Molecular technology in paleontology and paleobiology: Applications and limitations

AA Abdelhady, B Seuss, S Jain, D Fathy, M Sami… - Quaternary …, 2024 - Elsevier
In the last 5 decades, paleontological research has exploded where fossils have enabled
robust dating of rocks, improved understanding of origination/extinction rates or mass …

Quantification of allochthonous and autochthonous organic carbon in large and shallow Lake Wuliangsu based on distribution patterns and δ13C signatures of n …

Q Zhao, A Zhou, Y He - Organic Geochemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
Identification and quantification of allochthonous and autochthonous organic carbon (OC) in
large and shallow lakes are crucial for knowledge of OC burial and recycling behaviors, as …

Theoretical and Methodological Contributions from Researching the Earliest Southeastern Record

AM Smallwood, JJ Halligan, TA Jennings, DS Miller… - …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
We review the contributions of archaeologists studying the Pleistocene and Early Holocene
records in the American Southeast. Researchers have made great efforts in finding …

[HTML][HTML] Paleoclimate, paleoenvironment, and human impact over the last 400 years based on lipid biomarkers from Lake Höglwörth, Germany

S Acharya, P Strobel, M Prochnow, S Taut… - Quaternary Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Lipid biomarkers are valuable proxies for reconstructing paleoclimate and
paleoenvironmental changes as well as human impact. However, little attention has been …

Human impacts overwhelmed climate as the dominant factor controlling lacustrine organic matter accumulation in Erhai Lake 2000 years ago, Southwest China

D Lin, E Zhang, E Liu, W Sun, R Wang, X Meng… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Climate and human activity are two important factors in regulating organic matter (OM)
accumulation in the lake environment. However, when and how anthropogenic impacts …

Molecular to macrofossils indicating last millennium sea level in Lavsa saltpans, Croatia

B Bechor, M Conti, B Keely, S Avnaim-Katav… - Quaternary …, 2024 - Elsevier
Intertidal salt production sites existed continuously around the Mediterranean since classical
antiquity, and their remains are present in large numbers along the Dalmatian (east Adriatic) …

Aquatic plants dominate the sources of long-chain n-alkanes in floodplain lakes in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River

X Yu, M Zhang, G Yang, L Zeng, X Chen, X Lü… - Chemical …, 2024 - Elsevier
It has been generally accepted that long-chain n-alkanes found in lacustrine sequences are
mainly derived from terrestrial plants, which is the basis for tracking paleoenvironmental …

Towards improved source apportionment of organic matter in soil and peat using lipid biomarkers and inverse modeling

C Thomas - 2024 - zora.uzh.ch
Soil organic matter (SOM) is the largest terrestrial reservoir of carbon; however, there remain
many open questions about its formation, degradation, and stabilization processes that …

[PDF][PDF] Last glacial-deglacial variability in sea surface characteristics and ice sheet activities in the Labrador Sea/Baffin Bay

D You - 2023 - scholar.archive.org
1.1 Background In recent years, the acceleration of decay and melting in the Greenland Ice
Sheet (GrIS) and Antarctic Ice Sheet has raised concerns about the impact of ocean …

[PDF][PDF] Quaternary Science Advances

S Acharya, P Strobel, M Prochnow, S Taut, M Zech… - researchgate.net
Lipid biomarkers are valuable proxies for reconstructing paleoclimate and
paleoenvironmental changes as well as human impact. However, little attention has been …