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GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA
卷 182, 期 -, 页码 155-172出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2016.03.018
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- UK Natural Environment Research Council [NE/D01025X/1, NE/D014174/1]
- European Research Council (Belgium) [321131, 291585]
- Jackson Foundation (US)
- John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (US)
- Carnegie Institution for Science
- US National Science Foundation [DEB-1146206, EAR-1227192]
- John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- Avatar Alliance Foundation
- Andrew Mellon Foundation
- David and Lucile Packard Foundation
- US ACS Petroleum Research Fund [53747-ND2]
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/D01025X/1, NE/M019160/1, NE/D014174/1, NE/J023418/1, NE/D01185X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- NERC [NE/D01025X/1, NE/D014174/1, NE/D01185X/1, NE/J023418/1, NE/M019160/1] Funding Source: UKRI
Plant leaf waxes have been found to record the hydrogen isotopic composition of precipitation and are thus used to reconstruct past climate. To assess how faithfully they record hydrological signals, we characterize leaf wax hydrogen isotopic compositions in forest canopy trees across a highly biodiverse, 3 km elevation range on the eastern flank of the Andes. We sampled the dominant tree species and assessed their relative abundance in the tree community. For each tree we collected xylem and leaf samples for analysis of plant water and plant leaf wax hydrogen isotopic compositions. In total, 176 individuals were sampled across 32 species and 5 forest plots that span the gradient. We find both xylem water and leaf wax delta D values of individuals correlate (R-2 = 0.8 and R-2 = 0.3 respectively) with the isotopic composition of precipitation (with an elevation gradient of -21 parts per thousand km(-1)). Minimal leaf water enrichment means that leaf waxes are straightforward recorders of the isotopic composition of precipitation in wet climates. For these tropical forests we find the average fractionation between source water and leaf wax for C-29 n-alkanes, -129 +/- 2%(s.e.m., n = 136), to be indistinguishable from that of temperate moist forests. For C-28 n-alkanoic acids the average fractionation is -121 +/- 3% (s.e.m., n = 102). Sampling guided by community assembly within forest plots shows that integrated plant leaf wax hydrogen isotopic compositions faithfully record the gradient of isotopes in precipitation with elevation (R-2 = 0.97 for n-alkanes and 0.60 for n-alkanoic acids). This calibration study supports the use of leaf waxes as recorders of the isotopic composition of precipitation in lowland tropical rainforest, tropical montane cloud forests and their sedimentary archives. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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