Summer warming and increased winter snow cover affect Sphagnum fuscum growth, structure and production in a sub-arctic bog

Global Change Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 93-104

  Dorrepaal, Ellen ^a   Aerts, Rien ^a   Cornelissen, Johannes H C ^a   Callaghan, Terry V ^b   Van Logtestijn, Richard S P ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Climate change; Global warming; Peatlands; Production; Snow cover; Sphagnum

Indexed keywords

BOG; CARBON BALANCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; GROWTH RATE; MOSS; PEATLAND; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SNOW COVER;

BRYOPHYTA; SPHAGNUM; SPHAGNUM FUSCUM; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 0842269805     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2003.00718.x     Document Type: Article

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