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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-3979-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-3979-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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Research article
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01 Sep 2022
Research article |
| 01 Sep 2022
| 01 Sep 2022
From soil to sea: sources and transport of organic carbon traced by tetraether lipids in the monsoonal Godavari River, India
Frédérique M. S. A. Kirkels
Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the
Netherlands
Huub M. Zwart
Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the
Netherlands
Muhammed O. Usman
Geological Institute, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
present address: Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Suning Hou
Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the
Netherlands
Camilo Ponton
Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
Woods Hole, MA, USA
present address: Geology Department, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, USA
Liviu Giosan
Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
Woods Hole, MA, USA
Timothy I. Eglinton
Geological Institute, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the
Netherlands
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- Integrated source identification of particulate and dissolved organic matter related to anthropogenic activities in an artificial lake system S. Kim et al.
- Bacterial diether lipids as a novel proxy to reconstruct past changes in sedimentary oxygenation B. Naafs et al.
- Global distribution of marine bacterial BrGDGTs in sediments: patterns and implications W. Xiao et al.
- Development and Application of the Branched and Isoprenoid GDGT Machine Learning Classification Algorithm (BIGMaC) for Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction P. Martínez‐Sosa et al.
- Variations in provenance and transport of terrestrial organic matter in the Changjiang River during the flood season Y. Wang et al.
- Microbial community response to temperature in microcosm incubations and their associated changes in branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether distribution P. Martínez-Sosa et al.
- Carbon isotopic ratios of modern C3 and C4 vegetation on the Indian peninsula and changes along the plant–soil–river continuum – implications for vegetation reconstructions F. Kirkels et al.
- Elevation controls bacterial branched GDGT-based temperature proxies: A regional to global perspective B. Roy et al.
- Epiphytic algal flora on aquatic macrophytes of the Godavari river system diversity interactions and environmental influences P. khapare et al.
- Seasonal temperature dependency of aquatic branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers: A mesocosm approach F. Ajallooeian et al.
- Multi-phase ecological change on Indian subcontinent from the late Miocene to Pleistocene recorded in the Nicobar Fan B. House et al.
- The dispersal of fluvially discharged and marine, shelf-produced particulate organic matter in the northern Gulf of Mexico Y. Yedema et al.
- Late Miocene cooling and uplift recorded by bacterial H-GDGTs in the Xining Basin, northeastern Tibetan Plateau Y. Huang et al.
- Late Quaternary change in sources and burial of organic carbon off Northeastern Brazil A. Rodrigues et al.
- The first application of RI-OH lipid biomarkers to reconstruct the upper water column thermal structure. An example from the tropical Indian Ocean (Bay of Bengal) during the past 24 kyr Y. Wang et al.
- Varied terrestrial sources of branched tetraether lipids in sediments of the Lower Bengal Fan affect the temperature reconstruction proxy C. Sun et al.
- Branched GDGT source shift identification allows improved reconstruction of an 8,000-year warming trend on Sumatra P. Hällberg et al.
- The Holocene evolution of a sinkhole on the Southeast Red Sea Shelf: From saline palaeolake to stratified marine setting F. Paraschos et al.
- Environmental controls on the distribution of brGDGTs and brGMGTs across the Seine River basin (NW France): implications for bacterial tetraethers as a proxy for riverine runoff Z. Zhang et al.
- Origin and composition of dissolved and particulate matter in mountain rivers of the Nepal Himalayas: Insights from Sr and Nd isotopes and elemental ratios R. Bhandari et al.
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Short summary
Soil organic carbon (SOC) that is transferred to the ocean by rivers forms a long-term sink of atmospheric CO2 upon burial on the ocean floor. We here test if certain bacterial membrane lipids can be used to trace SOC through the monsoon-fed Godavari River basin in India. We find that these lipids trace the mobilisation and transport of SOC in the wet season but that these lipids are not transferred far into the sea. This suggests that the burial of SOC on the sea floor is limited here.
Soil organic carbon (SOC) that is transferred to the ocean by rivers forms a long-term sink of...
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