High sensitivity of peat decomposition to climate change through water-table feedback
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TAKESHI ISE1*, ALLISON L. DUNN2, STEVEN C. WOFSY3 AND PAUL R. MOORCROFT4 Frontier Research Center for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama 236-0001, Japan Department of Physical and Earth Sciences, Worcester State College, Worcester, Massachusetts 01602, USA Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA *e-mail: [email protected]
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