Infilled Ditches are Hotspots of Landscape Methane Flux Following Peatland Re-wetting

Ecosystems

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1227-1241

  Cooper, Mark D A ^a,b   Evans, Christopher D ^a   Zielinski, Piotr ^b,c   Levy, Peter E ^a   Gray, Alan ^a   Peacock, Mike ^b,d   Norris, David ^a   Fenner, Nathalie ^b   Freeman, Christopher ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

^d OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

blanket bog; carbon; Eriophorum; methane; peatland; re wetting; restoration; Sphagnum

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939878513     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-014-9791-3     Document Type: Article

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