Response of salt-marsh carbon accumulation to climate change

Nature

Volumn 489, Issue 7417, 2012, Pages 550-553

  Kirwan, Matthew L ^a   Mudd, Simon M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

ACCUMULATION; CARBON; CARBON SINK; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITION; ECOLOGICAL STABILITY; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; ORGANIC MATTER; SALTMARSH; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHALLOW WATER; SOIL CARBON; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WATER FLOW;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECOMPOSITION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SALT MARSH; SEA LEVEL RISE; SIMULATION; WETLAND;

ALTITUDE; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; GLOBAL WARMING; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; POACEAE; SEAWATER; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; WETLANDS;

EID: 84866841576     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11440     Document Type: Review

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