Carbon sequestration in peatland: Patterns and mechanisms of response to climate change

Global Change Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1043-1052

  Belyea, Lisa R ^a   Malmer, Nils ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bog; Carbon cycle; Carbon sink; Carbon storage; Holocene; Peat accumulation; Peatland

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON SINK; CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; PEATLAND;

EURASIA; EUROPE; JONKOPING [SWEDEN]; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; STORE MOSSE; SWEDEN;

SPHAGNUM;

EID: 3242706576     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2003.00783.x     Document Type: Article

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