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Diversity of Microbial Mats in the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans, Botswana. (2024)
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Filippidou, S., Price, A., Spencer-Jones, C., Scales, A., Macey, M. C., Franchi, F., …Olsson-Francis, K. (2024). Diversity of Microbial Mats in the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans, Botswana. Microorganisms, 12(1), 147. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms12010147

The Makgadikgadi Salt Pans are the remnants of a mega paleo-lake system in the central Kalahari, Botswana. Today, the Makgadikgadi Basin is an arid to semi-arid area receiving water of meteoric origin during the short, wet season. Large microbial mat... Read More about Diversity of Microbial Mats in the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans, Botswana..

Summer sea-ice variability on the Antarctic margin during the last glacial period reconstructed from snow petrel (Pagodroma nivea) stomach-oil deposits (2022)
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McClymont, E. L., Bentley, M. J., Hodgson, D. A., Spencer-Jones, C. L., Wardley, T., West, M. D., …Phillips, R. A. (2022). Summer sea-ice variability on the Antarctic margin during the last glacial period reconstructed from snow petrel (Pagodroma nivea) stomach-oil deposits. Climate of the Past, 18(2), 381-403. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-381-2022

Antarctic sea ice is a critical component of the climate system affecting a range of physical and biogeochemical feedbacks and supporting unique ecosystems. During the last glacial stage, Antarctic sea ice was more extensive than today, but uncertain... Read More about Summer sea-ice variability on the Antarctic margin during the last glacial period reconstructed from snow petrel (Pagodroma nivea) stomach-oil deposits.

Archaeal Intact Polar Lipids in Polar Waters: A Comparison Between the Amundsen and Scotia Seas (2021)
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Spencer-Jones, C. L., McClymont, E. L., Bale, N., Hopmans, E., Schouten, S., Muller, J., …Smith, J. (2021). Archaeal Intact Polar Lipids in Polar Waters: A Comparison Between the Amundsen and Scotia Seas. Biogeosciences, 18(11), 3485-3504. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-3485-2021

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is one of the largest potential sources of future sea-level rise, with glaciers draining the WAIS thinning at an accelerating rate over the past 40 years. Due to complexities in calibrating palaeoceanographic proxi... Read More about Archaeal Intact Polar Lipids in Polar Waters: A Comparison Between the Amundsen and Scotia Seas.

A record of aerobic methane oxidation in tropical Africa over the last 2.5 Ma (2017)
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Spencer-Jones, C., Wagner, T., & Talbot, H. (2017). A record of aerobic methane oxidation in tropical Africa over the last 2.5 Ma. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 218, 27-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2017.08.042

Methane and CO2 are climatically active greenhouse gases (GHG) and are powerful drivers of rapid global warming. Comparable to the Arctic, the tropics store large volumes of labile sedimentary carbon that is vulnerable to climate change. However, lit... Read More about A record of aerobic methane oxidation in tropical Africa over the last 2.5 Ma.

Hydrologic control of the terrestrial carbon balance in the Congo River basin. (2016)
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Schefuß, E., Eglinton, T., Spencer-Jones, C., Rullkotter, J., DePolHolz, R., Talbot, H., …Schneider, R. (2016). Hydrologic control of the terrestrial carbon balance in the Congo River basin. Nature Geoscience, 9, 687-690. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2778

The age of organic material discharged by rivers provides information about its sources and carbon cycling processes within watersheds. Although elevated ages in fluvially transported organic matter are usually explained by erosion of soils and sedim... Read More about Hydrologic control of the terrestrial carbon balance in the Congo River basin..

Bacteriohopanepolyols in tropical soils and sediments from the Congo River catchment area (2015)
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Spencer-Jones, C., Wagner, T., Dinga, B., Schefuß, E., Mann, P., Poulsen, J., …Talbot, H. (2015). Bacteriohopanepolyols in tropical soils and sediments from the Congo River catchment area. Organic Geochemistry, 89-90, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2015.09.003

The Congo River basin drains the second largest area of tropical rainforest in the world, including a large proportion of pristine wetlands. We present the bacteriohopanepolyol (BHP) inventory of a suite of tropical soils and, from comparison with pu... Read More about Bacteriohopanepolyols in tropical soils and sediments from the Congo River catchment area.

Variability in aerobic methane oxidation over the past 1.2 Myrs recorded in microbial biomarker signatures from Congo fan sediments (2014)
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Talbot, H., Handley, L., Spencer-Jones, C., Bienvenu, D., Schefuß, E., Mann, P., …Wagner, T. (2014). Variability in aerobic methane oxidation over the past 1.2 Myrs recorded in microbial biomarker signatures from Congo fan sediments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 133, 387-401. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2014.02.035

Methane (CH4) is a strong greenhouse gas known to have perturbed global climate in the past, especially when released in large quantities over short time periods from continental or marine sources. It is therefore crucial to understand and, if possib... Read More about Variability in aerobic methane oxidation over the past 1.2 Myrs recorded in microbial biomarker signatures from Congo fan sediments.