Postglacial spatiotemporal peatland initiation and lateral expansion dynamics in North America and northern Europe

Holocene

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1596-1606

  Ruppel, Meri ^a   Väliranta, Minna ^a   Virtanen, Tarmo ^a   Korhola, Atte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

climate peatland interactions; lateral expansion; northern peatlands; paludification; primary mire formation; terrestrialization

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; DATA ACQUISITION; HOLOCENE; ICE RETREAT; MIRE; MOISTURE CONTENT; PALUDIFICATION; PEATLAND; POSTGLACIAL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 84885467505     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683613499053     Document Type: Article

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