The current greenhouse gas impact of forestry-drained boreal peatlands

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 289, Issue , 2013, Pages 201-208

  Ojanen, Paavo ^a   Minkkinen, Kari ^a   Penttilä, Timo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Boreal peatland; Forestry drainage; Greenhouse gas balance

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL SOILS; BIOCHAR; BOREAL PEATLANDS; CLIMATE COOLING; FERTILE SITES; FINLAND; GREENHOUSE GAS BALANCE; PEAT SOILS; SINK-IN; SOIL CO; TREE BIOMASS; TREE GROWTH; TREE STANDS; VACCINIUM MYRTILLUS; WATER TABLES;

FORESTRY; GREENHOUSE GASES; SOILS; TIMBER; WETLANDS; WOODEN BUILDINGS;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BOREAL FOREST; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SINK; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GREENHOUSE GAS; GROWTH RATE; HERB; PEATLAND; PHYTOMASS; SHRUB; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; WATER TABLE;

BUILDINGS; CARBON DIOXIDE; DRAINAGE; FORESTRY; GREENHOUSE GASES; PEAT; SOIL; WETLANDS;

FINLAND;

VACCINIUM MYRTILLUS; VACCINIUM VITIS-IDAEA;

EID: 84870174578     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.10.008     Document Type: Article

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