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Development of global temperature and pH calibrations based on bacterial 3-hydroxy fatty acids in soils
Pierre Véquaud
Sorbonne Université, CNRS, EPHE, PSL, UMR METIS, Paris, 75005,
France
Sylvie Derenne
Sorbonne Université, CNRS, EPHE, PSL, UMR METIS, Paris, 75005,
France
Alexandre Thibault
Antea Group, Innovation Hub, 803 boulevard Duhamel du Monceau, Olivet,
45160, France
Christelle Anquetil
Sorbonne Université, CNRS, EPHE, PSL, UMR METIS, Paris, 75005,
France
Giuliano Bonanomi
Dipartimento di Agraria, Università di Napoli Federico II, via
Università 100, Portici, NA, 80055, Italy
Sylvie Collin
Sorbonne Université, CNRS, EPHE, PSL, UMR METIS, Paris, 75005,
France
Sergio Contreras
Laboratorio de Ciencias Ambientales (LACA), Departamento de
Química Ambiental, Facultad de Ciencias & Centro de
Investigación en Biodiversidad y Ambientes Sustentables (CIBAS),
Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Casilla 297,
Concepción, Chile
Andrew T. Nottingham
School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Crew Building, Kings
Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3FF, UK
School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Pierre Sabatier
Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, EDYTEM, Le Bourget du Lac, 73776,
France
Norma Salinas
Instituto de Ciencias de la Naturaleza, Territorio y Energías
Renovables, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Av. Universitaria
1801, San Miguel, Lima 32, Peru
Wesley P. Scott
Department of Geology and Environmental Science, University of
Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Josef P. Werne
Department of Geology and Environmental Science, University of
Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Arnaud Huguet
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Sorbonne Université, CNRS, EPHE, PSL, UMR METIS, Paris, 75005,
France
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Wenjie Xiao, Yinghui Wang, Shangzhe Zhou, Limin Hu, Huan Yang, and Yunping Xu
Biogeosciences, 13, 5883–5894, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-5883-2016, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-5883-2016, 2016
Kimberley L. Davies, Richard D. Pancost, Mary E. Edwards, Katey M. Walter Anthony, Peter G. Langdon, and Lidia Chaves Torres
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Lake Ohrid is situated in the southern Balkans between Albania and Macedonia. It is a unique ecosystem with remarkable biodiversity and a sediment record of past climates that goes back more than a million years. Detailed reconstructions of past climate development and human alteration of the environment require underpinned and so in this study we go the present-day lake vegetation and catchment soils and test new proxies over one of the known recent cooling events of the region 8200 years ago.
T. Larsen, L. T. Bach, R. Salvatteci, Y. V. Wang, N. Andersen, M. Ventura, and M. D. McCarthy
Biogeosciences, 12, 4979–4992, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-4979-2015, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-4979-2015, 2015
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A tiny fraction of marine algae escapes decomposition and is buried in sediments. Since tools are needed to track the fate of algal organic carbon, we tested whether naturally occurring isotope variability among amino acids from algae and bacteria can be used as source diagnostic fingerprints. We found that isotope fingerprints track algal amino acid sources with high fidelity across different growth conditions, and that the fingerprints can be used to quantify bacterial amino acids in sediment.
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C. Zell, J.-H. Kim, M. Balsinha, D. Dorhout, C. Fernandes, M. Baas, and J. S. Sinninghe Damsté
Biogeosciences, 11, 5637–5655, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-5637-2014, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-5637-2014, 2014
M. Blumenberg, C. Berndmeyer, M. Moros, M. Muschalla, O. Schmale, and V. Thiel
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Biogeosciences, 9, 4139–4153, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-9-4139-2012, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-9-4139-2012, 2012
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A better understanding of past climate variations is essential to apprehend future climatic changes. The aim of this study is to investigate the applicability of specific organic compounds of bacterial origin, 3-hydroxy fatty acids (3-OH FAs), as temperature and pH proxies at the global level using an extended soil dataset. We show the major potential of 3-OH FAs as such proxies in terrestrial environments through the different models presented and their application for palaeoreconstruction.
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