About the Authors

Julia F. van Winden

Affiliation Department of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Gert-Jan Reichart

Affiliations Department of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Bremerhaven, Germany

Niall P. McNamara

Affiliation Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster, United Kingdom

Albert Benthien

Affiliation Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Bremerhaven, Germany

Jaap S. Sinninghe. Damsté

damste@nioz.nl

Affiliations Department of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Department of Marine Organic Biogeochemistry, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JFvW GJR JSSD. Performed the experiments: JFvW NPM AB. Analyzed the data: JFvW GJR JSSD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NPM AB. Wrote the paper: JFvW GJR JSSD.