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Research article - Peer-reviewed, 2012

Glasshouse vs field experiments: do they yield ecologically similar results for assessing N impacts on peat mosses?

Granath, Gustaf; Rydin, Håkan; Wiedermann, M. M.; Nilsson, Mats; Granath, Gustaf

Abstract

Thus, although we need glasshouse experiments to study how interacting environmental factors affect the response of Sphagnum to increased N deposition, we need field experiments to properly quantify these effects.

Keywords

carbon (C); climate; experiments; meta-analysis; mires and peatlands; nitrogen deposition; productivity; Sphagnum

Published in

New Phytologist
2012, Volume: 195, number: 2, pages: 408-418
Publisher: WILEY-BLACKWELL