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We captured plant-mediated and diffusive CH4 and CO2 emissions from monthly chamber sampling from both plants and soils in an intact Cyperus papyrus wetland in Eastern Uganda. This wetland was a strong source of atmospheric CH4 in the rainy season, with monthly plant-mediated CH4 fluxes averaging 3.6 \u00b1 0.8 nmol CH4 stem-1 s\u20131 (\u00b1 s.e.\u00a0\u00a0), and monthly diffusive CH4 emissions averaging 918 \u00b1 96 nmol CH4 m\u20132 s\u20131. Heterotrophic CO2 emissions sampled from trenched plots were highest during the dry season with a mean of 3410 \u00b1 212 nmol CO2 m\u20132 s\u20131 over this period. Stem measurements varied seasonally in stem count and biomass, with higher C. papyrus biomass in the dry season, averaging 1888 \u00b1 130 g dry biomass m-2. Linear models showed a significant effect of water levels on CH4 and CO2 emissions from soils and plants (p &amp;lt; 0.1 to p &amp;lt; 0.001). This study is the first to observe CH4 emissions directly from the C. papyrus plant and contributes to the limited datasets on carbon cycling in these systems. A French translation of this abstract is available in the supplementary material.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>This article is part of the discussion meeting issue \u2018African tropical peatlands: function, value and vulnerability\u2019.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1098\/rstb.2025.0048","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,20]],"date-time":"2026-08-20T07:09:11Z","timestamp":1787209751000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Carbon dioxide and methane emissions from plants and peat soil in a\n                    <i>Cyperus papyrus<\/i>\n                    wetland in Uganda"],"prefix":"10.1098","volume":"381","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7184-5068","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jenny","family":"Farmer","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen 1 , Aberdeen, UK"},{"name":"School of Natural and Environmental Resources, Newcastle University 3 , Newcastle upon Tyne, UK"},{"name":"Carbon Foundation of East Africa 4 , Kampala, Uganda"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6984-6766","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jo U.","family":"Smith","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen 2 , Aberdeen, UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Helen","family":"Burton","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Carbon Foundation of East Africa 4 , Kampala, Uganda"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yit Arn","family":"Teh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Natural and Environmental Resources, Newcastle University 3 , Newcastle upon Tyne, UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"175","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"2026082108013937200_RSTB20250048C1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"904647","DOI":"10.3389\/fsoil.2022.904647","article-title":"Temporal variability in heterotrophic carbon dioxide emissions from a drained tropical peatland in Uganda","volume":"2","author":"Farmer","year":"2022","journal-title":"Front. 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