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Frank Schäbitz

Frank Schäbitz

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Earth Science

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42
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4512
World Ranking
5387
National Ranking
383

Overview

Frank Schäbitz is a researcher affiliated with the University of Cologne in Germany, specializing in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Social Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Anthropology, Paleontology, Ecology, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The main topics explored in Schäbitz's research encompass:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Schäbitz has contributed to several recent papers published between 2020 and 2022, addressing paleoclimate, hydroclimate variability, and human evolutionary contexts. Notable publications include:

  • "Paleo-ENSO influence on African environments and early modern humans," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Northern Hemisphere Glaciation, African climate and human evolution," 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Orbital controls on eastern African hydroclimate in the Pleistocene," 2022, Scientific Reports
  • "Recurring types of variability and transitions in the ∼620 kyr record of climate change from the Chew Bahir basin, southern Ethiopia," 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Holocene Hydroclimate Variability and Vegetation Response in the Ethiopian Highlands (Lake Dendi)," 2020, Frontiers in Earth Science

The researcher frequently publishes in venues such as Quaternary Science Reviews, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Earth Science, and Geophysical Research Letters. Their collaboration network includes multiple co-authors with repeated joint publications. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Asfawossen Asrat
  • Verena Foerster
  • Martin H. Trauth
  • Henry F. Lamb
  • Andrew S. Cohen

Frank Schäbitz's interdisciplinary approach addresses climatic and environmental systems from the Pleistocene to recent periods, linking geological and paleoenvironmental data to questions of human evolution, climate variability, and ecological dynamics.

Best Publications

  • Climatically induced lake level changes during the last two millennia as reflected in sediments of Laguna Potrok Aike, southern Patagonia (Santa Cruz, Argentina)

    Torsten Haberzettl;Michael Fey;Andreas Lücke;Nora Maidana

  • Lateglacial and Holocene wet-dry cycles in southern Patagonia: chronology, sedimentology and geochemistry of a lacustrine record from Laguna Potrok Aike, Argentina

    Torsten Haberzettl;Hugo Corbella;Michael Fey;Stephanie Janssen

  • Precipitation origin and evaporation of lakes in semi-arid Patagonia (Argentina) inferred from stable isotopes (δ18O, δ2H)

    Christoph Mayr;Andreas Lücke;Willibald Stichler;Peter Trimborn

  • Holocene variability of the Southern Hemisphere westerlies in Argentinean Patagonia (52°S)

    Christoph Mayr;Michael Wille;Torsten Haberzettl;Michael Fey

  • Geographical and temporal trends in Late Quaternary fire histories of Fuego-Patagonia, South America

    Ulli M Huber;Ulli M Huber;Vera Markgraf;Frank Schäbitz

  • The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project : High-Resolution Paleoclimate Records from the East African Rift System and Their Implications for Understanding the Environmental Context of Hominin Evolution

    Christopher J. Campisano;Andrew S. Cohen;J. Ramon Arrowsmith;Asfawossen Asrat

  • Crater lakes of the Pali Aike Volcanic Field as key sites for paleoclimatic and paleoecological reconstructions in southern Patagonia, Argentina

    Bernd Zolitschka;Frank Schäbitz;Andreas Lücke;Hugo Corbella

  • Palaeoenvironmental changes in southern Patagonia during the last millennium recorded in lake sediments from Laguna Azul (Argentina)

    Christoph Mayr;Michael Fey;Torsten Haberzettl;Stephanie Janssen

  • Pollen-based biome reconstructions for Latin America at 0, 6000 and 18 000 radiocarbon years ago

    R. Marchant;A. Cleef;S. P. Harrison;H. Hooghiemstra

  • Vegetation and climate history of the Lake Prespa region since the Lateglacial

    Konstantinos Panagiotopoulos;Anne Aufgebauer;Frank Schäbitz;Bernd Wagner

  • Vegetation and climate dynamics in southern South America: The microfossil record of Laguna Potrok Aike, Santa Cruz, Argentina

    Michael Wille;Nora I. Maidana;Frank Schäbitz;Michael Fey

  • Late Pleniglacial vegetation in eastern-central Europe: are there modern analogues in Siberia?

    Enikő Katalin Magyari;Petr Kuneš;Gusztáv Jakab;Pál Sümegi

  • The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project: inferring the environmental context of human evolution from eastern African rift lake deposits

    A. Cohen;Christopher Campisano;Ramon Arrowsmith;A. Asrat

  • Holocene climatic variations in northern Patagonia, Argentina

    Frank Schäbitz

  • Geomorphology and paleoecology of the arid diagonal in Southern South America

    Elena M. Abraham De Vazquez;Karsten Garleff;Helga Liebricht;Alberto C. Regairaz

  • Late Pleistocene dust deposition in the Patagonian steppe - extending and refining the paleoenvironmental and tephrochronological record from Laguna Potrok Aike back to 55 ka

    Torsten Haberzettl;Flavio S. Anselmetti;Sabine W. Bowen;Michael Fey

  • Hydrological variability in southeastern Patagonia and explosive volcanic activity in the southern Andean Cordillera during Oxygen Isotope Stage 3 and the Holocene inferred from lake sediments of Laguna Potrok Aike, Argentina

    Torsten Haberzettl;Torsten Haberzettl;Barbara Kück;Sabine Wulf;Flavio S. Anselmetti

  • Modern pollen-vegetation and isopoll maps in southern Argentina

    M. M. Paez;F. Schäbitz;S. Stutz

  • Climate variability over the last 92 ka in SW Balkans from analysis of sediments from Lake Prespa

    K. Panagiotopoulos;A. Böhm;Melanie J. Leng;Melanie J. Leng;B. Wagner

  • Estudios polínicos del Cuaternario en las regiones áridas del sur de Argentina

    Frank Schäbitz

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Ohlendorf
Christian Ohlendorf University of Bremen
Christoph Mayr
Christoph Mayr University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Bernd Zolitschka
Bernd Zolitschka University of Bremen
Torsten Haberzettl
Torsten Haberzettl Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Andreas Lücke
Andreas Lücke Forschungszentrum Jülich
Henry F. Lamb
Henry F. Lamb Aberystwyth University
Asfawossen Asrat
Asfawossen Asrat Botswana International University of Science and Technology
Gerhard H. Schleser
Gerhard H. Schleser Forschungszentrum Jülich
Martin H. Trauth
Martin H. Trauth University of Potsdam
Volker Wennrich
Volker Wennrich University of Cologne

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