Warm upwelling regions in the Pliocene warm period

PS Dekens, AC Ravelo, MD McCarthy - Paleoceanography, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Given the importance of upwelling processes to coastal productivity and regional climate, it
is critical to study the role of upwelling regions within the context of global climate change …

Biotic and abiotic degradation of alkenones and implications for U37K′ paleoproxy applications: A review

JF Rontani, JK Volkman, FG Prahl, SG Wakeham - Organic Geochemistry, 2013 - Elsevier
Lipid biomarkers in sediments are widely used to infer environmental conditions occurring in
the geological past, but such reconstructions require careful consideration of the biotic and …

[图书][B] Photo-and free radical-mediated oxidation of lipid components during the senescence of phototrophic organisms

JF Rontani - 2012 - Citeseer
Recently, the role played by photochemical and free radical-mediated processes in the
degradation of lipid components during the senescence of phototrophic organisms was …

Use of lipids and their degradation products as biomarkers for carbon cycling in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea

S Christodoulou, JC Marty, JC Miquel, JK Volkman… - Marine Chemistry, 2009 - Elsevier
Changes in phytoplankton composition and degradation of particulate organic matter (POM)
in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea were studied using time-series sediment trap …

An experimental field study to test the stability of lipids used for the TEX86 and U37K′ palaeothermometers

JH Kim, C Huguet, KAF Zonneveld… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2009 - Elsevier
We report a one year field experiment to study sedimentary degradation of isoprenoid
glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs) and long-chain alkenones, lipids used for the …

Alkenone paleothermometry: Biological lessons from marine sediment records off western South America

FG Prahl, AC Mix, MA Sparrow - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2006 - Elsevier
An empirical global core-top calibration that relates the alkenone unsaturation index
[Formula: see text] to mean annual SST (maSST) is statistically the same as that defined for …

Molecular carbon isotopic fractionation of algal lipids during decomposition in natural oxic and anoxic seawaters

MY Sun, L Zou, J Dai, H Ding, RA Culp… - Organic …, 2004 - Elsevier
To evaluate molecular carbon isotopic fractionation of algal lipids during oxic and anoxic
degradation, Emiliania huxleyi (a marine haptophyte) was incubated in seawater collected …

Organic biomarkers in the twilight zone—Time series and settling velocity sediment traps during MedFlux

SG Wakeham, C Lee, ML Peterson, Z Liu… - Deep Sea Research …, 2009 - Elsevier
The transfer of material through the twilight zone of the ocean is controlled by sinking
particles that contain organic matter (OM) and mineral ballast. During the MedFlux field …

RE‐EXAMINATION OF THE DOUBLE BOND POSITIONS IN ALKENONES AND DERIVATIVES: BIOSYNTHETIC IMPLICATIONS1

JF Rontani, FG Prahl, JK Volkman - Journal of Phycology, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
By derivatizing with OsO4, we determined the double bond positions of all the diunsaturated
alkenones present in different haptophytes and demonstrated that the positions in C37–C40 …

Degradation of alkenones by aerobic heterotrophic bacteria: selective or not?

JF Rontani, R Harji, S Guasco, FG Prahl… - Organic …, 2008 - Elsevier
Four bacterial communities were isolated from Emiliania huxleyi strain TWP1 cultures before
and after the algal cells had been treated with different antibiotics. Incubation of E. huxleyi …