Long-term effects of climate change on vegetation and carbon dynamics in peat bogs

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 307-320

  Heijmans, Monique M P D ^a   Mauquoy, Dmitri ^b,c   Van Geel, Bas ^b   Berendse, Frank ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon cycling; Competition; Ecosystem model; Global change; NUCOM BOG; Ombrotrophic peatland; Palaeoecology; Species effect; Sphagnum; Vegetation composition

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; GLOBAL CHANGE; MOSS; PEATLAND; VEGETATION;

DENMARK; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

SPHAGNUM; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 41849115693     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3170/2008-8-18368     Document Type: Article

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