Abstract.
Wetlands
are
the
largest
natural
source
of
methane
(CH4)
emissions
globally.
Northern
wetlands
(>45°
N),
accounting
for
42
%
global
wetland
area,
increasingly
vulnerable
to
carbon
loss,
especially
as
CH4
may
accelerate
under
intensified
high-latitude
warming.
However,
magnitude
and
spatial
patterns
remain
relatively
uncertain.
Here
we
present
estimates
daily
fluxes
obtained
using
a
new
machine
learning-based
upscaling
framework
(WetCH4)
that
applies
most
complete
database
eddy
covariance
(EC)
observations
available
date,
satellite
remote
sensing
informed
environmental
conditions
at
10-km
resolution.
The
important
predictor
variables
included
near-surface
soil
temperatures
(top
40
cm),
vegetation
reflectance,
moisture.
Our
results,
modeled
from
138
site-years
across
26
sites,
had
strong
predictive
skill
with
mean
R2
0.46
0.62
absolute
error
(MAE)
23
nmol
m-2
s-1
21
monthly
fluxes,
respectively.
Based
on
model
estimated
an
annual
average
20.8
±2.1
Tg
yr-1
northern
region
(2016–2022)
total
budgets
ranged
13.7–44.1
yr-1,
depending
map
extents.
Although
86
budget
occurred
during
May–October
period,
considerable
amount
(1.4
±0.2
CH4)
winter.
Regionally,
West
Siberian
accounted
majority
(51
%)
interannual
variation
in
domain
emissions.
Significant
issues
data
coverage
remain,
only
sites
observing
year-round
11
Alaska
10
bog/fen
Canada
Fennoscandia,
general,
Western
Lowlands
underrepresented
by
EC
sites.
results
provide
high
spatiotemporal
information
cycle
possible
responses
climate
change.
Continued,
all-season
tower
improved
moisture
products
needed
future
improvement
upscaling.
dataset
can
be
found
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10802154
(Ying
et
al.,
2024).
Wetlands,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
45(1)
Published: Jan. 1, 2025
There
are
increasing
global
efforts
and
initiatives
aiming
to
tackle
climate
change
mitigate
its
impacts
via
natural
solutions
(NCS).
Wetlands
have
been
considered
effective
NCS
given
their
capacity
sequester
retain
atmospheric
carbon
dioxide
(CO
FACETS,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
10, P. 1 - 19
Published: Jan. 1, 2025
Knowledge
and
data
on
the
current
function,
future
threats,
benefits
of
peatlands
in
Canada
are
required
to
support
evidence-based
decision-making
ensure
they
continue
provide
critical
ecosystem
services.
This
is
particularly
relevant
for
Canada,
given
large
expanse
relatively
intact
peatland
area.
There
a
need,
not
only
standardize
protocols,
but
also
prioritize
types
information
knowledge
that
can
best
meet
conservation
management
goals.
was
challenge
posed
participants
Global
Peatlands
Initiative
workshop
June
2023
Quebec
City,
Quebec,
Canada.
Participants
were
composed
researchers
using
primarily
Western
science
approaches
use
carbon
accounting,
policy
or
sustainable
land
use,
reclamation/restoration,
conservation,
wildlife,
water
resources
applications.
For
seven
categories
(hydrometeorological
environmental
sensing;
peat
coring
depth;
greenhouse
gas
monitoring;
biodiversity;
vegetation,
woody
debris,
litter;
Traditional
Knowledge;
quality),
three
priority
measurements
identified
recommendations
their
collection
discussed.
The
key
from
(1)
create
standardized,
yet
flexible
protocols;
(2)
coordinate
field
where
possible;
(3)
weave
more
into
understanding
peatlands;
(4)
an
atlas
existing
information;
(5)
scope
opportunities
network
“super
sites”.
Earth s Future,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
13(4)
Published: April 1, 2025
Abstract
Understanding
wetland
carbon
stores
and
dynamics
are
critical
to
managing
global
flux.
Non‐floodplain
wetlands
(NFWs)
hydrologically
dynamic
globally
prevalent
inland
distal
fluvial
flowpaths,
lacustrine‐fringing
areas,
geomorphic
floodplains;
>50%
the
world's
remaining
have
been
reported
as
NFWs.
Quantifying
NFW
represents
a
substantive
carbon‐budget
gap.
We
analyze
conterminous‐US
(CONUS)
field‐based
data
collected
from
nearly
2000
sites
sampled
by
National
Wetlands
Condition
Assessment
(NWCA)
representing
∼38
Mha
CONUS
wetlands,
asking:
What
is
mean
soil
organic
density
total
storage
in
different
hydrogeomorphically
classified
types?
To
what
extent
does
NFWs
differ
other
How
vary
between
altered
intact
NFWs?
find
that
relative
types,
carbon‐storing
powerhouses,
containing
approximately
1.5x
per
ha
than
types
sampled.
CONUS‐wide,
store
more
across
every
depth
increment:
∼2.0x
types.
Further,
condition
affects
dynamics:
least
impaired
had
1.6x
found
intermediately
disturbed
1.8x
of
most‐disturbed
These
NWCA
data,
plus
waning
societal
protections,
suggests
releases
destruction
landscapes
likely
increase—perhaps
markedly—in
coming
years
(e.g.,
through
hydrology
affecting
atmospheric
release
NFW‐stored
well
dissolved
export).
Wetlands,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
44(8)
Published: Oct. 21, 2024
Abstract
The
soil
redox
potential
in
wetlands
such
as
peatlands
or
salt
marshes
exerts
a
strong
control
over
microbial
decomposition
processes
and
consequently
carbon
cycling.
