A novel proxy for terrestrial organic matter in sediments based on branched and isoprenoid tetraether lipids

2004/07/01 by Ellen C Hopmans, Ellen C. Hopmans, Johan W.H. Weijers +6 · 1,329 citations
Chemistry · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Engineering · Environmental Science · #Archaea #Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics #Chemistry #Crenarchaeota #Deep sea #Ecology #Environmental chemistry #Environmental science #Fluvial #Geology #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research #Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis #Mineralogy #Oceanography #Organic matter #Paleontology #Sediment #Structural basin #Terrestrial plant #Total organic carbon

paper · doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2004.05.012

published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters 224(1-2), 107-116 (Elsevier BV)

openalex publication_date 2004/07/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04

Cited by

• Evaluating the Reliability of Grain‐Size Sorting for Organic Biomarker Analysis
• Utilizing probability estimates from machine learning and pollen to understand the depositional influences on branched GDGT in wetlands, peatlands, and lakes
• Stepwise Cooling Events in the Western Arctic at 8.2 and 4.2 ka: Proxy Development and Application
• Spatial distribution of n-alkanes and GDGTs in the central Arctic Ocean during Marine Isotope Stages 1, 2 and 3
• A Nutrient Effect on the TEX 86 Paleotemperature Proxy
• Replicability of paleotemperature records in the northern Okinawa Trough and its implications for paleoceanographic reconstructions
• Archaeal Tetraether Lipids as Tracers for Past Marine Environmental Change
• Mid-Holocene wet optimum and Early-Late Holocene arid phases shaped steppe-forest vegetation and human societies of Uzbekistan: Multi-proxy evidences from Lake Fazilman
• Reviews and syntheses: Best practices for the application of marine GDGTs as proxy for paleotemperatures: sampling, processing, analyses, interpretation, and archiving protocols
• Multi-proxy reconstructions of paleotemperature in the southern South China Sea since the last deglaciation
• The organic geochemistry of glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether lipids: A review
• Terrestrial evidence for volcanogenic sulfate-driven cooling event ~30 kyr before the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction
• Towards quantitative reconstruction of past monsoon precipitation based on tetraether membrane lipids in Chinese loess
• Archaeal Membrane Lipid-Based Paleothermometry for Applications in Polar Oceans
• Western Mediterranean Sea Paleothermometry Over the Last Glacial Cycle Based on the Novel RI‐OH Index
• Fingerprinting paleotsunami deposits using sedimentary biomarkers – A succinct review and case study from a paleotsunami record on the Sanriku coastline (Noda, Japan)
• Hopanoid Distributions Differ in Mineral Soils and Peat: A Re-Evaluation of Hopane-Based PH Proxies
• Holocene sea ice and paleoenvironment conditions in the Beaufort Sea (Canadian Arctic) reconstructed with lipid biomarkers
• Interlaboratory Comparison of Branched GDGT Temperature and pH Proxies Using Soils and Lipid Extracts
• Descent toward the Icehouse: Eocene sea surface cooling inferred from GDGT distributions
• Ring Index: A new strategy to evaluate the integrity of TEX86 paleothermometry
• Sea‐surface temperature records of Termination 1 in the Gulf of California: Challenges for seasonal and interannual analogues of tropical Pacific climate change
• A multiproxy approach to characterize the sedimentation of organic carbon in the Amazon continental shelf
• Signatures of tetraether lipids reveal anthropogenic overprinting of natural organic matter in sediments of the Thames Estuary, UK
• Archaeal lipids trace ecology and evolution of marine ammonia-oxidizing archaea
• Consideration of soil types for the calibration of molecular proxies for soil pH and temperature using global soil datasets and Vietnamese soil profiles
• The importance of mass accuracy in selected ion monitoring analysis of branched and isoprenoid tetraethers
• Early Danian paleotemperature records from Neuquén Basin-Argentina: Applications of the ostracod Sr/Ca paleothermometer
• Distributions and sources of isoprenoidal GDGTs in Lake Lugano and other central European (peri-)alpine lakes: Lessons for their use as paleotemperature proxies
• Seasonal and multi-annual variation in the abundance of isoprenoid GDGT membrane lipids and their producers in the water column of a meromictic equatorial crater lake (Lake Chala, East Africa)
• Planktic foraminiferal distribution across the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary from the Neuquén Basin (Cerro Azul section): biostratigraphy and paleoenvironmental significance
• chromatoPy: An Open‐Source Tool for Chromatographic Peak Deconvolution and Integration Applied to Glycerol Dialkyl Glycerol Tetraethers
• A 485-million-year history of Earth’s surface temperature
• Development and Application of the Branched and Isoprenoid GDGT Machine Learning Classification Algorithm (BIGMaC) for Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction
