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A short bibliography of Queensland verse : the collecting of Queensland books of poetry as a hobby
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Tree-mediated methane emissions from tropical and temperate peatlands
Methane production and transport processes in peatlands are fairly well understood, but growing evidence for emission of methane through trees has highlighted the need to revisit methane transport processes. In wetland trees, morphological adaptations such as development of hypertrophied lenticels, aerenchyma and adventitious roots in response to soil anoxia mediates gas transport, transporting both oxygen from the atmosphere to oxygen-deprived roots and soil-produced methane from the root-zone to the atmosphere. Although, tree-mediated methane emissions from temperate tree species have been confirmed, methane emissions from tropical tree species and processes that control tree-mediated methane emissions remain unclear.
This study explains the role of trees in transporting soil-produced methane to the atmosphere and uncovers the principal mechanisms of tree-mediated methane emissions. Methane emissions from eight tropical tree species and two temperate tree species were studied in situ. The mechanisms and controls on tree-mediated methane emissions were investigated using three year old common alder (Alnus glutinosa; 50 trees) grown under two artificially controlled water-table positions. Methane fluxes from whole mesocosms, the soil surface and tree stems were measured using static closed chambers.
Both temperate and tropical tree species released significant quantities of methane, with tropical trees dominating ecosystem level methane fluxes. In temperate peatlands, both the methane gas transport mechanism and quantity of methane emitted from stems is tree-species dependent. In Alnus glutinosa, no correlations were observed between stomatal behaviour and tree-mediated methane emissions, however, stem methane emissions were positively correlated with both stem lenticel density and dissolved soil methane concentration. In Alnus glutinosa, no emissions were observed from leaf surfaces. The results demonstrate that exclusion of tree-mediated methane emissions from flux measurement campaigns in forested peatlands will lead to an underestimation of ecosystem-wide methane emissions
On-Chip Microwave Quantum Hall Circulator
Circulators are non-reciprocal circuit elements integral to technologies
including radar systems, microwave communication transceivers, and the readout
of quantum information devices. Their non-reciprocity arises from the
interference of microwaves over the centimetre-scale of the signal wavelength
in the presence of bulky magnetic media that break time-reversal symmetry. Here
we realize a completely passive on-chip microwave circulator with size
one-thousandth the wavelength by exploiting the chiral, slow-light response of
a 2-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in the quantum Hall regime. For an
integrated GaAs device with 330 um diameter and 1 GHz centre frequency, a
non-reciprocity of 25 dB is observed over a 50 MHz bandwidth. Furthermore, the
direction of circulation can be selected dynamically by varying the magnetic
field, an aspect that may enable reconfigurable passive routing of microwave
signals on-chip
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