Natural nitrogen filter fails in polluted raised bogs

Global Change Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 583-586

  Lamers, Leon P M ^a   Bobbink, Roland ^b   Roelofs, Jan G M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Carbon; Eutrophication; Nitrogen; Peatlands; Pollution; Sphagnum

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; MODEL; NITROGEN; RESPONSE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034045788     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2486.2000.00342.x     Document Type: Article

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