Principles for a climate regulation mechanism during the late Phanerozoic era, based on carbon fixation in peat-forming wetlands

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Volumn 25, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 435-442

  Franzén, Lars G ^a   Chen, Deliang ^a   Klinger, Lee F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIXATION; CLIMATE REGULATION; ICE AGE; PEAT GROWTH; WETLANDS;

EID: 0030426356     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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63. The authors would like to acknowledge two unknown referees for their valuable and constructive criticism of this paper. To all others with which these ideas have been discussed we express our deepest gratitude.
64. First submitted 15 June, 1995. Accepted for publication after revision 25 January. 1996.