Floating Aquatic Macrophytes Decrease the Methane Concentration in the Water Column of a Tropical Coastal Lagoon: Implications for Methane Oxidation and Emission

ABSTRACT In wetlands, the knowledge accumulated on the role of aquatic plants in the methane cycle focused on emergent macrophytes, to the detriment of other typologies. Herein, we evaluated whether the free-floating macrophyte Salvinia auriculata Aubl. and the floating-leaved macrophyte Eichhornia...

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Main Authors: André Luiz dos Santos Fonseca, Claudio Cardoso Marinho, Franscisco de Assis Esteves
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto de Tecnologia do Paraná (Tecpar) 2017-05-01
Series:Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132017000100702&lng=en&tlng=en