Mountains, erosion and the carbon cycle

RG Hilton, AJ West - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2020 - nature.com
Mountain building results in high erosion rates and the interaction of rocks with the
atmosphere, water and life. Carbon transfers that result from increased erosion could control …

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 …

Sediment source fingerprinting: benchmarking recent outputs, remaining challenges and emerging themes

AL Collins, M Blackwell, P Boeckx, CA Chivers… - Journal of Soils and …, 2020 - Springer
Purpose This review of sediment source fingerprinting assesses the current state-of-the-art,
remaining challenges and emerging themes. It combines inputs from international scientists …

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 …

Leaf wax n-alkane carbon isotope values vary among major terrestrial plant groups: Different responses to precipitation amount and temperature, and implications for …

J Liu, Z An - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Studies focused on field measurements have been conducted to investigate how leaf wax n-
alkane δ 13 C values vary among photosynthetic pathways (C 3 vs. C 4) or plant types …

Distribution of n-alkanes and their δ2H and δ13C values in typical plants along a terrestrial-coastal-oceanic gradient

D He, SN Ladd, CJ Saunders, RN Mead… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2020 - Elsevier
Reconstructing past responses of coastal wetlands to climate change contextualizes
ongoing and future developments in these globally important ecosystems. The molecular …

Miocene C4 Grassland Expansion as Recorded by the Indus Fan

SJ Feakins, HM Liddy, L Tauxe, V Galy… - Paleoceanography …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In the late Miocene, grasslands spread across the forested floodplains of the Himalayan
foreland, but the causes of the ecological transition are still debated. Recent seafloor drilling …

Sustained wood burial in the Bengal Fan over the last 19 My

H Lee, V Galy, X Feng, C Ponton… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
The Ganges–Brahmaputra (GB) River system transports over a billion tons of sediment
every year from the Himalayan Mountains to the Bay of Bengal and has built the world's …

Long-term patterns of hillslope erosion by earthquake-induced landslides shape mountain landscapes

J Wang, JD Howarth, EL McClymont, AL Densmore… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Widespread triggering of landslides by large storms or earthquakes is a dominant
mechanism of erosion in mountain landscapes. If landslides occur repeatedly in particular …

[HTML][HTML] From soil to sea: sources and transport of organic carbon traced by tetraether lipids in the monsoonal Godavari River, India

FMSA Kirkels, HM Zwart, MO Usman, S Hou… - …, 2022 - bg.copernicus.org
Monsoonal rivers play an important role in the land-to-sea transport of soil-derived organic
carbon (OC). However, spatial and temporal variation in the concentration, composition, and …