Research area GB – Publications

In press

Fischer, G., S. Neuer, R. Davenport, O. Romero, V. Ratmeyer, B. Donner, T. Freudenthal, H. Meggers and Wefer, G. (2010) The Northwest African Margin. In: Liu, K. K., Atkinson, L., Quinones, R., Talaue-McManaus, L. (Editors), Carbon and Nutrient Fluxes in Continental Margins: A Global Synthesis, IGBP Book Series. Springer, Berlin, pp. 77-103.

Holler T, Widdel F, Knittel K, Amann R, Kellermann M, Hinrichs K-U, Teske A, Boetius A, Wegener G (in press) Thermophilic anaerobic oxidation of methane by marine microbial consortia. ISME

*Schmidt F, Koch B, Elvert M, Schmidt G, Witt M, Hinrichs K-U (2011) Diagenetic transformation of dissolved organic nitrogen compounds under contrasting sedimentary redox conditions in the Black Sea. Environ. Sci. Technol., available online doi*:*10.1021/es2003414.

*Schubotz F, Lipp JS, Elvert M, Hinrichs K-U (2011) Stable carbon isotopic compositions of intact polar lipids reveal complex carbon flow patterns among hydrocarbon degrading microbial communities at the Chapopote asphalt volcano. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, available online, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2011.05.018.

*Schubotz F, Lipp JS, Elvert M, Kasten S, Prieto Mollar X, Zabel M, Bohrmann G, Hinrichs K-U (2011) An organic-geochemical view of asphalt alteration and associated microbial signatures at the Chapopote asphalt volcano. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, available online http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2011.05.025.

*Wendeberg A, Zielinski FU, Borowski C, Dubilier N (in press) Expression patterns of mRNAs for methanotrophy and thiotrophy in symbionts of the hydrothermal vent mussel Bathymodiolus puteoserpentis. ISME Journal.

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Bühring S, Sievert SM, Jonkers HM, Elshahed MS, Krumholz LR, Hinrichs K-U (2011) Insights into chemotaxonomic composition and carbon cycling of phototrophic communities in an artesian sulfur-rich spring (Zodletone, Oklahoma, USA), a possible analog for ancient microbial mat systems. Geobiology , 9(2):166-179.

Collins JA, Schefuß E, Heslop D, Mulitza S, Prange M, Zabel M, Tjallingii R, Dokken T, Huang E, Mackensen A, Schulz M, Tian J, Zarriess M, Wefer G (2011) Interhemispheric symmetry of tropical African rainbelt over the past 23,000 years. Nature Geoscience, 4(1):42-45.

Cook MS, Keigwin LD, Birgel D, Hinrichs K-U (2011) Repeated pulses of vertical methane flux recorded in glacial sediments from the southeast Bering Sea. Paleoceanography, 26: PA2210, doi:10.1029/2010PA001993.

Duperron S, Guezi H, Gaudron SM, Pop Ristova P, Wenzhöfer F, Boetius A (2011) Relative abundances of methane- and sulphur-oxidising symbionts in the gills of a cold seep mussel and link to their potential energy sources. Geobiology, 9(6):481-491

Edwards KJ, Glazer BT, Rouxel OJ, Bach W, Emerson D, Davis RE, Toner BM, Chan CS, Tebo BM, Staudigel H, Moyer CL (2011) Ultra-diffuse Hydrothermal Venting Supports Fe-oxidizing Bacteria and Massive Umber Deposition at 5000m off Hawai`i. ISME, doi:10.1038/ismej.2011.48

Girnth A-C, Grünke S, Lichtschlag A, Felden J, Knittel K, Wenzhöfer F, de Beer D, Boetius A (2011) A novel, mat-forming Thiomargarita population associated with a sulfidic fluid flow from a deep-sea mud volcano. Environ. Microbiol., 13:495-505.

*Goldhammer T, Max T, Brunner B, Einsiedl F, Zabel M (2011) Marine sediment pore-water profiles of phosphate δ18O using a refined micro-extraction. Limnol. Oceanogr. Methods, 9:110-120.

*Goldhammer T, Brunner B, Bernasconi S, Ferdelman T, Zabel M (2011) Phosphate oxygen isotopes: insights into sedimentary phosphorus cycling from the Benguela upwelling system. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta doi:10.1016/j.gca.2011.04.006.

Grünke S, Felden J, Lichtschlag A, Grinth A-C, De Beer D, Wenzhöfer F, Boetius A (2011) Niche differentiation among mat-forming, sulfide-oxidizing bacteria at cold seeps of the Nile Deep Sea Fan (Eastern Mediterranean Sea). Geobiology DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4669.2011.00281.x

Ho SL, Yamamoto M, Mollenhauer G, Minagawa M (2011) Core top TEX86 values in the south and equatorial Pacific. Org. Geochem., 42(1):94-99.

*Holtappels M, Kuypers MMM, Schlüter M, Brüchert V (2011) Measurement and interpretation of solute concentration gradients in the benthic boundary layer. Limnol. Oceanogr. Methods.

*Hugler M, Petersen JM, Dubilier N, Imhoff JF, Sievert SM (2011) Pathways of carbon and energy metabolism of the epibiotic community associated with the deep-sea hydrothermal vent shrimp Rimicaris exoculata. PLoS One 6, doi:e1601810.1371/journal.pone.0016018

*Holtappels M, Lorke A (2011) Estimating turbulent diffusion in a benthic boundary layer. Limnol. Oceanogr. Methods.

Kamp A, de Beer D, Nitsch JL, Lavik G, Stief P (2011) Diatoms respire nitrate to survive dark and anoxic conditions. PNAS, 108(14):5649-5654.

Kasten S (2011) Pore waters.. In: Reitner J, Thiel V (eds) Encyclopedia of Geobiology. (Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences, 15) Springer, Dordrecht, pp 742-746.

Knittel K, Boetius A (2011) Anaerobic oxidation of methane. In: Thiel V, Reitner J (eds). Encyclopedia of Geobiology. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York, p. 36-47.

Lenk S, Arnds J, Zerjatke K, Musat N, Amann R, Mussmann M (2011) Novel groups of Gammaproteobacteria catalyse sulfur oxidation and carbon fixation in a coastal, intertidal sediment. Environ. Microbiol., 13(3):758-774.

Liu XL, Lipp JS, Hinrichs K-U (2011) Distribution of intact and core GDGTs in marine sediments. Org. Geochem., 42: 368-375.

Mollenhauer G, McManus JF, Wagner T, McCave IN, Eglinton TI (2011) Radiocarbon and Th-230 data reveal rapid redistribution and temporal changes in sediment focussing at a North Atlantic drift. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 301(1-2):373-381.

PopSchauer R, Røy H, Augustin N, Gennerich H-H, Peters M, Wenzhöfer F, Amann R, Meyerdierks A (2011) Bacterial sulfur cycling shapes microbial communities in surface sediments of an ultramafic hydrothermal vent field. Environ. Microbio., 13(10):2633-2648

Reeves EP, Seewald JS, Saccocia P, Walsh E, Bach W, Craddock P, Shanks WC, Sylva S, Pichler T, Rosner M (2011) Geochemistry of hydrothermal fluids from the PACMANUS, Northeast Pual and Vienna Woods vent fields, Manus Basin, Papua New Guinea. Geochim. Cosmochim, Acta 85(4):1088-1123.

Reitz A, Pape T, Haeckel M, Schmidt M, Berner U, Scholz F, Liebetrau V, Aloisi G, Weise SM, Wallmann K (2011) Sources of fluids and gases expelled at cold seeps offshore Georgia, eastern Black Sea. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 75:3250-3268.

Rossel PE, Elvert M, Ramette A, Boetius A, Hinrichs KU (2011) Factors controlling the distribution of anaerobic methanotrophic communities in marine environments: Evidence from intact polar membrane lipids. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 75(1):164-184.

Ruehland C, Dubilier N (2010) Gamma- and epsilonproteobacterial ectosymbionts of a shallow-water marine worm are related to deep-sea hydrothermal vent ectosymbionts. Environ. Microbiol. 12: 2312-2326.

Schubert CJ, Vazquez F, Lösekann-Behrens T, Knittel K, Tonolla M, Boetius A (2011) Evidence for anaerobic oxidation of methane in sediments of a freshwater system (Lago di Cadagno). FEMS Microbiol. Ecol., 76(1):26-38.

Ziegenbalg SB, Berthold C, Kappler A, Peckmann JL (2011) Gypsum whiskers in Messinian evaporites identified by mu-XRD2. Facies, 57(2):249-253.

Zielinski FU, Borowski C, Gennerich H-H, Wenzhöfer F, Dubilier N (2011) In situ measurements of hydrogen sulfide, oxygen, and temperature in diffuse fluids of the ultramafic-hosted Logatchev hydrothermal vent field (Mid-Atlantic Ridge): implications for chemosymbiotic bathymodiolin mussels. G-Cubed, 12(9) doi:10.1029/2011GC003632

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Al-Najjar MAA, de Beer D, Jorgensen BB, Kuhl M, Polerecky L (2010) Conversion and conservation of light energy in a photosynthetic microbial mat ecosystem. ISME J., 4(3):440-449.

Alonso C, Gomez-Pereira P, Ramette A, Ortega L, Fuchs BM, Amann R (2010) Multilevel analysis of the bacterial diversity along the environmental gradient Rio de la Plata-South Atlantic Ocean. Aquatic Mirobial Ecol. 61(1):57-72.

