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Experimental determination of the temperature dependence of oxygen-isotope fractionation between water and chitinous head capsules of chironomid larvae

Lombino, Alex; Atkinson, Tim; Brooks, Stephen J.; Gröcke, Darren R.; Holmes, Jonathan; Jones, Vivienne J.; Marshall, Jim D.

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Authors

Alex Lombino

Tim Atkinson

Stephen J. Brooks

Jonathan Holmes

Vivienne J. Jones

Jim D. Marshall



Abstract

Oxygen-isotope values of invertebrate cuticle preserved in lake sediments have been used in palaeoenvironmental reconstructions, generally with the assumption that fractionation of oxygen isotopes between cuticle and water (αcuticle−H2O) is independent of temperature. We cultured chironomid larvae in the laboratory with labelled oxygen-isotope water and across a range of closely controlled temperatures from 5 to 25 °C in order to test the hypothesis that fractionation of oxygen isotopes between chironomid head capsules and water (αchironomid−H2O) is independent of temperature. Results indicate that the hypothesis can be rejected, and that αchironomid−H2O decreases with increasing temperature. The scatter in the data suggests that further experiments are needed to verify the relationship. However, these results indicate that temperature-dependence of αchironomid−H2O should be considered when chironomid δ18O is used as a paleoenvironmental proxy, especially in cases where data from chironomids are combined with oxygen-isotope values from other materials for which fractionation is temperature dependent, such as calcite, in order to derive reconstructions of past water temperature.

Citation

Lombino, A., Atkinson, T., Brooks, S. J., Gröcke, D. R., Holmes, J., Jones, V. J., & Marshall, J. D. (2021). Experimental determination of the temperature dependence of oxygen-isotope fractionation between water and chitinous head capsules of chironomid larvae. Journal of Paleolimnology, 66(2), 117 - 124. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-021-00191-z

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Mar 26, 2021
Online Publication Date Apr 15, 2021
Publication Date 2021-08
Deposit Date Aug 6, 2021
Publicly Available Date Aug 6, 2021
Journal Journal of Paleolimnology
Print ISSN 0921-2728
Electronic ISSN 1573-0417
Publisher Springer
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 66
Issue 2
Pages 117 - 124
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-021-00191-z

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