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Publications

2013, in press

  • Bayon G, Dupré S, Ponzevera E, Etoubleau J, Chéron S, Pieree C, Mascle J, Boetius A, De Lange G (accepted) Formation of microbial carbonate during a Mediterranean anoxic episode. Nature Geoscience.
  • Bienhold C, Pop Ristova P, Wenzhöfer F, Dittmar T, Boetius A (2013) How deep‐sea wood falls sustain chemosynthetic life. PLoS ONE 8(1): e53590. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0053590
  • Felden, J., A. Lichtschlag, F.Wenzhöfer, D. de Beer, T. Feseker, P. Pop Ristova, G. de Lange, A. Boetius, 2013. Limitations of microbial hydrocarbon degradation at the Amon Mud Volcano (Nile Deep Sea Fan). Biogeosciences 10, 3269–3283.
  • Feng D, Lin Z, Bian Y, Chen D, Peckmann J, Bohrmann G, Roberts HH (2013) Rare earth elements of seep carbonates: Indication for redox variations and microbiological processes at modern seep sites, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 65: 27-33 doi:org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2012.09.002
  • Fischer D, Mogollón JM, Strasser M, Pape T, Bohrmann G, Fekete N, Spiess V & Kasten S (2013) Subduction zone earthquake as potential trigger of submarine hydrocarbon seepage, Nature Geoscience, doi:10.1038/ngeo1886
  • Grünke, S., Lichtschlag, A., de Beer, D., Felden, J., Salman, V., Ramette, A., Schulz‐Vogt H. N., Boetius, A. (2012) Mats of psychrophilic thiotrophic bacteria associated with cold seeps of the Barents Sea. Biogeosciences 9:2947‐2960
  • Himmler T, Haley BA, Torres ME, Klinkhammer GP, Bohrmann G, Peckmann J (in press) Rare earth element geochemistry in cold seep pore waters of Hydrate Ridge, northeast Pacidfic Ocean. Geo‐Marine Letters.
  • Marcon Y, Sahling H, Allais A-G, Bohrmann G, Olu-LeRoy K (in press) Distribution and temporal variation of mega-fauna at the Regab pockmark (Northern Congo Fan), based on a comparison of videomosaics and GIS analyses. Marine Ecology
  • Marcon Y, Sahling H, Bohrmann G (2013) LAPM: a tool for underwater large-area photo-mosaicking, Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems, 2, 189-198. http://www.geosci-instrum-method-data-syst.net/2/189/2013/gi-2-189-2013.html
  • Marcon Y, Sahling H, Borowski C, dos Santos Ferreira C, Thal J, Bohrmann G (2013) Megafaunal distribution and assessment of total methane and sulfide consumption by mussel beds at Menez Gwen hydrothermal vent, based on geo-referenced photomosaics Deep Sea Research I 75: 93-109, doi:org/10.1016/j.dsr.2013.01.008
  • Meyer, S.; G. Wegener, K. Lloyd, A. Teske, A. Boetius, A. Ramette. Microbial community connectivity across biogeochemical and temperature gradients in a Guaymas Basin hydrothermal field. Submitted to: Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Ruff E., Arnds J., Knittel K., Amann R., Wegener G., Ramette A., Boetius A., Microbial communities of deep sea methane seeps at Hikurangi continental margin (New Zealand). Plos One, in Review
  • Yoshinaga, M.Y., T. Holler, T. Goldhammer, G.Wegener, J. W. Pohlman, B. Brunner, M. M. M. Kuypers, K.‐U. Hinrichs, M. Elvert Carbon isotope equilibration during sulphate‐limited anaerobic oxidation of methane. Submitted to: Nature Geoscience
  • Xie, S., Lipp, J.S., Wegener, G., Ferdelman, T.G., Hinrichs, K.‐U., (2013) Turnover of microbial lipids in the deep biosphere and growth of benthic archaeal populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A., doi/10.1073/pnas.1218569110, (Early Edition).

