The importance of northern peatland expansion to the late-Holocene rise of atmospheric methane

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 611-617

  Korhola, Atte ^a   Ruppel, Meri ^a   Seppä, Heikki ^a   Väliranta, Minna ^a   Virtanen, Tarmo ^a   Weckström, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC INFLUENCE; ATMOSPHERIC GREENHOUSE; ATMOSPHERIC METHANES; DATA SETS; GROWTH DYNAMICS; HOLOCENES; ICE CORE; INITIATION RATE; LATE HOLOCENE; LATERAL EXPANSION; NATURAL SOURCES; PEAT LAND; RADIOCARBON DATES; RAPID SHIFTS;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; METHANATION; METHANE; PEAT;

WETLANDS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERIC GAS; HOLOCENE; ICE CORE; METHANE; PALEOCLIMATE; PEATLAND; RADIOCARBON DATING; WETLAND;

EID: 76449089317     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.12.010     Document Type: Article

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