Journal
WETLANDS
Volume 36, Issue 3, Pages 401-413Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s13157-016-0746-7
Keywords
Methane; Tidal wetland; Carbon sequestration; Eddy covariance
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- Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority
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Sulfate from seawater inhibits methane production in tidal wetlands, and by extension, salinity has been used as a general predictor of methane emissions. With the need to reduce methane flux uncertainties from tidal wetlands, eddy covariance (EC) techniques provide an integrated methane budget. The goals of this study were to: 1) establish methane emissions from natural, freshwater and brackish wetlands in Louisiana based on EC; and 2) determine if EC estimates conform to a methane-salinity relationship derived from temperate tidal wetlands with chamber sampling. Annual estimates of methane emissions from this study were 62.3 g CH4/m(2)/yr and 13.8 g CH4/m(2)/yr for the freshwater and brackish (8-10 psu) sites, respectively. If it is assumed that long-term, annual soil carbon sequestration rates of natural marshes are similar to 200 g C/m(2)/yr (7.3 tCO(2)e/ha/yr), healthy brackish marshes could be expected to act as a net radiative sink, equivalent to less than one-half the soil carbon accumulation rate after subtracting methane emissions (4.1 tCO(2)e/ha/yr). Carbon sequestration rates would need case-by-case assessment, but the EC methane emissions estimates in this study conformed well to an existing salinity-methane model that should serve as a basis for establishing emission factors for wetland carbon offset projects.
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