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<\/a>Frozen methane bubbles. (Gabriel Yvon-Durocher, Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, flickr.com<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n Microbes found in aquatic, wetland and rice-paddy ecosystems emit methane instead of carbon dioxide during respiration. As temperatures rise, the emissions from these organisms rise too.<\/p>\n A new study shows that methane emissions from aquatic microbes will increase with temperature faster than either respiration or photosynthesis of other living organisms. Methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.<\/p>\n An increase in the ratio of methane to carbon dioxide may have important consequences for the future of carbon cycle and may play a larger than expected role in climate change.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Original research paper<\/span><\/a> published in the journal\u00a0Nature<\/em> on\u00a0March 19, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Names and affiliations of selected<\/strong><\/span> authors<\/strong><\/p>\n Microbes found in aquatic, wetland and rice-paddy ecosystems emit methane instead of carbon dioxide during respiration. As temperatures rise, the emissions from these organisms rise too. A new study shows that methane emissions from aquatic microbes will increase with temperature faster than either respiration or photosynthesis of other living organisms. Methane is a more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[31,215,623,849],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-methane","tag-quebec-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/11927906233_e511194c6f.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-91","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":686,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Annick St-Pierre<\/a>, D\u00e9partement des sciences biologiques, Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al<\/h4>\n
Gabriel Yvon-Durocher<\/a>, Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"