Contrasting pathways to ombrotrophy in three raised bogs from Ireland and Cumbria, England

Holocene

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 65-77

  Hughes, P D M ^a   Barber, K E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climatic change; Fen bog transition; Holocene; Hydroseral succession; Mire development; Peat stratigraphy; Plant macrofossils

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; OMBROTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PEATLAND; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAISED BOG; SUCCESSION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

CUMBRIA; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

BRYOPHYTA; CAREX ADELOSTOMA; ERIOPHORUM; ERIOPHORUM VAGINATUM; SPHAGNUM;

EID: 0346009330     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0959683604hl690rp     Document Type: Review

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