Hydrogen isotopes of n-alkanes and n-alkanoic acids as tracers of precipitation in a temperate forest and implications for paleorecords

EJ Freimuth, AF Diefendorf, TV Lowell - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2017 - Elsevier
The hydrogen isotopic composition of leaf waxes (δD wax) primarily reflects that of plant
source water. Therefore, sedimentary δD wax records are increasingly used to reconstruct …

A dual-biomarker approach for quantification of changes in relative humidity from sedimentary lipid DH ratios

O Rach, A Kahmen, A Brauer, D Sachse - Climate of the Past, 2017 - cp.copernicus.org
Past climatic change can be reconstructed from sedimentary archives by a number of
proxies. However, few methods exist to directly estimate hydrological changes and even …

Microbial alteration of the hydrogen and carbon isotopic composition of n-alkanes in sediments

A Brittingham, MT Hren, G Hartman - Organic Geochemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
The hydrogen (δD) and carbon (δ 13 C) isotope compositions of long-chain n-alkanes
provide a record of paleoenvironmental conditions. At present, the role bacteria play in …

Salt marsh bacterial communities before and after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

AS Engel, C Liu, AT Paterson… - Applied and …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Coastal salt marshes along the northern Gulf of Mexico shoreline received varied types and
amounts of weathered oil residues after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. At the time …

Climatic history of the northeastern United States during the past 3000 years

JR Marlon, N Pederson, C Nolan, S Goring… - Climate of the …, 2017 - cp.copernicus.org
Many ecosystem processes that influence Earth system feedbacks–vegetation growth, water
and nutrient cycling, disturbance regimes–are strongly influenced by multidecadal-to …

Soil n-alkane δD and glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether (GDGT) distributions along an altitudinal transect from southwest China: Evaluating organic molecular proxies …

C Wang, MT Hren, GD Hoke, J Liu-Zeng… - Organic …, 2017 - Elsevier
Organic molecular proxies provide a record of the hydrogen isotopic composition of ambient
precipitation and paleoenvironmental temperature. In terrestrial settings, two classes of …

Hydrogen isotope and molecular alteration of n-alkanes during heating in open and closed systems

C Wang, Y Eley, A Oakes, M Hren - Organic Geochemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
We conducted a series of heating experiments using pure n-alkane mixtures and natural soil
organic extracts to evaluate isotopic and molecular changes during cracking and exchange …

Constraining paleohydrologic change during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in the continental interior of North America

AA Baczynski, FA McInerney, SL Wing, MJ Kraus… - Palaeogeography …, 2017 - Elsevier
Quantifying the relationship between carbon cycle perturbations and the hydrologic cycle in
the geologic past is crucial to accurately modeling how future anthropogenic carbon …

Hydrogen isotope ratios of terrestrial leaf wax n-alkanes from the Tibetan Plateau: Controls on apparent enrichment factors, effect of vapor sources and implication for …

X Zhang, B Xu, F Günther, I Mügler, M Lange… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2017 - Elsevier
Empirical evidence suggested that the altitudinal dependence of hydrogen isotope ratios of
leaf wax n-alkanes (δD wax) can be used to estimate paleoaltitudinal changes. However …

Sources and abundances of leaf waxes in aerosols in central Europe

DB Nelson, A Knohl, D Sachse, E Schefuß… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2017 - Elsevier
Atmospheric transport is an understudied mechanism for leaf wax hydrogen isotope
applications that contributes to mobilizing and depositing these compounds on the surface …