McGill wetland model: Evaluation of a peatland carbon simulator developed for global assessments

Biogeosciences

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3517-3530

  St Hilaire, F ^a   Wu, J ^a   Roulet, N T ^a,b   Frolking, S ^c   Lafleur, P M ^d   Humphreys, E R ^e   Arora, V ^f  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^d TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DECOMPOSITION; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY; MOSS; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OMBROTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PEATLAND; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RESIDENCE TIME; RESPIRATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHRUB; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; WATER TABLE; WETLAND;

CANADA;

BRYOPHYTA;

EID: 78249269478     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-7-3517-2010     Document Type: Article

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