Aquilina A, Knab NJ, Knittel K, Kaur G, Geissler A, Kelly SP, Fossing H, Boot CS, Parkes RJ, Mills RA, Boetius A Lloyd JR, Pancost RD (2010) Biomarker indicators for anaerobic oxidizers of methane in brackish-marine sediments with diffusive methane fluxes. Org. Geochem. 41(4):414-426.

Arnds J, Knittel K, Buck U, Winkel M, Amann R (2010) Development of a 16S rRNA-targeted probe set for Verrucomicrobia and its application for fluorescence in situ hybridization in a humic lake. Sys. Appl. Microbiol. 33(3):139-148.

Bach W, Frueh-Green GL (2010) Alteration of the Oceanic Lithosphere and Implications for Seafloor Processes. Elements 6(3):173-178.

Bahr A, Pape T, Abegg F, Bohrmann G, van Weering T, Ivanov MK (2010) Authigenic carbonates from the eastern Black Sea as an archive for shallow gas hydrate dynamics - Results from the combination of CT imaging with mineralogical and stable isotope analyses. Mar. Petrol. Geol., 27(9):1819-1829.

Blumenberg M, Mollenhauer G, Zabel M, Reimer A, Thiel V (2010) Decoupling of bio- and geohopanoids in sediments of the Benguela Upwelling System (BUS). Org. Geochem. 41:1119-1129.

Boetius A, Knittel K (2010). Habitats of anaerobic methane oxidizers. In: Timmis K (Ed.), Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiol., Springer, Part 21 Microbial Communities Based on Hydrocarbons, Oils and Fats: Natural Habitats. pp. 2193-2199.
 
Boetius A, Wenzhöfer F (2010) Methods for the study of cold seep ecosystems. In: Timmis K (Ed.), Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiol., Springer, Part 31 Experimental Protocols and Appendices, pp. 3443-3451.

*Bohrmann G, Jorgensen BB (2010) Contributions from the 9th International Conference on Gas in Marine Sediments, University of Bremen, 15-19 September 2008. Geo-Mar. Lett. 30(3-4):151-155.

Borin S, Ventura S, Tambone F, Mapelli F, Schubotz F, Brusetti L, Scaglia B, D'Acqui LP, Solheim B, Turicchia S, Marasco R, Hinrichs KU, Baldi F, Adani F, Daffonchio D (2010) Rock weathering creates oases of life in a High Arctic desert. Environ. Microbiol., 12(2):293-303.

*Bruning M, Sahling H, MacDonald IR, Ding F, Bohrmann G (2010) Origin, distribution, and alteration of asphalts at Chapopote Knoll, Southern Gulf of Mexico. Mar. Petrol. Geol. 27(5):1093-1106.

Buerk D, Klaucke I, Sahling H, Weinrebe W (2010) Morpho-acoustic variability of cold seeps on the continental slope offshore Nicaragua: Result of fluid flow interaction with sedimentary processes. Mar. Geol. 275 (1-4):53-65.

Contreras S, Lange CB, Pantoja S, Lavik G, Rincon-Martinez D, Kuypers MMM (2010) A rainy northern Atacama Desert during the last interglacial. Geophys. Res. Lett. 37:L23612.

Craddock PR, Bach W, Seewald JS, Rouxel OJ, Reeves E, Tivey MK (2010) Rare earth element abundances in hydrothermal fluids from the Manus Basin, Papua New Guinea: Indicators of sub-seafloor hydrothermal processes in back-arc basins. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 74(19):5494-5513.

Craddock PR, Bach W (2010) Insights to magmatic-hydrothermal processes in the Manus back-arc basin as recorded by anhydrite. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 74(19):5514-5536.

D'Andrilli J, Dittmar T, Koch BP, Purcell JM, Marshall AG, Cooper WT (2010) Comprehensive characterization of marine dissolved organic matter by Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry with electrospray and atmospheric pressure photoionization. Rapid Comm. Mass Spectro., 24 (5):643-650.

Deusner C, Meyer V, Ferdelman TG (2010) High-Pressure Systems for Gas-Phase Free Continuous Incubation of Enriched Marine Microbial Communities Performing Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane. Biotechnol. Bioengin., 105:524-533.

*Ding F, Spiess V, MacDonald IR, Bruning M, Fekete N, Bohrmann G (2010) Shallow sediment deformation styles in north-western Campeche Knolls, Gulf of Mexico and their controls on the occurrence of hydrocarbon seepage. Mar. Petrol. Geol. 27(4):959-972.

*Ding F, Spiess V, Fekete N, Murton B, Bruning M, Bohrmann G (2010) Interaction between accretionary thrust faulting and slope sedimentation at the frontal Makran accretionary prism and its implications for hydrocarbon fluid seepage. J. Geophys, Res. Sol. Earth 115: Art. No. B08106.

Dunker R, Roy H, Jorgensen BB (2010) Temperature regulation of gliding motility in filamentous sulfur bacteria, Beggiatoa spp.. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 73(2):234-242.

Ertefai TF, Heuer VB, Prieto-Mollar X, Vogt C, Sylva SP, Seewald J, Hinrichs KU (2010) The biogeochemistry of sorbed methane in marine sediments. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 74(21):6033-6048.

Ettwig KF, Butler MK, Le Paslier D, Pelletier E, Mangenot S, Kuypers MMM, Schreiber F, Dutilh BE, Zedelius J, de Beer D, Gloerich J, Wessels HJCT, van Alen T, Luesken F, Wu ML, van de Pas-Schoonen KT, den Camp HJMO, Janssen-Megens EM, Francoijs KJ, Stunnenberg H, Weissenbach J, Jetten MSM, Strous M (2010) Nitrite-driven anaerobic methane oxidation by oxygenic bacteria. Nature 464(7288):543-U94.

*Felden J, Wenzhöfer F, Feseker T, Boetius A (2010) Transport and consumption of oxygen and methane in different habitats of the Håkon Mosby Mud Volcano. Limnol. Oceanogr., 55(6): 2366–2380.

Feng D, Roberts HH, Cheng H, Peckmann J, Bohrmann G, Edwards RL, Chen DF (2010) U/Th dating of cold-seep carbonates: An initial comparison. Deep-Sea Res. II, 57(21-23):2055-2060.

Feng D, Chen DF, Peckmann J, Bohrmann G (2010) Authigenic carbonates from methane seeps of the northern Congo fan: Microbial formation mechanism. Mar. Petrol. Geol. 27(4):748-756.

Forster A, Spiess V, Kopf AJ, Dennielou B (2010) Mass Wasting Dynamics at the Deeper Slope of the Ligurian Margin (Southern France). Submar. Mass Movements and Their Consequences, 28:67-77.

Gao H, Schreiber F, Collins G, Jensen MM, Kostka JE, Lavik G, de Beer D, Zhou HY, Kuypers MMM (2010) Aerobic denitrification in permeable Wadden Sea sediments. ISME J. 4(3):417-426.

Gihring TM, Lavik G, Kuypers MMM, Kostka JE (2010) Direct determination of nitrogen cycling rates and pathways in Arctic fjord sediments (Svalbard, Norway). Limnol. Oceanogr. 55(2):740-752.

Gobet A, Quince C, Ramette A (2010) Multivariate Cutoff Level Analysis (MultiCoLA) of large community data sets. Nucl. Acids Res. 38(15):Art. No. e155.

*Goldhammer T, Brüchert V, Ferdelman TG, Zabel M (2010) A key to the phosphorus puzzle: microbial sequestration in anoxic upwelling sediments. Nature Geosci. 3:557-560.

Gomez-Pereira PR, Fuchs BM, Alonso C, Oliver MJ, van Beusekom JEE, Amann R (2010) Distinct flavobacterial communities in contrasting water masses of the North Atlantic Ocean. ISME J. 4(4):472-487.

*Haas A, Peckmann J, Elvert M, Sahling H, Bohrmann G (2010) Patterns of carbonate authigenesis at the Kouilou pockmarks on the Congo deep-sea fan. Mar. Geol. 268(1-4):129-136.

Heindel K, Birgel D, Mann JP, Kuhnert H, Westphal H (2010) Formation of deglacial microbialites in coral reefs off Tahiti (IODP 310) involving sulfate-reducing bacteria. Palaios 25(9-10):618-635.

*Heuer VB, Krüger M, Elvert M, Hinrichs KU (2010) Experimental studies on the stable carbon isotope biogeochemistry of acetate in lake sediments. Org. Geochem. 41(1):22-30.

*Himmler T, Bach W, Bohrmann G, Peckmann J (2010) Rare earth elements in authigenic methane-seep carbonates as tracers for fluid composition during early diagenesis. Chem. Geol. 277(1-2):126-136.

Holler T, Wegener G, Knittel K, Boetius A, Brunner B, Kuypers MMM, Widdel F (2010) Substantial C-13/C-12 and D/H fractionation during anaerobic oxidation of methane by marine consortia enriched in vitro. Environ. Microbiol. Rep. 1(5):370-376.

Holmkvist L, Arning ET, Küster-Heins K, Vandieken V, Peckmann J, Zabel M, Jørgensen BB (2010) Phosphate geochemistry, mineralization processes, and Thioploca distribution in shelf sediments off central Chile. Mar. Geol. 277:61-72.

Holzwarth U, Meggers H, Esper O, Kuhlmann H, Freudenthal T, Hensen C, Zonneveld KAF (2010) NW African climate variations during the last 47,000 years: Evidence from organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts. Paleo3 291(3-4):443-455.

