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Articles | Volume 19, issue 12
Articles | Volume 19, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-3051-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-3051-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 19, issue 12
Research article
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24 Jun 2022
Research article |  | 24 Jun 2022

High peatland methane emissions following permafrost thaw: enhanced acetoclastic methanogenesis during early successional stages

Liam Heffernan, Maria A. Cavaco, Maya P. Bhatia, Cristian Estop-Aragonés, Klaus-Holger Knorr, and David Olefeldt

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Permafrost thaw in peatlands leads to waterlogged conditions, a favourable environment for microbes producing methane (CH4) and high CH4 emissions. High CH4 emissions in the initial decades following thaw are due to a vegetation community that produces suitable organic matter to fuel CH4-producing microbes, along with warm and wet conditions. High CH4 emissions after thaw persist for up to 100 years, after which environmental conditions are less favourable for microbes and high CH4 emissions.
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