Publikationsdatum:
1981-03-06
Beschreibung:
The delta(13C/12C)--values of methane produced by fistulated steers, dairy cattle, and wethers, and dairy and beef cattle herds show a bimodal distribution that appears to be correlated with the plant type (C3 or C4, that is, producing either a three- or a four-carbon acid in the first step of photosynthesis) consumed by the animals. These results indicate that cattle and sheep, on a global basis, release methane with an average delta(13C/12C) value of -60 and -63 per mil, respectively. Together they are a source of atmospheric methane whose delta(13C/12C) is similar to published values for marsh gas and cannot explain the 20 per mil higher values for atmospheric methane.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Rust, F -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1981 Mar 6;211(4486):1044-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7466376" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Schlagwort(e):
Animals
;
Atmosphere
;
Carbon Isotopes
;
Cattle/*metabolism
;
Eructation
;
Methane/*metabolism
;
Sheep/*metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Digitale ISSN:
1095-9203
Thema:
Biologie
,
Chemie und Pharmazie
,
Informatik
,
Medizin
,
Allgemeine Naturwissenschaft
,
Physik
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