Calibrating bacterial tetraether distributions towards in situ soil temperature and application to a loess-paleosol sequence

H Wang, Z An, H Lu, Z Zhao, W Liu - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) produced by soil-dwelling bacteria
offer a promising tool for reconstructing terrestrial temperatures. However, in most previous …

BayMBT: A Bayesian calibration model for branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers in soils and peats

ED Crampton-Flood, JE Tierney, F Peterse… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2020 - Elsevier
Accurate temperature records for the deep geological past are a vital component of
paleoclimate research. Distributional changes of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol …

Sedimentary brGDGTs in China: An overview of modern observations and proposed land Holocene paleotemperature records

T Lin, Z Rao, Y Zeng, Y Li, L Zhao, L Liu, X Xiao… - Earth-Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Results from globally distributed surface soils and surface lake and peat sediments indicate
that brGDGTs (branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers), derived from bacteria, have …

[HTML][HTML] Introducing global peat-specific temperature and pH calibrations based on brGDGT bacterial lipids

BDA Naafs, GN Inglis, Y Zheng, MJ Amesbury… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2017 - Elsevier
Glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs) are membrane-spanning lipids from Bacteria
and Archaea that are ubiquitous in a range of natural archives and especially abundant in …

Refining the global branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether (brGDGT) soil temperature calibration

BDA Naafs, AV Gallego-Sala, GN Inglis… - Organic …, 2017 - Elsevier
Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) are increasingly used to
reconstruct past terrestrial temperature and soil pH. Here we compare all available modern …

[HTML][HTML] Revised fractional abundances and warm-season temperatures substantially improve brGDGT calibrations in lake sediments

JH Raberg, DJ Harning, SE Crump, G de Wet… - …, 2021 - bg.copernicus.org
Distributions of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) are frequently
employed for reconstructing terrestrial paleotemperatures from lake sediment archives …

Lipid biomarker temperature proxy responds to abrupt shift in the bacterial community composition in geothermally heated soils

C De Jonge, D Radujković, BD Sigurdsson… - Organic …, 2019 - Elsevier
Specific soil bacterial membrane lipids, branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers
(brGDGTs), are used as an empirical proxy for past continental temperatures. Their …

Evidence of moisture control on the methylation of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers in semi-arid and arid soils

X Dang, H Yang, BDA Naafs, RD Pancost… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2016 - Elsevier
The distribution of bacterial branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) is
influenced by growth temperature and pH. This results in the widespread application of the …

FROG: A global machine-learning temperature calibration for branched GDGTs in soils and peats

P Véquaud, A Thibault, S Derenne, C Anquetil… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) are a family of bacterial lipids
which have emerged over time as robust temperature and pH paleoproxies in continental …

Decoupled Asian monsoon intensity and precipitation during glacial-interglacial transitions on the Chinese Loess Plateau

Y Zheng, H Liu, H Yang, H Wang, W Zhao… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The discrepancies among the variations in global ice volume, cave stalagmite δ18O and
rainfall reconstructed by cosmogenic 10Be tremendously restrain our understanding of the …