FROG: A global machine-learning temperature calibration for branched GDGTs in soils and peats

P Véquaud, A Thibault, S Derenne, C Anquetil… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) are a family of bacterial lipids
which have emerged over time as robust temperature and pH paleoproxies in continental …

The 6-methyl branched tetraethers significantly affect the performance of the methylation index (MBT′) in soils from an altitudinal transect at Mount Shennongjia

H Yang, X Lü, W Ding, Y Lei, X Dang, S Xie - Organic Geochemistry, 2015 - Elsevier
The methylation index (MBT or MBT′) of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers
(brGDGTs) in soils along altitudinal transects of some mountains, eg Mount (Mt.) …

Redox-dependent niche differentiation provides evidence for multiple bacterial sources of glycerol tetraether lipids in lakes

Y Weber, JS Sinninghe Damsté… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Terrestrial paleoclimate archives such as lake sediments are essential for our understanding
of the continental climate system and for the modeling of future climate scenarios. However …

[HTML][HTML] Biomarker-based quantitative constraints on maximal soil-derived brGDGTs in modern lake sediments

H Wang, W Chen, H Zhao, Y Cao, J Hu, Z Zhao… - Earth and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) are emerging as a powerful tool for
quantifying past terrestrial temperature variations. In lake sediments, mixed lacustrine vs …

Distribution of tetraether lipids in the 25-ka sedimentary record of Lake Challa: extracting reliable TEX86 and MBT/CBT palaeotemperatures from an equatorial African …

JSS Damsté, J Ossebaar, S Schouten… - Quaternary Science …, 2012 - Elsevier
The distribution of isoprenoid and branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether (GDGT) lipids
was studied in the sedimentary record of Lake Challa, a permanently stratified, partly anoxic …

[HTML][HTML] Decoupled Asian monsoon intensity and precipitation during glacial-interglacial transitions on the Chinese Loess Plateau

Y Zheng, H Liu, H Yang, H Wang, W Zhao… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The discrepancies among the variations in global ice volume, cave stalagmite δ18O and
rainfall reconstructed by cosmogenic 10Be tremendously restrain our understanding of the …

Evaluating global temperature calibrations for lacustrine branched GDGTs: Seasonal variability, paleoclimate implications, and future directions

B Zhao, JM Russell, VC Tsai, A Blaus… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) preserved in lake sediments are
increasingly used to investigate past terrestrial temperatures. brGDGTs are ubiquitous in …

Constraints on the biological source (s) of the orphan branched tetraether membrane lipids

JWH Weijers, E Panoto, J van Bleijswijk… - Geomicrobiology …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
A soil profile from the Saxnäs Mosse peat bog, Sweden, has been analysed for glycerol
dialkyl glycerol tetraether (GDGT) membrane lipids and 16S rRNA genes in order to …

Distributions and temperature dependence of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers in recent lacustrine sediments from China and Nepal

Q Sun, G Chu, M Liu, M Xie, S Li, Y Ling… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether (GDGT) membrane lipids in surface sediments from 24
lakes in China and Nepal were analyzed. The result shows that branched GDGT lipids occur …

Holocene temperature variability in China

J Wu, C Shen, H Yang, S Qian, S Xie - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
The patterns and mechanisms of Holocene temperature variability in China remain highly
controversial, possibly due to the lack of sufficient high-resolution records and few …