Growing season methane emission from a boreal peatland in the continuous permafrost zone of Northeast China: Effects of active layer depth and vegetation

Biogeosciences

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 4455-4464

  Miao, Y ^a,b   Song, C ^a   Sun, L ^a   Wang, X ^a   Meng, H ^a,b   Mao, R ^a  

^a NORTHEAST INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND AGRICULTURAL ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; CLIMATE CHANGE; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GROWING SEASON; METHANE; MOSS; PERMAFROST; PLANT COMMUNITY; POREWATER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHRUB; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; VULNERABILITY;

CHINA;

BRYOPHYTA; ERIOPHORUM; SPHAGNUM;

EID: 84869174434     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-9-4455-2012     Document Type: Article

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