Transmission of oxygen isotope signals of precipitation-soil water-drip water and its implications in Liangfeng Cave of Guizhou, China

2008 ◽  
Vol 53 (21) ◽  
pp. 3364-3370 ◽  
Author(s):  
WeiJun Luo ◽  
ShiJie Wang
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Isotope ◽  
Soil Water ◽  
Drip Water ◽  
Water Drip ◽  
Liangfeng Cave

scholarly journals Oxygen isotope fractionation during N<sub>2</sub>O production by soil denitrification

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1129-1144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominika Lewicka-Szczebak ◽  
Jens Dyckmans ◽  
Jan Kaiser ◽  
Alina Marca ◽  
Jürgen Augustin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Isotope ◽  
Soil Water ◽  
Isotope Effect ◽  
Isotope Exchange ◽  
Isotope Fractionation ◽  
Isotope Effects ◽  
N2o Production ◽  
Oxygen Isotope Fractionation ◽  
Oxygen Isotope Exchange ◽  
Incubation Experiments

Abstract. The isotopic composition of soil-derived N2O can help differentiate between N2O production pathways and estimate the fraction of N2O reduced to N2. Until now, δ18O of N2O has been rarely used in the interpretation of N2O isotopic signatures because of the rather complex oxygen isotope fractionations during N2O production by denitrification. The latter process involves nitrate reduction mediated through the following three enzymes: nitrate reductase (NAR), nitrite reductase (NIR) and nitric oxide reductase (NOR). Each step removes one oxygen atom as water (H2O), which gives rise to a branching isotope effect. Moreover, denitrification intermediates may partially or fully exchange oxygen isotopes with ambient water, which is associated with an exchange isotope effect. The main objective of this study was to decipher the mechanism of oxygen isotope fractionation during N2O production by soil denitrification and, in particular, to investigate the relationship between the extent of oxygen isotope exchange with soil water and the δ18O values of the produced N2O. In our soil incubation experiments Δ17O isotope tracing was applied for the first time to simultaneously determine the extent of oxygen isotope exchange and any associated oxygen isotope effect. We found that N2O formation in static anoxic incubation experiments was typically associated with oxygen isotope exchange close to 100 % and a stable difference between the 18O ∕ 16O ratio of soil water and the N2O product of δ18O(N2O ∕ H2O)  =  (17.5 ± 1.2) ‰. However, flow-through experiments gave lower oxygen isotope exchange down to 56 % and a higher δ18O(N2O ∕ H2O) of up to 37 ‰. The extent of isotope exchange and δ18O(N2O ∕ H2O) showed a significant correlation (R2 = 0.70, p <  0.00001). We hypothesize that this observation was due to the contribution of N2O from another production process, most probably fungal denitrification. An oxygen isotope fractionation model was used to test various scenarios with different magnitudes of branching isotope effects at different steps in the reduction process. The results suggest that during denitrification, isotope exchange occurs prior to isotope branching and that this exchange is mostly associated with the enzymatic nitrite reduction mediated by NIR. For bacterial denitrification, the branching isotope effect can be surprisingly low, about (0.0 ± 0.9) ‰, in contrast to fungal denitrification where higher values of up to 30 ‰ have been reported previously. This suggests that δ18O might be used as a tracer for differentiation between bacterial and fungal denitrification, due to their different magnitudes of branching isotope effects.

The impact of an inverse climate–isotope relationship in soil water on the oxygen‐isotope composition of Larix gmelinii in Siberia

2015 ◽  
Vol 209 (3) ◽  
pp. 955-964 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Saurer ◽  
Alexander V. Kirdyanov ◽  
Anatoly S. Prokushkin ◽  
Katja T. Rinne ◽  
Rolf T. W. Siegwolf
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Isotope ◽  
Soil Water ◽  
Isotope Composition ◽  
Oxygen Isotope Composition ◽  
Larix Gmelinii ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Non-destructive estimates of soil carbonic anhydrase activity and soil water oxygen isotope composition

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam P. Jones ◽  
Jérôme Ogée ◽  
Joana Sauze ◽  
Steven Wohl ◽  
Noelia Saavedra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Isotope ◽  
Soil Water ◽  
Isotope Composition ◽  
Soil Surface ◽  
Bulk Water ◽  
Oxygen Isotope Composition ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Variability ◽  
Co2 Fluxes ◽  
Carbonic Anhydrases ◽  
Water Pool

