Chemical Biomarkers in Aquatic Ecosystems
Thomas S. Bianchi and Elizabeth A. Canuel
Abstract
This textbook provides a unique and thorough look at the application of chemical biomarkers to aquatic ecosystems. Defining a chemical biomarker as a compound that can be linked to particular sources of organic matter identified in the sediment record, the book indicates that the application of these biomarkers for an understanding of aquatic ecosystems consists of a biogeochemical approach that has been quite successful but underused. This book offers a wide-ranging guide to the broad diversity of these chemical biomarkers, is the first to be structured around the compounds themselves, and ex ... More
This textbook provides a unique and thorough look at the application of chemical biomarkers to aquatic ecosystems. Defining a chemical biomarker as a compound that can be linked to particular sources of organic matter identified in the sediment record, the book indicates that the application of these biomarkers for an understanding of aquatic ecosystems consists of a biogeochemical approach that has been quite successful but underused. This book offers a wide-ranging guide to the broad diversity of these chemical biomarkers, is the first to be structured around the compounds themselves, and examines them in a connected and comprehensive way. This book is appropriate for advanced undergraduate and graduate students seeking training in this area; researchers in biochemistry, organic geochemistry, and biogeochemistry; researchers working on aspects of organic cycling in aquatic ecosystems; and paleoceanographers, petroleum geologists, and ecologists.
Keywords:
chemical biomarkers,
aquatic ecosystems,
chemical biomarker,
organic matter,
biogeochemistry
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2011 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780691134147 |
| Published to Princeton Scholarship Online: October 2017 |
DOI:10.23943/princeton/9780691134147.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Thomas S. Bianchi, author
Texas A&M University
Elizabeth A. Canuel, author
Virginia Institute of Marine Science
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