ArticleNature communications2023
Evaluation of the methane paradox in four adjacent pre-alpine lakes across a trophic gradient.
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- A Drier Year Markedly Enhances Methane, but Not Carbon Dioxide, Emissions in a Mediterranean Reservoir.Global change biology · 2026Article
- Seasonal differences and potential biological drivers of the methane paradox in two peri-Alpine lakes.Limnology and oceanography letters · 2026Article
- Low contribution of oxic methane production in shallow productive lakes.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Microbial Communities Drive Methane Fluxes From Floodplain Lakes-A Hydrological Gradient Perspective.Environmental microbiology · 2025Article
- Lake surface cooling drives littoral-pelagic exchange of dissolved gases.Science advances · 2024Article
- Phosphonate consumers potentially contributing to methane production in Brazilian soda lakes.Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions · 2023Article
- Aerobic methane synthesis and dynamics in a river water environment.Limnology and oceanography · 2023Article
- Methane formation driven by light and heat prior to the origin of life and beyond.Nature communications · 2023Article
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Abstract
Contrasting the paradigm that methane is only produced in anoxic conditions, recent discoveries show that oxic methane production (OMP, aka the methane paradox) occurs in oxygenated surface waters worldwide. OMP drivers and their contribution to global methane emissions, however, are not well constrained. In four adjacent pre-alpine lakes, we determine the net methane production rates in oxic surface waters using two mass balance approaches, accounting for methane sources and sinks. We find that OMP occurs in three out of four studied lakes, often as the dominant source of diffusive methane emissions. Correlations of net methane production versus chlorophyll-a, Secchi and surface mixed layer depths suggest a link with photosynthesis and provides an empirical upscaling approach. As OMP is a methane source in direct contact with the atmosphere, a better understanding of its extent and drivers is necessary to constrain the atmospheric methane contribution by inland waters.
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