http://www.esa.org/esablog/research/methane-from-plants-increased-by-climate-change/ EcoTone focuses on ecological science in the news and its use in policy, conservation and education. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:03:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.esa.org/esablog/research/methane-from-plants-increased-by-climate-change/comment-page-1/#comment-14015 Spirituality and Ecological Hope » It could not be more sersious… Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:00:27 +0000 http://www.esa.org/esablog/?p=1637#comment-14015 [...] Methane from plants increased by climate change — from the Ecological Society of America …a study out today in the journal Physiologica Plantarum suggests that under combined climate change conditions (increased temperature, drought and ultraviolet-B radiation), major crops could show an increase in average methane emitted. Mirwais Qaderi and David Reid of the University of Calgary raised faba beans, sunflowers, peas, canola, barley and wheat in the laboratory and found that this climate change scenario enhanced their methane emissions. This finding is important because, according to the researchers, methane is about 23 times as effective at trapping heat as CO2. [...] [...] Methane from plants increased by climate change — from the Ecological Society of America …a study out today in the journal Physiologica Plantarum suggests that under combined climate change conditions (increased temperature, drought and ultraviolet-B radiation), major crops could show an increase in average methane emitted. Mirwais Qaderi and David Reid of the University of Calgary raised faba beans, sunflowers, peas, canola, barley and wheat in the laboratory and found that this climate change scenario enhanced their methane emissions. This finding is important because, according to the researchers, methane is about 23 times as effective at trapping heat as CO2. [...]

]]> http://www.esa.org/esablog/research/methane-from-plants-increased-by-climate-change/comment-page-1/#comment-14008 ResearchBlogging.org News » Blog Archive » Editor’s Selections: The smallest bacterial genomes, RNAi to save the bees, and the greenhouse gas methane Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:02:39 +0000 http://www.esa.org/esablog/?p=1637#comment-14008 [...] gas: carbon dioxide. But under combined climate change conditions, major crops could show an increase in average methane emitted – a gas that is about 23 times as effective at trapping heat as [...] [...] gas: carbon dioxide. But under combined climate change conditions, major crops could show an increase in average methane emitted – a gas that is about 23 times as effective at trapping heat as [...]

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