Week 2 - A Proxy Record Of Late Holocene Climate Change From May Moss, Northeast England Flashcards

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What does the success of peat paleoclimate research depend on?

A

The sensitivity of mire systems to changes in effective precipitation (precipitation minus losses through evapotranspiration)

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In mires, what is the most important environmental factor that controls the distribution of testate amoebae species?

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Surface wetness

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