Impact of seasonal hydrological variation on the distributions of tetraether lipids along the Amazon River in the central Amazon basin: Implications for the MBT/CBT paleothermometer and the BIT index

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue AUG, 2013, Pages

  Zell, Claudia ^a   Kim, Jung Hyun ^a   Abril, Gwenaël ^b   Sobrinho, Rodrigo Lima ^c   Dorhout, Denise ^a   Moreira Turcq, Patricia ^d   Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Amazon river; BIT; Branched tetraethers; Crenarchaeol; MBT CBT; Seasonal changes

Indexed keywords

CRENARCHAEOL; ETHER DERIVATIVE; GLYCEROL DIALKYL GLYCEROL TETRAETHER; ORGANIC CARBON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CYCLIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOTHERMOMETRY; PROTEIN METHYLATION; RIVER BASIN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SURFACE WATER HYDROLOGY; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; THERMOMETRY; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; WATER CYCLE; WATER SAMPLING;

EID: 84884255761     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00228     Document Type: Article

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