Bacteriohopanepolyol biomarker composition of organic matter exported to the Arctic Ocean by seven of the major Arctic rivers

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1151-1159

  Cooke, Martin P ^a   van Dongen, Bart E ^b   Talbot, Helen M ^a   Semiletov, Igor ^c,d   Shakhova, Natalia ^c,d   Guo, Laodong ^e   Gustafsson, Örjan ^f  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^d IL ICHEV PACIFIC OCEANOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^f STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OCEAN; ARCTIC RIVERS; BACTERIOHOPANEPOLYOLS; EPICENTRE; HPLC-MS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; METHANE OXIDATION; MOLECULAR BIOMARKER; NORTH AMERICAN; ORGANIC MATTER; PAN-ARCTIC; RELATED COMPOUNDS; RIVER BASINS; RIVER SEDIMENTS; SURFACE SEDIMENTS; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS; TERRESTRIAL ORGANIC MATTER;

BACTERIOLOGY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMARKERS; CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIPIDS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHANE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOILS;

RIVERS;

ABUNDANCE INDEX; BIOMARKER; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; LIPID; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEMBRANE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ORGANIC MATTER; RIVER; RIVER BASIN; SOIL CHEMISTRY;

EURASIA; NORTH AMERICA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 70350064109     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2009.07.014     Document Type: Article

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