Tropical wetlands: Seasonal hydrologic pulsing, carbon sequestration, and methane emissions

Wetlands Ecology and Management

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 573-586

  Mitsch, William J ^a   Nahlik, Amanda ^a   Wolski, Piotr ^b   Bernal, Blanca ^a   Zhang, Li ^a   Ramberg, Lars ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

Author keywords

Botswana; Carbon sequestration; Climate change; Costa Rica; Fire ecology; Inter tropical convergence zone (ITCZ); Methane emissions; Monsoonal wetlands; Okavango Delta; Pulsing hydrology; Tropical swamps

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EMISSION; FIRE BEHAVIOR; HYDROLOGY; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; METHANE; OROGRAPHY; OXIDATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SWAMP; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WATERSHED;

BOTSWANA; COSTA RICA; NGAMILAND; OHIO; OKAVANGO DELTA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77957257337     PISSN: 09234861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11273-009-9164-4     Document Type: Article

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