Errors in greenhouse forcing and soil carbon sequestration estimates in freshwater wetlands: a comment on Mitsch et al. (2013)

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1481-1485

  Bridgham, Scott D ^a   Moore, Tim R ^b   Richardson, Curtis J ^c   Roulet, Nigel T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Global warming potential; Methane; Radiative forcing; Soil carbon sequestration; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938995029     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-014-0067-2     Document Type: Article

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