Molecular Paleohydrology: Interpreting the Hydrogen-Isotopic Composition of Lipid Biomarkers from Photosynthesizing Organisms

By D. Sachse, I. Billault, Gabriel J. Bowen, Y. Chikaraishi, Todd Dawson, S. Feakins, K. Freeman, C. Magill, F. A. McInerney, M. V. D. Meer and 8 more. 2012

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Molecular Biology

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In Atmospheric Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Extracting the most from terrestrial plant-derived n-alkyl lipids and their carbon isotopes from the sedimentary record: A review (2017, background): “Much of what we know about plant biomarkers is based on n-alkanes, although other wax components, such as n-alkanoic acids and n-alkanols, are also informative, especially for more recent sediments (Feakins et al., 2007; Douglas et al., 2012; Sachse et al., 2012).”
• Leaf wax n-alkane distributions in arid zone South African flora: Environmental controls, chemotaxonomy and palaeoecological implications (2014, background): “high preservation potential) and amenable to compound specific stable carbon and hydrogen isotope analysis (e.g. Feakins et al., 2005; Schefuß et al., 2005; Sachse et al., 2012).”
• Abundance and distribution of leaf wax n-alkanes in leaves of Acacia and Eucalyptus trees along a strong humidity gradient in northern Australia (2013, background): “These compounds can accumulate in marine and lacustrine sediments and have been suggested as biomarkers for the reconstruction of ancient ecosystems or change in climate (Eglinton and Hamilton, 1967; Sachse et al., 2012).”
• Production of leaf wax n-alkanes across a tropical forest elevation transect (2016, background): “…has been observed in other studies of C3 trees in the rainforests of Cameroon, 358 Africa (Garcin et al., 2014), but this is the first such demonstration from so many species at the 359 warm and wet extremes of global calibration efforts (Sachse et al., 2012) and from the rainforests 360 of Perú.”
• Leaf wax n-alkane distributions in and across modern plants: Implications for paleoecology and chemotaxonomy (2013, background): “The stable isotopic compositions (d 13 C and dD) of n-alkanes and their applications in paleoecology and paleoclimatology have been studied extensively (see Castañ eda and Schouten (2011) and Sachse et al. (2012) for review).”
• Influence of temperature and C4 abundance on n-alkane chain length distributions across the central USA (2015, background): “Most paleoenvironmental applications use the stable isotope ratios of n-alkanes (Castañeda and Schouten, 2011; Sachse et al., 2012), but chain length distributions have been hypothesized to reflect source plant groups or climate drivers such as temperature and aridity (Bush and McInerney, 2013 and…”