*Iversen MH, Nowald N, Ploug H, Jackson GA, Fischer G (2010) High resolution profiles of vertical particulate organic matter export off Cape Blanc, Mauritania: Degradation processes and ballasting effects. Deep-Sea Res. I 57(6):771-784.

*Iversen MH, Ploug H (2010) Ballast minerals and the sinking carbon flux in the ocean: carbon-specific respiration rates and sinking velocity of marine snow aggregates. Biogeosci. 7(9):2613-2624.

Jaeschke A, Abbas B, Zabel M, Hopmanns EC, Schouten S, Sinninghe Damste JS (2010) Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (annamox) in continental shelf and slope sediments off northwest Africa. Limnol. Oceanogr., 55(1):365-376.

*Jöns N, Bach W, Klein F (2010) Magmatic influence on reaction paths and element transport during serpentinization. Chem. Geol. 274(3-4):196-211.

Jørgensen BB, Parkes RJ (2010) Role of sulfate reduction and methane production by organic carbon degradation in eutrophic fjord sediments (Limfjorden, Denmark). Limnol. Oceanogr. 55(3):1338-1352.

Jørgensen BB (2010) Big sulfur bacteria. ISME Journal 4(9):1083-1084.

Jogler C, Niebler M, Lin W, Kube M, Wanner G, Kolinko S, Stief P, Beck AJ, de Beer D, Petersen N, Pan Y, Amann R, Reinhardt R, Schuller D (2010) Cultivation-independent characterization of 'Candidatus Magnetobacterium bavaricum' via ultrastructural, geochemical, ecological and metagenomic methods. Environ. Microbiol. 12(9):2466-2478.

Kinnaman FS, Kimball JB, Busso L, Birgel D, Ding HB, Hinrichs KU, Valentine DL (2010) Gas flux and carbonate occurrence at a shallow seep of thermogenic natural gas. Geo-Mar. Lett. 30(3-4):355-365.

*Klapp SA, Bohrmann G, Kuhs W, Murshed MM, Pape T, Klein H, Techmer K, Heeschen K, Abegg F (2010) Microstructures of structure I and II gas hydrates from the Gulf of Mexico. Mar. Petrol. Geol., 27(1):116-125.

*Klapp SA, Hemes S, Klein H, Bohrmann G, MacDonald I, Kuhs WF (2010) Grain size measurements of natural gas hydrates. Mar. Geol. 274(1-4):85-94.

*Klapp SA, Murshed MM, Pape T, Klein H, Bohrmann G, Brewer PG, Kuhs WF (2010) Mixed gas hydrate structures at the Chapopote Knoll, southern Gulf of Mexico. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 299(1-2):207-217.

Kopf AJ, Kasten S, Blees J (2010) Geochemical Evidence for Groundwater-Charging of Slope Sediments: The Nice Airport 1979 Landslide and Tsunami Revisited. Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences 28:203-214.

Knief C, Ramette A, Frances L, Alonso-Blanco C, Vorholt JA (2010) Site and plant species are important determinants of the Methylobacterium community composition in the plant phyllosphere. ISME J. 4(6):719-728.

Knittel K, Boetius A (2010) Anaerobic Methane Oxidizers. In: Timmis K (Ed.) Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiol., Springer, Part 19 The Microbes, pp. 2194-2202.

Kretschmer S, Geibert W, van der Loeff MMR, Mollenhauer G (2010) Grain size effects on Th-230(xs) inventories in opal-rich and carbonate-rich marine sediments. Earth Planet. Sci Lett. 294(1-2):131-142.

Krylova EM, Sahling H, Janssen R (2010) Abyssogena: a new genus of the family Vesicomyidae (Bivalvia) from deep-water vents and seeps. J. Molluscan Studies 76:107-132.

Krylova EM, Sahling H (2010) Vesicomyidae (Bivalvia): Current Taxonomy and Distribution. PLoS ONE, 5(4): doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009957

Küster-Heins K, de Lange GJ, Zabel M (2010) Benthic phosphorus and iron budgets for three NW African slope sediments: a balance approach. Biogeosci. 7:469-480.

Küster-Heins K, de Lange GJ, Steinmetz E, Zabel M (2010) Phosphorus cycling in marine sediments from the continental slope off Namibia. Mar. Geol. 274:95-106.

Kusch S, Eglinton TI, Mix AC, Mollenhauer G (2010) Timescales of lateral sediment transport in the Panama Basin as revealed by radiocarbon ages of alkenones, total organic carbon and foraminifera. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 290(3-4):340-350.

Kusch S, Rethemeyer J, Schefuss E, Mollenhauer G (2010) Controls on the age of vascular plant biomarkers in Black Sea sediments. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 74(24):7031-7047.

Kusch S, Kashiyama Y, Ogawa NO, Altabet M, Butzin M, Friedrich J, Ohkouchi N, Mollenhauer G (2010) Implications for chloro- and pheopigment synthesis and preservation from combined compound-specific delta C-13, delta N-15, and delta C-14 analysis. Biogeosci., 7(12):4105-4118.

Lazareva O, Pichler T (2010) Long-term performance of a constructed wetland/filter basin system treating wastewater, Central Florida. Chem. Geol., 269(1-2):137-152.

Leider A, Hinrichs KU, Mollenhauer G, Versteegh GJM (2010) Core-top calibration of the lipid-based U-37(K)' and TEX86 temperature proxies on the southern Italian shelf (SW Adriatic Sea, Gulf of Taranto). Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 300(1-2):112-124.

Lever MA, Alperin MJ, Teske A, Heuer VB, Schmidt F, Hinrichs KU, Morono Y, Masui N, Inagaki F (2010) Acetogenesis in Deep Subseafloor Sediments of The Juan de Fuca Ridge Flank: A Synthesis of Geochemical, Thermodynamic, and Gene-based Evidence. Geomicrobiol. Journal, 27(2):183-211.

*Lichtschlag A, Felden J, Wenzhöfer F, Schubotz F, Ertefai T, Boetius A, deBeer D (2010) Methane and sulfide fluxes in permanent anoxia: in situ studies at the Dvurechenskii mud volcano (Sorokin Trough, Black Sea) Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 74:5002-5018.

Lichtschlag A, Felden J, Bruchert V, Boetius A, de Beer D (2010) Geochemical processes and chemosynthetic primary production in different thiotrophic mats of the Hakon Mosby Mud Volcano (Barents Sea). Limnol. Oceanogr. 55(2):931-949.

*Lin YS, Biddle JF, Lipp JS, Orcutt BN, Holler T, Teske A, Hinrichs KU (2010) Effect of Storage Conditions on Archaeal and Bacterial Communities in Subsurface Marine Sediments. Geomicrobiol. Journal 27(3):261-270.

*Lin YS, Lipp JS, Yoshinaga MY, Lin SH, Elvert M, Hinrichs KU (2010) Intramolecular stable carbon isotopic analysis of archaeal glycosyl tetraether lipids. Rapid Com. Mass Spectro. 24(19):2817-2826.

Liu XL, Leider A, Gillespie A, Groger J, Versteegh GJM, Hinrichs KU (2010) Identification of polar lipid precursors of the ubiquitous branched GDGT orphan lipids in a peat bog in Northern Germany. Org. Geochem. 41(7):653-660.

Marbler H, Koschinsky A, Pape T, Seifert R, Weber S, Baker ET, de Carvalho, LM, Schmidt K (2010) Geochemical and physical structure of the hydrothermal plume at the ultramafic-hosted Logatchev hydrothermal field at 14 degrees 45 ' N on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Mar. Geol. 271(3-4):187-197.

Meyerdierks A, Kube M, Kostadinov I, Teeling H, Glockner FO, Reinhardt R, Amann R (2010) Metagenome and mRNA expression analyses of anaerobic methanotrophic archaea of the ANME-1 group. Environ. Microbiol. 12(2):422-439.

Moraru C, Lam P, Fuchs BM, Kuypers MMM, Amann R (2010) GeneFISH - an in situ technique for linking gene presence and cell identity in environmental microorganisms. Environ. Microbiol. 12(11):3057-3073.

Mulitza S, Heslop D, Pittauerova D, Fischer HW, Meyer I, Stuut JB, Zabel M, Mollenhauer G, Collins JA, Kuhnert H, Schulz M (2010) Increase in African dust flux at the onset of commercial agriculture in the Sahel region. Nature 466(7303):226-228.

Niedermeyer EM, Schefuss E, Sessions AL, Mulitza S, Mollenhauer G, Schulz M, Wefer G (2010) Orbital- and millennial-scale changes in the hydrologic cycle and vegetation in the western African Sahel: insights from individual plant wax delta D and delta C-13. Quat. Sci Rev. 29(23-24):2996-3005.

Niemann H, Boetius A (2010) Mud Volcanoes. In: Timmis K (Ed.) Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology, Springer, Part 3, Transfer from Geopshere to Biosphere, pp. 205-214.

*Nowald N, Fischer G, Ratmeyer V, Iversen M, Reuter C, Wefer G (2009) In-situ sinking speed measurements of marine snow aggregates acquired with a settling chamber mounted to the Cherokee ROV. Oceans 2009 - Europe 1&2: 1286-1291.

Orcutt BN, Bach W, Becker K, Fisher AT, Hentscher M, Toner BM, Wheat CG, Edwards KJ (2010) Colonization of subsurface microbial observatories deployed in young ocean crust. ISME, doi:10.1038/ismej.2010.157

Orcutt BN, Joye SB, Kleindienst S, Knittel K, Ramette A, Reitz A, Samarkin V, Treude T, Boetius A (2010) Impact of natural oil and higher hydrocarbons on microbial diversity, distribution, and activity in Gulf of Mexico cold-seep sediments. Deep-Sea Res. II, 57(21-23):2008-2021.

