Large emissions from floodplain trees close the Amazon methane budget
| Author | Sunitha R. Pangala, Alex Enrich-Prast, Luana S. Basso, et al., Vincent Gauci |
|---|---|
| Published | December 2017 |
| Format | Research paper |
| Original | Read the original |
TL;DR — A Nature letter showing that the stems of Amazon floodplain trees vent enough methane to account for the gap between measured and estimated emissions in the basin.
Published in Nature 552 (December 2017) by an international team led from the Open University. Methane inventories for the Amazon floodplain had consistently come in below what atmospheric measurements implied.
The team measured methane flux from the stems of more than 2,000 trees across the central Amazon and estimated that tree stems emit on the order of 15 to 21 teragrams of methane a year, roughly half of the floodplain’s wetland emissions, which closes the regional budget.
What it is: a peer-reviewed letter in Nature. This file is the publisher’s version; the authors’ accepted manuscript is openly posted in the White Rose university repository.
Where this came from
- A copy saved in October 2026.
- Accepted manuscript in the White Rose Research Online repository (Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York): https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/123683/
7 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.