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 …

The molecular composition of leaf lipids changes with seasonal gradients in temperature and light among deciduous and evergreen trees in a sub-humid ecosystem

Z Wang, JD White, WC Hockaday - Organic Geochemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
Forest canopy structure is a fundamental ecosystem attribute affecting regional and global
climate through primary production by CO 2 drawdown and evapotranspirative feedback …

[HTML][HTML] Leaf cuticular wax composition of a genetically diverse collection of lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) cultivars evaluated under field conditions

W Luo, E Gonzalez, A Zarei, S Calleja, B Rozzi… - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Cuticular waxes of plants impart tolerance to many forms of environmental stress and help
shed dangerous human pathogens on edible plant parts. Although the chemical …

Variability of leaf wax n-alkanes across gradients of environment and plant functional type in China

Y Han, G Wang, Q Sun, M Xie - Global and Planetary Change, 2024 - Elsevier
The abundance and distribution of long-chain n-alkanes in sedimentary archives have been
proposed as plant-derived paleoenvironmental proxies. The reliable application of these …

Leaf wax n-alkane distribution and hydrogen isotopic fractionation in fen plant communities of two Mediterranean wetlands (Tenaghi Philippon, Nisí fen—Greece)

N Ardenghi, A Mulch, JM McFarlin, D Sachse… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Many continental paleoclimate archives originate from wetland sedimentary sequences.
While several studies have investigated biomarkers derived from peat-generating vegetation …

Long-chain plant wax n-alkane hydrogen isotopic evidence for increased Little Ice Age aridity in the midcontinental United States

BW Bird, EJ Freimuth, AF Diefendorf - Journal of Paleolimnology, 2024 - Springer
We compare hydrogen isotopic measurements of long-chain leaf-wax n-alkanes (δ2Hw;
C27, C29, and C31) from Martin Lake, Indiana, USA, with a calcite-based reconstruction of …

Plants, Precipitation, and People in Dhofar, Oman: Dryland Ecosystem Resilience in a Changing World

K Horisk - 2024 - etda.libraries.psu.edu
Dryland ecosystems cover nearly half of the world's land surface and are home to nearly a
third of the human population. These ecosystems are areas which receive less than 400mm …