Modelling contrasting responses of wetland productivity to changes in water table depth

Biogeosciences

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 4215-4231

  Grant, R F ^a   Desai, A R ^b   Sulman, B N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PLANT; PRODUCTIVITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL; WATER DEPTH; WATER TABLE; WETLAND;

LOST CREEK WETLAND; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

WHITE TIP DIE-BACK PHYTOPLASMA;

EID: 84868667119     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-9-4215-2012     Document Type: Article

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