Very strong atmospheric methane growth in the 4 years 2014–2017: Implications for the Paris Agreement

EG Nisbet, MR Manning… - Global …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric methane grew very rapidly in 2014 (12.7±0.5 ppb/year), 2015 (10.1±0.7
ppb/year), 2016 (7.0±0.7 ppb/year), and 2017 (7.7±0.7 ppb/year), at rates not observed …

[HTML][HTML] Role of subterranean microbiota in the carbon cycle and greenhouse gas dynamics

T Martin-Pozas, S Cuezva, A Fernandez-Cortes… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Subterranean ecosystems play an active role in the global carbon cycle, yet only a few
studies using indirect methods have focused on the role of the cave microbiota in this critical …

Carbon dioxide, ground air and carbon cycling in Gibraltar karst

DP Mattey, TC Atkinson, JA Barker, R Fisher… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2016 - Elsevier
We put forward a general conceptual model of CO 2 behaviour in the vadose zone of karst
aquifers, based on physical principles of air flow through porous media and caves …

A global model for cave ventilation and seasonal bias in speleothem paleoclimate records

EW James, JL Banner, B Hardt - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Cave calcite deposits (speleothems) provide long and continuous records of
paleoenvironmental conditions in terrestrial settings. Typical environmental proxy …

Conservation of prehistoric caves and stability of their inner climate: Lessons from Chauvet and other French caves

F Bourges, P Genthon, D Genty, M Lorblanchet… - Science of the Total …, 2014 - Elsevier
In the last 150 years, some prehistoric painted caves suffered irreversible degradations due
to misperception of conservation issues and subsequent mismanagement. These sites …

Isotopic ratios of tropical methane emissions by atmospheric measurement

R Brownlow, D Lowry, RE Fisher… - Global …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical methane sources are an important part of the global methane budget and include
natural wetlands, rice agriculture, biomass burning, ruminants, fossil fuels, and waste …

Methanotrophs dominate methanogens and act as a methane sink in a subterranean karst cave

X Cheng, Z Zeng, X Liu, L Li, H Wang, R Zhao… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Karst caves are potential sinks of atmospheric methane due to microbial consumption.
However, knowledge gaps on methanogens (methane producing microorganisms) and their …

Methane cycling in the carbonate critical zone

A Oberhelman, JB Martin, MK Flint - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
The carbonate critical zone (CZ) is characterized by extensive groundwater-surface water
exchange that leads to highly variable redox states of groundwater. Changes in redox …

Niche differentiation of atmospheric methane‐oxidizing bacteria and their community assembly in subsurface karst caves

X Cheng, H Wang, Z Zeng, L Li, R Zhao… - Environmental …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Karst caves are recently proposed as atmospheric methane sinks in terrestrial ecosystems.
Despite of the detection of atmospheric methane‐oxidizing bacteria (atmMOB) in caves, we …

Subterranean atmospheres may act as daily methane sinks

A Fernandez-Cortes, S Cuezva… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
In recent years, methane (CH4) has received increasing scientific attention because it is the
most abundant non-CO2 atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) and controls numerous …