Southwestern Africa's coastal marine mudbelt, a prominent Holocene sediment package,
provides a valuable archive for reconstructing terrestrial palaeoclimates on the adjacent …

Lipid analysis of aquatic plants from lakes on Mt. Kenya, E. Africa, revealed that non-
emergent (submerged and floating-leaved) species displayed enhanced abundances of mid …

This study sought to characterize hydrogen isotopic fractionation during biosynthesis of leaf
wax n-alkanes in succulent plants capable of crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM). The …

Relative distributions as well as compound-specific carbon and hydrogen isotope ratios of
long-chain C 25 to C 33 n-alkanes in sediments provide important paleoclimate and …

The concentrations, distributions, and stable carbon isotopes (δ 13 C) of plant waxes carried
by fluvial suspended sediments contain valuable information about terrestrial ecosystem …

The stable carbon isotopic composition (δ 13 C) of terrestrial leaf wax components, such as
n-alkanes (δ 13 C alk), is used extensively to address questions about past changes in …

The stable carbon isotope (δ 13 C) values of (1) total leaf tissue (2), total surface lipid
extracts and (3) individual n-alkanes isolated from leaves were determined for plants …

Sedimentary plant wax δ2H values are common proxies for hydrology, a poorly constrained
variable in the Arctic. However, it can be difficult to distinguish plant waxes derived from …

The n-fatty acids containing an even number of carbons (ECN-n-FAs) in higher plants are
biosynthesised by repetitive addition of a two carbon unit from malonyl-ACP. The n-alkanes …

The increasing utilization of n-alkanes as plant-derived paleo-environmental proxies calls
for improved chemotaxonomic control of the modern flora in order to calibrate fossil …