Carbon sources in the Beaufort Sea revealed by molecular lipid biomarkers and compound specific isotope analysis
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dig-icm-es-10261-629842020-11-19T10:59:50Z Carbon sources in the Beaufort Sea revealed by molecular lipid biomarkers and compound specific isotope analysis Tolosa, Imma Fiorini, S. Gasser, Beat Martín, Jacobo Miquel, J.C. 61 pages, 12 figures, 13 tables Molecular lipid biomarkers (hydrocarbons, alcohols, sterols and fatty acids) and compound specific isotope analysis of suspended particulate organic matter (SPM) and surface sediments of the Mackenzie Shelf and slope (Southeast Beaufort Sea, Arctic Ocean), were studied in summer 2009. The concentrations of the molecular lipid markers, characteristic of known organic matter sources, were grouped and used as proxies to evaluate the relative importance of fresh algal, detrital algal, fossil, C3 terrestrial plants, bacterial and zooplankton material in the sedimentary organic matter (OM). Fossil and detrital algal contributions were the major fractions of the freshwater SPM from the Mackenzie River with ~34% each of the total molecular biomarkers. Fresh algal, C3 terrestrial, bacterial and zooplanktonic components represented much lower percentages, 17, 10, 4 and < 1%, respectively. In marine SPM from the Mackenzie slope, the major contributions were fresh and detrital algal components (> 80%) with a minor contribution of fossil and C3 terrestrial biomarkers. Characterization of the sediments revealed a major sink of refractory algal material mixed with some fresh algal material, fossil hydrocarbons and a small input of C3 terrestrial sources. In particular, the sediments from the shelf and at the mouth of the Amundsen Gulf presented the highest contribution of detrital algal material (60–75%) whereas those from the slope contained the highest proportion of fossil (40%) and C3 terrestrial plant material (10%). Overall, considering that the detrital algal material is marine derived, autochthonous sources contributed more than allochthonous sources to the OM lipid pool. Using the ratio of an allochthonous biomarker (normalized to total organic carbon, TOC) found in the sediments to those measured at the river mouth water, we estimated that the fraction of terrestrial material preserved in the sediments accounted for 30–40% of the total carbon in the inner shelf sediments, 17% in the outer shelf and Amundsen Gulf and up to 25% in the slope sediments The IAEA is grateful for the support provided to the Environment Laboratories by the Government of the Principality of Monaco. This study was conducted as part of the Malina Scientific Program funded by ANR (Agence nationale de la recherche), INSU-CNRS (Institut national des sciences de l’univers – Centre national de la recherche scientifique), CNES (Centre national d’ etudes spatiales) and ESA (European Space Agency) Peer reviewed 2012-12-14T12:55:16Z 2012-12-14T12:55:16Z 2012-10 artículo http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 Biogeosciences Discussions 9: 13925–13985 (2012) 1810-6277 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/62984 10.5194/bgd-9-13925-2012 1810-6285 en https://doi.org/10.5194/bgd-9-13925-2012 open European Geosciences Union |
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Carbon sources in the Beaufort Sea revealed by molecular lipid biomarkers and compound specific isotope analysis |
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