An effect of dissolved nutrient concentrations on alkenone‐based temperature estimates
- 1 April 1998
- journal article
- Published by American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
- Vol. 13 (2) , 122-126
- https://doi.org/10.1029/97pa03358
Abstract
The ratio of 37‐carbon diunsaturated to diunsaturated and triunsaturated alkenones (UK′37) produced by some haptophytes is widely used as a proxy for past sea surface temperatures. However, our isothermal culturing experiments withEmiliania huxleyiclone CCMP372 show UK′37values to also vary with nutrient availability and cell division rate. These results provide a reasonable explanation for large isothermal variation in UK′37values of single coccolithophorid strains grown in culture. They also suggest that alkenone‐based estimates of past sea surface temperatures may have been influenced by dissolved nutrient concentrations as well as by temperature.Keywords
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