Temperature and peat type control CO2 and CH4 production in Alaskan permafrost peats

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2674-2686

  Treat, C C ^a   Wollheim, W M ^a   Varner, R K ^a,b   Grandy, A S ^a   Talbot, J ^c   Frolking, S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b University of New Hampshire   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic; Boreal; Carbon; Climate change; Methane; Peatland; Permafrost thaw

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; METHANE; ORGANIC CARBON; PEATLAND; PERMAFROST; RADIATIVE FORCING; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; THAWING;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; METHANE; NITROGEN; SOIL; WATER;

CHEMISTRY; MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES;

ALASKA; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; METHANE; NITROGEN; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

EID: 84903766879     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12572     Document Type: Article

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