Open AccessAquatic Plants May Accelerate Arctic Methane Emissions
Author(s) -
Rebecca Heisman
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2016eo059769
Subject(s) - methane emissions , environmental science , methane , arctic , the arctic , greenhouse gas , environmental protection , environmental chemistry , natural resource economics , ecology , oceanography , chemistry , economics , biology , geology
About two thirds of the gas produced by a study area near Barrow, Alaska, came from increasingly abundant greenery covering only 5% of the landscape, researchers estimate.