Contrasting wetland CH4 emission responses to simulated glacial atmospheric CO2 in temperate bogs and fens

New Phytologist

Volumn 192, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 898-911

  Boardman, Carl P ^a   Gauci, Vincent ^a   Watson, Jonathan S ^a   Blake, Stephen ^a   Beerling, David J ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CH4 flux; CO2; CO2 starvation; Glacial; Last Glacial Maximum (LGM); Methane (CH4); Peatland; Wetland

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EMISSION; FATTY ACID; GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; HETEROGENEITY; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MESOCOSM; METHANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OXIDATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POREWATER; RHIZOSPHERE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TROPHIC STATUS; WETLAND;

ANION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CATION; METHANE; VOLATILE FATTY ACID; WATER;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; ICE COVER; POROSITY; SEASON; TEMPERATURE; WETLAND;

ANIONS; ATMOSPHERE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; FATTY ACIDS, VOLATILE; ICE COVER; METHANE; POROSITY; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; WATER; WETLANDS;

EID: 81055156143     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03849.x     Document Type: Article

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