N-Alkanes in Permafrost Peatlands

• Published in: Plants (Basel) Vol. 14; no. 3; p. 449
• Main Authors: Pastukhov, Alexander, Kaverin, Dmitry, Loiko, Sergey
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 03.02.2025; MDPI
• Subjects: Alkanes; biomarker; Biomarkers; Carbon; Chromatography; Climate change; Composition; Decomposition; degradation; Flowers & plants; High performance liquid chromatography; Holocene; hydrocarbon; Lakes; Liquid chromatography; Microbiota; Moisture; Peat; Peat-bogs; Peatlands; Permafrost; Physicochemical properties; Plateaus; Precipitation; Sediments; Soil degradation; Taiga & tundra; Topography; Vegetation; warming; Arctic; Russia; Siberia; permafrost; peatlands; warming; degradation; biomarker; hydrocarbon; organic carbon

In this study, high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) methods were utilised to identify and quantify C21–C33 n-alkanes in permafrost peatlands located within the Eastern European and Western Siberian cryolithozone. The total content of n-alkanes in Europe is 7.4 times higher compared to Siber...