The effective moisture (ratio of precipitation to evaporation) is considered as the main factor controlling the dD values of lipid n-alkanes in terrestrial plants (Polissar and Freeman, 2010). In a previous study, the dD record from a loess profile in the Chinese Loess Plateau displayed a strong correlation to changes in the magnetic susceptibility (MS) over the past 130 ka, and the isoto- pic variation was thought to be strongly affected by aridity (Liu and Huang, 2005). Furthermore, a humidity control experiment in the field verified the correlation between D enrichment and relative humidity (McInerney et al., 2011). A study of lipids from the Santa Barbara Basin from the past 1400 years also revealed the dD of mid-chain acids to be partially correlated with existing data of drought severity (Li et al., 2011).

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