Spatial and seasonal variations in CH4 in groundwater used for agriculture in central Japan

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 127, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 207-214

  Watanabe, Akira ^a   Kasuya, Masahiro ^b   Tsunekawa, Ayumi ^b   Maeda, Mieko ^b   Sugimoto, Atsuko ^c   Kimura, Makoto ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Aichi Ken Agricultural Research Center   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

13C; Groundwater; Irrigation; Methane; Methanogenesis

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DETECTION METHOD; ESTIMATION METHOD; GLOBAL WARMING; GROUNDWATER; IRRIGATION; METHANE; PADDY FIELD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; STABLE ISOTOPE;

AICHI; ASIA; CHUBU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN;

EID: 45149122102     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2008.04.002     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Adrian N.R., Robinson J.A., and Suflita J.M. Spatial variability in biodegradation rates as evidenced by methane production from an aquifer. Appl. Environ. Microbial. 60 (1994) 3632-3639
2. Ahmed K.M., Hoque M., Hasan M.K., Ravenscroft P., and Chowdhury L.R. Occurrence and origin of water well methane gas in Bangladesh. J. Geol. Soc. India 51 (1998) 697-708
3. Aichi Prefecture, 2006. Research result of subsidence in 2005. http://www.pref.aichi.jp/kankyo/mizu-ka/tyosa/jiban/17/index.html 2005 (in Japanese).
4. Aravena R., and Wassenaar L.I. Dissolved organic-carbon and methane in a regional confined aquifer, southern Ontario, Canada: carbon isotope evidence for associated subsurface sources. Appl. Geochem. 8 (1993) 483-493
5. Aravena R., Wassenaar L.I., and Barker J.F. Distribution and isotopic characterization of methane in a confined aquifer in Southern Ontario, Canada. J. Hydrol. 173 (1995) 51-70
6. Aravena R., Harrison S.M., Barker J.F., Abercrombie H., and Rudolph D. Origin of methane in the Elk Valley coalfield, southeastern British Columbia Canada. Chem. Geol. 195 (2003) 219-227
7. Barker J.F., and Fritz P. The occurrence and origin of methane in some groundwater flow systems. Can. J. Earth Sci. 18 (1981) 1802-1816
8. Belyaev S.S., and Ivanov M.V. Bacterial methanogenesis in underground waters. Ecol. Bull. 35 (1983) 273-280
9. Bjerg P.L., Rũgge K., Pedersen J.K., and Christensen T.H. Distribution of redox-sensitive groundwater quality parameters downgradient of a landfill (Grindsted, Denmark). Environ. Sci. Technol. 29 (1995) 1387-1394
10. Bugna G.C., Chanton J.P., Cable J.E., Burnett W.C., and Cable P.H. The importance of groundwater discharge to the methane budgets of nearshore and continental shelf waters of the northeastern Gulf of Mexico. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 60 (1996) 4735-4746
11. Coleman D.D., Liu C.L., and Riley K.M. Microbial methane in the shallow Paleozoic sediments and glacial deposits of Illinois, U.S.A. Chem. Geol. 71 (1988) 23-40
12. Darling W.G., and Gooddy D.C. The hydrogeochemistry of methane: evidence from English groundwaters. Chem. Geol. 229 (2006) 293-312
13. Gooddy D.C., and Darling W.G. The potential for methane emissions from groundwaters of the UK. Sci. Total Environ. 339 (2005) 117-126
14. Grossman E.L., Coffman B.K., Fritz S.J., and Wada H. Bacterial production of methane and its influence on ground-water chemistry in east-central Texas aquifers. Geology 17 (1989) 495-499
15. Hackley K.C., Liu C.L., and Coleman D.D. Environmental isotope characteristics of landfill leachates and gases. Ground Water 34 (1996) 827-836
16. Hansen L.K., Jakobsen R., and Postma D. Methanogenesis in a shallow sandy aquifer, Rømø, Denmark. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 65 (2001) 2925-2935
17. Kotelnikova S., and Pedersen K. Evidence for methanogenic Archaea and homoacetogenic Bacteria in deep granitic rock aquifers. FEMS Microbial. Rev. 20 (1997) 339-349
18. Ministry of the Environment, Government of Japan, 2007. Use of groundwater in Japan. http://www.env.go.jp/en/statistics/water/index.html#w_59.
19. Miura Y., Watanabe A., Murase J., and Kimura M. Methane production and its fate in paddy fields. II. Oxidation of methane and its coupled ferric oxide reduction in subsoil. Soil Sci. Plant Nutr. 38 (1992) 673-679
20. Murase J., and Kimura M. Methane production and its fate in paddy fields. IV. Sources of microorganisms and substrates responsible for anaerobic methane oxidation in subsoil. Soil Sci. Plant Nutr. 40 (1994) 57-62
21. Murase J., and Kimura M. Methane production and its fate in paddy fields. IX. Methane flux distribution and decomposition of methane in the subsoil during the growth period of rice plants. Soil Sci. Plant Nutr. 42 (1996) 187-190
22. Parkin T.B., and Simpkins W.W. Contemporary groundwater methane production from Pleistocene carbon. J. Environ. Qual. 24 (1995) 367-372
23. Prinzhofer A., Vega M.A.G., Battani A., and Escudero M. Gas geochemistry of the Macuspana Basin (Mexico): thermogenic accumulations in sediments impregnated by bacterial gas. Mar. Pet. Geol. 17 (2000) 1029-1040
24. 4 in a late Wisconsinan till and loess sequence in central Iowa. Water Resour. Res. 29 (1993) 3643-3657
25. 2. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 57 (1993) 4015-4027
26. Tsutsuki K., Kondo R., Shiraishi H., Kuwatsuka S., and Ohnohara Wetland Research Group. Composition of lignin-degradation products, lipids and opal phytoliths in a peat profile accumulated since 32,000 years B. P. in central Japan. Soil Sci. Plant Nutr. 39 (1993) 463-474
27. Van Breukelen B.M., Griffioen J., Röling W.F.M., and Van Verseveld H.W. Reactive transport modeling of biogeochemical processes and carbon isotope geochemistry inside a landfill leachate plume. J. Contam. Hydrol. 70 (2004) 249-269
28. Watanabe A., Kimura M., Kasuya M., Kotake M., and Katoh T. Methane in groundwater used for Japanese agriculture: its relationship to other physico-chemical properties and possible tropospheric source strength. Geophys. Res. Lett. 21 (1994) 41-44
29. Whiticar M.J. Carbon and hydrogen isotope systematics of bacterial formation and oxidation of methane. Chem. Biol. 161 (1999) 291-314
30. 2 reduction vs. acetate fermentation-Isotope evidence. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 50 (1986) 693-709
31. Zhang C., Grossman E.L., and Ammerman J.W. Factors influencing methane distribution in Texas ground water. Ground Water 36 (1998) 58-66