Biomarker approaches for reconstructing terrestrial environmental change

GN Inglis, T Bhattacharya… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The response of the terrestrial biosphere to warming remains one of the most poorly
understood and quantified aspects of the climate system. One way to test the behavior of the …

Validating the potential application of δ2Hwax and soil brGDGTs in paleoelevation estimates on the southern slopes of the Himalaya

X Li, S Liu, B Fan, J Hou, M Wang - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Paleoelevation reconstructions of the Himalayan mountains and Tibetan Plateau have been
a focus of geoscientists, as they can improve our understanding of the temporal evolution of …

[图书][B] Stable isotope geochemistry

J Hoefs, J Hoefs - 2009 - Springer
The nine editions of Stable Isotope Geochemistry have appeared over a time span of nearly
50 years. The first edition (1973) appeared as a slim book of 135 pages. Due to the rapid …

Prolonged drying trend coincident with the demise of Norse settlement in southern Greenland

B Zhao, IS Castañeda, JM Salacup, EK Thomas… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Declining temperature has been thought to explain the abandonment of Norse settlements,
southern Greenland, in the early 15th century, although limited paleoclimate evidence is …

Calibration of modern sedimentary δ2H plant wax-water relationships in Greenland lakes

JM McFarlin, Y Axford, AL Masterson… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Sedimentary plant wax distributions and isotopic compositions are powerful, widely applied
paleoenvironmental proxies. However, there is conflicting evidence on the behavior of these …

Effects of plant types on terrestrial leaf wax long-chain n-alkane biomarkers: Implications and paleoapplications

J Liu, J Zhao, D He, X Huang, C Jiang, H Yan… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Terrestrial leaf wax n-alkane biomarkers provide considerable insights into
paleoenvironmental reconstruction. Over decades, a substantial number of field …

A wetter Arctic coincident with hemispheric warming 8,000 years ago

EK Thomas, IS Castañeda, NP McKay… - Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Arctic precipitation is predicted to increase this century, with dramatic consequences for high‐
latitude systems. Observations remain spatiotemporally limited, hampering determination of …

Apparent fractionation of hydrogen isotope from precipitation to leaf wax n-alkanes from natural environments and manipulation experiments

H Liu, S Wang, H Wang, Y Cao, J Hu, W Liu - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge of hydrogen isotopic fractionation (ε) of plant leaf waxes is the
foundation for applying hydrogen isotope values (δ 2 H) in environmental reconstructions. In …

Hydrogen isotope biogeochemistry of plant waxes in paired lake catchments

M Eensalu, DB Nelson, A Buczynska, O Rach… - Organic …, 2023 - Elsevier
Studies of plants in modern catchment systems can serve to improve the level of
understanding of sedimentary plant wax hydrogen isotope (δ 2 H) data by directly …

Sedimentary n-alkanes and n-alkanoic acids in a temperate bog are biased toward woody plants

EJ Freimuth, AF Diefendorf, TV Lowell, GC Wiles - Organic Geochemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
Sedimentary plant waxes and their hydrogen and carbon (δ 2 H and δ 13 C) isotopes are
important proxies for past hydrologic and vegetation change. However sedimentary waxes …