Modeling Soil and Biomass Carbon Responses to Declining Water Table in a Wetland-Rich Landscape

Ecosystems

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 491-507

  Sulman, Benjamin N ^a,b   Desai, Ankur R ^b   Mladenoff, David J ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon cycle; drainage; hydrological change; LANDIS II model; peatlands; plant community succession; wetlands

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DECOMPOSITION; DRAINAGE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; PEATLAND; PLANT COMMUNITY; SOIL CARBON; SUCCESSION; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; WATER TABLE; WETLAND;

UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 84876324061     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-012-9624-1     Document Type: Article

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