While the details of plant methane emissions have yet to be confirmed, plants as a significant methane source would help fill in the gaps of previous global methane budgets as well as explain large plumes of methane that have been observed over the tropics.
Aínda que os detalles das emisións de metano non se confirmaron aínda, as plantas consideradas como unha fonte significativa de metano axudarían a encher os ocos dos cálculos previos do metano global e a explicar as grandes plumas de metano que se observan sobre os trópicos.