Wetland
plants
can
influence
by
supplying
both
terminal
electron
acceptors
(i.e.
oxygen)
donors
organic
matter)
to
the
system.
However,
quantitative
insight
into
importance
of
plant
effects
on
wetland
associated
traits
are
scarce.
In
combined
mesocosm
field
study
we
investigated
impact
reduction
using
IRIS
(Indicator
Reduction
Soils)
sticks.
Vegetated
plots
were
compared
non-vegetated
along
an
elevational
gradient
marsh
Wadden
Sea
artificially
created
tidal
tank
experiment.
Our
findings
from
experiment
demonstrated
that
vegetation
enhanced
suppressed
relative
pots.
direction
effect
(i.e.,
net
oxidizing
reducing)
was
inversely
correlated
with
background
conditions.
Insights
high-resolution
oxygen
profiling
via
planar
optode
imaging
corroborated
these
findings.
study,
consistently
reduced
comparatively
well-aerated
soil.
positively
matter
content
belowground
biomass,
indicating
greater
availability
plant-derived
donors,
form
matter,
increased
reduction.
Challenging
dominant
paradigm
primarily
act
oxidizers,
our
reveals
their
exert
reducing
effect.
documented
plant-induced
changes
conditions
suggests
previously
overlooked
role
shaping
stability
stocks
ecosystems
variable
water
tables.
Nature Communications,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
16(1)
Published: Jan. 22, 2025
Current
estimates
of
wetland
contributions
to
the
global
methane
budget
carry
high
uncertainty,
particularly
in
accurately
predicting
emissions
from
methane-emitting
wetlands.
Microorganisms
drive
cycling,
but
little
is
known
about
their
conservation
across
To
address
this,
we
integrate
16S
rRNA
amplicon
datasets,
metagenomes,
metatranscriptomes,
and
annual
flux
data
9
wetlands,
creating
Multi-Omics
for
Understanding
Climate
Change
(MUCC)
v2.0.0
database.
This
resource
used
link
microbiome
composition
function
emissions,
focusing
on
methane-cycling
microbes
networks
driving
carbon
decomposition.
We
identify
eight
genera
shared
wetlands
show
wetland-specific
metabolic
interactions
marshes,
revealing
low
connections
between
methanogens
methanotrophs
high-emitting
Methanoregula
emerged
as
a
hub
methanogen
strong
predictor
flux.
In
these
it
also
displays
functional
potential
methylotrophic
methanogenesis,
highlighting
importance
this
pathway
ecosystems.
Collectively,
our
findings
illuminate
trends
microbial
decomposition
while
providing
an
extensive
publicly
available
database
advance
future
research.
The
authors
created
multisite
CH4
fluxes
diverse
differences
cross-feeding
dynamics
that
improve
predictions
Environmental Microbiology Reports,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
17(1)
Published: Jan. 27, 2025
ABSTRACT
Prairie
wetland
ponds
on
the
Great
Plains
of
North
America
offer
a
diverse
array
geochemical
scenarios
that
can
be
informative
about
their
impact
microbial
communities.
These
ecosystems
invaluable
ecological
services
while
experiencing
significant
stressors,
primarily
through
drainage
and
climate
change.
In
this
first
study
systematically
combining
environmental
conditions
with
community
composition
to
identify
various
niches
in
prairie
ponds,
sediments
had
higher
abundance
but
lower
phylogenetic
diversity
concentrations
dissolved
organic
carbon
([DOC];
10–18
mg/L)
sulfate
([SO
4
2−
];
37–58
water.
As
[DOC]
[SO
]
increased,
there
was
an
initial
decline
not
diversity.
Maximum
values
both
occurred
between
56
115
mg/L
5,000–6,000
decreased
thereafter
150–180
8,000–14,000
],
respectively.
findings
confirm
variables
shape
communities
key
taxa
involved
sulfur
cycling
dominated
these
potentially
impacting
vital
biogeochemical
processes
such
as
bioavailability
heavy
metals,
sequestration,
methane
emissions.
Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
130(4)
Published: March 27, 2025
Abstract
Rewetting
drained
peatlands
by
raising
the
groundwater
table
is
currently
suggested,
and
widely
implemented,
as
an
efficient
measure
to
reduce
peat
soil
degradation
decrease
CO
2
emissions.
However,
limited
information
exists
regarding
effects
of
peatland
rewetting
on
lateral
carbon
export
(LCE)
via
aquatic
pathway.
Any
changes
in
LCE
are
critical
consider,
they
affect
overall
C
balance,
may
offset
any
climatic
benefits
from
rewetting.
Additionally,
altered
could
have
consequences
for
downstream
water
quality
biota.
Here,
we
monitored
content
(DOC,
DIC
CH
4
)
runoff
pore
water,
well
radiocarbon
DOC
a
drained,
nutrient‐poor
boreal
that
was
rewetted
during
autumn
2020.
By
comparing
pre‐
(2019–2020)
post‐
(2021–2022)
periods,
detected
export.
The
results
showed
effect
site‐,
season‐
form‐specific.
Overall,
one
catchment
elevated
DIC)
or
highly
(CH
concentrations
exports
post‐rewetting,
whereas
other
site
only
DOC.
Changes
after
were
likely
driven
site‐specific
factors
such
expansion
open‐water
areas,
hydrological
flow
paths
proportion
filled
ditches
total
ditch
length.
Finally,
measurements
indicated
enhanced
contemporary
following
These
initial
(short‐term)
findings
highlight
need
before‐after
assessments
better
evaluate
sequestration
capacity
while
undergoing
operations.