Carbon isotope evidence for recent climate-related enhancement of CO2 assimilation and peat accumulation rates in Antarctica

• Published in: Global Change Biology
• Main Authors: Royles, Jessica, Ogée, Jérôme, Wingate, Lisa, Hodgson, Dominic A., Convey, Peter, Griffiths, Howard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Blackwell 2012
• Subjects: Antarctic; Signy Island; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/17902/; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02750.x/abstract

Signy Island, maritime Antarctic, lies within the region of the Southern Hemisphere that is currently experiencing the most rapid rates of environmental change. In this study, peat cores up to 2 m in depth from four moss banks on Signy Island were used to reconstruct changes in moss growth and clima...