How much do local factors matter for predicting transient ecosystem dynamics? Suggestions from permafrost formation in Boreal peatlands

Global Change Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 169-182

  Camill, Philip ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARLETON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Boreal bogs; Climate warming; Models; Permafrost

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; PEATLAND; PERMAFROST;

CANADA;

PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 0034064165     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2486.2000.00293.x     Document Type: Article

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