*Pape T, Bahr A, Rethemeyer J, Kessler JD, Sahling H, Hinrichs KU, Klapp SA, Reeburgh WS, Bohrmann G (2010) Molecular and isotopic partitioning of low-molecular-weight hydrocarbons during migration and gas hydrate precipitation in deposits of a high-flux seepage site. Chem. Geol. 266(3-4):350-363.

*Pape T, Kasten S, Zabel M, Bahr A, Abegg F, Hohnberg HJ, Bohrmann G (2010) Gas hydrates in shallow deposits of the Amsterdam mud volcano, Anaximander Mountains, Northeastern Mediterranean Sea. Geo-Mar. Lett. 30(3-4):187-206.

Pena A, Teeling H, Huerta-Cepas J, Santos F, Yarza P, Brito-Echeverria J, Lucio M, Schmitt-Kopplin P, Meseguer I, Schenowitz C, Dossat C, Barbe V, Dopazo J, Rossello-Mora R, Schuler M, Glockner FO, Amann R, Gabaldon T, Anton J (2010) Fine-scale evolution: genomic, phenotypic and ecological differentiation in two coexisting Salinibacter ruber strains. ISME J. 4(7):882-895.

Perevalova AA, Bidzhieva SK, Kublanov IV, Hinrichs KU, Liu XLL, Mardanov AV, Lebedinsky, AV, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA (2010) Fervidicoccus fontis gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, thermophilic crenarchaeote from terrestrial hot springs, and proposal of Fervidicoccaceae fam. nov. and Fervidicoccales ord. nov.. Int. J. of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiol. 60:2082-2088.

*Petersen JM, Ramette A, Lott C, Cambon Bonavita M-A, Zbinden M, Dubilier N (2010) Dual symbiosis of the vent shrimp Rimicaris exoculata with filamentous gamma- and epsilonproteobacteria at four Mid-Atlantic Ridge hydrothermal vent fields. Environ. Microbiol. 12: 2204-2218

*Petersen JM, Dubilier N (2010) Symbiotic methane oxidizers. In: Timmis KM (Ed.) Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg. pp. 1978-1996.

Ploug H, Musat N, Adam B, Moraru CL, Lavik G, Vagner T, Bergman B, Kuypers MMM (2010) Carbon and nitrogen fluxes associated with the cyanobacterium Aphanizomenon sp. in the Baltic Sea. ISME Journal 4(9):1215-1223.

Ploug H, Terbruggen A, Kaufmann A, Wolf-Gladrow D, Passow U (2010) A novel method to measure particle sinking velocity in vitro, and its comparison to three other in vitro methods. Limnol. Oceanogr. Methods 8:386-393.

Pirlet H, Wehrmann LM, Brunner B, Frank N, Dewanckele J, Van Rooij D, Foubert A, Swennen R, Naudts L, Boone M, Cnudde V, Henriet JP (2010) Diagenetic formation of gypsum and dolomite in a cold-water coral mound in the Porcupine Seabight, off Ireland. Sedimentology, 57(3):786-805.

*Ratmeyer V, Rigaud V (2009) Europe's Growing Fleet of Scientific Deepwater ROVs: Emerging Demands for Interchange, Workflow Enhancement and Training. Oceans 2009 - Europe 1&2:670-675.

Rattray JE, van de Vossenberg J, Jaeschke A, Hopmans EC, Wakeham SG, Lavik G, Kuypers MMM, Strous M, Jetten MSM, Schouten S, Damste JSS (2010) Impact of Temperature on Ladderane Lipid Distribution in Anammox Bacteria. Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 76(5):1596-1603.

Rethemeyer J, Schubotz F, Talbot HM, Cooke MP, Hinrichs KU, Mollenhauer G (2010) Distribution of polar membrane lipids in permafrost soils and sediments of a small high Arctic catchment. Org. Geochem. 41(10):1130-1145.

Riedinger N, Brunner B, Lin YS, Vossmeyer A, Ferdelman TG, Jørgensen BB (2010) Methane at the sediment-water transition in Black Sea sediments. Chem. Geol. 274(1-2):29-37.

Riedinger N, Brunner B, Formolo MJ, Solomon E, Kasten S, Strasser M, Ferdelman TG (2010) Oxidative sulfur cycling in the deep biosphere of the Nankai Trough, Japan. Geology 38(9):851-854.

Santelli CM, Banerjee N, Bach W, Edwards KJ (2010) Tapping the Subsurface Ocean Crust Biosphere: Low Biomass and Drilling-Related Contamination Calls for Improved Quality Controls. Geomicrobiol. J., 27(2):158-169.

Schauer R, Bienhold C, Ramette A, Harder J (2010) Bacterial diversity and biogeography in deep-sea surface sediments of the South Atlantic Ocean. ISME J., 4(2):159-170.

Schlappy ML, Schottner SI, Lavik G, Kuypers MMM, de Beer D, Hoffmann F (2010) Evidence of nitrification and denitrification in high and low microbial abundance sponges. Mar. Biol., 157(3):593-602.

Schmidt F, Hinrichs K-U, Elvert M (2010) Sources, transport, and partitioning of organic matter at a highly dynamic continental margin. Mar. Chem., 118:37-55.

Schwermer CU, Ferdelman TG, Stief P, Gieseke A, Rezakhani N, van Rijn J, de Beer D, Schramm A (2010) Effect of nitrate on sulfur transformations in sulfidogenic sludge of a marine aquaculture biofilter. FEMS Mícrobiol. Ecol. 72(3):476-484.

Serrano W, Amann R, Rossello-Mora R, Fischer U (2010) Evaluation of the use of multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) to resolve taxonomic conflicts within the genus Marichromatium. Sys. Appl. Microbiol. 33(3):116-121.

Simonato F, Gomez-Pereira PR, Fuchs BM, Amann R (2010) Bacterioplankton diversity and community composition in the Southern Lagoon of Venice. Sys. Appl. Microbiol. 33(3):128-138.

Stief P, Behrendt A, Lavik G, De Beer D (2010) Combined Gel Probe and Isotope Labeling Technique for Measuring Dissimilatory Nitrate Reduction to Ammonium in Sediments at Millimeter-Level Resolution. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 76(18):6239-6247.

Takano Y, Chikaraishi Y, Ogawa NO, Nomaki H, Morono Y, Inagaki F, Kitazato H, Hinrichs KU, Ohkouchi N (2010) Sedimentary membrane lipids recycled by deep-sea benthic archaea. Nature Geosci. 3(12):858-861.

*Thomanek K, Zielinski O, Sahling H, Bohrmann G (2010) Automated gas bubble imaging at sea floor - a new method of in situ gas flux quantification. Ocean Sci. 6(2):549-562.

Turchyn AV, Bruchert V, Lyons TW, Engel GS, Balci N, Schrag DP, Brunner B (2010) Kinetic oxygen isotope effects during dissimilatory sulfate reduction: A combined theoretical and experimental approach. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 74(7):2011-2024.

*Verna C, Ramette A, Wiklund H, Dahlgren TG, Glover AG, Gaill F, Dubilier N (2010) High symbiont diversity in the bone-eating worm Osedax mucofloris from shallow whale-falls in the North Atlantic. Environ. Microbiol. 12: 2355-2370.

Vogt C, Knies J (2009) Sediment pathways in the western Barents Sea inferred from clay mineral assemblages in surface sediments. Norwegian J. Geol. 89(1-2):41-55.

von Suchodoletz H, Oberhansli H, Faust D, Fuchs M, Blanchet C, Goldhammer T, Zoller L (2010) The evolution of Saharan dust input on Lanzarote (Canary Islands) - influenced by human activity in the Northwest Sahara during the early Holocene? Holocene, 20(2):169-179.

Westphal H, Heindel K, Brandano M, Peckmann J (2010) Genesis of microbialites as contemporaneous framework components of deglacial coral reefs, Tahiti (IODP 310). Facies 56(3):337-352.

Wohlrab S, Iversen MH, John U (2010) A molecular and co-evolutionary context for grazer induced toxin production in Alexandrium tamarense. PLoS ONE, 5(11): e15039

Yarza P, Ludwig W, Euzeby J, Amann R, Schleifer KH, Glockner FO, Rossello-Mora R (2010) Update of the All-Species Living Tree Project based on 16S and 23S rRNA sequence analyses. System. Appl. Microbiol. 33(6):291-299.

Ziegenbalg SB, Brunner B, Rouchy JM, Birgel D, Pierre C, Bottcher ME, Caruso A, Immenhauser A, Peckmann J (2010) Formation of secondary carbonates and native sulphur in sulphate-rich Messinian strata, Sicily. Sed. Geol. 227(1-4):37-50.

Zonneveld KAF, Susek E, Fischer G (2010) Seasonal variability of the organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst production in the coastal upwelling region off Cape Blanc (Mauritania): A five-year survey. J. Phycol. 46:202-215.

Zonneveld KAF, Versteegh GJM, Kasten S, Eglinton TI, Emeis KC, Huguet C, Koch BP, de Lange GJ, de Leeuw JW, Middelburg JJ, Mollenhauer G, Prahl FG, Rethemeyer J, Wakeham SG (2010) Selective preservation of organic matter in marine environments; processes and impact on the sedimentary record. Biogeosci. 7(2):483-511.

