Biomarker proxies for reconstructing Quaternary climate and environmental change

EL McClymont, H Mackay… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
To reconstruct past environmental changes, a range of indirect or proxy approaches can be
applied to Quaternary archives. Here, we review the complementary and novel insights that …

Late Holocene climate changes in the Altai Region based on a first high‐resolution biomarker isotope record from Lake Khar Nuur

M Bliedtner, J Struck, P Strobel… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Late Holocene marks a substantial cultural and economic transition in the
eastern Eurasian Steppe and Altai Region with the dispersal of nomadic pastoralism. So far …

Short-term occupations at high elevation during the Middle Paleolithic at Kalavan 2 (Republic of Armenia)

A Malinsky-Buller, P Glauberman, V Ollivier, T Lauer… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The Armenian highlands encompasses rugged and environmentally diverse landscapes
and is characterized by a mosaic of distinct ecological niches and large temperature …

Chronological assessment of the Balta Alba Kurgan loess-paleosol section (Romania)–a comparative study on different dating methods for a robust and precise age …

S Scheidt, S Berg, U Hambach, N Klasen… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Loess-paleosol sequences (LPSs) are important terrestrial archives of paleoenvironmental
and paleoclimatic information. One of the main obstacles for the investigation and …

Holocene temperature variations in semi-arid central Mongolia—a chronological and sedimentological perspective from a 7400-year lake sediment record from the …

M Bliedtner, P Strobel, J Struck, G Salazar… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Semi-arid Mongolia is a highly sensitive region to climate changes, but the region's
Holocene paleoclimatic evolution and its underlying forcing mechanisms have been the …

Revisiting afro-alpine Lake Garba Guracha in the Bale Mountains of Ethiopia: rationale, chronology, geochemistry, and paleoenvironmental implications

L Bittner, M Bliedtner, D Grady, G Gil-Romera… - Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Previous paleolimnological studies demonstrated that the sediments of Garba Guracha,
situated at 3950 m asl in the afro-alpine zone of the Bale Mountains of Ethiopia, provide a …

[HTML][HTML] Hydrodynamic, Seasonal, and Climatic Factors Affecting the Terrestrial-to-Aquatic Export of Plant-Derived Biomarkers

MS Schwab, N Haghipour, TI Eglinton - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2024 - Elsevier
Source-specific lipid biomarkers, such as n-alkanes and n-fatty acids, serve as valuable
tracers of past and contemporary exchanges of vegetation-derived organic matter across …

Do radiocarbon ages of plant wax biomarkers agree with 14C-TOC/OSL-based age models in an arid high-altitude lake system?

B Aichner, M Gierga, A Stolz, M Mętrak, M Wilk… - …, 2021 - cambridge.org
To elucidate the dynamics of terrestrial leaf waxes in a high-altitude lake system, we
performed compound-specific radiocarbon analysis (CSRA) of long-chain n-alkanes in two …

Revisiting the subalpine Mesolithic site Ullafelsen in the Fotsch Valley, Stubai Alps, Austria–new insights into pedogenesis and landscape evolution from leaf-wax …

M Zech, M Lerch, M Bliedtner, T Bromm… - E&G Quaternary …, 2021 - egqsj.copernicus.org
Archaeological research in high mountain regions has gotten a lot more attention since the
discovery of the copper age mummy called “Ötzi” in the Ötztaler Alps in 1991. In the Tyrolean …

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 …