Publication Date:
2022-05-25
Description:
Author Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2015. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Geophysical Research Letters 42 (2015): 7983–7991, doi:10.1002/2015GL065595.
Description:
We use a dated sediment core from Lake Whittington (USA) in the lower Mississippi River to reconstruct linkages in the carbon cycling and fluvial sediment dynamics over the past 80 years. Organic carbon (OC) sources were characterized using bulk (δ13C, ramped pyrolysis-oxidation (PyrOx) 14C, δ15N, and TN:OC ratios) and compound-specific (lignin phenols and fatty acids, including δ13C and 14C of the fatty acids) analyses. Damming of the Missouri River in the 1950s, other hydrological modifications to the river, and soil conservation measures resulted in reduced net OC export, in spite of increasing OC concentrations. Decreasing δ13C values coincided with increases in δ15N, TN:OC ratios, long-chain fatty acids, and lignin-phenol concentrations, suggesting increased inputs of soil-derived OC dominated by C3 vegetation, mainly resulting from changes in farming practices and crop distribution. However, ramped PyrOx 14C showed no discernible differences downcore in thermochemical stability, indicating a limited impact on soil OC turnover.
Description:
Support for the biomarker analyses
were provided by the Jon and Beverly
Thompson Chair in Geological Sciences
at University of Florida. VG was partly
supported by the US National Science
Foundation (grant OCE-0928582).
Description:
2016-04-10
Keywords:
Organic carbon cycling
;
Paleoreconstruction
;
Dam reservoirs
;
Biomarker proxies
Repository Name:
Woods Hole Open Access Server
Type:
Article
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application/msword
Format:
application/pdf
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