EFFECT OF INCREASING ATMOSPHERIC METHANE CONCENTRATION ON AMMONIUM INHIBITION OF SOIL METHANE CONSUMPTION

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KING, GM
SCHNELL, S
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[1] Darling Marine Center, University of Maine, Walpole
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10.1038/370282a0
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
SOILS currently consume about 30-40 Tg methane per year(1,2), which is comparable to the net annual increase in atmospheric methane concentration from 1980 to 1990(3). Most soils consume methane(2,4-9), but the extent varies with soil water content, land use and ammonium inputs(5,10-13). Ammonium concentrations in many soils have increased in recent years as a result of land-use changes and increases in ammonium concentration in precipitation(14,15). Ammonium strongly inhibits soil methane consumption, but the mechanism is uncertain. Even if enhanced ammonium concentrations are subsequently reduced, inhibition can still persist for months to years(12,13). Here we show, from field and laboratory experiments, that the extent of ammonium inhibition increases with increasing methane concentration. We propose that nitrite formation from methanotrophic ammonium oxidation accounts for much of the observed inhibition, and that the persistence of inhibition with reduced ammonium concentrations is due to the limited capacity of methanotrophs to grow or recover in present concentrations of atmospheric methane. We suggest that past increases in atmospheric methane concentration may have increased the inhibitory effect of ammonium, thereby decreasing soil methane uptake capacity, and that this mechanism could also provide a positive feedback on future atmospheric methane concentrations.
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