Hydroclimatic variability drives episodic expansion of a floating peat mat in a North American kettlehole basin

Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 11-18

  Ireland, Alex W ^a   Booth, Robert K ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autogenic model; Decadal to multidecadal drought; Ecosystem state shifts; Hydroclimatic variability; Kettlehole peatland; Terrestrialization

Indexed keywords

BOG; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PEATLAND;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; SOIL; TIME; UNITED STATES; WETLAND;

ANIMALS; PENNSYLVANIA; SOIL; TIME FACTORS; WETLANDS;

PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955535538     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-0770.1     Document Type: Article

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