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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-961-2021
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-961-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Methane efflux from an American bison herd
Department of Biological Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison,
Madison, WI, USA
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of
Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, USA
Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin–Madison,
Madison, WI, USA
Adam A. Cook
Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State
University, Bozeman, MT, USA
John E. Dore
Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State
University, Bozeman, MT, USA
Montana Institute on Ecosystems, Montana State University, Bozeman,
MT, USA
Natascha Kljun
Centre for Environmental and Climate Science, Lund University, Lund,
Sweden
William Kleindl
Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State
University, Bozeman, MT, USA
E. N. Jack Brookshire
Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State
University, Bozeman, MT, USA
Tobias Gerken
Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, The Pennsylvania
State University, University Park, PA, USA
School of Integrated Sciences, James Madison University, Harrisonburg,
VA, USA
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Short summary
The reintroduction of American bison creates multiple environmental benefits. Ruminants like bison also emit methane – a potent greenhouse gas – to the atmosphere, which has not been measured to date in a field setting. We measured methane efflux from an American bison herd during winter using eddy covariance. Automated cameras were used to approximate their location to calculate per-animal flux. From the measurements, bison do not emit more methane than the cattle they often replace.
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