Terrestrial plant biomarkers and their carbon isotopes provide insights into carbon cycling,
paleovegetation and paleoclimate, ranging in scale from local to global. Over the past …

Molecular organic geochemical proxies are increasingly being utilized to reconstruct past
environmental conditions as new tools continue to be discovered and developed. To date …

The compound-specific hydrogen isotope composition (δD) of sedimentary n-alkanes is
increasingly used as a palaeoclimate proxy. To explore the origin of the hydrogen isotope …

Stable hydrogen and carbon isotopic compositions of individual n-alkanes were determined
for various terrestrial plants (33 samples including 27 species) and aquatic plants (six …

Hydrogen isotope ratios were measured on n-alkanes (n-C12 to n-C31) extracted from
recent lake surface sediments along a NS European transect to test if modern climate …

Lipid distributions in modern peat-forming plants were determined and compared to
biomarkers recovered from a ca. 2800 year old peat deposited in a Dutch ombrotrophic bog …

Molecular fossils (biomarkers) are abundant in organic rich natural archives such as peats
and lignites (fossilized peat), where their distribution is governed by their biological source …

Using a set of surface sediment samples and corresponding macrophytes from the Tibetan
Plateau, we show that aquatic macrophytes strongly influence the carbon isotope values of …

Lipid biomarkers extracted from a peat core obtained from the northeast edge of the Tibetan
Plateau have provided a 13 kyr record of regional climate change. A period of warmer …

Proxies such as plant macrofossils, humification indices and testate amoebae have been
developed to reconstruct past hydrological variability in ombrotrophic peatlands …