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Overview

Enno Schefuß is affiliated with the University of Bremen in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Within these broader fields, their work addresses several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Earth-Surface Processes, Global and Planetary Change, and Oceanography.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas related to geological and ecological processes. Key focus areas include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Tree-ring climate responses

Schefuß has contributed to numerous publications, with notable papers including:

  • Climate control on terrestrial biospheric carbon turnover, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Early Holocene greening of the Sahara requires Mediterranean winter rainfall, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Hydroclimatic vulnerability of peat carbon in the central Congo Basin, 2022, Nature
  • Elevated dust depositions in West Asia linked to ocean-atmosphere shifts during North Atlantic cold events, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Paleohydrological dynamics in the Western Mediterranean during the last glacial cycle, 2021, Global and Planetary Change

The scientist has published extensively in several key venues, including:

  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Frequent collaborators of Schefuß include Mahyar Mohtadi, Cristiano Mazur Chiessi, Christoph Häggi, Gesine Mollenhauer, and Yannick Garcin.

In addition to journal articles, Schefuß has contributed to book publications, such as a 2024 title published by Frontiers Media titled Women in Biogeochemical Dynamics Research: 2022.

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

  • 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

  • Climatic controls on central African hydrology during the past 20,000 years

    Enno Schefuss;Stefan Schouten;Ralph R Schneider

  • Carbon isotope analyses of n-alkanes in dust from the lower atmosphere over the central eastern Atlantic

    Enno Schefuß;Volker Ratmeyer;Jan Berend W. Stuut;J. H.Fred Jansen

  • Coupled Thermal and Hydrological Evolution of Tropical Africa over the Last Deglaciation

    Johan W. H. Weijers;Enno Schefuß;Stefan Schouten;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • Wet phases in the Sahara/Sahel region and human migration patterns in North Africa

    Isla S. Castañeda;Stefan Mulitza;Enno Schefuß;Raquel A. Lopes dos Santos

  • Forcing of wet phases in southeast Africa over the past 17,000 years

    Enno Schefuß;Holger Kuhlmann;Gesine Mollenhauer;Gesine Mollenhauer;Matthias Prange

  • African vegetation controlled by tropical sea surface temperatures in the mid-Pleistocene period

    Enno Schefuß;Stefan Schouten;J. H. Fred Jansen;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • Provenance of present-day eolian dust collected off NW Africa

    Jan-Berend Stuut;Matthias Zabel;Volker Ratmeyer;Peer Helmke

  • Leaf water deuterium enrichment shapes leaf wax n-alkane δD values of angiosperm plants I: Experimental evidence and mechanistic insights

    Ansgar Kahmen;Enno Schefuß;Dirk Sachse

  • Leaf water deuterium enrichment shapes leaf wax n-alkane δD values of angiosperm plants II: Observational evidence and global implications

    Ansgar Kahmen;Ansgar Kahmen;Bernd Hoffmann;Enno Schefuß;Stefan K. Arndt

  • Millennial-scale sea surface temperature changes in the eastern Mediterranean (Nile River Delta region) over the last 27,000 years

    Isla S. Castañeda;Enno Schefuß;Jürgen Pätzold;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • The role of fire in Miocene to Pliocene C4 grassland and ecosystem evolution

    Sebastian Hoetzel;Lydie M Dupont;Enno Schefuß;Florian Rommerskirchen;Florian Rommerskirchen

  • Disentangling marine, soil and plant organic carbon contributions to continental margin sediments: A multi-proxy approach in a 20,000 year sediment record from the Congo deep-sea fan

    Johan W.H. Weijers;Stefan Schouten;Enno Schefuß;Ralph R. Schneider

  • Reconstructing C3 and C4 vegetation cover using n-alkane carbon isotope ratios in recent lake sediments from Cameroon, Western Central Africa

    Yannick Garcin;Enno Schefuß;Valérie F. Schwab;Vincent Garreta

  • Global-scale evidence for the refractory nature of riverine black carbon

    Alysha I. Coppola;Daniel B. Wiedemeier;Valier Galy;Negar Haghipour

  • Taraxerol and Rhizophora pollen as proxies for tracking past mangrove ecosystems

    Gerard Jm Versteegh;Enno Schefuß;Lydie M Dupont;Fabienne Marret

  • Orbital- and millennial-scale changes in the hydrologic cycle and vegetation in the western African Sahel: insights from individual plant wax δD and δ^(13)C

    Eva M. Niedermeyer;Eva M. Niedermeyer;Enno Schefuß;Alex L. Sessions;Stefan Mulitza

  • Glacial-interglacial variability in Atlantic meridional overturning circulation and thermocline adjustments in the tropical North Atlantic

    Raquel A. Lopes dos Santos;Matthias Prange;Isla S. Castañeda;Enno Schefuß

  • Long chain 1,13-and 1,15-diols as a potential proxy for palaeotemperature reconstruction

    Sebastiaan W. Rampen;Verónica Willmott;Jung-Hyun Kim;Eleonora Uliana

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Mulitza
Stefan Mulitza University of Bremen
Lydie M Dupont
Lydie M Dupont University of Bremen
Matthias Zabel
Matthias Zabel University of Bremen
Gesine Mollenhauer
Gesine Mollenhauer Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Matthias Prange
Matthias Prange University of Bremen
Cristiano Mazur Chiessi
Cristiano Mazur Chiessi Universidade de São Paulo
André Oliveira Sawakuchi
André Oliveira Sawakuchi Universidade de São Paulo
Mahyar Mohtadi
Mahyar Mohtadi University of Bremen
Michael Schulz
Michael Schulz Norwegian Meteorological Institute

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