Carbon and hydrogen isotope fractionation under continuous light: implications for paleoenvironmental interpretations of the High Arctic during Paleogene warming

Oecologia

Volumn 160, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 461-470

  Yang, Hong ^a   Pagani, Mark ^b   Briggs, Derek E G ^b   Equiza, M A ^c   Jagels, Richard ^c   Leng, Qin ^d   Lepage, Ben A ^e,f  

^a BRYANT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^d NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^e ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f PECO Energy Company   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic; Deciduous conifers; Paleoclimate; Paleogene; Stable isotope

Indexed keywords

CARBON; HYDROGEN;

ALKANE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DECIDUOUS FOREST; FOSSIL RECORD; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; LIGHT EFFECT; LIPID; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGENE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; TRANSPIRATION; WARMING;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONIFER; FOSSIL; FRACTIONATION; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; PLANT LEAF; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ARCTIC REGIONS; CARBON ISOTOPES; CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; CONIFEROPHYTA; FOSSILS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HYDROGEN; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PLANT LEAVES;

ARCTIC;

CONIFEROPHYTA; LARIX; LARIX LARICINA; METASEQUOIA; METASEQUOIA GLYPTOSTROBOIDES; TAXODIUM; TAXODIUM DISTICHUM;

EID: 67349165884     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-009-1321-1     Document Type: Article

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