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GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA
卷 180, 期 -, 页码 177-196出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2016.02.019
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资金
- NSF [PLR-1503846, DEB-1026843]
- GSA Graduate Student Research Grant
- Arctic Long Term Ecological Research program
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Division Of Environmental Biology [1026843] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Office of Polar Programs (OPP)
- Directorate For Geosciences [1503846] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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 alkenone unsaturation indices (e.g. U-37(K) and U-37(K')). Alkenones are frequently found in brackish and saline lakes, however species effects confound temperature reconstructions when multiple alkenone-producing species with different temperature responses are present. Interestingly, available genetic data indicate that numerous freshwater lakes host a distinct phylotype of alkenone-producing haptophyte algae (the Group I or Greenland phylotype), providing evidence that species effects may be diminished in freshwater lakes. These findings encourage further investigation of alkenone paleotemperature proxies in freshwater systems. Here, we investigated lakes from northern Alaska (n = 35) and show that alkenones commonly occurred in freshwater lakes, where they featured distinct distributions, characterized by dominant C-37:4 alkenones and a series of tri-unsaturated alkenone isomers. The distributions were characteristic of Group I-type alkenone distributions previously identified in Greenland and North America. Our analysis of suspended particulate matter from Toolik Lake (68 degrees 38'N, 14 degrees 36'W) yielded the first in situ freshwater U-37(K) calibration (U-37(K)= 0.021 * T -0.68; r(2) = 0.85; n = 52; RMSE = +/- 1.37 degrees C). We explored the environmental significance of the tri-unsaturated isomers using our northern Alaskan lakes dataset in conjunction with new data from haptophyte cultures and Canadian surface sediments. Our results show that these temperature-sensitive isomers are biomarkers for the Group I phylotype and indicators of multiple-species effects. Together, these findings highlight freshwater lakes as valuable targets for continental alkenone-based paleotemperature reconstructions and demonstrate the significance of the recently discovered tri-unsaturated isomers. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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