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This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. This article was made open access via a Publish and Read agreement between the Microbiology Society and the corresponding author’s institution.
Summary of natural and anthropogenic methane sources to the atmosphere. A proportion of coal bed methane is of biogenic origin [179]. The magnitude of each source as a percentage of the total (736 Tg CH4 y−1) is shown in parentheses. Data from reference [1].