Biomarker approaches for reconstructing terrestrial environmental change

GN Inglis, T Bhattacharya… - Annual Review of …, 2022‏ - annualreviews.org
The response of the terrestrial biosphere to warming remains one of the most poorly
understood and quantified aspects of the climate system. One way to test the behavior of the …

BayMBT: A Bayesian calibration model for branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers in soils and peats

ED Crampton-Flood, JE Tierney, F Peterse… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Accurate temperature records for the deep geological past are a vital component of
paleoclimate research. Distributional changes of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol …

Archaeal lipids trace ecology and evolution of marine ammonia-oxidizing archaea

R Rattanasriampaipong, YG Zhang, A Pearson… - Proceedings of the …, 2022‏ - pnas.org
Archaeal membrane lipids are widely used for paleotemperature reconstructions, yet these
molecular fossils also bear rich information about ecology and evolution of marine ammonia …

[HTML][HTML] Reconstructing warm-season temperatures using brGDGTs and assessing biases in Holocene temperature records in northern Fennoscandia

GA Otiniano, TJ Porter, MA Phillips, S Juutinen… - Quaternary Science …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Understanding Holocene climate variability is crucial for predicting future climate change,
which will disproportionally affect high-latitude regions. Summer temperature (T summer) …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial heterogeneity of sources of branched tetraethers in shelf systems: The geochemistry of tetraethers in the Berau River delta (Kalimantan, Indonesia)

JSS Damsté - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2016‏ - Elsevier
The bulk organic matter composition (total organic carbon (TOC) content and δ 13 C TOC)
and composition of isoprenoid and branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGT) in …

A TEX86 surface sediment database and extended Bayesian calibration

JE Tierney, MP Tingley - Scientific data, 2015‏ - nature.com
Quantitative estimates of past temperature changes are a cornerstone of paleoclimatology.
For a number of marine sediment-based proxies, the accuracy and precision of past …

Molecular dynamics simulations support the hypothesis that the brGDGT paleothermometer is based on homeoviscous adaptation

BDA Naafs, ASF Oliveira, AJ Mulholland - Geochimica et Cosmochimica …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) are bacterial membrane lipids that
are ubiquitous in the environment. Although the exact source organism is unknown, the …

[HTML][HTML] Maastrichtian–Rupelian paleoclimates in the southwest Pacific–a critical re-evaluation of biomarker paleothermometry and dinoflagellate cyst paleoecology at …

PK Bijl, J Frieling, MJ Cramwinckel… - Climate of the …, 2021‏ - cp.copernicus.org
Sea surface temperature (SST) reconstructions based on isoprenoid glycerol dialkyl glycerol
tetraether (isoGDGT) distributions from the Eocene southwest (SW) Pacific Ocean are …

Ubiquitous production of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) in global marine environments: a new source indicator for brGDGTs

W **ao, Y Wang, S Zhou, L Hu, H Yang, Y Xu - Biogeosciences, 2016‏ - bg.copernicus.org
Presumed source specificity of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) from
bacteria thriving in soil/peat and isoprenoid GDGTs (iGDGTs) from aquatic organisms led to …

Distribution of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers in surface soils of the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau: implications of brGDGTs-based proxies in cold and dry …

S Ding, Y Xu, Y Wang, Y He, J Hou, L Chen… - …, 2015‏ - bg.copernicus.org
The methylation index of branched tetraethers (MBT) and cyclization ratio of branched
tetraethers (CBT) based on the distribution of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers …