Simulation of six years of carbon fluxes for a sedge-dominated oligotrophic minerogenic peatland in Northern Sweden using the McGill Wetland Model (MWM)

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 795-807

  Wu, Jianghua ^a   Roulet, Nigel T ^b   Sagerfors, Jorgen ^c   Nilsson, Mats B ^c  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

carbon cycling; climate change; ecosystem modeling; hydrology; NEP; Oligotrophic minerogenic peatland; peatland

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CARBON FLUX; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; MAGNITUDE; MOSS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; OMBROTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PEATLAND; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEDGE; WATER TABLE;

SWEDEN;

EID: 84880143295     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrg.20045     Document Type: Article

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