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Characteristics of organic matter sources from Guadiana Estuary salt marsh sedi...
Kumar, Mukesh; Boski, Tomasz; Gonzalez-Vila, Francisco J.; Jimenez-Morillo, Nicasio T.; Gonzalez-Perez, Jose A.Estuaries are dynamic interfaces between land, rivers and the ocean that play major roles in the global carbon cycle. These coastal wetlands store huge amounts of organic carbon (OC), commonly known as "blue carbon" and excellent places to study C cycling. The Guadiana river estuary is among the most important tidal salt marshes in the South - Iberian coastal margin. Here, a detailed organic geochemical study i...
Discerning natural and anthropogenic organic matter inputs to salt marsh sedime...
Kumar, Mukesh; Boski, T.; Gonzalez-Vila, Francisco J.; de la Rosa, Jose M.; Gonzalez-Perez, Jose A.Sedimentary organic matter (OM) origin and molecular composition provide useful information to understand carbon cycling in coastal wetlands. Core sediments from threors' Contributionse transects along Ria Formosa lagoon intertidal zone were analysed using analytical pyrolysis (Py-GC/MS) to determine composition, distribution and origin of sedimentary OM. The distribution of alkyl compounds (alkanes, alkanoic a...
Biomarkers as indicators of sedimentary organic matter sources and early diagen...
Kumar, Mukesh; Boski, T.; Lima-Filho, Francisco P.; Bezerra, Francisco H. R.; Gonzalez-Vila, Francisco J.; Alam Bhuiyan, Md KhurshidMangrove vegetation covers extensive areas along Brazilian tropical coasts and accumulates large amounts of organic carbon in the intertidal sediments. We have investigated the molecular biomarker composition of mangrove sediments from the Potengi estuary North-East Brazil. To characterise sources and fate of sedimentary organic matter (OM), a direct analytical pyrolysis approach was used. The sediment pyrolysa...