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Bach W, Klein F (2009) Petrology of rodingites: Insights from geochemical reaction path modeling. Lithos, 112:103-117.

*Bahr A, Pape T, Bohrmann G, Mazzini A, Haeckel M, Reitz A, Ivanov M (2009) Authigenic carbonate precipitates from the NE Black Sea: a mineralogical, geochemical, and lipid biomarker study. Int. J. Earth Sci., 98:677-695. doi: 10.1007/s00531-007-0264-1.

Barnes JD, Paulick H, Sharp ZD, Bach W, Beaudoin G (2009) Stable isotope (d18O, dD, d37Cl) evidence for multiple fluid histories in mid-Atlantic abyssal peridotites (ODP Leg 209). Lithos, 110:83-94.

Blumenberg M, Seifert R, Kasten S, Bahlmann E, Michaelis W (2009) Euphotic zone bacterioplankton sources major bacteriohopanepolyols in the Holocene Black Sea. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 73: 750-766.

Boetius A, Joye S (2009) Thriving in Salt. Science, 324(5934):1523-1525.

Bradley AS, Fredricks HF, Hinrichs KU, Summons RE (2009) Structural diversity of diether lipids in carbonate chimneys at the Lost City Hydrothermal Field. Org. Geochem., 40(12):1169-1178.

Bühring SI, Smittenberg RH, Sachse D, Lipp JS, Golubic S, Sachs JP, Hinrichs KU, Summons RE (2009) A hypersaline microbial mat from the Pacific Atoll Kiritimati: Insight into composition and carbon fixation using biomarker analyses and a 13C-labeling approach. Geobiol., 7:308-323.

Cambon-Bonavita MA, Nadalig T, Roussel E, Delage E, Duperron S, Caprais JC, Boetius A, Sibue M (2009) Diversity and distribution of methane-oxidizing microbial communities associated with different faunal assemblages in a giant pockmark of the Gabon continental margin. Deep-Sea Res. II, 56(23):2248-2258.

De Boever E, Birgel D, Thiel V, Muchez P, Peckmann J, Dimitrov L, Swennen R (2009) The formation of giant tubular concretions triggered by anaerobic oxidation of methane as revealed by archaeal molecular fossils (Lower Eocene, Varna, Bulgaria). Palaeo3, 280:23-36.

Duperron S, de Beer D, Zbinden M, Boetius A, Schipani V, Kahil N, Gaill F (2009) Molecular characterization of bacteria associated with the trophosome and the tube of Lamellibrachia sp., a siboglinid annelid from cold seeps in the eastern Mediterranean. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol., 69 (3):395-409.

Eickmann B, Bach W, Kiel S, Reitner J, Peckmann J (2009a) Evidence for cryptoendolithic life in Devonian pillow basalts of Variscan orogens, Germany. Palaeo. 3, 283:120-125

Eickmann B, Bach W, Rosner M, Peckmann J (2009b) Geochemical constraints on the modes of carbonate precipitation in peridotites from the Logatchev Hydrothermal Vent Field and Gakkel Ridge. Chem. Geol., 268:97-106

Eickmann B, Bach W, Peckmann J (2009) Authigenesis of carbonate minerals in ocean-floor hard rocks: modern and Devonian examples. J. Geol., 117:307-323.

Feseker T, Pape T, Wallmann K, Klapp SA, Schmidt-Schierhorn F, Bohrmann G (2009) The thermal structure of the Dvurechenskii mud volcano and its implications for gas hydrate stability and eruption dynamics. Mar. Petrol. Geol., 26(9):1812-1823.

Fischer G, Karakas G (2009) Sinking rates of particles in biogenic silica- and carbonate-dominated productions systems of the Atlantic Ocean: implications for the organic carbon fluxes to the deep ocean. Biogeosciences, 6: 85-102..

Fischer G, Reuter C, Karakas G, Nowald N, Wefer G (2009a) Offshore advection of particles within the Cape Blanc filament, Mauritania: Results from observational
and modelling studies. Prog. Oceanogr., 83:322-330, doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2009.07.023.

*Haas A, Little CTS, Sahling H, Bohrmann G, Himmler T, Peckmann J (2009) Mineralization of vestimentiferan tubes at methane seeps on the Congo deep sea fan. Deep Sea Res. I, 56:283-293.

Haase KM, Koschinsky A, Petersen S, Devey CW, German C, Lackschewitz KS, Melchert B, Seifert R, Borowski C, Giere O, Paulick H et al. (2009) Diking, young volcanism and diffuse hydrothermal activity on the southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge: the Lilliput field at 9°33’S. Mar. Geol. 266, 52-64.

Hepp DA, Moerz T, Hensen C, Frederichs T, Kasten S, Riedinger N, Hay WW (2009) A late Miocene-early Pliocene Antarctic deepwater record of repeated iron reduction events. Mar. Geol., 266 (1-4):198-211.

Heuer VB, Pohlman JW, Torres ME, Elvert M, Hinrichs KU (2009) The stable carbon isotope biogeochemistry of acetate and other dissolved carbon species in deep sub-seafloor sediments at the northern Cascadia Margin. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 73:3323-3336.

Hübscher C, Tahchi E, Klaucke I, Millard A, Sahling H (2009) Salt tectonic and mud volcanism in the Latakia and Cyprus Basins, eastern Mediterranean. Tectonophysics, 470: 173-182, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2008.08.019.

Huguen C, Foucher JP, Mascle J, Ondreas H, Thouement M, Gontharet S, Stadnitskaia A, Pierre C, Bayon G, Loncke L, Boetius A, Bouloubassi I, de Lange G, Caprais JC, Fouquet Y, Woodside J, Dupre S (2009) Menes caldera, a highly active site of brine seepage in the Eastern Mediterranean sea: "In situ" observations from the NAUTINIL expedition (2003). Mar. Geol., 261(1--4):138-152 .

Jöns N, Bach W, Schroeder T (2009) Formation and alteration of plagiogranites in an ultramafic-hosted detachment fault at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (ODP Leg 209). Cont. Mineral. Petrol., 157 625-639.

Joye SB, Samarkin VA, Orcutt BN, MacDonald IR, Hinrichs KU, Elvert M, Teske AP, Lloyd KG, Montoya JP, Meile CD (2009) Metabolic variability in seafloor brines revealed by carbon and sulphur dynamics. Nature Geosci., 2:349-354.

Karakas G, Nowald N, Schaefer-Neth C, Iversen M, Barkmann W, Fischer G, Marchesiello P, Schlitzer R (2009) Impact of particle aggregation on vertical fluxes of organic matter. Prog. Oceanogr., 83: 331-341.

Kanzog C, Ramette A (2009) Microbial colonisation of artificial and deep-sea sediments in the Arctic Ocean. Mar. Ecol. Evol. Persp., 30(4):391-404.

Klapp SA, H Klein, WF Kuhs (2009) Gas hydrate crystallite size investigations with high-energy synchrotron radiation, in: D. Long, M.A. Lovell, J.G. Rees, C.A. Rochelle, (Eds), Sediment-Hosted Gas Hydrates: New Insights on Natural and Synthetic Systems. 319, The Geological Society, London, Special Publications, London, pp. 161-170.

Klein F, Bach W, Jöns N, McCollom TM, Moskowitz B, Berquo T (2009) Iron Partitioning and Hydrogen Generation During Serpentinization of Abyssal Perdotites from 15°N on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 73:6868-6893.

Klein F, Bach W (2009) Fe-Ni-Co-O-S phase relations in peridotite-seawater interactions, J. Petrol., 50:37-59.

Knittel K, Boetius A (2009) Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane: Progress with an Unknown Process. Ann. Rev. Microbiol., 63: 311-334.

Kodrans-Nsiah M, März C, Harding IC, Kasten S, Zonneveld KAF (2009) Are the Kimmeridge Clay deposits affected by "burn-down" events? Palynological and geochemical studies on a 1 metre long section from the Upper Kimmeridge Clay Formation (Dorset, UK). Sed. Geol., 222:301-313.

Layne GD, Kent A, Bach W (2009) d37 Cl Systematics of a Back-Arc Spreading System: The Lau Basin. Geology, 37:427-430.

Lipp JS, Hinrichs KU (2009) Structural diversity and fate of intact polar lipids in marine sediments. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 73:6816-6833.

Lohmann R, Bollinger K, Cantwell M, Feichter J, Fischer-Bruns I, Zabel M (2009) Fluxes of soot black carbon to South Atlantic sediments. Glob. Biogeochem. Cycles, doi:10.1029/2008GB003253

McCollom TM, Bach W (2009) Thermodynamic constraints on hydrogen generation during serpentinization of ultramafic rocks. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 73: 856-879.

*Nähr TH, Birgel D, Bohrmann G, MacDonald IR, Kasten S (2009) Biogeochemical controls on authigenic carbonate formation at the Chapopote ""asphalt volcano"", Bay of Campeche. Chem. Geol., 266:399-411.

Nakamura K, Morishita T, Bach W, Klein F, Hara K, Okino K, Takai K, and Kumagai H (2009) Serpentinized troctolites exposed near the Kairei Hydrothermal Field, Central Indian Ridge: Insights into the origin of the Kairei hydrothermal fluid supporting a unique microbial ecosystem. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 280:128-136.

Niedermeyer EM, Prange M, Mulitza S, Mollenhauer G, Schefuss E, Schulz M (2009) Extratropical forcing of Sahel aridity during Heinrich stadials. Geophys. Res. Lett., 36: Art. No. L20707.

