Holocene hydro-climatic change and effects on carbon accumulation inferred from a peat bog in the Attawapiskat River watershed, Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada

Quaternary Research (United States)

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 275-284

  Bunbury, Joan ^a   Finkelstein, Sarah A ^a   Bollmann, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Medieval Climate Anomaly; Northern peatlands; Paleoecology; Paleohydrology; Quantitative reconstructions

Indexed keywords

CARBON ACCUMULATION; CARBON DYNAMICS; CLIMATE ANOMALIES; HOLOCENES; HUDSON BAY; HUMIFICATION; ISOSTATIC REBOUND; MULTIPLE PROXIES; ONTARIO , CANADA; PALEO-HYDROLOGY; PALEOCLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; PALEOCLIMATES; PALEOECOLOGY; PEAT CORES; PEAT LAND; PER UNIT; RIVER WATERSHEDS; TESTATE AMOEBAE; WATER TABLES;

HYDROLOGY; LAKES; PEAT; REPAIR; WETLANDS;

CARBON;

CARBON CYCLE; HOLOCENE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PEATLAND; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

ATTAWAPISKAT; CANADA; HUDSON BAY LOWLANDS; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 84865377851     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2012.05.013     Document Type: Article

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