Changing boreal methane sources and constant biomass burning during the last termination

Nature

Volumn 452, Issue 7189, 2008, Pages 864-867

  Fischer, Hubertus ^a   Behrens, Melanie ^a   Bock, Michael ^a   Richter, Ulrike ^a   Schmitt, Jochen ^a   Loulergue, Laetitia ^b   Chappellaz, Jerome ^b   Spahni, Renato ^c   Blunier, Thomas ^c,d   Leuenberger, Markus ^c   Stocker, Thomas F ^c  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; METHANE;

BIOMASS BURNING; BOREAL FOREST; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; ICE CORE; METHANE; PALEOATMOSPHERE; WETLAND;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD CLIMATE; GLACIATION; INCINERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAIGA; WETLAND;

EID: 42249093006     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06825     Document Type: Article

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