Methane Fluxes in Tidal Wetlands Across the Contiguous United States: Annual Conversion Factors and the Interplay of Salinity and Temperature on CH4 flux

Ariane Arias Ortiz1, Jaxine Wolfe2, Julie Shahan3, Scott D Bridgham4, James Robert Holmquist5, Sara Knox6, Gavin McNicol7, Patrick Megonigal5, Brian Needelman8, Ellen JoAnne Stuart-Haƫntjens9, Lisamarie Windham-Myers10 and Patty Y Oikawa11, (1)University of California Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Edgewater, Edgewater, United States, (3)Stanford University, Stanford, United States, (4)University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States, (5)Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, United States, (6)University of British Columbia, Geography, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (7)University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chicago, United States, (8)University of Maryland, Environmental Science and Technology, College Park, MD, United States, (9)U.S. Geological Survey, California Water Science Center, Sacramento, CA, United States, (10)U.S. Geological Survey, Water Mission Area, Menlo Park, United States, (11)California State University, East Bay, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Hayward, United States