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  • Titel: Comprehensive molecular‐isotopic characterization of archaeal lipids in the Black Sea water column and underlying sediments
  • Beteiligte: Zhu, Qing‐Zeng [VerfasserIn]; Elvert, Marcus [VerfasserIn]; Meador, Travis B. [VerfasserIn]; Schröder, Jan M. [VerfasserIn]; Doeana, Katiana D. [VerfasserIn]; Becker, Kevin W. [VerfasserIn]; Elling, Felix J. [VerfasserIn]; Lipp, Julius S. [VerfasserIn]; Heuer, Verena B. [VerfasserIn]; Zabel, Matthias [VerfasserIn]; Hinrichs, Kai‐Uwe [VerfasserIn]
  • Erschienen: Wiley, 2024-03-11
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12589
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  • Beschreibung: The Black Sea is a permanently anoxic, marine basin serving as model system for the deposition of organic-rich sediments in a highly stratified ocean. In such systems, archaeal lipids are widely used as paleoceanographic and biogeochemical proxies; however, the diverse planktonic and benthic sources as well as their potentially distinct diagenetic fate may complicate their application. To track the flux of archaeal lipids and to constrain their sources and turnover, we quantitatively examined the distributions and stable carbon isotopic compositions (delta 13C) of intact polar lipids (IPLs) and core lipids (CLs) from the upper oxic water column into the underlying sediments, reaching deposits from the last glacial. The distribution of IPLs responded more sensitively to the geochemical zonation than the CLs, with the latter being governed by the deposition from the chemocline. The isotopic composition of archaeal lipids indicates CLs and IPLs in the deep anoxic water column have negligible influence on the sedimentary pool. Archaeol substitutes tetraether lipids as the most abundant IPL in the deep anoxic water column and the lacustrine methanic zone. Its elevated IPL/CL ratios and negative delta 13C values indicate active methane metabolism. Sedimentary CL- and IPL-crenarchaeol were exclusively derived from the water column, as indicated by non-variable delta 13C values that are identical to those in the chemocline and by the low BIT (branched isoprenoid tetraether index). By contrast, in situ production accounts on average for 22% of the sedimentary IPL-GDGT-0 (glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraether) based on isotopic mass balance using the fermentation product lactate as an endmember for the dissolved substrate pool. Despite the structural similarity, glycosidic crenarchaeol appears to be more recalcitrant in comparison to its non-cycloalkylated counterpart GDGT-0, as indicated by its consistently higher IPL/CL ratio in sediments. The higher TEX86, CCaT, and GDGT-2/-3 values in glacial sediments could ...
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