Climate-driven enrichment of pollutants in peatlands

Biogeosciences

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 905-911

  Martinez Cortizas A ^a   Biester, H ^b   Mighall, T ^c   Bindler, R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENRICHMENT; PEATLAND; POLLUTANT; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

EID: 35548969830     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-4-905-2007     Document Type: Article

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