2012

  • Bogus KA, Zonneveld KAF, Fischer D, Kasten S, Bohrmann G, Versteegh GJM (2012) The effect of meter-scale lateral oxygen gradients at the sediment-water interface on selected organic matter based alteration, productivity and temperature proxies. Biogeosciences 9: 1553-1570
  • Fischer D, Sahling H, Nöthen K, Bohrmann G, Zabel M, Kasten S (2012) Interaction between hydrocarbon seepage, chemosynthetic communities, and bottom water redox at cold seeps of the Makran accretionary prism: insights from habitat-specific pore water sampling and modeling. Biogeosciences 9: 2013-2031. doi:10.5194/bg-9-2013-2012
  • Grünke, S., Lichtschlag, A., de Beer, D., Felden, J., Salman, V., Ramette, A., Schulz‐Vogt H. N., Boetius, A. (2012) Mats of psychrophilic thiotrophic bacteria associated with cold seeps of the Barents Sea. Biogeosciences 9:2947‐2960
  • Kellermann, M.Y., Wegener, G., Elvert, M., Yoshinaga, M.Y., Lin, Y.S., Holler, T., Prieto‐Mollar, X., Knittel, K., Hinrichs, K.‐U. (2012) Autotrophy as predominant mode of carbon fixation in thermophilic anaerobic methane‐oxidizing microbial communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A., 109 (47), 19321‐19326
  • Klapp SA, Enzmann F, Walz P, Huthwelker T, Tuckermann J, Schwarz J-O, Pape T, Peltzer ET, Mokso R, Wangner D, Marone F, Kersten M, Bohrmann G, Kuhs WF, Stampanoni M, Brewer PG (2012) Microstructure characteristics during hydrate formation and dissociation revealed by X-ray tomographic microscopy. Geo-Marine Letters 32: 555-562
  • Nuzzo, M., Elvert, M., Schmidt, M., Scholz, F., Reitz, A., Hinrichs, K.‐U., and Hensen, C. (2012). Impact of hot fluid advection on hydrocarbon gas production and seepage in mud volcano sediments of thick Cenozoic Deltas. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 341‐344, 139‐157
  • Pierre C, Blanc-Valleron M-M, Demange J, Boudouma O, Foucher J-P, Pape T, Himmler T, Fekete N, Spiess V (2012) Authigenic carbonates from active methane seeps offshore southwest Africa. Geo-Marine Letters online, 13 pages, doi:10.1007/s00367-012-0295-x
  • Pop Ristova P, Wenzhöfer F, Ramette A, Zabel M, Fischer D, Kasten S und Boetius A (2012) Bacterial diversity and biogeochemistry of different chemosynthetic habitats of the REGAB cold seep (West African margin, 3160 m water depth). Biogeosciences 9: 5031-5048
  • Römer M, Sahling H, Pape T, Bahr A, Feseker T, Wintersteller P, Bohrmann G (2012) Geological control and magnitude of methane ebullition from a high-flux seep area in the Black Sea - The Kerch seep area. Marine Geology 319-322: 57-74
  • Römer M, Sahling H, Pape T, Spiess V, Bohrmann G (2012) Quantification of gas bubble emissions from submarine hydrocarbon seeps at the Makran continental margin (offshore Pakistan). Journal of Geophysical Reseach 117: 19 pages
  • Wegener, G., Bausch, M., Holler, T., Thang, N. M., Prieto Mollar, X., Kellermann, M. Y., Hinrichs, K.‐U., Boetius, A. (2012) Assessing sub‐seafloor microbial activity by combined stable isotope probing with deuterated water and 13C‐bicarbonate. Environmental Microbiology, 14, 1517‐1527

2011

  • Duperron, S., H. Guezi, S.M. Gaudron, P. Pop Ristova, F. Wenzhöfer und A. Boetius. 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, 481-491.
  • Girnth, A.-C., S. Grünke, A. Lichtschlag, J. Felden, K. Knittel, F. Wenzhöfer, D. de Beer und A. Boetius. 2011. A novel, mat-forming Thiomargarita population associated with a sulfidic fluid flow from a deep-sea mud volcano. Environmental Microbiology 13, 495-505
  • Grünke, S., J. Felden, A. Lichtschlag, A.-C. Girnth, D. de Beer, F. Wenzhöfer und A. Boetius. 2011. Niche differentiation among mat-forming, sulfide-oxidizing bacteria at cold seeps of the Nile Deep Sea Fan (Eastern Mediterranean Sea). Geobiology 9, 330-348
  • Himmler T, Brinkmann F, Bohrmann G, Peckmann J (2011) Corrosion patterns of seep-carbonates from the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Terra Nova 23: 206-212
  • Pape T, Bahr A, Klapp SA, Abegg F, Bohrmann G (2011) High-intensity gas seepage causes rafting of shallow gas hydrates in the southeastern Black Sea. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 307: 35-46. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.04.030
  • Pape T, Feseker T, Kasten S, Fischer D, Bohrmann G (2011) Distribution and abundance of gas hydrates in near-surface deposits of the Håkon Mosby Mud Volcano, SW Barents Sea. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (G3) 12, Q09009, 22 pages. doi:10.1029/2011GC003575
  • Schubotz F, Lipp JS, Elvert M, Kasten S, Prieto Mollar X, Zabel M, Bohrmann G, Hinrichs K-U (2011) Petroleum degradation and associated microbial signatures at the Chapopote asphalt volcano, Southern Gulf of Mexico. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 75: 4377-4398

