Surface vegetation patterning controls carbon accumulation in peatlands

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 5508-5513

  Loisel, Julie ^a   Yu, Zicheng ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

alternative stable states; ecosystem carbon sink capacity; ecosystem structural dynamics; paleoecological reconstruction; positive feedback; spatial patterning

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE STABLE STATE; PALEOCLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; PALEOECOLOGICAL RECONSTRUCTION; PEATLAND DEVELOPMENT; POWER-LAW RELATIONSHIP; SPATIAL PATTERNING; STRATIGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS;

CARBON; FEEDBACK; FORESTRY; PEAT; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; VEGETATION; WETLANDS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

BIOACCUMULATION; CARBON; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON SINK; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; PALEOCLIMATE; PEATLAND; PLANT COMMUNITY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

PATAGONIA;

EID: 84886130692     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50744     Document Type: Article

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