Publications

Beilman DW, Vitt DH, Bhatti JS, and Forest S. "Peat carbon stocks in the southern Mackenzie River Basin: uncertainties revealed in a high-resolution case study." Accepted Nov. 2007, Global Change Biology.


MacDonald GM, Kremenetski KV, and Beilman DW. 2007. "Climate change and the northern Eurasian treeline zone." In press, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
doi: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2200


Thormann MN, Rice A, and Beilman DW. 2007. "Yeasts in peatlands: a review of richness and roles in peat decomposition". Wetlands 27: 761-773.
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MacDonald GM, Beilman DW, Kremenetski KV, Sheng Y, Smith LC, and Velichko AA. 2006. "Rapid Early Development of Circumarctic Peatlands and Atmospheric CH4 and CO2 Variations." Science 314: 285-288
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Smith, LC, MacDonald GM, Velichko AA, Beilman DW, Borisova OK, Frey KE, Kremenetski KV, and Sheng Y. 2004. "Siberian Peatlands a Net Carbon Sink and Global Methane Source Since the Early Holocene." Science 303: 353-356
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Sheng Y, Smith LC, MacDonald GM, Kremenetski KV, Frey KE, Velichko AA, Lee M, Beilman DW, and Dubinin P. 2004. "A high-resolution GIS-based inventory of the West Siberian peat carbon pool." Global Biogeochemical Cycles 18, GB3004, doi: 10.1029/2003GB002190 
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Beilman DW and Robinson SD. 2003. "Peatland permafrost thaw and landform type along a climatic gradient." Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Permafrost, Zurich, Switzerland, Balkema Publishers, Vol. 1, p. 61-65.
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Nobel PS, De la Barrera E, Beilman DW, Doherty JH, and Zutta BR. 2002. "Temperature limitations on cultivating edible cacti in California." Madroño 49(4): 228-236.


Beilman DW. 2001. "Plant community and diversity change due to localized permafrost dynamics in bogs of western Canada". Canadian Journal of Botany 79: 983-993.
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Beilman DW, Vitt DH, and Halsey LA. 2001. "Localized permafrost peatlands in western Canada: definition, distributions and degradation." Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research 33: 70-77.
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