• Appraising GDGT-based seawater temperature indices in the Southern Ocean
• Development of new global lake brGDGT-temperature calibrations: advances, applications, challenges, and recommendations
• Biomarker and Pollen Evidence for Late Pleistocene Pluvials in the Mojave Desert
• Late Cenozoic sea-surface-temperature evolution of the South Atlantic Ocean
• Total Synthesis of the Membrane Spanning Tetraether Lipid brGDGT Ia and Elucidation of Its Stereochemical Configuration
• Evaluating isoprenoidal hydroxylated GDGT-based temperature proxies in surface sediments from the global ocean
• The Chemical Ecology of Soil Organic Matter Molecular Constituents
• Warm season bias of branched GDGT temperature estimates causes underestimation of altitudinal lapse rate
• Distributions of bacterial and archaeal membrane lipids in surface sediments reflect differences in input and loss of terrestrial organic carbon along a cross-shelf Arctic transect
• Global Warming and Equatorial Atlantic Paleoceanographic Changes During Early Eocene Carbon Cycle Perturbation V
• An interlaboratory study of TEX86 and BIT analysis of sediments, extracts, and standard mixtures
• Antarctic ice sheet sensitivity to atmospheric CO 2 variations in the early to mid-Miocene
• Biomarkers for Terrestrial Plants and Climate
• Glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether signatures in tropical mesotidal estuary sediments of Qua Iboe River, Gulf of Guinea
• Synchronous tropical and polar temperature evolution in the Eocene
• Archaea predominate among ammonia-oxidizing prokaryotes in soils
• The enigma of Oligocene climate and global surface temperature evolution
• Eocene to Oligocene terrestrial Southern Hemisphere cooling caused by declining pCO2
• Early Reactivation of European Rivers During the Last Deglaciation
• Glacial–interglacial variability in Atlantic meridional overturning circulation and thermocline adjustments in the tropical North Atlantic
• Production of Branched Tetraether Lipids in the Lower Pearl River and Estuary: Effects of Extraction Methods and Impact on bGDGT Proxies. [europepmc]
• In situ production of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers in a great basin hot spring (USA). [europepmc]
• Tetraether biomarker records from a loess-paleosol sequence in the western Chinese Loess Plateau. [europepmc]
• Impact of seasonal hydrological variation on the distributions of tetraether lipids along the Amazon River in the central Amazon basin: implications for the MBT/CBT paleothermometer and the BIT index. [europepmc]
• amoA-encoding archaea and thaumarchaeol in the lakes on the northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China. [europepmc]
• Eastern South African hydroclimate over the past 270,000 years. [europepmc]
• Climate induced human demographic and cultural change in northern Europe during the mid-Holocene. [europepmc]
• Southern Ocean warming and Wilkes Land ice sheet retreat during the mid-Miocene. [europepmc]
• Anaerobic methanotrophic communities thrive in deep submarine permafrost. [europepmc]
• Did Photosymbiont Bleaching Lead to the Demise of Planktic Foraminifer Morozovella at the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum? [europepmc]
• Vegetation response to exceptional global warmth during Oceanic Anoxic Event 2. [europepmc]
• Ocean temperature impact on ice shelf extent in the eastern Antarctic Peninsula. [europepmc]
• Climate- and gateway-driven cooling of Late Eocene to earliest Oligocene sea surface temperatures in the North Sea Basin. [europepmc]
• Widespread Warming Before and Elevated Barium Burial During the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: Evidence for Methane Hydrate Release? [europepmc]
• Archaeal lipid biomarker constraints on the Paleocene-Eocene carbon isotope excursion. [europepmc]
• The origins and implications of glycerol ether lipids in China coastal wetland sediments. [europepmc]
• Marine Group II Euryarchaeota Contribute to the Archaeal Lipid Pool in Northwestern Pacific Ocean Surface Waters. [europepmc]
• A Warm, Stratified, and Restricted Labrador Sea Across the Middle Eocene and Its Climatic Optimum. [europepmc]
• Recovery from multi-millennial natural coastal hypoxia in the Stockholm Archipelago, Baltic Sea, terminated by modern human activity. [europepmc]
• Negligible Quantities of Particulate Low-Temperature Pyrogenic Carbon Reach the Atlantic Ocean via the Amazon River. [europepmc]
• Decoupled Asian monsoon intensity and precipitation during glacial-interglacial transitions on the Chinese Loess Plateau. [europepmc]
• Production of diverse brGDGTs by Acidobacterium Solibacter usitatus in response to temperature, pH, and O 2 provides a culturing perspective on brGDGT proxies and biosynthesis. [europepmc]
• Persistent high latitude amplification of the Pacific Ocean over the past 10 million years. [europepmc]
• Reversed Holocene temperature-moisture relationship in the Horn of Africa. [europepmc]
• Strong linkage between benthic oxygen uptake and bacterial tetraether lipids in deep-sea trench regions. [europepmc]