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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
43
Citations
7483
World Ranking
7078
National Ranking
180

Best Publications

  • Archaeal nitrification in the ocean

    Cornelia Wuchter;Ben Abbas;Marco J. L. Coolen;Lydie Herfort

  • Fluxes and distribution of tetraether lipids in an equatorial African lake: Constraints on the application of the TEX86 palaeothermometer and BIT index in lacustrine settings

    Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté;Jort Ossebaar;Ben Abbas;Stefan Schouten

  • The Rise of the Rhizosolenid Diatoms

    Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté;Gerard Muyzer;Ben Abbas;Sebastiaan W. Rampen

  • A comprehensive study of sterols in marine diatoms (Bacillariophyta): Implications for their use as tracers for diatom productivity

    Sebastiaan W. Rampen;Ben A. Abbas;Stefan Schouten;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damste

  • Putative ammonia-oxidizing Crenarchaeota in suboxic waters of the Black Sea: a basin-wide ecological study using 16S ribosomal and functional genes and membrane lipids.

    Marco J. L. Coolen;Ben Abbas;Judith Van Bleijswijk;Ellen C. Hopmans

  • Enrichment of DNRA bacteria in a continuous culture

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  • Faster through training: The anammox case.

    Tommaso Lotti;R. Kleerebezem;J.M. Abelleira-Pereira;B. Abbas

  • Genetic diversity of ‘satellite’ bacteria present in cultures of marine diatoms

    Hendrik Schäfer;Ben Abbas;Harry Witte;Gerard Muyzer

  • Discovery of extremely halophilic, methyl-reducing euryarchaea provides insights into the evolutionary origin of methanogenesis.

    Dimitry Y. Sorokin;Dimitry Y. Sorokin;Kira S. Makarova;Ben Abbas;Manuel Ferrer

  • Effect and behaviour of different substrates in relation to the formation of aerobic granular sludge

    M. Pronk;B. Abbas;S. H. K. Al-zuhairy;R. Kraan

  • Variations in spatial and temporal distribution of Archaea in the North Sea in relation to environmental variables

    Lydie Herfort;Stefan Schouten;Ben Abbas;Marcel J. W. Veldhuis

  • Microbial diversity differences within aerobic granular sludge and activated sludge flocs.

    M-K H. Winkler;R. Kleerebezem;L. M. M. de Bruin;P. J. T. Verheijen

  • Biomarker and 16S rDNA evidence for anaerobic oxidation of methane and related carbonate precipitation in deep-sea mud volcanoes of the Sorokin Trough, Black Sea

    A. Stadnitskaia;G. Muyzer;B. Abbas;M.J.L. Coolen

  • Aerobic and anaerobic methanotrophs in the Black Sea water column

    Carsten J. Schubert;Marco J. L. Coolen;Lev N. Neretin;Lev N. Neretin;Axel Schippers

  • Accumulibacter clades Type I and II performing kinetically different glycogen-accumulating organisms metabolisms for anaerobic substrate uptake

    L. Welles;L. Welles;W.D. Tian;S. Saad;S. Saad;B. Abbas

  • A diatomaceous origin for long-chain diols and mid-chain hydroxy methyl alkanoates widely occurring in quaternary marine sediments: Indicators for high nutrient conditions

    Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté;Sebastiaan Rampen;W. Irene;C. Rijpstra

  • Long-term effects of sulphide on the enhanced biological removal of phosphorus: The symbiotic role of Thiothrix caldifontis

    F.J. Rubio-Rincón;F.J. Rubio-Rincón;L. Welles;L. Welles;C.M. Lopez-Vazquez;M. Nierychlo

  • Ancient DNA derived from alkenone‐biosynthesizing haptophytes and other algae in Holocene sediments from the Black Sea

    Marco J. L. Coolen;Arjan C. Boere;Ben Abbas;Marianne Baas

  • Sources for sedimentary bacteriohopanepolyols as revealed by 16S rDNA stratigraphy

    Marco J. L. Coolen;Helen M. Talbot;Ben A. Abbas;Christopher Ward

  • A multi‐proxy study of anaerobic ammonium oxidation in marine sediments of the Gullmar Fjord, Sweden

    Joost Brandsma;Jack van de Vossenberg;Nils Risgaard-Petersen;Markus C. Schmid

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