Northern peatland initiation lagged abrupt increases in deglacial atmospheric CH4

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 4748-4753

  Reyes, Alberto V ^a,b   Cooke, Colin A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ice core methane; Paleoclimate; Peatland carbon; Radiocarbon dating

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14; METHANE;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ICE CORE RECORD; PALEOCLIMATE; PEATLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALASKA; ATMOSPHERE; ECOSYSTEM; METHANE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOIL;

EID: 79953227739     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1013270108     Document Type: Article

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