Tiina M. Nieminen

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a new extensive database of peat profiles across northern high latitudes to examine spatial and temporal patterns of carbon accumulation over the past millennium and found that the carbon accumulation rate in northern peatlands is linearly related to contemporary growing season length and photosynthetically active radiation, suggesting that variability in net primary productivity is more important than decomposition in determining longterm carbon accumulation.

TL;DR: In this article, zinc isotope ratios were measured in the top sections of dated ombrotrophic peat cores in Finland to investigate their potential as proxies for atmospheric sources and to constrain post depositional processes affecting the geochemical record.

TL;DR: In this paper, an etude dendroecologique a ete menee dans 2 forets de chene du nord-est de la France dans le but de mettre en evidence and quantifier d'eventuels changements a long terme dans la croissance radiale du chene sessile (Quercus petraea [Matt] Liebl) and du pedoncule (Q robur L).

TL;DR: In this paper, the importance of nutrient return in litterfall (LF) to forest nutrient cycling was investigated, and the quality and quantity of LF in relation to the above-ground tree biomass (AGT) and determined the turnover rates.

TL;DR: In general, vascular plants, being capable of restricting the uptake of toxic elements, grew closer to the smelter than lichens, while bryophytes began to increase in the understorey vegetation at further distances from the Smelter.