Biomarkers as a soil organic carbon tracer of sediment: Recent advances and challenges

Z Li, Y Sun, X Nie - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Soil organic carbon (SOC) tracing can provide important information for effective and
accurate management of soil erosion. However, tracing erosion-induced SOC is still …

Leaf wax -alkane patterns and compound-specific of plants and topsoils from semi-arid and arid Mongolia

J Struck, M Bliedtner, P Strobel, J Schumacher… - …, 2020 - bg.copernicus.org
Leaf wax n-alkane patterns and their compound-specific δ 13 C signatures are valuable
proxies for paleoenvironmental reconstructions. So far, their potential has not been …

The Holocene paleoenvironmental history of Western Caucasus (Russia) reconstructed by multi-proxy analysis of the continuous sediment sequence from Lake …

AM Grachev, EY Novenko, EA Grabenko… - The …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper presents new multi-proxy records of the Holocene environmental and climatic
changes in the Western Caucasus revealed from a continuous sediment sequence from …

Age and origin of leaf wax -alkanes in fluvial sediment–paleosol sequences and implications for paleoenvironmental reconstructions

M Bliedtner, H von Suchodoletz… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2020 - hess.copernicus.org
Leaf wax n-alkanes are increasingly used for quantitative paleoenvironmental
reconstructions. However, this is complicated in sediment archives with associated …

Leaf cuticular waxes of Tanaecium (Bignonieae, Bignoniaceae): Chemical composition and taxonomic implications

JCS Carvalho, A Frazão, LG Lohmann… - … Systematics and Ecology, 2021 - Elsevier
Tanaecium Sw. emend LG Lohmann (Bignonieae, Bignoniaceae, Lamiales) is a genus of
Neotropical lianas comprising 21 species distributed from Mexico through Argentina …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization and chemo-taxonomic evaluation of plant leaf waxes (long chain n-alkanoic acids, n-alkanes and n-alkanols) as a vegetation biomarker from …

C Cerda-Peña, S Contreras - Ecological Indicators, 2022 - Elsevier
Plant leaf waxes are used as vegetation biomarkers in several archives (ie soils, lake and
marine sediments), study of these compounds in modern plants is needed to makes their …

Suitability of phytoliths as a quantitative process tracer for soil erosion studies

S Kraushaar, M Konzett, J Kiep… - Earth Surface …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Phytoliths are plant microfossils commonly used as qualitative archive markers in
archaeological and paleoecological studies. Their potential uniqueness to the vegetation …

[HTML][HTML] Alluvial soil formation in the plains of northeastern Brazil

R Cipriano-Silva, GS Valladares… - Revista Brasileira de …, 2020 - SciELO Brasil
Soils in alluvial plains of the lower course of the Acaraú River, Ceará State, Brazil, are
weakly developed and have a complex distribution in the landscape. This study reports the …

A first Holocene leaf wax isotope‐based paleoclimate record from the semi‐humid to semi‐arid south‐eastern Caucasian lowlands

M Bliedtner, R Zech, J Zech, I Schäfer… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The Holocene paleoclimate of the Caucasus region is rather complex and not yet well
understood: while existing studies are mainly based on pollen records from high‐altitude …

Taxonomic significance of the distribution of constituents of leaf cuticular waxes of Croton species (Euphorbiaceae)

BS Pimentel, G Negri, I Cordeiro, LB Motta… - … Systematics and Ecology, 2020 - Elsevier
Foliar epicuticular waxes of specimens of 13 Croton species native in Brazil were extracted.
The fractions containing alkanes and primary alcohols were isolated by preparative thin …