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Seasonal variability and sources of in situ brGDGT production in a permanently stratified African crater lake
Loes G. J. van Bree
Department of Earth
Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Princetonlaan 8A, 3584 CB Utrecht, the Netherlands
Department of Earth
Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Princetonlaan 8A, 3584 CB Utrecht, the Netherlands
Allix J. Baxter
Department of Earth
Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Princetonlaan 8A, 3584 CB Utrecht, the Netherlands
Wannes De Crop
Limnology Unit, Ghent University, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, 9000
Gent, Belgium
Sigrid van Grinsven
NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Department of
Marine Microbiology and Biogeochemistry, and Utrecht University, P.O. Box 59,
1790 AB Den Burg, the Netherlands
Laura Villanueva
NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Department of
Marine Microbiology and Biogeochemistry, and Utrecht University, P.O. Box 59,
1790 AB Den Burg, the Netherlands
Dirk Verschuren
Limnology Unit, Ghent University, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, 9000
Gent, Belgium
Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté
Department of Earth
Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Princetonlaan 8A, 3584 CB Utrecht, the Netherlands
NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Department of
Marine Microbiology and Biogeochemistry, and Utrecht University, P.O. Box 59,
1790 AB Den Burg, the Netherlands
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Short summary
Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) are used as a paleothermometer based on their temperature dependence in global soils, but aquatic production complicates their use in lakes. BrGDGTs in the water column of Lake Chala, East Africa, respond to oxygen conditions and mixing. Changes in their signal can be linked to bacterial community composition rather than membrane adaptation to changing conditions. Their integrated signal in the sediment reflects mean air temperature.
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