Communications Earth & Environment (Jul 2022)

Improved global wetland carbon isotopic signatures support post-2006 microbial methane emission increase

  • Youmi Oh,
  • Qianlai Zhuang,
  • Lisa R. Welp,
  • Licheng Liu,
  • Xin Lan,
  • Sourish Basu,
  • Edward J. Dlugokencky,
  • Lori Bruhwiler,
  • John B. Miller,
  • Sylvia E. Michel,
  • Stefan Schwietzke,
  • Pieter Tans,
  • Philippe Ciais,
  • Jeffrey P. Chanton

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00488-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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A process-based carbon isotope biogeochemistry model substantially reduces uncertainty in regional and global estimates of the stable carbon isotopic composition of methane emissions from wetlands and suggests rising atmospheric concentrations are due to increased microbial emissions.