Leaf wax n-alkanes provide a valuable palaeoecological proxy, but their interpretation
requires an understanding of the scale of temporal and spatial integration in soils. Leaf wax …

Environmental parameters such as rainfall, temperature and relative humidity can affect the
composition of higher plant leaf wax. The abundance and distribution of leaf wax …

The environmental controls on leaf wax n-alkane distributions and associated interpretation
of such distributions in geological archives have long remained rather enigmatic. Studies of …

Plant-derived lipid molecular proxies can provide insight into present-day soil carbon input
and to what extent organic carbon is degraded within soil. To explore whether soil …

The carbon isotope ratio (δ 13 C) of plant-derived organic carbon preserved in geological
archives can be a valuable proxy for the relative abundance of terrestrial plants using C3 …

Long-chain n-alkanes originate from leaf waxes of higher terrestrial plants, they are
relatively resistant against physical and chemical degradation and are preserved in …

In higher plants, leaf waxes provide a barrier to non-stomatal water loss, and their
composition varies both between and within species. Characteristics of n-alkanes, a suite of …

Atmospheric CO 2 concentration and nitrogen (N) deposition have been altered by
anthropogenic activity and they affect global biogeochemical cycles. It is still not clear how …

Lipid biomarkers are increasingly used to reconstruct past environmental and climate
conditions. Leaf-wax-derived long-chain n-alkanes and n-alkanoic acids may have great …

Two burial experiments were performed to compare and contrast the effects of degradation
and early diagenesis on the molecular distributions and compound specific carbon isotope …