.