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The annual carbon budget for fen and forest in a wetland at Arctic treeline.

From: Arctic  |  Date: 9/1/2002  |  Author: Bello, Richard L.; D'Souza, Alberta; Griffis, Timothy J.; Lafleur, Peter M.; Rouse, Wayne R.

ABSTRACT. Three separate research efforts conducted in the same wetland-peatland system in the northern Hudson Bay Lowland near the town of Churchill, Manitoba, allow a comparison of two carbon budget estimates, one derived from long-term growth rates of organic soil and the other based on shorter-term flux measurements. For a tundra fen and an open subarctic forest, calculations of organic soil accumulation or loss over the last half-century indicate that while the fen on average ...

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