Biogeochemistry of Global Change: Radiatively Active Trace Gases Selected Papers from the Tenth International Symposium on Environmental Biogeochemistry, San Francisco, August 19–24, 1991

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Biogeochemical Cycles of Carbon on a Hierarchy of Time Scales....Pages 3-28
Ice Core Records as a Key to Understanding the History of Atmospheric Trace Gases....Pages 29-45
Ancient Ice Air Content of the Vostok Ice Core....Pages 46-60
Late Jurassic Paleoclimate of Pangea Based on Results from a General Circulation Model....Pages 61-79
Front Matter....Pages 81-81
The Sensitivity of the Global Atmosphere to Anthropogenic Methane Sources....Pages 83-97
A Time-Dependent Two-Dimensional-Model Study of the Trend in Atmospheric Methane....Pages 98-112
The Influence of Tropical Biomass Burning on Climate and the Atmospheric Environment....Pages 113-150
Long-Term Effects of Fossil-Fuel-Burning and Deforestation on Levels of Atmospheric CO 2 ....Pages 151-165
Models of Oceanic and Terrestrial Sinks of Anthropogenic CO 2 : A Review of the Contemporary Carbon Cycle....Pages 166-189
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
Agriculture, the Global Nitrogen Cycle, and Trace Gas Flux....Pages 193-208
Sulfur Gas Emissions from African Savanna-Burning....Pages 209-220
Methane Production and Uptake in Some Terrestrial Ecosystems of the Former USSR....Pages 221-244
Emission of N-Oxides from Acid Irrigated and Limed Soils of a Coniferous Forest in Bavaria....Pages 245-260
Production of Methane and Nitrous Oxide by Organic Soils within a Northern Hardwood Forest Ecosystem....Pages 261-277
Effect of Nitrogen Fertilizer and Nitrification Inhibitors on Methane and Nitrous Oxide Fluxes in Irrigated Corn....Pages 278-289
Nitric and Nitrous Oxide Evolution from Managed Subtropical Grassland....Pages 290-316
Mechanisms Controlling Methane Emission from Wetland Rice Fields....Pages 317-335
Mechanism of Methane Transport by Rice Plants....Pages 336-352
Spatial and Temporal Variations of Methane Flux from a Rice Paddy Field....Pages 353-368
Soil Water Content and the Ratio of Nitrous Oxide to Nitric Oxide Emitted from Soil....Pages 369-386
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
Respiration of Cultivated Histosols in Field and Laboratory Measurements and the Relationships between Respiration and Soil Properties....Pages 387-404
Emission of Biogenic Sulfur Gases from Rice Paddies in Japan....Pages 405-418
Emissions of Ammonia, Nitrous Oxide, and Methane from Cattle Slurry....Pages 419-433
Sources and Migration of Methane-Rich Gas in Sedimentary Rocks on the Exmouth Plateau: Northwest Australian Continental Margin....Pages 434-446
Front Matter....Pages 447-447
Methane Emissions from Northern High-Latitude Wetlands....Pages 449-486
Studies of Permafrost and Gas-Hydrates as Possible Sources of Atmospheric Methane at High Latitudes....Pages 487-501
Front Matter....Pages 503-503
The Oceanic Global Methane Cycle....Pages 505-520
Global Carbon Dioxide and Methane Fluxes from Shallow-Water Marine Carbonate Frameworks....Pages 521-529
Effects of Seagrass Die-Off on Benthic Fluxes and Porewater Concentrations of ∑CO 2 , ∑H 2 S, and CH 4 in Florida Bay Sediments....Pages 530-550
The Oceanic Distribution of Methane and Its Flux to the Atmosphere over Southern California Waters....Pages 551-573
The Carbon Isotope Biogeochemistry of Methane Production in Anoxic Sediments: 1. Field Observations....Pages 574-593
The Carbon Isotope Biogeochemistry of Methane Production in Anoxic Sediments: 2. A Laboratory Experiment....Pages 594-605
Oxidation of Methane by Deep-Sea Mytilids in the Gulf of Mexico....Pages 606-618
Seasonal Variations in the Isotopic Composition of Methane Associated with Aquatic Macrophytes....Pages 619-632
Nitrogen Fixation and Denitrification in the Intertidal and Subtidal Environments of Tomales Bay, California....Pages 633-653
The Influence of Glycine Betaine on Dimethyl Sulfide and Dimethylsulfoniopropionate Concentrations in Seawater....Pages 654-671
Sulfur Cycling in Laminated Marine Microbial Ecosystems....Pages 672-690
Biological Consumption of Dimethyl Sulfide in the Marine Euphotic Zone: Results of Radioisotope Experiments....Pages 691-703
Aspects of the Biogeochemistry of Methane in Mono Lake and the Mono Basin of California....Pages 704-741
Front Matter....Pages 743-743
Bacterial Transformations of Organic Sulfur Compounds in Marine Environments....Pages 745-781
Front Matter....Pages 743-743
Formation of Dimethylsulfide and Methanethiol from Methoxylated Aromatic Compounds and Inorganic Sulfide by Newly Isolated Anaerobic Bacteria....Pages 782-795
Catabolism of Dimethylsulfide and Methane Thiol by Methylotrophic Methanogens....Pages 796-810
Bromoperoxidases: Their Role in the Formation of HOBr and Bromoform by Seaweeds....Pages 811-824
Microbiological Transformations of Low-Molecular-Weight Carbon Compounds in the Deep Subsurface....Pages 825-838
Biological and Chemical Transformations of Halogenated Aliphatic Compounds in Aquatic and Terrestrial Environments....Pages 839-852
Back Matter....Pages 853-879