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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-6427-2014
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-6427-2014
© Author(s) 2014. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Research article
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27 Nov 2014
Research article |
| 27 Nov 2014
Large methyl halide emissions from south Texas salt marshes
University of California at Berkeley, Department of Geography, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
M. E. Whelan
University of California at Berkeley, Department of Geography, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
now at: University of California, Merced, Sierra Nevada Research Institute, Merced, CA 95343, USA
D.-H. Min
The University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science Institute, Port Aransas, TX 78373, USA
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- Emission of methyl chloride from a fern growing in subtropical, temperate, and cool‐temperate climate zones Y. Yokouchi et al.
- Effect of temperature on the production rates of methyl halides in cultures of marine proteobacteria M. Hirata et al.
- Rapid Release of Halocarbons from Saline Water by Iron-Based Photochemistry Q. Yang et al.
- Effects of nitrogen input on halomethane fluxes via microorganism-mediated pathways in temperate salt marsh soil J. Zhang et al.
- Composition and sources of sediment organic matter in a western Iberian salt marsh: Developing a novel prediction model of the bromine sedimentary pool N. Jiménez-Morillo et al.
- Emission of volatile halogenated organic compounds over various Dead Sea landscapes M. Shechner et al.
- Global Methyl Halide Emissions From Rapeseed (Brassica napus) Using Life Cycle Measurements Y. Jiao et al.
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- Continental-scale variation in chloride/bromide ratios of wet deposition M. Short et al.
- Methyl Chloride and Methyl Bromide Production and Consumption in Coastal Antarctic Tundra Soils Subject to Sea Animal Activities W. Zhang et al.
- Long-term PM2.5 source apportionment at 12 sites in the western United States from 2000 to 2020 K. Kaur et al.
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- Ecosystem‐Scale Measurements of Methyl Halide Fluxes From a Brackish Tidal Marsh Invaded With Perennial Pepperweed (Lepidium latifolium) M. Deventer et al.
- Effects of methyl halide flux characteristics following Spartina alterniflora invasion in a seaward direction in a temperate salt marsh, China W. Ding et al.
- Growth rate‐dependent synthesis of halomethanes in marine heterotrophic bacteria and its implications for the ozone layer recovery L. Gómez‐Consarnau et al.
- Bromine soil/sediment enrichment in tidal salt marshes as a potential indicator of climate changes driven by solar activity: New insights from W coast Portuguese estuaries J. Moreno et al.
- Genomic and Transcriptomic Analysis of Growth-Supporting Dehalogenation of Chlorinated Methanes in Methylobacterium P. Chaignaud et al.
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- Exoplanet Biosignatures: A Review of Remotely Detectable Signs of Life E. Schwieterman et al.
- Emission of methyl chloride from a fern growing in subtropical, temperate, and cool‐temperate climate zones Y. Yokouchi et al.
- Effect of temperature on the production rates of methyl halides in cultures of marine proteobacteria M. Hirata et al.
- Rapid Release of Halocarbons from Saline Water by Iron-Based Photochemistry Q. Yang et al.
- Effects of nitrogen input on halomethane fluxes via microorganism-mediated pathways in temperate salt marsh soil J. Zhang et al.
- Composition and sources of sediment organic matter in a western Iberian salt marsh: Developing a novel prediction model of the bromine sedimentary pool N. Jiménez-Morillo et al.
- Emission of volatile halogenated organic compounds over various Dead Sea landscapes M. Shechner et al.
- Global Methyl Halide Emissions From Rapeseed (Brassica napus) Using Life Cycle Measurements Y. Jiao et al.
- Impacts of ocean biogeochemistry on atmospheric chemistry L. Tinel et al.
- Continental-scale variation in chloride/bromide ratios of wet deposition M. Short et al.
- Methyl Chloride and Methyl Bromide Production and Consumption in Coastal Antarctic Tundra Soils Subject to Sea Animal Activities W. Zhang et al.
- Long-term PM2.5 source apportionment at 12 sites in the western United States from 2000 to 2020 K. Kaur et al.
- Bromine biogeodynamics in the NE Atlantic: A perspective from natural wetlands of western Portugal F. Moreno et al.
- Shifts from methyl chloride sink to source functions within a coastal salt marsh in eastern China: an examination of the effects of biomass burning prohibition policies J. Wang & J. Wang
- Sources and sinks of chloromethane in a salt marsh ecosystem: constraints from concentration and stable isotope measurements of laboratory incubation experiments F. Keppler et al.
- Toward a List of Molecules as Potential Biosignature Gases for the Search for Life on Exoplanets and Applications to Terrestrial Biochemistry S. Seager et al.
- Ecosystem‐Scale Measurements of Methyl Halide Fluxes From a Brackish Tidal Marsh Invaded With Perennial Pepperweed (Lepidium latifolium) M. Deventer et al.
- Effects of methyl halide flux characteristics following Spartina alterniflora invasion in a seaward direction in a temperate salt marsh, China W. Ding et al.
- Growth rate‐dependent synthesis of halomethanes in marine heterotrophic bacteria and its implications for the ozone layer recovery L. Gómez‐Consarnau et al.
- Bromine soil/sediment enrichment in tidal salt marshes as a potential indicator of climate changes driven by solar activity: New insights from W coast Portuguese estuaries J. Moreno et al.
- Genomic and Transcriptomic Analysis of Growth-Supporting Dehalogenation of Chlorinated Methanes in Methylobacterium P. Chaignaud et al.
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Methyl halides, compounds that contribute to stratospheric ozone destruction, have both anthropogenic and natural sources, but their natural sources are poorly characterized. The manuscript reports large emissions of methyl chloride and methyl bromide from subtropical salt marshes on the Gulf Coast of Texas, USA. The emission rates, including some of the largest observed from a natural source, contrast the much lower emission rates reported from higher-latitude salt marshes.
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