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Earth Science

D-Index
79
Citations
28204
World Ranking
556
National Ranking
13

Best Publications

  • Distributional variations in marine crenarchaeotal membrane lipids: a new tool for reconstructing ancient sea water temperatures?

    Stefan Schouten;Ellen C. Hopmans;Enno Schefuß;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • Abundance and diversity of denitrifying and anammox bacteria in seasonally hypoxic and sulfidic sediments of the saline lake Grevelingen

    Yvonne A. Lipsewers;Ellen C. Hopmans;Filip J. R. Meysman;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • A novel proxy for terrestrial organic matter in sediments based on branched and isoprenoid tetraether lipids

    Ellen C Hopmans;Johan W.H Weijers;Enno Schefuß;Lydie Herfort

  • The organic geochemistry of glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether lipids: A review

    Stefan Schouten;Ellen C. Hopmans;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • Environmental controls on bacterial tetraether membrane lipid distribution in soils

    Johan W.H. Weijers;Stefan Schouten;Jurgen C. van den Donker;Ellen C. Hopmans

  • New indices and calibrations derived from the distribution of crenarchaeal isoprenoid tetraether lipids: Implications for past sea surface temperature reconstructions

    Jung-Hyun Kim;Jaap van der Meer;Stefan Schouten;Peer Helmke

  • Crenarchaeol: the characteristic core glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraether membrane lipid of cosmopolitan pelagic crenarchaeota.

    Jaap S Sinninghe Damsté;Stefan Schouten;Ellen C Hopmans;Adri C T van Duin

  • Northern Hemisphere Controls on Tropical Southeast African Climate During the Past 60,000 Years

    Jessica E. Tierney;James M. Russell;Yongsong Huang;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • The effect of improved chromatography on GDGT-based palaeoproxies

    Ellen C. Hopmans;Stefan Schouten;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • An improved method to determine the absolute abundance of glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraether lipids

    Carme Huguet;Ellen C. Hopmans;Wilma Febo-Ayala;David H. Thompson

  • Occurrence and abundance of 6-methyl branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers in soils : Implications for palaeoclimate reconstruction

    Cindy De Jonge;Ellen C. Hopmans;Claudia I. Zell;Jung Hyun Kim

  • Membrane lipids of mesophilic anaerobic bacteria thriving in peats have typical archaeal traits

    Johan W. H. Weijers;Stefan Schouten;Ellen C. Hopmans;Jan A. J. Geenevasen

  • Analysis of intact tetraether lipids in archaeal cell material and sediments by high performance liquid chromatography/atmospheric pressure chemical ionization mass spectrometry.

    Ellen C. Hopmans;Stefan Schouten;Richard D. Pancost;Marcel T.J. van der Meer

  • Analytical methodology for TEX86 paleothermometry by high-performance liquid chromatography/atmospheric pressure chemical ionization-mass spectrometry.

    Stefan Schouten;Carme Huguet;Ellen C Hopmans;Michiel V M Kienhuis

  • Widespread occurrence of structurally diverse tetraether membrane lipids: Evidence for the ubiquitous presence of low-temperature relatives of hyperthermophiles

    Stefan Schouten;Ellen C. Hopmans;Richard D. Pancost;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • Global sediment core-top calibration of the TEX86 paleothermometer in the ocean

    Jung-Hyun Kim;Stefan Schouten;Ellen C. Hopmans;Barbara Donner

  • 13,16-Dimethyl Octacosanedioic Acid (iso-Diabolic Acid), a Common Membrane-Spanning Lipid of Acidobacteria Subdivisions 1 and 3

    Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté;W. Irene C. Rijpstra;Ellen C. Hopmans;Johan W. H. Weijers

  • Anaerobic ammonium oxidation in the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone

    M. Robert Hamersley;Gaute Lavik;Dagmar Woebken;Jayne E. Rattray

  • Newly discovered non-isoprenoid glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether lipids in sediments

    Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté;Ellen C. Hopmans;Richard D. Pancost;Stefan Schouten

  • Environmental controls on branched tetraether lipid distributions in tropical East African lake sediments

    J.E. Tierney;J.E. Tierney;J.M. Russell;H. Eggermont;H. Eggermont;E.C. Hopmans

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Schouten
Stefan Schouten Utrecht University
Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté
Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
J.S. Sinninghe Damsté
J.S. Sinninghe Damsté Utrecht University
Lucas J. Stal
Lucas J. Stal University of Amsterdam
Moritz F. Lehmann
Moritz F. Lehmann University of Basel
Adrian Gilli
Adrian Gilli ETH Zurich
Tracy A. Villareal
Tracy A. Villareal The University of Texas at Austin
Flavio S. Anselmetti
Flavio S. Anselmetti University of Bern
Helge Niemann
Helge Niemann Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Richard D. Pancost
Richard D. Pancost University of Bristol

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