Effect of plants on processes of methane cycle in bottom deposits and soil rhizosphere

Abstract

This article contains an analysis and generalization of published data and our own data on the effect of living plants on the formation, oxidation, and concentration of methane in water and boggy ecosystems. Plants regulate the physicochemical conditions in soil rhizosphere and bottom deposits, the number and activity of microorganisms, and methane emission into the atmosphere. The data of theoretic–experimental investigations into the mechanism of aerobic nonmicrobiological methane formation in phylosphere of plants are also discussed.