ArticleNature communications2021
Bark-dwelling methanotrophic bacteria decrease methane emissions from trees.
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- Precipitation and wood type determines stem and soil greenhouse gas fluxes in a subtropical forest.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- Exploring Spatial and Temporal Variations in Stem-Mediated Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Different Species of Mangroves.Environmental science & technology · 2025Article
- Aboveground living plant-based methane production does not dominate methane emissions in terrestrial ecosystems.Planta · 2025Review
- Tissue humidity and pH as important species traits regulating tree methane emissions in floodplain wetland forests.The New phytologist · 2025Article
- Phyllosphere C1-microorganisms: Their interaction with plants and contribution to the global carbon cycle.Plant biotechnology (Tokyo, Japan) · 2025Article
- The Structural and Functional Diversities of Bacteria Inhabiting Plant Woody Tissues and Their Interactions with Fungi.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
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- Springtime soil and tree stem greenhouse gas fluxes and the related soil microbiome pattern in a drained peatland forest.Biogeochemistry · 2025Article
- Methane cycling in temperate forests.Carbon balance and management · 2024Review
- Microbial Communities in Standing Dead Trees in Ghost Forests are Largely Aerobic, Saprophytic, and Methanotrophic.Current microbiology · 2024Article
- Dry and wet periods determine stem and soil greenhouse gas fluxes in a northern drained peatland forest.The Science of the total environment · 2024Article
- All tidal wetlands are blue carbon ecosystems.Bioscience · 2024Article
- A comprehensive review on methane's dual role: effects in climate change and potential as a carbon-neutral energy source.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2024Review
- Radiation and temperature drive diurnal variation of aerobic methane emissions from Scots pine canopy.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
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Abstract
Tree stems are an important and unconstrained source of methane, yet it is uncertain whether internal microbial controls (i.e. methanotrophy) within tree bark may reduce methane emissions. Here we demonstrate that unique microbial communities dominated by methane-oxidising bacteria (MOB) dwell within bark of Melaleuca quinquenervia, a common, invasive and globally distributed lowland species. In laboratory incubations, methane-inoculated M. quinquenervia bark mediated methane consumption (up to 96.3 µmol m
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