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Bernhard Wehrli

Bernhard Wehrli

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Chemistry

D-Index
66
Citations
17613
World Ranking
7202
National Ranking
147

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
75
Citations
21339
World Ranking
1269
National Ranking
42

Overview

Bernhard Wehrli is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and specializes in Environmental Science with a substantial focus on several subfields. Their research portfolio encompasses Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The main topics of their scientific work include:

  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity

Frequent publication venues for their work reflect a multidisciplinary approach and include:

  • Biogeosciences
  • Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
  • Nature Communications
  • Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)

Their recent papers highlight contributions across environmental and chemical research topics. Selected publications are:

  • Growth and rapid succession of methanotrophs effectively limit methane release during lake overturn, 2020, Communications Biology
  • Living with floating vegetation invasions, 2020, AMBIO
  • Unaccounted CO 2 leaks downstream of a large tropical hydroelectric reservoir, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Iron speciation in blast furnace slag cements, 2020, Cement and Concrete Research
  • Fe(II) interaction with cement phases: Method development, wet chemical studies and X-ray absorption spectroscopy, 2020, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science

In collaboration, Bernhard Wehrli frequently coauthors with several researchers, illustrating sustained partnerships within their scientific community. These frequent co-authors include:

  • R. Scott Winton
  • Cristian R. Teodoru
  • Helmut Bürgmann
  • Elisa Calamita
  • Carsten J. Schubert

Bernhard Wehrli's research contributions primarily focus on complex interactions within aquatic and atmospheric systems, particularly pertaining to methane dynamics, ecosystem functions, and environmental chemistry. Their work integrates chemical, biological, and ecological perspectives to address environmental challenges in aquatic and terrestrial contexts.

Best Publications

  • The Challenge of Micropollutants in Aquatic Systems

    René P. Schwarzenbach;Beate I. Escher;Kathrin Fenner;Thomas B. Hofstetter

  • Global Water Pollution and Human Health

    René P. Schwarzenbach;Thomas Egli;Thomas B. Hofstetter;Urs von Gunten

  • Vanadyl in natural waters: Adsorption and hydrolysis promote oxygenation

    Bernhard Wehrli;Werner Stumm

  • Organic carbon burial efficiency in lake sediments controlled by oxygen exposure time and sediment source

    Sebastian Sobek;Sebastian Sobek;Edith Durisch-Kaiser;Edith Durisch-Kaiser;Roland Zurbrügg;Roland Zurbrügg;Nuttakan Wongfun;Nuttakan Wongfun

  • The coordination chemistry of weathering: III. A generalization on the dissolution rates of minerals

    Erich Wieland;Bernhard Wehrli;Werner Stumm

  • Anaerobic ammonium oxidation in a tropical freshwater system (Lake Tanganyika).

    Carsten J. Schubert;Edith Durisch-Kaiser;Bernhard Wehrli;Bo Thamdrup

  • Extreme Methane Emissions from a Swiss Hydropower Reservoir: Contribution from Bubbling Sediments

    Tonya DelSontro;Daniel Frank Mcginnis;Sebastian Sobek;Ilia Ostrovsky

  • Spatial Heterogeneity of Methane Ebullition in a Large Tropical Reservoir

    Tonya DelSontro;Manuel J. Kunz;Tim Kempter;Alfred Wüest

  • Investigating hypoxia in aquatic environments: diverse approaches to addressing a complex phenomenon

    J. Friedrich;F. Janssen;F. Janssen;D. Aleynik;Hermann W. Bange

  • Ten Years of Artificial Mixing and Oxygenation: No Effect on the Internal Phosphorus Loading of Two Eutrophic Lakes

    René Gächter;Bernhard Wehrli

  • DISSOLUTION-PRECIPITATION BEHAVIOUR OF ETTRINGITE, MONOSULFATE, AND CALCIUM SILICATE HYDRATE

    Isabel Baur;Peter Keller;Denis Mavrocordatos;Bernhard Wehrli

  • Reviews and syntheses: Dams, water quality and tropical reservoir stratification

    Robert Scott Winton;Robert Scott Winton;Elisa Calamita;Elisa Calamita;Bernhard Wehrli;Bernhard Wehrli

  • Weak mixing in Lake Kivu: New insights indicate increasing risk of uncontrolled gas eruption

    Martin Schmid;Michel Halbwachs;Bernhard Wehrli;Alfred Wüest

  • Benthic chamber and profiling landers in oceanography-A review of design, technical solutions and functioning.

    A. Tengberg;F. De Bovee;P. Hall;W. Berelson

  • Retention of sediments and nutrients in the Iron Gate I Reservoir on the Danube River

    Christian Teodoru;Bernhard Wehrli

  • Solute transfer across the sediment surface of a eutrophic lake: I. Porewater profiles from dialysis samplers

    Noel R. Urban;Christian Dinkel;Bernhard Wehrli

  • Green hydropower: a new assessment procedure for river management

    Christine Bratrich;Bernhard Truffer;Klaus Jorde;Jochen Markard

  • Sources and sinks of nitrous oxide (N2O) in deep lakes

    Martin Mengis;René Gächter;Bernhard Wehrli

  • Arsenic release from paddy soils during monsoon flooding

    Linda C. Roberts;Linda C. Roberts;Stephan J. Hug;Jessica Dittmar;Andreas Voegelin;Andreas Voegelin

  • Vertical distribution of methanogens in the anoxic sediment of Rotsee (Switzerland).

    K. Zepp Falz;C. Holliger;R. Großkopf;W. Liesack

  • Redox processes catalyzed by hydrous oxide surfaces

    Bernhard Wehrli;Barbara Sulzberger;Werner Stumm

Frequent Co-Authors

Alfred Wüest
Alfred Wüest Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Carsten J. Schubert
Carsten J. Schubert Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Beat Müller
Beat Müller University of Basel
Martin Schmid
Martin Schmid Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Sebastian Sobek
Sebastian Sobek Uppsala University
Gerhard Furrer
Gerhard Furrer ETH Zurich
Hong Yang
Hong Yang Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Daniel Frank Mcginnis
Daniel Frank Mcginnis University of Geneva
Barbara Lothenbach
Barbara Lothenbach Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Karim C. Abbaspour
Karim C. Abbaspour Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

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