Raised peat bog development and possible responses to environmental changes during the mid- to late-Holocene. Can the palaeoecological record be used to predict the nature and response of raised peat bogs to future climate change?

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2139-2151

  Mauquoy, Dmitri ^a   Yeloff, Dan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate change; Conservation; Macrofossils; Palaeoclimate; Raised peat bogs; Solar forcing

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; FOSSIL; GREENHOUSE GAS; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MOSS; NATURALNESS; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PEATLAND; RAISED BOG; RECONSTRUCTION; VASCULAR PLANT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WARMING; WATER TABLE;

SPHAGNUM; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 47149117207     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-007-9222-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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