Wetland chronosequence as a model of peatland development: Vegetation succession, peat and carbon accumulation

Holocene

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 25-35

  Tuittila, Eeva Stiina ^a,b   Juutinen, Sari ^a   Frolking, Steve ^c   Väliranta, Minna ^a   Laine, Anna M ^a   Miettinen, Antti ^a   Seväkivi, Marja Liisa ^d   Quillet, Anne ^e   Merilä, Päivi ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^d FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

fen bog transition; Holocene Peatland Model; palaeoecology; plant functional types; Sphagnum; water table level

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION; AGE CLASS; BOG; CARBON; CHRONOSEQUENCE; FEN; GROWTH MODELING; HOLOCENE; ISOSTASY; MODEL VALIDATION; MOSS; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOECOLOGY; PEAT; PEATLAND; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUCCESSION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION HISTORY; WATER LEVEL; WATER TABLE;

FINLAND;

EID: 84871361883     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683612450197     Document Type: Article

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