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 …

The potential of biomarker proxies to trace climate, vegetation, and biogeochemical processes in peat: A review

BDA Naafs, GN Inglis, J Blewett, EL McClymont… - Global and Planetary …, 2019 - Elsevier
Molecular fossils (biomarkers) are abundant in organic rich natural archives such as peats
and lignites (fossilized peat), where their distribution is governed by their biological source …

Response of carbon cycle to drier conditions in the mid-Holocene in central China

X Huang, RD Pancost, J Xue, Y Gu… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The nature and extent to which hydrological changes induced by the Asian summer
monsoon affected key biogeochemical processes remain poorly defined. This study …

Hydrologic control of carbon cycling and aged carbon discharge in the Congo River basin

E Schefuß, TI Eglinton, CL Spencer-Jones… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The age of organic material discharged by rivers provides information about its sources and
carbon cycling processes within watersheds. Although elevated ages in fluvially transported …

Biomarker evidence for Botryococcus and a methane cycle in the Eocene Huadian oil shale, NE China

JK Volkman, Z Zhang, X Xie, J Qin, T Borjigin - Organic geochemistry, 2015 - Elsevier
The saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons of two samples (HD-19 and HD-21) from the
same section of the Middle Eocene lacustrine Huadian oil shale in NE China were identified …

Fatty Acid and Hopanoid Adaption to Cold in the Methanotroph Methylovulum psychrotolerans

NJ Bale, WIC Rijpstra, DX Sahonero-Canavesi… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Three strains of aerobic psychrotolerant methanotrophic bacteria Methylovulum
psychrotolerans, isolated from geographically remote low-temperature environments in …

Revisiting the precursors of the most abundant natural products on Earth: A look back at 30+ years of bacteriohopanepolyol (BHP) research and ahead to new …

S Kusch, D Rush - Organic Geochemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
In this review we look back on 30+ years of bacteriohopanepolyol (BHP) research within the
field of organic geochemistry. BHPs are ubiquitous, intact polar lipids in modern …

Lipid biomarker record of the serpentinite-hosted ecosystem of the samail ophiolite, Oman and implications for the search for Biosignatures on Mars

SA Newman, SA Lincoln, S O'Reilly, X Liu, EL Shock… - Astrobiology, 2020 - liebertpub.com
Serpentinization is a weathering process in which ultramafic rocks react with water,
generating a range of products, including serpentine and other minerals, in addition to H2 …

The bacteriohopanepolyol inventory of novel aerobic methane oxidising bacteria reveals new biomarker signatures of aerobic methanotrophy in marine systems

D Rush, KA Osborne, D Birgel, A Kappler, H Hirayama… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Aerobic methane oxidation (AMO) is one of the primary biologic pathways regulating the
amount of methane (CH4) released into the environment. AMO acts as a sink of CH4 …

Effects of Sphagnum Leachate on Competitive Sphagnum Microbiome Depend on Species and Time

S Hamard, BJM Robroek, PM Allard… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Plant specialized metabolites play an important role in soil carbon (C) and nutrient fluxes.
Through anti-microbial effects, they can modulate microbial assemblages and associated …