Distributions of bacterial and archaeal membrane lipids in surface sediments reflect differences in input and loss of terrestrial organic carbon along a cross-shelf Arctic transect

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 83-84, Issue , 2015, Pages 16-26

  Doğrul Selver, Ayça ^a   Sparkes, Robert B ^a   Bischoff, Juliane ^b   Talbot, Helen M ^b   Gustafsson, Örjan ^c   Semiletov, Igor P ^d,e,f   Dudarev, Oleg V ^e,f   Boult, Stephen ^a   van Dongen, Bart E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH TOMSK POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^f IL ICHEV PACIFIC OCEANOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Bacteriohopanepolyols; BIT; East Siberian Sea; Glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether; Kolyma River; R'soil< inf>; River sea transect

Indexed keywords

BITS; CARBON; GLYCEROL; LIPIDS; RIVERS; SOILS; SURFICIAL SEDIMENTS;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENTS; BACTERIOHOPANEPOLYOLS; CLIMATE WARMING; EAST-SIBERIAN SEAS; GLOBAL CARBON CYCLE; OVER-ESTIMATION; R'SOIL; SURFACE SEDIMENTS;

ORGANIC CARBON;

CARBON CYCLE; DOMINANCE; LIPID; MARINE SEDIMENT; PERMAFROST; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

ARCTIC OCEAN; EURASIA;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84925852615     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2015.01.005     Document Type: Article

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