Rates of peat accumulation during the postglacial period in 32 sites from Alaska to Newfoundland, with special emphasis on northern Minnesota

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Botany
• Main Authors: Gorham, Eville, Janssens, Joannes A, Glaser, Paul H
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2003
• Subjects: Canada; Red Lake; Newfoundland; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/b03-036; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/b03-036

We examined long-term rates of dry peat accumulation in 32 14 C-dated cores from poor fens in Alaska, to bogs and fens in midcontinental North Dakota and Minnesota, to oceanic bogs in Maine and the Atlantic Provinces of Canada. Sites along this belt transect exhibit mostly linear relationships betwe...