Fossil carbon/nitrogen ratios as a measure of peat decomposition

Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 271-275

  Kuhry, Peter ^a,b   Vitt, Dale H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Boreal; Carbon; Decomposition; Holocene; Nitrogen; Peat; Sphagnum fuscum

Indexed keywords

SPHAGNUM; SPHAGNUM FUSCUM;

EID: 0000646956     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2265676     Document Type: Article

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