… Implications for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction This study has several implications for
the use of leaf wax distributions as palaeoenvironmental proxies. The comparison of the soil …

… , the average chain length distribution of leaf wax n-alkanes remains … palaeoenvironmental
research. Based on the findings from our modern day calibration work, I examine the leaf wax …

… In this paper we use leaf wax lipids to reconstruct interglacial/glacial vegetation changes
at … All terrestrial plants produce leaf waxes which are relatively resistant to degradation in …

… wax crystals, by reducing the contact area between the leaf surface and the water droplet,
encouraging the water to bead and slide off the leaf … stomatal wax plugs made up of wax tubes …

… the δD wax hydrological proxy at times of vegetation change. In this study, I pair leaf wax …
), I find 77‰ swings in δD wax that correspond to pollen evidence for substantial vegetation …

… + n-C 31 )] of sedimentary leaf wax n-alkanes were investigated across the Cretaceous–Paleogene
(K–Pg) boundary at Loma Capiro, Central Cuba, to reconstruct paleoenvironmental …

… Leaf wax n-alkane biomarkers are widely used to infer past … However, few studies have
explored leaf waxes of modern … isotopic compositions of the leaf waxes of dominant plants in the …

… Two types of samples were collected: 1) larger samples with an average weight of 400 g
collected for the leaf wax isotopic analysis at a resolution of 10 cm; and 2) smaller samples of at …

… We investigated for the first-time leaf wax-derived n-alkane biomarkers from modern plants,
litter, top soils, and two recently discovered loess-paleosol sequences (LPSs) in Armenia (…

… Our results corroborate previous findings based on leaf wax patterns, geomorphological
records, and climate models. They all indicate relatively humid conditions during MIS 2 …