A 2200-Year Record of Permafrost Dynamics and Carbon Cycling in a Collapse-Scar Bog, Interior Alaska

Ecosystems

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-19

  Jones, Miriam C ^a,b,c   Booth, Robert K ^b   Yu, Zicheng ^b   Ferry, Paul ^b  

^a University of Alaska Fairbanks   (United States)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; carbon; climate; fire; late holocene; peatland; permafrost; thermokarst

Indexed keywords

BOG; CARBON CYCLE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DECIDUOUS TREE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; HOLOCENE; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PEAT; PERMAFROST; POLLEN; PROTOZOAN; THAWING; THERMOKARST; VASCULAR PLANT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; VULNERABILITY;

ALASKA; FAIRBANKS; UNITED STATES;

EPILOBIUM; PICEA; PICEA MARIANA; POPULUS; SALIX; SPHAGNUM; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84872836983     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-012-9592-5     Document Type: Article

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