Long-term enhanced nitrogen deposition increases ecosystem respiration and carbon loss from a Sphagnum bog in the Scottish Borders

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 90, Issue , 2013, Pages 53-61

  Kivimäki, Sanna K ^a,b   Sheppard, Lucy J ^a   Leith, Ian D ^a   Grace, John ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ammonium; Field N manipulation; Nitrate; Sphagnum capillifolium; Whim bog

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BOG; CARBON BALANCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NITRATE; NITROGEN; PEATLAND; RESPIRATION;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

BRYOPHYTA; SPHAGNUM; SPHAGNUM CAPILLIFOLIUM;

EID: 84876314792     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2012.09.003     Document Type: Article

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