Natural nitrogen filter fails in polluted raised bogs |
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| Authors: | Leon P. M. Lamers,Roland Bobbink&dagger , Jan G. M. Roelofs |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, University of Nijmegen, Toernooiveld 1, 6525 ED Nijmegen, the Netherlands,;Landscape Ecology, Department of Geobiology, Utrecht University, PO Box 800.84, 3508 TB Utrecht, the Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | Raised bogs are among the ecosystems most susceptible to atmospheric nitrogen pollution. Based on global data ranging from pristine to heavily polluted areas, a conceptual model is presented to explain the logistic response of these terrestrial carbon reservoirs to increased airborne nitrogen fluxes. |
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| Keywords: | carbon eutrophication nitrogen peatlands pollution Sphagnum |
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