Leaf wax n-alkane distributions in and across modern plants: Implications for paleoecology and chemotaxonomy

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Extracting the most from terrestrial plant-derived n-alkyl lipids and their carbon isotopes from the sedimentary record: A review (2017, methodology): “However, based on more recent studies (Diefendorf et al., 2011, 2015b; Bush and McInerney, 2013), we now know that many conifers produce a low concentration of n-alkanes compared with co-occurring angiosperms, and can thus be ignored in many, but not all, ecosystems.”
Production of leaf wax n-alkanes across a tropical forest elevation transect (2016, background): “Given the low sensitivity to 394 temperature, and the plant-to-plant variability (our study; Bush and McInerney, 2013), we 395 suggest that ACL is unlikely to be useful for paleothermometry applications.”
Opportunities and limitations related to the application of plant-derived lipid molecular proxies in soil science (2017, neutral): “Further, Bush and McInerney (2013) found no inﬂuence of canopy position or sampling time on the n -alkane patterns of mature leaves from 24 tree species.”
Influence of temperature and C4 abundance on n-alkane chain length distributions across the central USA (2015, background): “There is also a clear genetic or taxonomic component to n-alkane biosynthesis, where some species produce highly consistent chain length distributions across their range and some species are much more variable (Bush and McInerney, 2013; Carr et al., 2014) and the reasons for this are unclear.”