Response of carbon cycle to drier conditions in the mid-Holocene in central China

Xianyu Huang; Richard D. Pancost; Jiantao Xue; Yansheng Gu; Richard P. Evershed; Shucheng Xie

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-03804-w

Nature Communications (Apr 2018)

Response of carbon cycle to drier conditions in the mid-Holocene in central China

Xianyu Huang,
Richard D. Pancost,
Jiantao Xue,
Yansheng Gu,
Richard P. Evershed,
Shucheng Xie

Affiliations

Xianyu Huang: State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences
Richard D. Pancost: Organic Geochemistry Unit, Cabot Institute and School of Chemistry, University of Bristol
Jiantao Xue: Laboratory of Critical Zone Evolution, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences
Yansheng Gu: State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences
Richard P. Evershed: Organic Geochemistry Unit, Cabot Institute and School of Chemistry, University of Bristol
Shucheng Xie: State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03804-w
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The effect of Asian summer monsoon hydrological changes on key biogeochemical processes remains poorly understood. Here, using a suite of biomarkers, the authors reconstruct palaeohydrological conditions during the Holocene and show that the peatland carbon cycle is strongly sensitive to paleohydrological changes.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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