Surface production fuels deep heterotrophic respiration in northern peatlands

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1163-1174

  Elizabeth Corbett, J ^a   Burdige, David J ^b   Tfaily, Malak M ^a   Dial, Angela R ^a   Cooper, William T ^a   Glaser, Paul H ^c   Chanton, Jeffrey P ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Old Dominion University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Dissolved organic carbon; Methane; Peatlands; Radiocarbon; Size reactivity model

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC INCUBATION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; HETEROTROPHIC RESPIRATION; IRRADIATION EXPERIMENTS; MICROBIAL SUBSTRATES; PEAT LAND; RADIOCARBON; REACTIVITY MODELING;

ADVECTION; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; METHANE; PEAT; STREAM FLOW; SUBSTRATES;

WETLANDS;

ADVECTION; CARBON BALANCE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DOMINANCE; FLUORESCENCE; HETEROTROPHY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PEAT; PEATLAND; POREWATER; SUBSTRATE;

EID: 84888780249     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: 19449224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GB004677     Document Type: Article

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