Abstract. The contribution of photosynthesis and soil respiration to net land-atmosphere carbon dioxide (CO2) exchange can be estimated based on the differential influence of leaves and soils on budgets of the oxygen isotope composition (δ18O) of atmospheric CO2. To do so, the activity of carbonic anhydrases (CA), a group of enzymes that catalyse the hydration of CO2, in soils and plants needs to be understood. Measurements of soil CA activity typically involve the inversion of models describing the δ18O of CO2 fluxes to solve for the apparent, potentially catalysed, rate of CO2 hydration. This requires information about the δ18O of CO2 in isotopic equilibrium with soil water, typically obtained from destructive, depth-resolved sampling and extraction of soil water. In doing so, an assumption is made about the soil water pool that CO2 interacts with, that may bias estimates of CA activity if incorrect. Furthermore, this can represent a significant challenge in data collection given the potential for spatial and temporal variability in the δ18O of soil water and limited a priori information with respect to the appropriate sampling resolution and depth. We investigated whether we could circumvent this requirement by inferring the rate of CO2 hydration and the δ18O of soil water from the relationship between the δ18O of CO2 fluxes and the δ18O of CO2 at the soil surface measured at different ambient CO2 conditions. This approach was tested through laboratory incubations of air-dried soils that were re-wetted with three waters of different δ18O. Gas exchange measurements were made on these soils to estimate the rate of hydration and the δ18O of soil water, followed by soil water extraction to allow for comparison. Estimated rates of CO2 hydration were 6.8 to 14.6 times greater than the theoretical un-catalysed rate of hydration, indicating that CA were active in these soils. Importantly, these estimates were not significantly different among water treatments suggesting that this represents a robust approach to assay the activity of CA in soil. As expected, estimates of the δ18O of the soil water that equilibrates with CO2 varied in response to alteration to the δ18O of soil water. However, these estimates were consistently more negative than the composition of the soil water extracted by cryogenic vacuum distillation at the end of the gas measurements with differences of up to −3.94 ‰ VSMOW. These offsets suggest that CO2 may be principally interacting with water pools associated with particle surfaces rather than the bulk water pool under the incubation conditions of this study.

scholarly journals Hydrogeochemical Responses of Cave Drip Water to the Local Climate in Liangfeng Cave, Southwest China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xia Wu ◽  
Moucheng Pan ◽  
Meiliang Zhang ◽  
Jianhua Cao
Keyword(s):  
Southwest China ◽  
Regional Climate ◽  
Climate Data ◽  
Environmental Index ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
Drip Water ◽  
Cave Drip Water ◽  
The Difference ◽  
High Precipitation ◽  
Liangfeng Cave

Abstract The hydrogeochemistry of cave drip water is an important environmental index in cave systems, and drip water monitoring may be an essential solution for paleoclimate reconstructions. We measured the hydrogeochemical properties of the seasonal and perennial drip water and CO2 concentrations from 2015 to 2019 in Liangfeng Cave, Guilin, Southwest China. This study identified the difference in the regional environmental records in perennial and seasonal drip water. By comparing the regional climate data recorded by the drip water, the results showed the perennial drip water recorded regional climate information throughout the year, while the seasonal drip water only recorded the high precipitation periods. The precipitation during the 2015 dry season was abnormally high, which not sure what index is higher than the values in other rainy seasons. This indicates that hydrogeochemistry only represents changes in precipitation and not the alternation of dry and rainy seasons during this period.

scholarly journals The triple oxygen isotope composition of phytoliths, a new proxy of atmospheric relative humidity: controls of soil water isotope composition, temperature, CO<sub>2</sub> concentration and relative humidity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clément Outrequin ◽  
Anne Alexandre ◽  
Christine Vallet-Coulomb ◽  
Clément Piel ◽  
Sébastien Devidal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Relative Humidity ◽  
Oxygen Isotope ◽  
Soil Water ◽  
Isotope Composition ◽  
Co2 Concentration ◽  
Oxygen Isotope Composition ◽  
Growth Chamber ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Atmospheric Relative Humidity ◽  
Water Isotope

Abstract. Continental atmospheric relative humidity is a major climate parameter whose variability is poorly understood by global climate models. Models’improvement relies on model-data comparisons for past periods. However, there are no truly quantitative indicators of relative humidity for the pre-instrumental period. Previous studies highlighted a quantitative relationship between the triple oxygen isotope composition of phytoliths, and particularly the 17O-excess of phytoliths, and atmospheric relative humidity. Here, as part of a series of calibrations, we examine the respective controls of soil water isotope composition, temperature, CO2 concentration and relative humidity on phytolith 17O-excess. For that purpose, the grass species Festuca arundinacea was grown in growth chambers where these parameters were varying. The setup was designed to control the evolution of the triple oxygen isotope composition of phytoliths and all the water compartments of the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum. Different analytical techniques (cavity ring-down spectroscopy and isotope ratio mass spectrometry) were used to analyse water and silica. An inter-laboratory comparison allowed to strengthen the isotope data matching. Water and phytolith isotope compositions were compared to previous datasets obtained from growth chamber and natural tropical sites. The results show that the δ'18O value of the source water governs the starting point from which the triple oxygen isotope composition of leaf water, phytolith-forming water and phytoliths evolve. However, since the 17O-excess varies little in the growth chamber and natural source waters, this has no impact on the strong relative humidity-dependency of the 17O-excess of phytoliths, demonstrated for the 40–80 % relative humidity range. This relative humidity-dependency is not impacted by changes in air temperature or CO2 concentration either. A relative humidity proxy equation is proposed. Each per meg of change in phytolith 17O-excess reflects a change in atmospheric relative humidity of ca. 0.2 %. The ±15 per meg reproducibility on the measurement of phytolith 17O-excess corresponds to a ± 3.6 % precision on the reconstructed relative humidity. The low sensitivity of phytolith 17O-excess to climate parameters other than relative humidity makes it particularly suitable for quantitative reconstructions of continental relative humidity changes in the past.

Reconstruction of soil water oxygen isotope values from tree ring cellulose and its implications for paleoclimate studies

2016 ◽  
Vol 425 ◽  
pp. 387-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trina Bose ◽  
Saikat Sengupta ◽  
Supriyo Chakraborty ◽  
Hemant Borgaonkar
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Isotope ◽  
Soil Water ◽  
Tree Ring ◽  
Water Oxygen ◽  
Tree Ring Cellulose ◽  
Paleoclimate Studies
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