Temporal variation of seston biomarkers within the Humboldt Current System off northern Chile (21°S): First simultaneous records on fatty acids, n-alkanes and glycerol-dialkyl-glycerol-tetraethers (GDGT)

Advances in Oceanography and Limnology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 17-40

  Rossi, Sergio ^a   Isla, Enrique ^b   Fietz, Susanne ^a   Martínez Garcia, Alfredo ^c   Sañé, Elisabet ^b   Teixidò, Núria ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^c Geologisches Institut NO G 55   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

bacterial biomarkers; Carbon Preference Index; fatty acids; glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers; Humboldt Current System; La Ni a; n alkanes; oxycline; upwelling

Indexed keywords

ALKANE; BIOMARKER; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DOMINANCE; FATTY ACID; FOOD QUALITY; ISOPRENOID; LIPID; PHYTOPLANKTON; SESTON; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

CHILE; HUMBOLDT CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84875018775     PISSN: 19475721     EISSN: 1947573X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19475721.2012.676068     Document Type: Article

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