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SUMMARY:Seeing the wood for the trees in the methane cycle: Insights from 
 forests in South and Central America\, Indonesia and beyond - Prof Vincent
  Gauci (Open University)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180511T161500
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180511T183000
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DESCRIPTION:OCTF seminar followed by drinks - all welcome\n\nWetlands are 
 the largest global source of atmospheric methane (CH4)\, a potent greenhou
 se gas. However\, methane emission inventories in some forested wetland lo
 cations consistently underestimate the atmospheric burden of CH4 determine
 d via remote sensing and inversion modelling\, pointing to a major gap in 
 our understanding of the contribution of these ecosystems to CH4 emissions
 . In upland forests on free-draining soils the methane production capacity
  of soils is lower\, however the finding that trees can transport soil-pro
 duced methane from their stems to the atmosphere presents the possibility 
 that forests play an important role in the exchange of this powerful green
 house gas potentially accounting for bottom up/ top down differences in te
 rrestrial methane emission estimates. In this talk\, Prof Gauci will discu
 ss findings from upland and wetland forests spanning Panama\, Peru\, the A
 mazon floodplain and Indonesian peat swamp forest together with implicatio
 ns of these findings for a world undergoing change.\n\nProf Vincent Gauci 
 is Chair in Global Change Ecology in the School of Environment\, Earth and
  Ecosystem Sciences. He directs the NERC Methane Network 'MethaneNet' www.
 methanenet.org and is PI and Co-PI on numerous grants funded via the NERC\
 , Defra\, The AXA Research Fund\, The Royal Society as well as other sourc
 es. He is interested in the biogeochemistry of carbon-dense terrestrial ec
 osystems and how they interact with the atmosphere through the exchange of
  greenhouse gases. These interests include the role of trees in mediating 
 methane emissions from wetlands\, the effects of fires and disturbance on 
 fluvial carbon fluxes from forested tropical peat-swamp forest catchments 
 in South-East Asia\, investigating the effects of restoration on lowland p
 eatland processes. He also has an interest in the effects of acid rain sul
 fate deposition on methane emissions from both natural and artificial wetl
 ands (rice paddies). Other interests include the effect of ancient atmosph
 eric composition on wetland biogeochemistry and the effect of volcanic eve
 nts on wetland ecosystem function.\n\nSpeakers:\nProf Vincent Gauci (Open 
 University)
LOCATION:Dyson Perrins Building (Herbertson Room)\, off South Parks Road O
 X1 3QY
TZID:Europe/London
URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/7f7ce7d5-059a-4ec5-859e-c0d2eb7821da/
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