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Annals of Botany 86: 655-663, 2000
© 2000 Annals of Botany Company

Methane Concentration and Stable Isotope Distribution as Evidence of Rhizospheric Processes: Comparison of a Fen and Bog in the Glacial Lake Agassiz Peatland Complex

L. S. Chasar+, J. P. Chanton, P. H. Glaser and D. I. Siegel

Department of Oceanography, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA

Received: 20 September 1999 ; Returned for revision: 21 January 2000 . Accepted: 15 March 2000

This study evaluates relationships between vegetation and stable isotope distribution within a large, northern peat-accumulating wetland. Concentration and {delta}13C for both porewater and emitted methane were obtained from June–September for two systems characterized by different plant assemblages and hydrologic regimes: a Carex -dominated fen and a Sphagnum -dominated, forested bog crest. Average methane emissions were higher in the fen than at the bog crest across the entire growing season. Fen porewater methane concentrations were maintained at consistently low levels in the upper one-third of the peat column, and emitted methane was substantially13C-depleted (by approx. 6{per thousand}) relative to shallow porewater methane, trends which are characteristic of passive plant-mediated transport of rhizospheric methane to the atmosphere. Fen porewater {delta}13C-CH4values in shallow peat (approx. -59{per thousand}) suggest that microbial respiration was primarily driven by acetate fermentation. CO2reduction became more important deeper in the peat column with {delta}13C-CH4values ranging from approx. -65 to -69{per thousand} between 1 and 2.8 m. In contrast to the fen, porewater methane concentrations in the bog were usually at near-maximum levels just below the water table. {delta}13C values for emitted CH4in the bog were enriched relative to those for shallow porewater CH4by approx. 10{per thousand}, indicating that methane was subject to oxidation as it exited from the peat via passive diffusion. Methanogenesis in the peat at the bog crest appears to have been substrate-limited, with porewater {delta}13C-CH4(approx. -67{per thousand}) suggestive of CO2reduction at all depths.Copyright 2000 Annals of Botany Company

Peatland, Sphagnum spp., Carex lasiocarpa, rhizosphere, methane, stable isotopes


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