Oyster shells as archives of present and past environmental variability and life history traits: A multi‐disciplinary review of sclerochronology methods and applications

V Mouchi, CFT Andrus, AG Checa… - Limnology and …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Oysters inhabit a variety of coastal and deep‐sea settings over a wide latitudinal range and
have a role as ecosystem engineers. They also represent an important food source for …

[HTML][HTML] Molluscan isotope sclerochronology in marine palaeoclimatology: Taxa, technique and timespan issues

ALA Johnson, BR Schöne, SV Petersen… - Quaternary Science …, 2025 - Elsevier
Study of the accretionary biomineralised hardparts of organisms (sclerochronology) can
make a useful contribution to palaeoclimatology. Ontogenetic sequences of isotopic data (δ …

Re‐Assessing the Need for Apatite‐and Dolomite‐Specific Calibrations of the Carbonate Clumped Isotope Thermometer

NT Anderson, M Bonifacie, AB Jost… - Geochemistry …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A few key methodological uncertainties remain for the carbonate clumped isotope
community. One is how to compare data among published data sets that are not anchored to …

The Yangtze River Delta experienced strong seasonality and regular summer upwelling during the warm mid-Holocene

M Alberti, SF Veiga, B Chen, L Hu, Z Fang… - … Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
The mid-Holocene climate optimum saw warm temperatures in large parts of China, but its
impact on seasonal environmental changes is not fully understood yet. Here, we use high …

The fossil bivalve Angulus benedeni benedeni: a potential seasonally resolved stable-isotope-based climate archive to investigate Pliocene temperatures in the …

NMA Wichern, NJ De Winter, ALA Johnson… - …, 2023 - bg.copernicus.org
Bivalves record seasonal environmental changes in their shells, making them excellent
climate archives. However, not every bivalve can be used for this end. The shells have to …

The ostracod clumped‐isotope thermometer: A novel tool to accurately quantify continental climate changes

M Marchegiano, M Peral, J Venderickx… - Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This study presents a methodological advancement in the field of clumped‐isotope (∆ 47)
thermometry, specifically tailored for application to freshwater ostracods. The novel ostracod …

Ultradian rhythms in shell composition of photosymbiotic and non-photosymbiotic mollusks

NJ De Winter, D Killam, L Fröhlich, L De Nooijer… - …, 2023 - bg.copernicus.org
The chemical composition of mollusk shells is a useful tool in (paleo) climatology since it
captures inter-and intra-annual variability in environmental conditions. Trace element and …

Calibration of the carbonate clumped isotope thermometer of land snail shells

R Bao, X Sheng, C Li, C Cui, H Yan, J Ji, J Chen - Chemical Geology, 2023 - Elsevier
The application of carbonate clumped isotopes (Δ 47) as a temperature proxy has been
widely investigated in many types of carbonate materials, including biogenic carbonates …

Robust land surface temperature record for north China over the past 21,000 years

J Guo, M Ziegler, N Wanders, M Vreeken, Q Yin… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Numerous proxy reconstructions have provided general insight into late Quaternary East
Asian Monsoon variability. However, challenges persist in precisely assessing absolute …

Biologically driven isotope fractionation in ultrastructurally different shell portions of freshwater pearl mussels (Margaritifera margaritifera): Implications for stream water …

CJ Gey, L Pfister, G Türk, F Thielen… - Limnology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Oxygen isotopes in stream water can serve as natural tracers of watershed dynamics.
Freshwater pearl mussels provide δ18Owater estimates that overcome temporal and spatial …