The effects of elevated CO2 and eutrophication on surface elevation gain in a European salt marsh

Global Change Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 881-890

  Reef, Ruth ^a,b   Spencer, Tom ^a   Mӧller, Iris ^a   Lovelock, Catherine E ^c   Christie, Elizabeth K ^a   McIvor, Anna L ^a   Evans, Ben R ^a   Tempest, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

boosted regression analysis; carbon dioxide; climate change; Puccinellia maritima; salt marsh; sea level rise; United Kingdom; wetland

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EUTROPHICATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALTMARSH; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; WETLAND;

UNITED KINGDOM;

PUCCINELLIA MARITIMA; SUAEDA MARITIMA;

CARBON DIOXIDE; SOIL;

BIOMASS; EUTROPHICATION; POACEAE; SOIL; WETLAND;

BIOMASS; CARBON DIOXIDE; EUTROPHICATION; POACEAE; SOIL; WETLANDS;

EID: 84979031527     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13396     Document Type: Article

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