Drought as a trigger for rapid state shifts in kettle ecosystems: Implications for ecosystem responses to climate change

Wetlands

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 989-1000

  Ireland, Alex W ^a   Booth, Robert K ^a   Hotchkiss, Sara C ^b   Schmitz, Jennifer E ^b  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Allogenic processes; Autogenic succession; Carbon cycling; Ecosystem services; Ecosystem state shift; Geomorphology; Hydrology; Model systems; Peatlands; Sedimentation

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PEATLAND;

EID: 84871495284     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: 19436246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13157-012-0324-6     Document Type: Review

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