*Niemann H, Fischer D, Graffe D, Knittel K, Montiel A, Heilmayer O, Nöthen K, Pape T, Kasten S, Bohrmann G, Boetius A, Gutt J (2009) Biogeochemistry of a low-activity cold seep in the Larsen B area, western Weddell Sea, Antarctica. Biogeosciences, 6, 2383-2395.

Omoregie EO, Niemann H, Mastalerz V, de Lange GJ, Stadnitskaia A, Mascle J, Foucher JP, Boetius A (2009) Microbial methane oxidation and sulfate reduction at cold seeps of the deep Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Mar. Geol., 261(1-4):114-127.

*Peckmann J, Birgel D, Kiel S (2009) Molecular fossils reveal fluid composition and flow intensity at a Cretaceous seep. Geology, 37: 847-850.

Perner M, Bach W, Hentscher M., Koschinsky A, Garbe-Schönberg D, Strauss H, Streit WR (2009) Short-term microbial and physico-chemical variability in low-temperature hydrothermal fluids near 5°S on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Environ. Microbiol., 11(10):2526-254

*Petersen JM, Dubilier N (2009) Methanotrophic symbioses in marine invertebrates. Environ. Microbiol. Reports 1: 319-335

Petersen S, Kuhn K, Kuhn T, Augustin N, Hékinian R, Franz L, Borowski C (2009) The geological setting of the ultramafic-hosted Logatchev hydrothermal field (14°45′N, Mid-Atlantic Ridge) and its influence on massive sulfide formation. Lithos 112, 40-56.

Pohlman JW, Kaneko M, Heuer VB, Coffin RB, Whiticar M (2009) Methane sources and production in the northern Cascadia margin gas hydrate system. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 287(3-4):504-512.

*Sahling H, Bohrmann G, Artemov Y, Bahr A, Brüning M, Klapp SA, Klaucke I, Kozlova E, Nikolovska A, Pape T, Reitz A, Wallmann K (2009) Vodyanitskii Mud volcano, Sorrokin Trough, Black Sea: Geological characterization and quantification of gas bubble streams. Mar. Petrol. Geol., 26(9):1799-1811.

Santelli CM, Edgcomb V, Bach W, Edwards KJ (2009) The diversity and abundance of bacteria inhabiting seafloor lavas positively correlate with rock alteration. Environ. Microbiol., 11:86-98.

Schmidt F, Elvert M, Koch B, Witt M, Hinrichs KU (2009) Molecular characterization of dissolved organic matter in pore water in continental shelf sediments. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 73, 3337-3358.

Schreiber F, Loeffler B, Polerecky L, Kuypers MMM, de Beer D (2009) Mechanisms of transient nitric oxide and nitrous oxide production in a complex biofilm. ISME Journal, 3(11):1301-1313.

Schubotz F, Wakeham SG, Lipp JS, Fredricks HF, Hinrichs KU (2009) Detection of microbial biomass by intact membrane lipid analysis in the water column and surface sediments of the Black Sea, Environ. Microbiol., 11:2720-2734.

Sepúlveda JC, Wendler J, Summons RE, Hinrichs KU (2009) Rapid resurgence of marine productivity at the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event. Science, 326:129-132.

Sepúlveda J, Wendler J, Leider A, Kuss HJ, Summons RE, Hinrichs KU (2009) Molecular-isotopic evidence of environmental and ecological changes across the Cenomanian-Turonian boundary in the Levant Platform of central Jordan. Org. Geochem., 40:553-568.

Toner BM, Santelli CM, Marcus MA, Wirth R, Chan CS, McCollom TM, Bach W, Edwards KJ (2009) Biogenic Iron Oxide Formation at Mid-Ocean Ridge Hydrothermal Vents: Juan de Fuca Ridge. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 73: 388-403

Wannicke N, Koch BP, Voss M (2009) Release of fixed N-2 and C as dissolved compounds by Trichodesmium erythreum and Nodularia spumigena under the influence of high light and high nutrient (P). Aquatic Microbial Ecol., 57(2):175-189.

Wegener G, Boetius A (2009) An experimental study on short-term changes in the anaerobic oxidation of methane in response to varying methane and sulfate fluxes.
Biogeosci., 6(5):867-876.

Zhao S, Ramette A, Niu GL, Liu H, Zhou NY (2009) Effects of nitrobenzene contamination and of bioaugmentation on nitrification and ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in soil. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol., 70(2):315-323.

Zielinski FU, Pernthaler A, Duperron S, Raggi L, Giere O, Borowski C, Dubilier N (2009) Widespread occurrence of an intracellular bacterial parasite in vent and seep bathymodiolin mussels. Environ. Microbiol. 11: 1150-1167.

2008

*Abegg F, Hohnberg H-J, Pape T, Bohrmann G, Freitag J (2008) Development and application of pressure core sampling systems for the investigation of gas and gas hydrate bearing sediments. Deep Sea Res. I, 55:1590-1599. doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2008.06.006.

Amini M, Eisenhauer A, Böhm F, Fietzke J, Bach W, Garbe-Schönberg D, Rosner M, Bock B, Lackschewitz KS, Hauff V (2008) Calcium Isotope (d44/40Ca) Fractionation along Hydrothermal Pathways, Logatchev Field (Mid-Atlantic Ridge, 14°45’ N). Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 72:4107-4122.

Arning ET, Birgel D, Schulz-Vogt HN, Holmkvist L, Joergensen BB, Larson A, Peckmann J (2008) Lipid Biomarker Patterns of Phosphogenic Sediments from Upwelling Regions. Geomicrobiology Journal, 25(2): 69-82 (RCOM0550)

*Bahr A, Bohrmann G, Teichert BMA (2008) Data report: bulk mineralogical composition of Cascadia margin sediments, IODP Expedition 311. In Riedel, M., Collett, T.S., Malone, M.J., and the Expedition 311 Scientists, Proc. IODP, 311: Washington, DC (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International, Inc.). doi: 10.2204/iodp.proc.311.201.2008.

Bahr A, Lamy F, Arz HW, Major CO, Kwiecien O, Wefer G (2008) Abrupt changes of temperature and water chemistry in the late Pleistocene and early Holocene Black Sea. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 9, Q01004.

Birgel D, Peckmann J (2008) Aerobic methanotrophy at ancient marine methane-seeps: A synthesis. Organic Geochemistry, 39: 1659-1667 (RCOM0547)

Birgel D, Himmler T, Freiwald A, Peckmann J (2008) A new constraint on the antiquity of anaerobic oxidation of methane: Late Pennsylvanian seep limestones from southern Namibia. Geology, 36 (7): 543-546 (RCOM0568)

Cortese G, Gersonde R (2008) Plio/Pleistocene changes in the main biogenic silica carrier in the Southern Ocean, Atlantic Sector. Marine Geology, 252(3-4): 100-110 (MARUM0583)

Craddock PR, Rouxel O, Ball L, Bach W (2008) Sulfur Isotope Measurement of Sulfate and Sulfide by High-Resolution MC-ICP-MS. Chem. Geol., 253:102-113.

De La Rocha CL, Nowald N & U Passow (2008) Interactions between diatom aggregates, minerals, POC, and DOM: further implications for the ballast hypothesis, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 22, GB4005, doi:10.1029/2007GB003156.

Ding F, Spiess V, Brüning M, Fekete N, Keil H, Bohrmann G (2008) A conceptual model for hydrocarbon accumulation and seepage processes around Chapopote asphalt volcanism site, southern Gulf of Mexico: from a high resolution seismic point of view. J. Geophys. Res., 113, B08404.

*Dubilier N, Bergin C, Lott C (2008) Symbiotic diversity in marine animals: the art of harnessing chemosynthesis. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 6:725-740.

Duce RA., LaRoche J, Altieri K, Arrigo KR, Baker AR, Capone
Birgel D, Elvert M, Han X, Peckmann J (2008) 13C-depleted biphytanic diacids as tracers of past anaerobic oxidation of methane. Organic Geochemistry, 39: 169-173 (RCOM0525

DG, Cornell S, Dentener F, Galloway J, Ganeshram RS, Geider R, Jickells T, Kuypers MM, Langlois R, Liss PS, Liu SM, Middelburg JJ, Moore CM, Nickovic S, Oschlies A, Pedersen T, Prospero J & R Schlitzer (2008) Impacts of Atmospheric Anthropogenic Nitrogen on the Open Ocean, Science, 320:893-897.

Elvert M, Niemann H (2008) Occurrence of unusual steroids and hopanoids derived from aerobic methanotrophs at an active marine mud volcano. Organic Geochemistry, 39(2): 167-177 (RCOM0533)

Han X, Suess E, Huang Y, Wu N, Bohrmann G, Su X, Eisenhauer A, Rehder G, Fang Y (2008) Jiulong Methane Reef: Microbial mediation seep-carbonates in the South China Sea. Mar. Geol. 249: 243-256.

Lipp JS, Morono Y, Inagaki F, Hinrichs K-U (2008) Significant contribution of Archaea to extant biomass in marine subsurface sediments. Nature, 454: 991-994.

Lösekann T, Robador A, Niemann H, Knittel K, Boetius A, Dubilier N (2008) Endosymbioses between bacteria and deep-sea siboglinid tubeworms from an Arctic cold seep (Haakon Mosby Mud Volcano, Barents Sea) Environm. Micobiol. 10: 3237-3254.

