Ecohydrological feedbacks confound peat-based climate reconstructions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Swindles, Graeme T ^a   Morris, Paul J ^b   Baird, Andy J ^a   Blaauw, Maarten ^c   Plunkett, Gill ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER; PEAT; REPAIR; WETLANDS;

CLIMATE DATA; CLIMATE FORCINGS; CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; HIGH RESOLUTION; HOLOCENES; PALAEOCLIMATE; PEATLAND; PEATLAND DEVELOPMENT; WATER TABLE DEPTHS; WATER TABLES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; ECOHYDROLOGY; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PEAT; PEATLAND; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; WATER TABLE;

EID: 84861858154     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051500     Document Type: Article

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