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Cold-water corals
My main research interest is the evaluation of the CWC ecosystems as carbonate factory and their role in the global carbonate/carbon cycle. Furthermore, I am interested in the environmental controls and sedimentology of mound aggradation.
Publications
Titschack J (accepted) Bathyal corals within the Aegean Sea and the adjacent Hellenic trench. In: Orejas C, Jiménez C, Mediterranean Cold-Water Corals: Past, Present and Future, Springer series: Coral Reefs of the World.
Wienberg C, Titschack J, Freiwald A, Frank N, Lundälv T, Taviani M, Beuck L, Schröder-Ritzrau A, Krengel T, Hebbeln D (2018) The giant Mauritanian cold-water coral mound province: Oxygen control on coral mound formation. Quaternary Science Reviews 185:135-152
Matos L, Wienberg C, Titschack J, Schmiedl G, Frank N, Abrantes F, Cunha MR, Hebbeln D (2017) Coral mound development at the Campeche cold-water coral province, southern Gulf of Mexico: Implications of Antarctic Intermediate Water increased influence during interglacials. Marine Geology 392:53-65
Wienberg C, Titschack J (2017) Framework-Forming Scleractinian Cold-Water Corals Through Space and Time: A Late Quaternary North Atlantic Perspective. In: Rossi S, Bramanti L, Gori A, Orejas C (eds) Marine Animal Forests: The Ecology of Benthic Biodiversity Hotspots. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp699-732
Titschack J, Fink HG, Baum D, Wienberg C, Hebbeln D, Freiwald A (2016) Mediterranean cold-water corals – an important regional carbonate factory? The Depositional Record 2: 74-96.
Matsuyama K, Titschack J, Baum D, Freiwald A (2015) Two new species of erect Bryozoa (Gymnolaemata: Cheilostomata) and the application of non-destructive imaging methods for quantitative taxonomy. Zootaxa 4020: 81-100.
Titschack J, Baum D, De Pol Holz R, Lopéz Correa M, Forster N, Flögel S, Hebbeln D, Freiwald A (2015) Aggradation and carbonate accumulation of Holocene Norwegian cold-water coral reefs. Sedimentology 62:1873-1898
Wehrmann LM, Titschack J, Böttcher ME, Ferdelman TG (2015) Linking sedimentary sulfur and iron biogeochemistry to growth patterns of a cold-water coral mound in the Porcupine Basin, S.W. Ireland (IODP Expedition 307). Geobiology 13: 424-442.
Eisele M, Frank N, Wienberg C, Titschack J, Mienis F, Beuck L, Tisnerat-Laborde N, Hebbeln D (2014) Sedimentation patterns on a cold-water coral mound off Mauritania. eep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 99: 316-326.
Thierens M, Browning E, Pirlet H, Loutre MF, Dorschel B, Huvenne VAI, Titschack J, Colin C, Foubert A, Wheeler AJ (2013) Cold-water coral carbonate mounds as unique palaeo-archives: the Plio-Pleistocene Challenger Mound record (NE Atlantic). Quaternary Science Reviews 73:14-30.
Frank T, Titschack J, Thierens M (2011) Aragonite loss in a cold-water coral mound: mechanisms and implications. Sedimentology 58: 670-690.
Hübscher C, Dullo C, Flögel S, Titschack J, Schönfeld J (2010) Contourite drift evolution and related coral growth in the eastern Gulf of Mexico and its gateways. Int J Earth Sci 99 (Suppl. 1), 191-206.
Heindel H, Titschack J, Dorschel D, Huvenne VAI, Freiwald A (2010) The sediment composition and predictive mapping of facies on the Propeller Mound — A cold-water coral mound (Porcupine Seabight, NE Atlantic). Cont Shelf Res 30: 1814-1829.
Thierens M, Titschack J, Dorschel B, Huvenne VAI, Wheeler AJ, Stuut J-B, O'Donnell R (2010) The 2.6 Ma depositional sequence from the Challenger cold-water coral carbonate mound (IODP Exp. 307): Sediment contributors and hydrodynamic palaeo-environments. Mar Geol 271: 260-277.
Titschack J, Thierens M, Dorschel B, Schulbert C, Freiwald A, Kano A, Takashima C, Kawagoe N, Li X and the IODP Expedition 307 scientific party (2009) Carbonate Budget of a cold-water coral mound (Challenger Mound, IODP Exp. 307). Mar Geol 259, 36-46.
Kano A, Ferdelman TG, Williams T, Henriet JP, Ishikawa T, Kawagoe N, Takashima C, Kakizaki N, Abe K, Sakai S, Browning EL, Li X, Andres MS, Bjaerger M, Cragg BA, De Mol B, Dorschel B, Foubert A, Frank TD, Fuwa Y, Gaillot P, Gharib JJ, Gregg JM, Huvenne VAI, Léonide P, Mangelsdorf K, Monteys X, Novosel I, O'Donnell R, Rüggeberg A, Samarkin VK, Sasaki S, Spivack AJ, Tanaka A, Titschack J, van Rooij D, Wheeler AJ (2007) Age constraints on the origin and growth history of a deep-water coral mound in NE Atlantic drilled during Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition. Geology, 35: 1051-1054.
Noé SU, Titschack J, Freiwald A, Dullo W-Chr (2006) From sediment to rock: formation of hardgrounds in the NE Atlantic. Facies 52: 183-208.
Williams T, Kano A, Ferdelman T, Henriet JP, Abe K, Andres M, Bjerager M, Browning EL, Cragg BA, De Mol B, Dorschel B, Foubert A, Frank TD, Fuwa Y, Gaillot P, Gharib JJ, Gregg JM, Huvenne VAI, Leonide P, Li X, Mangelsdorf K, Tanaka A, Monteys X, Novosel I, Sakai S, Samarkin VA, Sasaki K, Spivak AJ, Takashima C, Titschack J (2006) Cold water coral mounds revealed. EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union 87: 525 & 535-536.
Titschack J, Freiwald A (2005) Growth, deposition, and facies of Pleistocene bathyal coral communities from Rhodes, Greece. In: Freiwald, A., Roberts, J.M. (eds) Cold-Water Corals and Ecosystems. Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, pp 41-59.