Invited review: Climate change impacts in polar regions: Lessons from Antarctic moss bank archives

Global Change Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1041-1057

  Royles, Jessica ^a,b   Griffiths, Howard ^b  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antarctic moss; Assimilation; Climate change; Peat accumulation; Radiocarbon dating; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; MOSS; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PEAT; POLAR REGION; RADIOCARBON DATING; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ANTARCTICA;

BRYOPHYTA; CHORISODONTIUM; POLYTRICHUM STRICTUM;

ANTARCTICA; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOSS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BRYOPHYTA; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM;

EID: 84923093756     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12774     Document Type: Review

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