Mazzini A, Ivanov M, Nermoen A, Bahr A, Bohrmann G, Svensen H, Planke S (2008) Complex plumbing systems in the near subsurface: geometries of authigenic carbonates from Dolgovskoy Mound (Black Sea) constrained by analogue experiments. Mar. Petrol. Geol., 25:457-472. doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2007.10.002.

Meckler AN, Schubert CJ, Hochuli PA, Plessen B, Birgel D, Flower BP, Hinrichs K-U, Haug G (2008) Glacial to Holocene terrigenous organic matter input to sediments from Orca Basin, Gulf of Mexico – a combined optical and biomarker approach. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 272, 251-263 (MARUM0584)

Murshed MM, Klapp S, Enzmann F, Szeder T, Huthwelker T, Stampanoni M, Marone F, Hintermüller C, Bohrmann G, Kuhs WF, Kersten M (2008) Natural gas hydrate investigations by synchrotron X-ray cryo-tomographic microscopy (SRXCTM). Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L23612, doi:10.1029/2008GL035460.

Niemann H, Elvert M (2008) Diagnostic lipid biomarker and stable carbon isotope signatures of microbial communities mediating the anaerobic oxidation of methane with sulphate. Organic Geochemistry, 39(12), 1668-1677 (MARUM0572)

*Nikolovska A, Sahling H, Bohrmann G (2008) Hydro-acoustic methodology for detection, localization and quantification of gas bubbles rising from the seafloor at gas seeps from the eastern Black Sea. G-cubed, 9: doi:10.1029/2008GC002118.

Pape T, Blumenberg M, Seifert R, Bohrmann G, Michaelis W (2008) Marine methane biogeochemistry of the Black Sea: A review. In: Links between geological processes, microbial activities & evolution of life (eds. Y. Dilek, H. Furnes, K. Muehlenbachs). pp. 281-311, Springer.

*Peckmann J, Bach W, Behrens K, Reitner J (2008) Cryptoendolithic life in Devonian pillow basalts, Rheinisches Schiefergebirge, Germany. Geobiology, 6:125-135.

Santelli CM, Orcutt BN, Banning E, Bach W, Moyer CL, Sogin ML, Staudigel H, Edwards KJ (2008) Abundance and diversity of microbial life in ocean crust, Nature, 453:653-656.

Peckmann J, Bach W, Behrens K, Reitner J (2008) Putative cryptoendolithic life in Devonian pillow basalt, Rheinisches Schiefergebirge, Germany. Geobiology, 6(2): 125-135 (RCOM0538)

Ploug H, Iversen M, Fischer G (2008) Ballast, sinking velocity, and apparent diffusivity within marine snow and fecal pellets: Implications for substrate turnover by attached bacteria. Limnol. Oceanogr., 53 (5):1878-1886.

Ploug H, Iversen M, Koski M, Buitenhuis TE (2008) Production, oxygen respiration rates, and sinking velocity of copepod fecal pellets: direct measurements of ballasting by opal and calcite. Limnol. Oceanogr., 53(2):469-476.

Rossel PE, Lipp JS, Fredricks,HF, Arnds J, Boetius A, Elvert M, Hinrichs K-U (2008) Intact polar lipids of anaerobic methanotrophic archaea and associated bacteria. Org. Geochem., 39(8): 992-999 (MARUM0573).

*Sahling H, Bohrmann G, Spiess V, Bialas J, Breitzke M, Ivanov M, Kasten S, Schneider R (2008) Pockmarks on the northern Congo Fan, SW Africa: complex seafloor features shaped by fluid flow. Mar. Geol., 249(3-4):206-225.

*Sahling H, Masson D G, Ranero C R, Hühnerbach V, Weinrebe W, Klaucke I, Bürk D, Brückmann W, Suess E (2008) Fluid seepage at the continental margin offshore Costa Rica and southern Nicaragua. G-cubed, 9(5), doi:10.1029/2008GC001978.

*Wagner-Friedrichs M, Krastel S, Spiess V, Ivanov M, Bohrmann G, Meisner L (2008) 3D seismic investigations of the Sevastopol mud volcano in correlation to gas/fluid migration pathways and gas hydrates occurrences in the Sorokin Trough (Black Sea). G-cubed, doi:10.1029/2007GC001685.

2007

*Abegg F, Bohrmann G, Freitag J, Kuhs W (2007) Fabric of gas hydrate in sediments from Hydrate Ridge - results from ODP Leg 204 samples. Geo-Mar. Lett., DOI 10.1007/s00367-007-0080-4.

Alt JC, Shanks WC, Bach W, Paulick H, Garrido C, Baudoin G (2007) Microbial Sulfate Reduction and Hydrothermal Alteration in Peridotite and Gabbro Exposed by Detachment Faulting at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, 15°20′N (ODP Leg 209): A Sulfur and Oxygen Isotope Study. G3 Q08002, doi:10.1029/2007GC001617.

*Aspetsberger F, Zabel M, Ferdelman T, Struck U, Mackensen A, Ahke A, & Witte U. (2007) Instantaneous benthic response to differnent organic matter quality: In situ experiments in the Benguela Upwelling System. Mar. Biol. Res. 3: 342-356

*Bohrmann G, Kuhs WF, Klapp S, Staykova DK, Techmer K, Klein H, Murshed M, Abegg F (2007) Appearance and preservation of natural gas hydrate from Hydrate Ridge sampled during ODP Leg 204 drilling. Mar. Geol.. Doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2007.05.003.

Cortese G, Gersonde R (2007) Morphometric variability in the diatom /Fragilariopsis kerguelensis/ : implications for Southern Ocean paleoceanography. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 257 (3/4), 526-544 (RCOM0489)

Des Combes HJ, Abelmann A (2007) A 350-ky radiolarian record off Lüderitz, Namibia - evidence for changes in the upwelling regime. Marine Micropaleontology, 62, 194-210 (RCOM0470)

Fischer G, Karakas G, Blaas M, Ratmeyer V, Nowald N, Schlitzer R, Helmke P, Davenport R, Donner B, Neuer S & G Wefer (2007) Mineral ballast and particle settling rates in the coastal upwelling system off NW Africa and the South Atlantic. Int. J. Earth Sci., doi 10.1007/s00531-007-0234-7.

*Heeschen KU, Hohnberg HJ, Haeckel M, Abegg F, Drews M, Bohrmann G (2007) In situ hydrocarbon concentrations from pressurized cores in surface sediments, Northern Gulf of Mexico. Mar. Chem., 107:498-515.

Klapp SA, H Klein and WF Kuhs (2007) First Gas Hydrate Crystallite Size Determination using High-Energy Synchrotron Radiation. Geophysical Research Letters 34, L13608.

Klapproth A, KS Techmer, Klapp SA, Murshed, MM and Kuhs WF (2007) Microstructure of gas hydrates in porous media. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Physics and Chemistry of Ice, Bremerhaven, July 23 - 28, 2006. Royal Society of Chemistry, 321-328, RSC Publishing.

Nauhaus K, Albrecht M, Elvert M, Boetius A, Widdel, F (2007) In vitro cell growth of marine archaeal-bacterial consortia by anaerobic oxidation of methane with sulfate. Environ. Microbiol., 9(1):187-196.

Neuer S, Andres C, Helmke P, Freudenthal T, Davenport R, Meggers H, Knoll M, Santana-Casiano JM, Gonzalez-Davila M, Rueda M-J & O Llinas (2007) Biogeochemistry and hydrography in the eastern subtropical North Atlantic Gyre. Results from the European time-series station ESTOC. Progress in Oceanography, 72:1-29.

Ploug H, Passow U (2007) Direct measurement of diffusivity in diatom aggregates containing transparent exopolymer particles. Limnol. Oceanogr., 52:1-6.

Rosner M, Ball L, Peucker-Ehrenbrink B, Blusztajn J, Bach W, Erzinger J (2007) A Simplified, Accurate and Fast Method for Lithium Isotope Analysis of Rocks and Fluids, and d7Li Values of Seawater and Rock Reference Materials, Geostandards Geoanal. Res., 31(2):77–88.

Sarmiento J, Simeon J, Gnanadesikan A, Gruber N, Key R & R Schlitzer (2007) Deep ocean biogeochemistry of silicic acid and nitrate. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 21 (1), 10.1029/2006GB002720.

Schaefer H, Ferdelman TG, Fossing H, and Muyzer G. 2007. Microbial diversity in the deep sediments of the Benguela Upwelling System. Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 50:1-9, doi:10.3354/ame01164.

Schlitzer R (2007) Assimilation of radiocarbon and chlorofluorocarbon data to constrain deep and bottom water transports in the world ocean. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 37 (2):259–276.

Ziveri P, Bernardi B de, Baumann K-H, Stoll HM & PG Mortyn (2007). Sinking of coccolith carbonate and potential contribution to organic carbon ballasting in the deep ocean. Deep-Sea Res. II, 54:659-675.

2006

*Abegg F, Bohrmann G, Kuhs W (2006) Data report: Shapes and structures of gas hydrates imaged by computed tomographic-analyses, ODP Leg 204, Hydrate Ridge. In Tréhu A, Bohrmann G, Colwell, FS, Torres M., (eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 204, 1-8.

Alain K, Holler T, Musat F, Elvert M, Treude T, Krüger M (2006) Microbiological investigation of methane- and hydrocarbon-discharging mud volcanoes in the Carpathian Mountains, Romania. Environ. Microbiol., 8(4):574-590.

Alt JC, Bach W (2006) The Oxygen Isotope Composition of a Section of Lower Oceanic Crust, ODP Hole 735B. G3 7(12) Q12008, doi:10.1029/ 2006GC001385.

