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Oct 1992
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Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 56, Issue 10, pp.3751-3764
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The predepositional stability of lignin in the salt marsh cordgrass Spartina alterniflora was examined in two different degradation studies: one was a traditional litterbag study carried out using post-senescent brown leaves in a North Carolina marsh creek, and the other was a study in which senescing, standing plants were tagged and allowed to undergo in situ degradation in a Sapelo Island, Georgia, salt marsh. Based on results from lignin oxidation product (LOP) analysis of leaves, lignin in the S. alterniflora was shown to be significantly degraded in both studies, with 13 ± 2% and 25 ± 12% of the total lignin mass loss occurring over the 496-day litterbag and 146-day tagged studies, respectively. A comparison of the results from both studies suggests that most of the calculated lignin loss (> 90%) occurs early in the degradation history of the plant, with a significant portion occurring while the plant is still standing in the salt marsh. Further detailed evaluation of this loss demonstrates that selective lignin degradation occurs in S. alterniflora , deriving from the preferential loss of labile lignin moieties. The most labile component, trans -ferulic acid, accounted for 57% and 82% of the total lignin loss in the litterbag and tagged studies, respectively, based on normalization to syringyl-phenol concentrations. Comparison of these two data sets supports the following approximate lignin stability sequence for S. alterniflora: S Ca V > P > Fa . Based on measured changes in both the lignin mass loss and the LOP acid/aldehyde ratio, as well as evidence suggesting that degradation occurred under oxic conditions, it is proposed that aromatic ring cleavage was the predominant mechanism of lignin degradation in both studies. In light of these results and those from other recent lignin degradation studies, we discuss the geochemical consequences regarding the usefulness of lignin oxidation products as quantitative tracers of vascular plant-derived organic matter being transported, deposited, and buried in aquatic environments.
Fallon Robert D.
Haddad Robert I.
Martens Christopher S.
Newell S. Y.
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