Aboveground peat and carbon accumulation potentials along a bog-fen-marsh wetland gradient in southern boreal Alberta, Canada

Wetlands

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 305-317

  Thormann, Markus N ^a   Szumigalski, Anthony R ^a   Bayley, Suzanne E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bog; Carbon accumulation; Fens; Marshes; Peat accumulation; pH; Water level

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; PEAT; WETLAND;

ALBERTA; CANADA;

BRYOPHYTA; SPHAGNUM;

EID: 0032721905     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03161761     Document Type: Article

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