“…in Yellow River estuary [18]; water chestnut in oxbow Lake, Italy [25]; Spartina alterniflora in Bay of Fundy, Canada [38]); the differences in vegetation may be the main reason. CH 4 fluxes from heavy pollution sites (1#, 2#, 5#, and 8# sites) in our study were close to the Poyang Lake [35], Yangtze River estuary [36], 5 Netherlands lakes [37], the Bay of Fundy [38], and the Shrimp pond of Min River estuary [39] and were greater than those from natural wetlands and less polluted lakes, such as 11 North America lakes [11], Polegar Lake [22], Yellow River estuary wetlands [18], Sparkling Lake [23], 30 boreal lakes [41], reservoirs [40,42], and less polluted sites (3#, 4#-6#, 7#, 9#, and 10# site) in this study. The heavily polluted sites in our study are significantly influenced by human activities (such as the introduction of domestic sewage and surface rain runoff, water diversion from Shangyuanmen (1.0 × 10 5 t/d) and Daqiao drink water treatment plant (8 × 10 4 t/d) into lake, tourist entertainment and rubbish in lake park, and water treatment project with higher aquatic plants); therefore nutrient substance content and physicochemical property of these sites will be different from natural water bodies (field lakes, reservoirs), which can lead to differences in GHG emissions [49].…”