Western siberia wetlands as indicator and regulator of climate change on the global scale

International Journal of Environmental Studies

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 409-421

  Kirpotin, Sergey N ^a   Berezin, Alexandr ^a   Bazanov, Vladimir ^a   Polishchuk, Yury ^b   Vorobiov, Sergey ^c   Mironycheva Tokoreva, Nina ^d   Kosykh, Natalia ^d   Volkova, Irina ^a   Dupre, Bernard ^e   Pokrovsky, Oleg ^e   Kouraev, Alexei ^f,h   Zakharova, Elena ^h   Shirokova, Liudmila ^e,g   Mognard, Nelly ^e   Biancamaria, Sylvain ^e   Viers, Jerome ^b   Kolmakova, Maria ^a,e  

^a TOMSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b YUGRA STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c Tomsk Regional Administration   (Russian Federation)

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

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^f OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

^g INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF THE NORTH   (Russian Federation)

^h State Oceanography Institute   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Carbon cycle; Global warming; Peatlands; Western Siberia

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CARBON; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON CYCLE; DEGLACIATIONS; EARTH'S CLIMATE; GLOBAL SCALE; METHANE EMISSIONS; PEAT LAND; PEATLANDS; WESTERN SIBERIA;

EARTH (PLANET); GLOBAL WARMING; METHANE;

WETLANDS;

EID: 70350342982     PISSN: 00207233     EISSN: 10290400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207230902753056     Document Type: Article

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