Effects of Water Table Fluctuation on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Wetland Soils in the Peruvian Amazon

• Published in: Wetlands (Wilmington, N.C.) Vol. 43; no. 6; p. 62
• Main Authors: Pärn, Jaan, Soosaar, Kaido, Schindler, Thomas, Machacova, Katerina, Muñoz, Waldemar Alegría, Fachín, Lizardo, Aspajo, José Luis Jibaja, Negron-Juarez, Robinson I., Maddison, Martin, Rengifo, Jhon, Dinis, Danika Journeth Garay, Oversluijs, Adriana Gabriela Arista, Fucos, Manuel Calixto Ávila, Vásquez, Rafael Chávez, Wampuch, Ronald Huaje, García, Edgar Peas, Sohar, Kristina, Horna, Segundo Cordova, Gómez, Tedi Pacheco, Muñoz, Jose David Urquiza, Espinoza, Rodil Tello, Mander, Ülo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.08.2023; Springer Nature B.V; Springer
• Subjects: Biogeochemistry; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Carbon; Carbon dioxide; Cassava; Climate change; Coastal Sciences; Drawdown; Drought; Ecology; Ecosystems; Emissions; Environmental conditions; Environmental Management; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Forests; Freshwater & Marine Ecology; greenhouse gas; Greenhouse gases; Hydrogeology; Land use; Landscape Ecology; laughing gas; Life Sciences; Methane; Nitrates; Nitrogen; Nitrous oxide; Oxygen content; Peat; peatland; Peatlands; Rain; Respiration; Slash and burn; Soil moisture; Soil surfaces; Swamps; tropical; tropics; Water table; Wetland Biogeochemistry; Wetlands; Peru; Amazon Basin; Methane; Greenhouse gas; Carbon dioxide; Nitrous oxide; Tropical; Laughing gas; Peat; Peatland; Tropics

Amazonian swamp forests remove large amounts of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) but produce methane (CH 4 ). Both are important greenhouse gases (GHG). Drought and cultivation cut the CH 4 emissions but may release CO 2 . Varying oxygen content in nitrogen-rich soil produces nitrous oxide (N 2 O), which is t...