Input rates, decay losses and accumulation rates of carbon in bogs during the last millennium: Internal processes and environmental changes

Holocene

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 111-117

  Malmer, Nils ^a   Wallén, Bo ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

C N quotient; Carbon accumulation; Late Holocene; Nitrogen; Ombrotrophic bog; Peat formation; Sphagnum; Vegetation change

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; HOLOCENE; OMBROTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; PEATLAND; VEGETATION HISTORY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

SPHAGNUM;

EID: 0346640513     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0959683604hl693rp     Document Type: Review

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