Boreal peatland ecosystems under enhanced UV-B radiation and elevated tropospheric ozone concentration

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 90, Issue , 2013, Pages 43-52

  Rinnan, Riikka ^a,b   Saarnio, Sanna ^a,c   Haapala, Jaana K ^a   Mörsky, Sami K ^a   Martikainen, Pertti J ^a   Silvola, Jouko ^a   Holopainen, Toini ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Eriophorum; Methane emission; Net ecosystem CO2 exchange; Soil microbial community; Sphagnum; Warnstorfia

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CARBON DIOXIDE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DOMINANCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GRASS; GREENHOUSE GAS; METHANE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; ORGANIC ACID; OZONE; PEATLAND; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; RESPIRATION; SEDGE; SOIL MICROORGANISM; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TROPOSPHERE; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WATER LEVEL;

BRYOPHYTA; ERIOPHORUM; ERIOPHORUM RUSSEOLUM; ERIOPHORUM VAGINATUM; SPHAGNUM; WARNSTORFIA; WARNSTORFIA EXANNULATA;

EID: 84876418219     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2012.10.009     Document Type: Article

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