Biomarker approaches for reconstructing terrestrial environmental change

GN Inglis, T Bhattacharya… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The response of the terrestrial biosphere to warming remains one of the most poorly
understood and quantified aspects of the climate system. One way to test the behavior of the …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding forest health with remote sensing-part I—a review of spectral traits, processes and remote-sensing characteristics

A Lausch, S Erasmi, DJ King, P Magdon, M Heurich - Remote Sensing, 2016 - mdpi.com
Anthropogenic stress and disturbance of forest ecosystems (FES) has been increasing at all
scales from local to global. In rapidly changing environments, in-situ terrestrial FES …

The potential of biomarker proxies to trace climate, vegetation, and biogeochemical processes in peat: A review

BDA Naafs, GN Inglis, J Blewett, EL McClymont… - Global and Planetary …, 2019 - Elsevier
Molecular fossils (biomarkers) are abundant in organic rich natural archives such as peats
and lignites (fossilized peat), where their distribution is governed by their biological source …

The Global Ecosystems Monitoring network: Monitoring ecosystem productivity and carbon cycling across the tropics

Y Malhi, C Girardin, DB Metcalfe, CE Doughty… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
A rich understanding of the productivity, carbon and nutrient cycling of terrestrial ecosystems
is essential in the context of understanding, modelling and managing the future response of …

Response of the Amazon rainforest to late Pleistocene climate variability

C Häggi, CM Chiessi, U Merkel, S Mulitza… - Earth and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
Variations in Amazonian hydrology and forest cover have major consequences for the
global carbon and hydrological cycles as well as for biodiversity. Yet, the climate and …

[HTML][HTML] Abrupt change in tropical Pacific climate mean state during the Little Ice Age

A Prohaska, AWR Seddon, B Meese, KJ Willis… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
The mean state of the tropical Pacific ocean-atmosphere climate, in particular its east-west
asymmetry, has profound consequences for regional climates and for the El Niño/Southern …

Effects of plant types on terrestrial leaf wax long-chain n-alkane biomarkers: Implications and paleoapplications

J Liu, J Zhao, D He, X Huang, C Jiang, H Yan… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Terrestrial leaf wax n-alkane biomarkers provide considerable insights into
paleoenvironmental reconstruction. Over decades, a substantial number of field …

Dual isotope evidence for sedimentary integration of plant wax biomarkers across an Andes-Amazon elevation transect

SJ Feakins, MS Wu, C Ponton, V Galy… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2018 - Elsevier
Tropical montane regions tend to have high rates of precipitation, biological production,
erosion, and sediment export, which together move material off the landscape and toward …

Does leaf wax isotopic characterisation of gymnosperms and angiosperms capture environmental gradients in Himalayas?

DK Jha, P Hirave, S Ghosh, B Dasgupta, P Sanyal - Organic Geochemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
The responses of angiosperms and gymnosperms to environmental variables (eg, rainfall
[MAP], temperature [MAT] and pCO 2) remain ambiguous and require systematic …

Spatial and temporal variation in autochthonous and allochthonous contributors to increased organic carbon and nitrogen burial in a plateau lake

C Huang, L Yao, Y Zhang, T Huang, M Zhang… - Science of the Total …, 2017 - Elsevier
Increased organic carbon and nitrogen accumulation rates (OCAR and ONAR) in lake
sediment significantly regulate the global carbon cycle. However, the reasons for and …