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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-1769-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-1769-2021
Research article
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15 Mar 2021
Research article |  | 15 Mar 2021

Representing methane emissions from wet tropical forest soils using microbial functional groups constrained by soil diffusivity

Debjani Sihi, Xiaofeng Xu, Mónica Salazar Ortiz, Christine S. O'Connell, Whendee L. Silver, Carla López-Lloreda, Julia M. Brenner, Ryan K. Quinn, Jana R. Phillips, Brent D. Newman, and Melanie A. Mayes

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Humid tropical soils are important sources and sinks of methane. We used model simulation to understand how different kinds of microbes and observed soil moisture and oxygen dynamics contribute to production and consumption of methane along a wet tropical hillslope during normal and drought conditions. Drought alters the diffusion of oxygen and microbial substrates into and out of soil microsites, resulting in enhanced methane release from the entire hillslope during drought recovery.
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