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Overview

Bernd R. Schöne is affiliated with Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a substantial body of work covering 98 and 96 publications respectively.

The scientist's main areas of study include several specialized subfields:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Oceanography
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Paleontology

The research topics they engage with reflect a strong concentration on marine and ecological processes, including:

  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Calcium Carbonate Crystallization and Inhibition
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses

Bernd R. Schöne has contributed to various scientific journals and publication venues. The most frequent venues for their publications are:

  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Chemical Geology

Recent papers demonstrate a focus on climate and environmental effects on marine organisms and sclerochronology. Notable examples include:

  • A review of transgenerational effects of ocean acidification on marine bivalves and their implications for sclerochronology (2020), published in Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science
  • Advances of sclerochronology research in the last decade (2021), published in Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Multi-isotopic and trace element evidence against different formation pathways for oyster microstructures (2021), published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Temperature-induced microstructural changes in shells of laboratory-grown Arctica islandica (Bivalvia) (2021), published in PLoS ONE
  • Fundamental questions and applications of sclerochronology: Community-defined research priorities (2020), published in Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science

The scientist collaborates frequently with colleagues, including:

  • Nils Höche
  • Eric Otto Walliser
  • Melita Peharda
  • Qian Huang
  • Lukas Fröhlich

Best Publications

  • Climate records from a bivalved Methuselah (Arctica islandica, Mollusca; Iceland)

    Bernd R. Schöne;Jens Fiebig;Miriam Pfeiffer;Renald Gleβ

  • The Palaeoanthropocene – The beginnings of anthropogenic environmental change

    Stephen F. Foley;Stephen F. Foley;Detlef Gronenborn;Meinrat O. Andreae;Meinrat O. Andreae;Joachim W. Kadereit

  • Cross-Calibration of Daily Growth Increments, Stable Isotope Variation, and Temperature in the Gulf of California Bivalve Mollusk Chione cortezi: Implications for Paleoenvironmental Analysis

    David H. Goodwin;Karl W. Flessa;Bernd R. Schöne;David L. Dettman

  • Mutvei's solution: An ideal agent for resolving microgrowth structures of biogenic carbonates

    Bernd R. Schöne;Elena Dunca;Jens Fiebig;Miriam Pfeiffer

  • Bioavailable 87Sr/86Sr in different environmental samples - Effects of anthropogenic contamination and implications for isoscapes in past migration studies

    Anne-France Maurer;Stephen J.G. Galer;Corina Knipper;Lars Beierlein

  • Resolution and Fidelity of Oxygen Isotopes as Paleotemperature Proxies in Bivalve Mollusk Shells: Models and Observations

    David H. Goodwin;Bernd R. Schöne;David L. Dettman

  • The curse of physiology—challenges and opportunities in the interpretation of geochemical data from mollusk shells

    Bernd R. Schöne

  • Daily Growth Rates in Shells of Arctica islandica: Assessing Sub-seasonal Environmental Controls on a Long-lived Bivalve Mollusk

    Bernd R. Schöne;Stephen D. Houk;Antuané D. Freyre Castro;Jens Fiebig

  • Sea surface water temperatures over the period 1884–1983 reconstructed from oxygen isotope ratios of a bivalve mollusk shell (Arctica islandica, southern North Sea)

    B Schone;A Freyrecastro;J Fiebig;S Houk

  • Sr/Ca and Mg/Ca ratios of ontogenetically old, long-lived bivalve shells (Arctica islandica) and their function as paleotemperature proxies

    Bernd R. Schöne;Zengjie Zhang;Pascal Radermacher;Julien Thébault;Julien Thébault

  • Signals and memory in tree-ring width and density data

    Jan Esper;Lea Schneider;Jason E. Smerdon;Bernd R. Schöne

  • Arctica islandica (Bivalvia): A unique paleoenvironmental archive of the northern North Atlantic Ocean

    Bernd R. Schöne

  • North Atlantic Oscillation dynamics recorded in shells of a long-lived bivalve mollusk

    Bernd R. Schöne;Wolfgang Oschmann;Jochen Rössler;Antuané D. Freyre Castro

  • Environmental controls on shell growth rates and δ18O of the shallow-marine bivalve mollusk Phacosoma japonicum in Japan

    B. R. Schöne;K. Tanabe;D. L. Dettman;S. Sato

  • Effect of organic matrices on the determination of the trace element chemistry (Mg, Sr, Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca) of aragonitic bivalve shells (Arctica islandica)—Comparison of ICP-OES and LA-ICP-MS data

    Bernd R. Schöne;Zengjie Zhang;Dorrit Jacob;David P. Gillikin

  • The use of oxygen isotope variation in shells of estuarine mollusks as a quantitative record of seasonal and annual Colorado River discharge

    David L. Dettman;Karl W. Flessa;Peter D. Roopnarine;Bernd R. Schöne

  • Coupled North Atlantic slope water forcing on Gulf of Maine temperatures over the past millennium

    Alan D. Wanamaker;Alan D. Wanamaker;Karl J. Kreutz;Bernd R. Schöne;Neal Pettigrew

  • Unraveling environmental histories from skeletal diaries — Advances in sclerochronology

    Bernd R. Schöne;David P. Gillikin

  • High-resolution sclerochronological analysis of the bivalve mollusk Saxidomus gigantea from Alaska and British Columbia: techniques for revealing environmental archives and archaeological seasonality

    Nadine Hallmann;Meghan Burchell;Bernd R. Schöne;Gail V. Irvine

  • A 217-year record of summer air temperature reconstructed from freshwater pearl mussels (M. margarifitera, Sweden)

    Bernd R. Schöne;Elena Dunca;Elena Dunca;Harry Mutvei;Ulf Norlund

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerrit Lohmann
Gerrit Lohmann University of Bremen
Jens Fiebig
Jens Fiebig Goethe University Frankfurt
Alan D. Wanamaker
Alan D. Wanamaker Iowa State University
Wolfgang Oschmann
Wolfgang Oschmann Goethe University Frankfurt
David L. Dettman
David L. Dettman University of Arizona
James D. Scourse
James D. Scourse University of Exeter
Thomas Brey
Thomas Brey University of Bremen
Denis Scholz
Denis Scholz Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Laurent Chauvaud
Laurent Chauvaud University of Western Brittany
Jan Esper
Jan Esper Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

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