Interdependence of peat and vegetation in a tropical peat swamp forest

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 354, Issue 1391, 1999, Pages 1885-1897

  Page, S E ^a   Rieley, J O ^b   Shotyk, O W ^c   Weiss, D ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Geochemistry; Hydrology; Radiocarbon dating; Swamp forest; Tropical peat

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GEOCHEMISTRY; PEATLAND; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; SWAMP FOREST; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

INDONESIA; KALIMANTAN; SUNGAI SEBANGAU;

EID: 0033615985     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1999.0529     Document Type: Article

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