Fatty acids and their carbon isotopes in surface sediments from the Pearl River Estuary and northwestern South China Sea
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| author | Wei, Bingbing Mollenhauer, Gesine Hefter, Jens Kusch, Stephanie Grotheer, Hendrik Schefuß, Enno Jia, Guodong |
| author_facet | Wei, Bingbing Mollenhauer, Gesine Hefter, Jens Kusch, Stephanie Grotheer, Hendrik Schefuß, Enno Jia, Guodong |
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| contents | Tropical and subtropical rivers deliver large quantities of terrestrial organic carbon to the ocean, acting as a crucial part of the global carbon cycle, but little is known about the timescale and efficiency of their transport to and in the adjacent coastal sea. Here, we examined source-specific biomarker (normal fatty acids (n-FAs)) contents and isotope compositions in surface sediments in an alongshore transect southwestward from the Pearl River mouth. The C~28+30~ rather than other long-chain n-FAs were found to be the most representative for OC~terr~, and a plant wax mean residence time (MRT) of 3060 ± 90 yr was estimated in the Pearl River watershed from the ¹⁴C age of C~28+30~ n-FA in the river mouth sample. A four-source mixing model demonstrated that the mean burial efficiency of fossil and soil OC is 85% and 49%, respectively, indicating the refractory nature of fossil OC but a significant loss of soil OC due to remineralization during transport in the marine environment before final burial. Thus, the remineralization of soil OC in the tropical coastal sea may be an important CO₂ source. |
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| spellingShingle | Fatty acids and their carbon isotopes in surface sediments from the Pearl River Estuary and northwestern South China Sea Wei, Bingbing Mollenhauer, Gesine Hefter, Jens Kusch, Stephanie Grotheer, Hendrik Schefuß, Enno Jia, Guodong Compound-specific 13C and 14C analyses; fatty acids; Pearl River; South China Sea Tropical and subtropical rivers deliver large quantities of terrestrial organic carbon to the ocean, acting as a crucial part of the global carbon cycle, but little is known about the timescale and efficiency of their transport to and in the adjacent coastal sea. Here, we examined source-specific biomarker (normal fatty acids (n-FAs)) contents and isotope compositions in surface sediments in an alongshore transect southwestward from the Pearl River mouth. The C~28+30~ rather than other long-chain n-FAs were found to be the most representative for OC~terr~, and a plant wax mean residence time (MRT) of 3060 ± 90 yr was estimated in the Pearl River watershed from the ¹⁴C age of C~28+30~ n-FA in the river mouth sample. A four-source mixing model demonstrated that the mean burial efficiency of fossil and soil OC is 85% and 49%, respectively, indicating the refractory nature of fossil OC but a significant loss of soil OC due to remineralization during transport in the marine environment before final burial. Thus, the remineralization of soil OC in the tropical coastal sea may be an important CO₂ source. |
| title | Fatty acids and their carbon isotopes in surface sediments from the Pearl River Estuary and northwestern South China Sea |
| topic | Compound-specific 13C and 14C analyses; fatty acids; Pearl River; South China Sea |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.925137 |