Responses of vegetation and ecosystem CO2 exchange to 9 years of nutrient addition at mer bleue bog

Ecosystems

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 874-887

  Juutinen, Sari ^a,c   Bubier, Jill L ^a   Moore, Tim R ^b  

^a MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

atmospheric nitrogen deposition; carbon; K; N; net ecosystem exchange; P; peatland; Polytrichum strictum; shrubs; Sphagnum

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BIOMASS; BOG; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FLUX; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); MOSS; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PEATLAND; PHOSPHORUS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POTASSIUM; SHRUB; VASCULAR PLANT; VEGETATION TYPE;

CANADA; MER BLEUE; ONTARIO [CANADA];

BRYOPHYTA; POLYTRICHUM STRICTUM; SPHAGNUM; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 77955917629     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-010-9361-2     Document Type: Article

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