Past Peatland Distribution as an Indicator of Hydroclimate and Temperature

Claire C Treat1, Miriam Jones2, Terri Lacourse3, Richard Payne4, Dorothy M Peteet5, Britta Sannel6, Jonathan Stelling7, Julie Talbot8, Christopher J Williams9, Thomas Kleinen1, Guido Grosse10, Zicheng Yu7, Sarah A Finkelstein11, Nils Broothaerts12, René Dommain13, Peter Kuhry6, Outi Lähteenoja14, April Dalton15, Bastiaan Notebaert16, Graeme T Swindles17, Charles Tarnocai18, Gert Verstraeten19, Zhengyu Xia20 and Victor Brovkin1, (1)Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, (2)U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, United States, (3)University of Victoria, Dept. of Biology and Centre for Forest Biology, Victoria, BC, Canada, (4)University of York, Environmental Geography, York, United Kingdom, (5)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (6)Stockholm University, Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm, Sweden, (7)Lehigh University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Bethlehem, PA, United States, (8)University of Montreal, Department of Geography, Montreal, QC, Canada, (9)Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, United States, (10)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Permafrost Research Section, Potsdam, Germany, (11)University of Toronto, Earth Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada, (12)Leuven University (KU Leuven), Earth & Environmental Sciences, Leuven, Belgium, (13)University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany, (14)Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, Tempe, AZ, United States, (15)University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, (16)Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, (17)University of Leeds, School of Geography, Leeds, United Kingdom, (18)Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (19)KU Leuven, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Leuven, Belgium, (20)Northeast Normal University, Key Laboratory of Geographical Processes and Ecological Security in Changbai Mountains, Ministry of Education, School of Geographical Science, Changchun, China