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Terrestrial vegetation and soils hold three times more carbon than the atmosphere. Much debate concerns how anthropogenic activity will perturb these surface reservoirs, potentially exacerbating ongoing changes to the climate system. Uncertainties specifically persist in extrapolating point-source observations to ecosystem-scale budgets and fluxes, which require consideration of vertical and lateral processes on multiple temporal and spatial scales. To explore controls on organic carbon (OC) turnover at the river basin scale, we present radiocarbon ( 14 C) ages on two groups of molecular tracers of plant-derived carbon—leaf-wax lipids and lignin phenols—from a globally distributed suite of rivers. We find significant negativemore »
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Abstract. Biogeochemical cycling in the semi-enclosed Arctic Ocean is stronglyinfluenced by land–ocean transport of carbon and other elements and isvulnerable to environmental and climate changes. Sediments of the ArcticOcean are an important part of biogeochemical cycling in the Arctic andprovide the opportunity to study present and historical input and the fate oforganic matter (e.g., through permafrost thawing). Comprehensive sedimentary records are required to compare differencesbetween the Arctic regions and to study Arctic biogeochemical budgets. Tothis end, the Circum-Arctic Sediment CArbon DatabasE (CASCADE) wasestablished to curate data primarily on concentrations of organic carbon(OC) and OC isotopes (δ13C, Δ14C) yet also ontotalmore »
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Abstract Speleothem organic matter can be a powerful tracer for past environmental conditions and karst processes. Carbon isotope measurements (δ 13 C and 14 C) in particular can provide crucial information on the provenance and age of speleothem organic matter, but are challenging due to low concentrations of organic matter in stalagmites. Here, we present a method development study on extraction and isotopic characterization of speleothem organic matter using a rapid procedure with low laboratory contamination risk. An extensive blank assessment allowed us to quantify possible sources of contamination through the entire method. Although blank contamination is consistently low (1.7more »