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FRONTIERS OF EARTH SCIENCE
Volume 7, Issue 3, Pages 384-394Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11707-013-0382-y
Keywords
glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs); soil flooding; soil pH; redox conditions; GDGTs distribution; branched and isoprenoidal tetraethers (BIT)
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- National Basic Research Program of China [2011CB808800]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [40930210, 40921062]
- 111 program, China [B08030]
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Isoprenoid and branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs) lipids were studied in flooded and non-flooded paddy soil in Wuhan, central China, to examine the response of the GDGTs distribution to the soil flooding. Samples were collected before and after the soil flooding in four specific months. Both core (CL) and intact polar (IPL) GDGTs were quantified. Increase in the abundance of archaeol and caldarchaeol may be indicative of the occurrence of methanogens in the flooded soil. A negative correlation was observed between the ratio of IPL branched GDGT-IIa to GDGT-Ia and the soil pH. The rise of the soil pH in the acid soil is known to be controlled by the redox conditions resulting from flooding. Thus, the branched GDGTs distribution may be controlled by the water content in the paddy soil. In addition, we suggest that the anoxic conditions resulting from flooding may also control the abundance of branched GDGTs relative to crenarchaeol, which in turn results in the increase of branched and isoprenoidal tetraethers (BIT) values, the index for the terrestrial input to the marine sediments.
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