Bach W, Edwards KJ, Hayes JM, Huber JA, Sievert S, Sogin ML (2006) Energy in the Dark: Fuel for Life in the Deep Ocean and Beyond. EOS, 87(4):73-78.

Bach W, Paulick H, Garrido CJ, Ildefonse B, Meurer WP, and Humphris SE (2006) Unraveling the sequence of serpentinization reactions: petrography, mineral chemistry, and petrophysics of serpentinites from MAR 15ºN (ODP Leg 209, Site 1274). Geophys. Res. Lett., 33:L13306, doi:10.1029/2006GL025681.

Bice K, Birgel D, Meyers PA, Dahl KA, Hinrichs K-U, Norris RD (2006) A multiple proxy and modeling study of Cretaceous upper ocean temperatures and atmospheric CO2 concentrations from tropical Atlantic foraminifera and organic matter. Paleoceanogr., 21, doi:10.1029/2005PA001203.

Biddle JF, Lipp JS, Lever M, Lloyd K, Sørensen K, Anderson R, Fredricks HF, Elvert M, Kelly TJ, Schrag DP, Sogin ML, Brenchley JE, Teske A, House CH, Hinrichs K-U (2006) Novel heterotrophic Archaea dominate sedimentary subsurface ecosystems off Peru. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 103:3846-3851.

Birgel D, Peckmann J, Klautzsch S, Thiel V, Reitner J (2006) Anaerobic and aerobic oxidation of methane at Late Cretaceous seeps in the Western Interior Seaway, USA. Geomicrobiol. J., 23:565-577.

Birgel D, Thiel V, Hinrichs K-U, Elvert M, Campbell KA, Reitner J, Farmer JD, Peckmann J (2006) Lipid biomarker patterns of methane-seep microbialites from the Mesozoic convergent margin of California. Org. Geochem., 37:1289-1302.

*Bohrmann G, Torres M (2006) Gas hydrates in marine sediments. In: Schulz HD & Zabel M, Marine Geochemistry. pp 481- 512, Springer.

Brüchert V, Currie B, Peard KR, Lass U, Endler ., Dübecke A, Julies E, Leipe T, Zitzmann S (2006) An integrated assessment of shelf anoxia and water column hydrogen sulphide in the Benguela coastal upwelling system off Namibia. in Neretin LN (ed) Past and Present Marine Water Column Anoxia, Springer, pp. 161-194.

de Beer D, Sauter E, Niemann H, Witte U, Boetius A (2006) In situ fluxes and zonation of microbial activity in surface sediments of the Håkon Mosby Mud Volcano. Limnol. Oceanogr., 51(3):1315-1331.

Hensen C, Zabel M, Schulz HN (2006) Early diagenesis at the benthic boundary layer: Oxygen, nitrogen, and phosphorus in marine sediments.- in: Schulz HD, Zabel M (eds): Marine Geochemistry, 2nd Ed., Springer, Heidelberg, NY, 207-240.

Heuer V, Elvert M, Tille S, Krummen M, Prieto Mollar X, Hmelo LR, Hinrichs K-U (2006) Online d13C analysis of volatile fatty acids in sediment/porewater systems by liquid chromatography-isotope ratio-mass spectrometry. Limnol. Oceanogr.-Methods, 4:346-357.

Hinrichs K-U, Hayes JM, Bach W, Spivack A, Hmelo LR, Holm N, Johnson CG, Sylva SP (2006) Biological formation of ethane and propane in the deep marine subsurface. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 103:14684-14689.

Inagaki F, Kuypers MM, Tsunogai U, Ishibashi J, Nakamura K, Treude T, Ohkubo S, Nakaseama M, Gena K, Chiba H, Hirayama H, Nunoura T, Takai K, Jørgensen BB, Horikoshi K, Boetius A (2006) Microbial community in a sediment-hosted CO2 lake of the southern Okinawa Trough hydrothermal system. PNAS, 103(38):13899-13900.

*Inthorn M, Mohrholz V, Zabel M (2006) Nepheloid layer distribution in the Benguela upwelling area offshore Namibia. Deep-Sea Res. I, 53:1423-1438.

*Inthorn M, Rutgers van der Loeff M, Zabel M (2006) A study of particle exchange at the sediment water interface in the Benguela upwelling area based on 234Th/238U disequilibrium. Deep-Sea Res. I, 53:1742-1761.

*Inthorn M, Wagner T, Scheeder G, Zabel M (2006) Lateral transport controls distribution, quality and burial of organic matter along continental slopes in high-productivity areas. Geology, 34:205-208.

Jørgensen BB, Kasten S (2006) Sulfur cycling and methane oxidation.- In: Schulz HD & Zabel M. (eds.), Marine Geochemistry, Springer, 2nd edition, 271-310

Kamp A, Stief P, Schulz-Vogt HN (2006) Anaerobic Sulfide Oxidation with Nitrate by a Freshwater Beggiatoa Enrichment Culture. Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 72:4755-4760.

Karakas G, Nowald N, Blaas M, Marchesiello M, Frickenhaus S, Schlitzer R (2006) High resolution modelling of sediment erosion and particle transport across the NW African shelf. J. Geophys. Res., 111, C06025, doi:10.1029/2005JC003296.

Klaucke I, Sahling H, Weinrebe W, Blinova V, Bürk D, Lursmanashivili N, Bohrmann G (2006) Acoustic investigation of cold seeps offshore Georgia, Eastern Black Sea. Mar. Geol., 231:51-67.

*Krylova EM, Sahling H (2006) Recent bivalve molluscs of the genus Calyptogena (Vesicomyidae). J. Molluscan Stud., 72:359-395.

Mau S, Sahling H, Rehder G, Suess E, Linke P & Soeding E (2006) Estimates of methane output from mud extrusions at the erosive convergent margin off Costa Rica. Mar. Geol., 225:129-144.

Neuer S, Cianca A, Helmke P, Freundenthal T, Davenport R, Meggers H, Knoll M, et al. (2006) Biogeochemistry and hydrography in the eastern subtropical North Atlantic gyre. Results from the European time-series station ESTOC. Prog. Oceanogr., 72, 1-29.

Niemann H, Duarte J, Hensen C, Omoregie E, Magalhães VH, Elvert M, Pinheiro L, Kopf A, Boetius A (2006) Microbial methane turnover at mud volcanoes of the Gulf of Cadiz. Geochem. Cosmochem. Acta, 70:5336-5335.

Niemann H, Loesekann T, de Beer D, Elvert M, Nadalig T, Knittel K, Amann R, Sauter EJ, Schlüter M, Klages M, Foucher JP, Boetius A (2006) Novel microbial communities of the Haakon Mosby mud volcano and their role as methane sink. Nature, 443:854-858.

Paulick H, Bach W, Godard M, De Hoog C, Suhr G, Harvey J. (2006) Geochemistry of abyssal peridotites (Mid-Atlantic Ridge, 15°20'N, ODP Leg 209): Implications for fluid/rock interaction in slow spreading environments. Chem. Geol., 234:179-210.

Paulick H, Bach W (2006) Phyllosilicate mineralogy of the submarine, dacite-hosted, Pacmanus hydrothermal system – integration of SWIR, XRD, and geochemical data (Papua New Guinea, ODP Leg 193). Econ. Geol., 101:633-650.

Rickaby REM, Shaw S, Bennitt G, Kennedy H, Zabel M, Lennie A (2006) Potential of ikaite to record the evolution of oceanic d18O. Geology, 34:497-500.

Sauter E, Muyakshin SI, Charlou JL, Schlüter M, Boetius A, Jerosch K, Damm E, Foucher JP, Klages M (2006) Methane discharge from a deep-sea submarine mud volcano into the upper water column by gas hydrate-coated methane bubbles. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 243:354-365.

Schulz HD, Zabel M (eds) (2006) Marine Geochemistry.- 2nd Ed., Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, NY, 574 pp.

Schulz HN (2006) The genus Thiomargarita. in: Dworkin M., Falkow S, Rosenberg E, Schleifer K-H & E Stackenbrandt (eds): The Prokaryotes, 3rd Ed., Vol. 6., Springer, Heidelberg, NY, 1156-1163.

Schulz-Vogt HN (2006) Vacuoles. in: Shively JM (ed): Inclusions in Prokaryotes, Springer, Heidelberg, NY, 295-298.

Spivack A, McNeill C, Holm NG, Hinrichs K-U (2006) The determination of in situ methane based on the analysis of void gas. Proc. ODP, Sci. Res., Vol. 201, Ms 201SR-119.

Tréhu AM, Torres ME, Bohrmann G, Colwell FS (2006) Leg 204 synthesis: Gas hydrate distribution and dynamics in the central Cascadia accretionary complex. Proc. ODP, Sci. Res. 204: 1–41. doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.204.101.

Wallmann K, Drews M, Aloisi, G, Bohrmann G (2006) Methane discharge into the Black Sea and the global ocean via fluid flow through submarine mud volcanoes. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 248:544-599.

Zabel M, Hensen C (2006) Quantification and regionalization of benthic reflux. in: Schulz HD, Zabel M (eds): Marine Geochemistry, 2nd Ed., Springer, Heidelberg, NY, 429-456.

Zuehlsdorff L, Spiess V (2006) Sedimentation patterns, folding, and fluid upflow above a buried basement ridge: Results from 2-D and 3-D seismic surveys at the eastern Juan de Fuca Ridge flank. J. Geophys. Res., 111:B08103, doi:10.1029/2004JB003227