Sources, ages, and alteration of organic matter in estuaries

EA Canuel, AK Hardison - Annual Review of Marine Science, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Understanding the processes influencing the sources and fate of organic matter (OM) in
estuaries is important for quantifying the contributions of carbon from land and rivers to the …

A review of current applications of mass spectrometry for biomarker/molecular tracer elucidations

BRT Simoneit - Mass spectrometry reviews, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Mass spectrometry, especially coupled with gas chromatography or tandem, is the analytical
method of choice in elucidations of biomarker compounds present in organic mixtures …

Source characterization of dissolved organic matter in a subtropical mangrove-dominated estuary by fluorescence analysis

R Jaffé, JN Boyer, X Lu, N Maie, C Yang, NM Scully… - Marine chemistry, 2004 - Elsevier
Measurements of dissolved organic carbon (DOC), UV–visible, fixed wavelength
fluorescence, and synchronous fluorescence were performed in an effort to characterize …

Fingerprinting blue carbon: rationale and tools to determine the source of organic carbon in marine depositional environments

NR Geraldi, A Ortega, O Serrano… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Blue carbon is the organic carbon in oceanic and coastal ecosystems that is captured on
centennial to millennial timescales. Maintaining and increasing blue carbon is an integral …

Sediment and soil organic matter source assessment as revealed by the molecular distribution and carbon isotopic composition of n-alkanes

R Mead, Y Xu, J Chong, R Jaffé - Organic Geochemistry, 2005 - Elsevier
The assessment of organic matter (OM) sources in sediments and soils is a key to better
understand the biogeochemical cycling of carbon in aquatic environments. While traditional …

δD values of n-alkanes in Tibetan lake sediments and aquatic macrophytes–A surface sediment study and application to a 16 ka record from Lake Koucha

B Aichner, U Herzschuh, H Wilkes, A Vieth… - Organic …, 2010 - Elsevier
A set of lake surface sediment samples and aquatic macrophytes from the eastern and
central Tibetan Plateau and a sediment core from Koucha Lake (northeastern Tibetan …

Relating precipitation and water management to nutrient concentrations in the oligotrophic “upside‐down” estuaries of the Florida Everglades

DL Childers, JN Boyer, SE Davis… - Limnology and …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
We present 8 yr of long‐term water quality, climatological, and water management data for
17 locations in Everglades National Park, Florida. Total phosphorus (P) concentration data …

Sources of organic matter in a coastal marine environment: evidence from n-alkanes and their δ13C distributions in the Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand

EL Sikes, ME Uhle, SD Nodder, ME Howard - Marine Chemistry, 2009 - Elsevier
The distribution and δ13C composition of sedimentary n-alkanes (C14–C34) were
investigated to determine the origins of organic matter in surface sediments in a subtropical …

Organic matter sources in an enclosed coastal inlet assessed using lipid biomarkers and stable isotopes

JK Volkman, AT Revill, DG Holdsworth… - Organic …, 2008 - Elsevier
The sources of organic matter (OM) in surface sediments from Wilson Inlet, an enclosed and
seasonally barred inlet in Western Australia, have been determined using a combination of …

Sources, dispersal and preservation of sedimentary organic matter in the Yellow Sea: the importance of depositional hydrodynamic forcing

L Hu, X Shi, Z Guo, H Wang, Z Yang - Marine Geology, 2013 - Elsevier
The sources, distribution and fate of sedimentary organic matter (SOM) in the Yellow Sea
(YS) were studied based on the datasets of total organic carbon (TOC), total nitrogen (TN) …