2010

  • 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. Marine and Petroleum Geology 27: 1819-1829. doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2010.08.005
  • Brüning M, Sahling H, MacDonald I, Ding F, Bohrmann G (2010) Origin, distribution, and alteration of asphalts at the Chapopote Knoll, Southern Gulf of Mexico. Marine and Petroleum Geology. 27:1093-1106
  • Ding F, Spiess V, MacDonald I, Brüning 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. Marine and Petroleum Geology 27: 959-972
  • Ding F, Spiess V, Fekete N, Murton B, Bruening M, and 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. 115: B08106, doi:10.1029/2008JB006246
  • Feng D, Roberts HH, Cheng H, Peckmann J, Bohrmann G, Edwards RL, Chen D (2010) U/Th dating of cold-seep carbonates: An initial comparison. Deep-Sea Research II 57: 2055-2060
  • Feng D, Chen D, Peckmann J, Bohrmann G (2010) Authigenic carbonates from methane seeps of the northern Congo fan: Microbial formation mechanism. Marine and Petroleum Geology 27:748-756
  • 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. Marine Geology 268: 129-136
  • 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. Chemical Geology 277: 126-136
  • Klapp SA, Bohrmann G, Kuhs WF, Murshed MM, Pape T, Klein H, Techmer K, Heeschen KU, Abegg F (2010) Microstructures of structure I and II gas hydrates from the Gulf of Mexico. Marine and Petroleum Geology 27: 116-125
  • Klapp SA, Hemes H, Klein H, Bohrmann G, MacDonald IR, Kuhs WF (2010) Grain size measurements of natural gas hydrates. Marine Geology 274: 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 and Planetary Science Letters 299: 207-217. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2010.09.001
  • 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) Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta 74, 5002-5018
  • Pape T, Kasten S, Zabel M, Bahr A, Abegg F, Hohnberg H-J, Bohrmann G (2010) Gas hydrates in shallow deposits of the Amsterdam mud volcano, Anaximander Mountains, Northeastern Mediterranean Sea. Geo-Marine Letters. 30 (3-4):187-206. doi: 10.1007/s00367-010-0197-8
  • Pape T, Bahr A, Rethemeyer J, Kessler JD, Sahling H, Hinrichs K-U, 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. Chemical Geology. 269:350-363. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2009.10.009
  • 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: 549-562
  • 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

2009

  • 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. International Journal of Earth Sciences 98 (3) 677-695. doi: 10.1007/s00531-007-0264-1
  • Feseker T, Pape T, Wallmann K, Klapp S.A., Schmidt-Schierhorn F, Bohrmann G (2009) The thermal structure of the Dvurechenskii mud volcano and its implications for gas hydrate stability and eruption dynamics. Marine and Petroleum Geology 26 (9): 1812-1823, doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2009.01.021
  • 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 Research Part I 56:283-293
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 Wedell Sea, Antarctica. Biogeosciences 6: 2383-2395
  • Naehr, TH, Birgel D, Bohrmann G, MacDonald I, Kasten S (2009): Biogeochemical controls on authigenic carbonate formation at the Chapopote “asphalt volcano”, Bay of Campeche. Chemical Geology 266:390-402
  • 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, Sorokin Trough, Black Sea: Geological characterization and quantification of gas bubble streams. Marine and Petroleum Geology 26 (9):1799-1811, doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2009.01.010

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, doi:10.1029/2007GC001683
  • 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, doi:10.1029/2007JB005484
  • Murshed MM, Klapp SA, 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). Geophysical Research Letters 35, L23612, doi:10.1029/2008GL035460.
  • 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. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 25: 457-472. doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2007.10.002
  • 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. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 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), Springer Science + Business Media B.V., p. 281-311
  • Sahling H, Bohrmann G, Spiess V, Bialas J, Breitzke M, Ivanov M, Kasten S, Krastel S, Schneider R (2008) Pockmarks on the northern Congo Fan, SW Africa: complex seafloor features shaped by fluid flow. Marine Geology 249 (3-4): 206-225
  • 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 indications for gas hydrate occurrences in the Sorokin Trough (Black Sea) Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 9, Q05012, doi:10.1029/2007GC001685
  • Wegener, G., Shovitri, M., Knittel, K., Niemann, H., Hovland M. and Boetius, A. (2008) Biogeochemical processes and microbial diversity of the Gullfaks and Tommeliten methane seeps (Northern North Sea). Biogeosciences, 5, 1–18
  • Wegener, G, H. Niemann, M. Elvert, K.-U. Hinrichs and A. Boetius (2008) Assimilation of methane and inorganic carbon by microbial communities mediating the anaerobic oxidation of methane. Environmental Microbiology 10 (9), 2287–2298

2007

  • 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
  • Klapp, SA, H Klein and WF Kuhs (2007) First Gas Hydrate Crystallite Size Determination using High-Energy Synchrotron Radiation. Geophysical Research Letters 34, L13608, doi:10.1029/2006GL029134

2006

  • Bohrmann G and Torres M (2006) Gas hydrates in marine sediments. In: Schulz HD and Zabel M, Marine geochemistry. 481-512, Springer
  • Klaucke I, Sahling H, Weinrebe W, Blinova V, Bürk D, Lursmanashvili N, Bohrmann G (2006) Acoustic investigation of cold seeps offshore Georgia, Eastern Black Sea. Marine Geology, 231: 51-67