Various environmental factors, including atmospheric CO2 (pCO(2)), regional climate, and fire, have been invoked as primary drivers of long-term variation in C-4 grass abundance. Evaluating these hypotheses has been difficult because available paleorecords often lack information on past C-4 grass abundance or potential environmental drivers. We ana...
From November 2006 to January 2010, a sediment trap that was cleared monthly was deployed in Lake Challa, a deep stratified freshwater lake on the eastern slope of Mt. Kilimanjaro in southern Kenya. Geochemical data from sediment trap samples were compared with a broad range of limnological and meteorological parameters to characterize the effect o...
In order to understand the impact of hydrological changes of the Amazon River on sedimentary organic matter (OM) composition in Amazonian floodplain lakes, three sediment cores were collected from Lake Maraca (eastern Amazonia) along a transect from the Amazon River main channel to inland. The cores were dated with C-14 accelerator mass spectrometr...
In order to understand the impact of hydrological changes of the Amazon River on sedimentary organic matter (OM) composition in Amazonian floodplain lakes, three sediment cores were collected from Lake Maraca (eastern Amazonia) along a transect from the Amazon River main channel to inland. The cores were dated with C-14 accelerator mass spectrometr...
