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Growth and production dynamics of boreal mosses over climatic, chemical and topographic gradients
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This paper considers a separate aspect of moss growth and production from the perspective of broad macroclimatic patterns, finding that moss populations are dynamic, highly active entities and can tell us not only about the mosses themselves but also about the systems in which they live.About:
This article is published in Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society.The article was published on 1990-09-01. It has received 192 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Bog & Sphagnum.read more
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Ecophysiology of Photosynthesis
TL;DR: In a world of increasing atmospheric CO2, there is intensified interest in the ecophysiology of photosynthesis and more attention is being given to other aspects of carbon exchange and storage in natural ecosystems.
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Patterns in nutrient availability and plant diversity of temperate north american wetlands
TL;DR: An extensive literature survey and analysis of data on plant species composition, species richness, productivity or standing crop, and C:N:P stoichiometry in plant tissues and surface soils is used to draw conclusions about the nature of nutrient limitation in temperate North American bogs, fens, marshes, and swamps.
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The relationships of vegetation to surface water chemistry and peat chemistry in fens of Alberta, Canada
Dale H. Vitt,Wai-Lin Chee +1 more
TL;DR: The relationship between vegetation components, surface water chemistry and peat chemistry from 23 fens in boreal Alberta, Canada, substantiate important differences along the poor to rich fen gradient as mentioned in this paper.
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Plant biomass and production and CO2 exchange in an ombrotrophic bog
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured above-ground biomass at Mer Bleue, a large, raised ombrotrophic bog near Ottawa, Ont., Canada, to derive ecosystem respiration and photosynthesis, and the average aboveground biomass was 587 g m ‐2 in the bog, composed mainly of shrubs and Sphagnum capitula.
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The resilience and functional role of moss in boreal and arctic ecosystems.
Merritt R. Turetsky,Ben Bond-Lamberty,Eugénie S. Euskirchen,Julie Talbot,Julie Talbot,Steve Frolking,A. D. McGuire,Eeva-Stiina Tuittila +7 more
TL;DR: It seems clear that mosses need to be incorporated into models as one or more plant functional types, but more empirical work is needed to determine how to best aggregate species.
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A Treatise on Limnology. Vol. II. Introduction to Lake Biology and the Limnoplankton
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Ion Exchange in Sphagnum and its Relation to Bog Ecology
TL;DR: The kinetics of cation exchange are consistent with a heterogeneous exchange phase containing regions of high charge density and regions with lower charge density, and at equilibrium the proportions of different cations in the exchange phase are largely explicable by a Donnan distribution.
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The growth of sphagnum: methods of measurement
TL;DR: Any attempt to account for the rates of peat formation, or for peat stratigraphy and present surface features, is likely to require information on the rate of Sphagnum growth.
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