Rapid ecosystem shifts in peatlands: Linking plant physiology and succession

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3047-3056

  Granath, Gustaf ^a   Strengbom, Joachim ^b   Rydin, Hakan ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Allogenic succession; Bog; Calcareous; Catastrophic shift; Competition; Drought; Flooding; H llefj rd; Mire; Ombrotrophication; Photosynthesis; Sphagnum spp; Sweden

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DROUGHT; EUTROPHICATION; FEN; FLOODING; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; GROWTH RATE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MICROHABITAT; MOSS; OMBROTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PEATLAND; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; WATER TABLE;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; PLANT; SOIL; WETLAND;

PLANTS; SOIL; WETLANDS;

SWEDEN;

BRYOPHYTA; SPHAGNUM; SPHAGNUM FUSCUM; SPHAGNUM TERES; SPHAGNUM WARNSTORFII;

EID: 77957729563     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-2267.1     Document Type: Article

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