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Terrestrial selenium distribution in China is potentially linked to monsoonal climate

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Blazina, Tim, Sun, Youbin, Voegelin, Andreas, Lenz, Markus, Berg, Michael, Winkel, Lenny H.E.·2014·Nature Communications

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The prevalence of terrestrial environments low in the essential trace element selenium (Se) results in large-scale Se deficiency worldwide. However, the underlying processes leading to Se-depleted environments have remained elusive. Here we show that over the last 6.8 million years (Ma) climatic factors have played a key role in the Se distribution in loess-paleosol sequences in the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP), which lies in a severely Se-depleted region with a history of Se deficiency-related diseases. We use a combination of geochemical and paleoclimate data to demonstrate that during interglacial periods between 2.30 and 0.16 Ma, variations in the Se concentration in the CLP are potentially related to variability in Se input via East Asian monsoon-derived precipitation. Our results identify precipitation as an important controlling factor of Se distribution in monsoonal China. We suggest that atmospheric Se inputs via precipitation could also play an important role in other regions worldwide.

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  • Blazina et al. (2014) used sediment sequences from the Loess Plateau in central China to show that over the last 6.8 million years rainfall likely controlled selenium distributions in these sediments.

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Authors
Blazina, T., Sun, Y., Voegelin, A., Lenz, M., Berg, M., & Winkel, L. H. E.
Affiliations
  • ETH Zurich (CH)
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
  • Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (CH)
  • FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (CH)
Corresponding author
Winkel, Lenny H.E.
Venue
Nature Communications
Published
2014-09-02
Volume
5
Issue
1
Pages
4717-4717
ISSN
2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2147405208
Cited by
124
References
55
Citations by year
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FWCI
6.83
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Nature Communications (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling (acceptedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • DORA Eawag (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag)) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Science Foundation
  • European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
  • Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (133619, 138210)
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDB03020504, KZZD-EW-TZ-03)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Selenium in Biological Systems
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Coal and Its By-products
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
Keywords
selenium distribution, selenium deficiency, East Asian monsoon, monsoon climate, loess-paleosol sequence, Loess Plateau, interglacial periods, rainfall variability, paleoclimate, trace element geochemistry

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