Phosphorus mobilization in rewetted fens: The effect of altered peat properties and implications for their restoration

Ecological Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1336-1349

  Zak, Dominik ^a   Wagner, Carola ^b   Payer, Brian ^c   Augustin, Jürgen ^d   Gelbrecht, Jörg ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c Clean Tech Open   (United States)

^d LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE RESEARCH ZALF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbon fluxes; Iron precipitation; Minerotrophic peatlands; P mobilization; P retention; Peat characteristics; Redox processes; Restoration; Rewetting of drained fens; Top soil removal; Wetland

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; IRON; METHANE; PHOSPHORUS;

AMMONIUM; CARBON FLUX; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DRAINAGE; FEN; IRON; LAND USE; METHANE; MOBILIZATION; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PHOSPHORUS; POREWATER; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); RESTORATION ECOLOGY; REWETTING; SOIL DEGRADATION; WETLAND;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; SOIL; WETLAND;

AMMONIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; IRON; METHANE; PHOSPHORUS; SOIL; WETLANDS;

EID: 77954345546     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-2053.1     Document Type: Article

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