Sphagnum peatland development at their southern climatic range in West Siberia: Trends and peat accumulation patterns

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Peregon, Anna ^a,b   Uchida, Masao ^a   Shibata, Yasuyuki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOIL SCIENCE AND AGROCHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Peat accumulation; Peat stratigraphies; Sphagnum peatlands

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ECOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; WETLANDS;

CLIMATIC CHANGES; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; PEAT ACCUMULATION; PEAT LAND; PHYSICAL FEATURES; PLANT COMMUNITIES; SPHAGNUM PEATLAND; WETLAND ECOSYSTEM;

PEAT;

EID: 37649019426     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/2/4/045014     Document Type: Article

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