Disentangling the origins of branched tetraether lipids and crenarchaeol in the lower Amazon river: Implications for GDGT-based proxies

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 343-353

  Zell, Claudia ^a   Kim, Jung Hyun ^a   Moreira Turcq, Patricia ^b   Abril, Gwenaël ^c   Hopmans, Ellen C ^a   Bonnet, Marie Paule ^d   Sobrinho, Rodrigo Lima ^e   Damsté, Jaap S Sinninghe ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^e FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ETHER; METHYLATION; PH; PHOSPHOLIPID; RIVER; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL EROSION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

AMAZON RIVER; ANDES;

EID: 84872559263     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2013.58.1.0343     Document Type: Article

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