Seagrasses continue to release methane after their die-off
by Max Planck Gesellschaft on www.mpg.de
Seagrass meadows play an important role in the marine carbon cycle and the climate. On the one hand, they sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it underground, on the other hand, they emit the potent greenhouse gas methane. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany, have now investigated what controls methane production and release from seagrass meadows.
Original publication: Sina Schorn, Soeren Ahmerkamp, Emma Bullock, Miriam Weber, Christian Lott, Manuel Liebeke, Gaute Lavik, Marcel M. M. Kuypers, Jon S. Graf, Jana Milucka: Diverse methylotrophic methanogenic archaea cause high methane emissions from seagrass meadows. PNAS (2022) DOI