Forests don’t just absorb CO2 — they also take up methane
Vestin, Patrik LU
(2024)
In Nature
631.
p.744-745
- Abstract
- Field studies reveal that the woody surfaces of upland trees are a substantial global sink for methane, a potent greenhouse gas. The findings help to fill a hole in the global methane budget and should improve the accuracy of climate models.
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- author
- Vestin, Patrik
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2024-07-25
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Trees are methane sinks, Methane, Global methane budget, Flux measurements, Terrestrial methane sinks, Microbial methane sink
- in
- Nature
- volume
- 631
- pages
- 2 pages
- publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- external identifiers
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- pmid:39048686
- scopus:85199464218
- ISSN
- 0028-0836
- DOI
- 10.1038/d41586-024-02270-3
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- 9a639d36-cc7d-466e-b35e-c67da5866a4e
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- 2024-08-27 17:15:52
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