The uncertain climate footprint of wetlands under human pressure

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 4594-4599

  Petrescu, Ana Maria Roxana ^a   Lohila, Annalea ^b   Tuovinen, Juha Pekka ^b   Baldocchi, Dennis D ^c   Desai, Ankur R ^d   Roulet, Nigel T ^e   Vesala, Timo ^f   Dolman, Albertus Johannes ^g   Oechel, Walter C ^h   Marcolla, Barbara ⁱ   Friborg, Thomas ^j   Rinne, Janne ^b,f   Matthes, Jaclyn Hatala ^c,ab   Merbold, Lutz ^k   Meijide, Ana ^a,ac   Kiely, Gerard ^l   Sottocornola, Matteo ^l,ad   Sachs, Torsten ^m   Zona, Donatella ^h,n   Varlagin, Andrej ^o   Lai, Derrick Y F ^p   Veenendaal, Elmar ^q   Parmentier, Frans Jan W ^r,s   Skiba, Ute ^t   Lund, Magnus ^r,s   Hensen, Arjan ^u   Van Huissteden, Jacobus ^g   Flanagan, Lawrence B ^v   Shurpali, Narasinha J ^w   Grünwald, Thomas ^x   Humphreys, Elyn R ^y   Jackowicz Korczyński, Marcin ^r   Aurela, Mika A ^b   Laurila, Tuomas ^b   Grüning, Carsten ^a   Corradi, Chiara A R ^z   Schrier Uijl, Arina P ^q   Christensen, Torben R ^r,s   Tamstorf, Mikkel P ^s   Mastepanov, Mikhail ^r,s   Martikainen, Pertti J ^w   Verma, Shashi B ^aa   Bernhofer, Christian ^x   Cescatti, Alessandro ^a   more..

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^g VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^h SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

^j UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^k ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^l UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^m GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^o SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

^p CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^q WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^r LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^s AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^t CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^u TNO   (Netherlands)

^v UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^w UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^x DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^y CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^z UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^ab Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^ac UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^ad South East Technological University   (Ireland)

more..

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Methane; Radiative forcing; Wetland conversion

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; METHANE; NITROUS OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHRONOSEQUENCE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FOOTPRINT; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WETLAND; CLASSIFICATION; ECOLOGY; GEOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; PLANT; PROCEDURES; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; METHANE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITROUS OXIDE; PLANTS; TEMPERATURE; UNCERTAINTY; WETLANDS;

EID: 84928137369     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1416267112     Document Type: Article

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