Diurnal and seasonal variation in methane emissions in a northern Canadian peatland measured by eddy covariance

Global Change Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2420-2435

  Long, Kevin D ^a   Flanagan, Lawrence B ^a   Cai, Tiebo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Canadian Carbon Program; Carbon sequestration; Climate change; Fluxnet Canada; Global warming potential

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; BIOTIC FACTOR; BOREAL FOREST; CARBON BUDGET; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; GROWING SEASON; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL TEMPERATURE; WATER VAPOR;

CANADA;

EID: 77955238349     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02083.x     Document Type: Article

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