Climate-vegetation-fire interactions and their impact on long-term carbon dynamics in a boreal peatland landscape in northern Manitoba, Canada

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Camill, Philip ^a,b   Barry, Ann ^a   Williams, Evie ^a   Andreassi, Christian ^a   Limmer, Jacob ^a   Solick, Donald ^a  

^a CARLETON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b BOWDOIN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOG; BOREAL FOREST; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; FEN; FIRE HISTORY; FOSSIL RECORD; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; HYPSITHERMAL; LITTLE ICE AGE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; PALEOECOLOGY; PEATLAND; PERMAFROST; VEGETATION COVER; WARMING;

CANADA; MANITOBA;

EID: 77954236035     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JG001071     Document Type: Article

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