Leaf waxes in litter and topsoils along a European transect

Schäfer, Imke K.; Lanny, Verena; Franke, Jörg; Eglinton, Timothy I.; Zech, Michael; Vysloužilová, Barbora; Zech, Roland

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-551-2016

Articles | Volume 2, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-551-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-551-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 2, issue 4

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25 Oct 2016

Original research article | Highlight paper |

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Leaf waxes in litter and topsoils along a European transect

Imke K. Schäfer, Verena Lanny, Jörg Franke, Timothy I. Eglinton, Michael Zech, Barbora Vysloužilová, and Roland Zech

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-551-2016-supplement

Data sets

Humid glacials, arid interglacials? Critical thoughts on pedogenesis and paleoclimate based on multi-proxy analyses of the loess-paleosol sequence Crvenka, Northern Serbia R. Zech, M. Zech, S. Marković, U. Hambach, and Y. Huang https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.07.023

Short summary

For this study we systematically investigated the molecular pattern of leaf waxes in litter and topsoils along a European transect to assess their potential for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Our results show that leaf wax patterns depend on the type of vegetation. The vegetation signal is not only found in the litter; it can also be preserved to some degree in the topsoil.