Paleoclimate and paleoceanography over the past 20,000 yr in the Mediterranean Sea Basins as indicated by sediment elemental proxies

F Martinez-Ruiz, M Kastner, D Gallego-Torres… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
Marine sediments record paleoenvironmental changes over time through variations in major
and trace element concentrations. The main objective of this paper is to review such …

Fatty acids derivatives from eukaryotic microalgae, pathways and potential applications

M Blasio, S Balzano - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The exploitation of petrochemical hydrocarbons is compromising ecosystem and human
health and biotechnological research is increasingly focusing on sustainable materials from …

Wet phases in the Sahara/Sahel region and human migration patterns in North Africa

IS Castañeda, S Mulitza, E Schefuß… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
The carbon isotopic composition of individual plant leaf waxes (a proxy for C3 vs. C4
vegetation) in a marine sediment core collected from beneath the plume of Sahara-derived …

Lessons from a high CO2 world: an ocean view from ~ 3 million years ago

EL McClymont, HL Ford, SL Ho… - Climate of the Past …, 2020 - cp.copernicus.org
A range of future climate scenarios are projected for high atmospheric CO 2 concentrations,
given uncertainties over future human actions as well as potential environmental and …

Temperature calibration and phylogenetically distinct distributions for freshwater alkenones: Evidence from northern Alaskan lakes

WM Longo, S Theroux, AE Giblin, Y Zheng… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2016 - Elsevier
Alkenones are a class of unsaturated long-chain ketone biomarkers that have been used to
reconstruct sea surface temperature and, more recently, continental temperature, by way of …

Comparison of organic (UK'37, TEXH86, LDI) and faunal proxies (foraminiferal assemblages) for reconstruction of late Quaternary sea surface temperature …

RA Lopes dos Santos, MI Spooner… - …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Several proxies have been developed to reconstruct past sea surface temperature (SST),
but different proxies may reflect temperatures of different seasons and each proxy is …

Lipid biomarkers for the reconstruction of deep-time environmental conditions

G Luo, H Yang, TJ Algeo, C Hallmann, S **e - Earth-Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Lipids can survive long geological intervals within sediments and provide a unique tool that
allows the reconstruction of past organismic diversity and environmental conditions. The …

Sea surface temperature variations in the western Mediterranean Sea over the last 20 kyr: A dual‐organic proxy (UK′37 and LDI) approach

M Rodrigo‐Gámiz, F Martínez‐Ruiz… - …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
A high‐resolution sea surface temperature (SST) reconstruction of the western
Mediterranean was accomplished using two independent, algae‐based molecular organic …

Retracted: Plio‐Pleistocene Indonesian Throughflow Variability Drove Eastern Indian Ocean Sea Surface Temperatures

RA Smith, IS Castañeda, J Groeneveld… - Paleoceanography …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Ocean gateways facilitate circulation between ocean basins, thereby impacting global
climate. The Indonesian Gateway transports water from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean via …

Biomarker proxies for reconstructing Quaternary climate and environmental change

EL McClymont, H Mackay… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
To reconstruct past environmental changes, a range of indirect or proxy approaches can be
applied to Quaternary archives. Here, we review the complementary and novel insights that …