2026 Gaute Lavik: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	66	2070	1975	139	137	177	17238

Overview

Gaute Lavik is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research focuses primarily on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions in the subfields of Oceanography, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Pollution, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their work covers several main topics including Marine and coastal ecosystems, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, and Isotope Analysis in Ecology.

Gaute Lavik has published extensively in a number of scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include Limnology and Oceanography, Nature Communications, The ISME Journal, Frontiers in Marine Science, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Gaute Lavik are:

Sulfur cycling in oceanic oxygen minimum zones, 2021, Limnology and Oceanography
Diverse methylotrophic methanogenic archaea cause high methane emissions from seagrass meadows, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Small sinking particles control anammox rates in the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone, 2021, Nature Communications
Response of benthic nitrogen cycling to estuarine hypoxia, 2020, Limnology and Oceanography
Rapid microbial diversification of dissolved organic matter in oceanic surface waters leads to carbon sequestration, 2020, Scientific Reports

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Lavik include Marcel M. M. Kuypers, Hannah K. Marchant, Jana Milucka, Sten Littmann, and Timothy G. Ferdelman.

Best Publications

Anaerobic ammonium oxidation by anammox bacteria in the Black Sea

Marcel M. M. Kuypers;A. Olav Sliekers;Gaute Lavik;Markus Schmid

1622
Citations
Massive nitrogen loss from the Benguela upwelling system through anaerobic ammonium oxidation.

Marcel M. M. Kuypers;Gaute Lavik;Dagmar Woebken;Markus Schmid

920
Citations
Revising the nitrogen cycle in the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone

Phyllis Lam;Gaute Lavik;Marlene M. Jensen;Jack van de Vossenberg

880
Citations
Oxygen minimum zone cryptic sulfur cycling sustained by offshore transport of key sulfur oxidizing bacteria.

Cameron M. Callbeck;Cameron M. Callbeck;Gaute Lavik;Timothy G. Ferdelman;Bernhard Fuchs

719
Citations
Anammox bacteria disguised as denitrifiers: nitrate reduction to dinitrogen gas via nitrite and ammonium

Boran Kartal;Marcel M. M. Kuypers;Gaute Lavik;Jos Schalk

692
Citations
Linking crenarchaeal and bacterial nitrification to anammox in the Black Sea

Phyllis Lam;Marlene Mark Jensen;Gaute Lavik;Daniel F. McGinnis

661
Citations
Anaerobic ammonium oxidation in the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone

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

430
Citations
Anaerobic ammonium‐oxidizing bacteria in marine environments: widespread occurrence but low diversity

Markus C. Schmid;Nils Risgaard-Petersen;Jack van de Vossenberg;Marcel M.M. Kuypers

426
Citations
Nitrogen cycling driven by organic matter export in the South Pacific oxygen minimum zone

Tim Kalvelage;Gaute Lavik;Phyllis Lam;Sergio Contreras

377
Citations
Detoxification of sulphidic African shelf waters by blooming chemolithotrophs

Gaute Lavik;Torben Stührmann;Volker Brüchert;Volker Brüchert;Anja Van der Plas

370
Citations
Complex nitrogen cycling in the sponge Geodia barretti

Friederike Hoffmann;Regina Radax;Dagmar Woebken;Moritz Holtappels

369
Citations
Doubling of marine dinitrogen-fixation rates based on direct measurements

Tobias Großkopf;Wiebke Mohr;Tina Baustian;Harald Schunck

349
Citations
Oxygen Sensitivity of Anammox and Coupled N-Cycle Processes in Oxygen Minimum Zones

Tim Kalvelage;Marlene M. Jensen;Sergio Contreras;Niels Peter Revsbech

340
Citations
Nitrite oxidation in the Namibian oxygen minimum zone

Jessika Füssel;Phyllis Lam;Gaute Lavik;Marlene M Jensen;Marlene M Jensen

304
Citations
Provenance of present-day eolian dust collected off NW Africa

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

271
Citations
The small unicellular diazotrophic symbiont, UCYN-A, is a key player in the marine nitrogen cycle

Clara Martínez-Pérez;Wiebke Mohr;Carolin R Löscher;Julien Dekaezemacker

264
Citations
Nitrogen isotope effects induced by anammox bacteria

Benjamin Brunner;Sergio Contreras;Moritz F. Lehmann;Olga Matantseva

257
Citations
Aerobic denitrification in permeable Wadden Sea sediments.

Hang Gao;Hang Gao;Frank Schreiber;Gavin Collins;Gavin Collins;Marlene Mark Jensen;Marlene Mark Jensen

251
Citations
N2 production rates limited by nitrite availability in the Bay of Bengal oxygen minimum zone

Laura Bristow;Laura Bristow;C. M. Callbeck;M. Larsen;M. A. Altabet

249
Citations
Biological and chemical sulfide oxidation in a Beggiatoa inhabited marine sediment.

André Preisler;Dirk de Beer;Anna Lichtschlag;Gaute Lavik

247
Citations
Anaerobic ammonium oxidation by marine and freshwater planctomycete-like bacteria

M. S. M. Jetten;O. Sliekers;M. Kuypers;T. Dalsgaard

233
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcel M. M. Kuypers Max Planck Society

Ruth A. Schmitz Kiel University

Dirk de Beer Max Planck Society

Julie LaRoche Dalhousie University

Mike S. M. Jetten Radboud University

Joel E. Kostka Georgia Institute of Technology

Helle Ploug University of Gothenburg

Bo Thamdrup University of Southern Denmark

Bernhard M. Fuchs Max Planck Society

Timothy G. Ferdelman Max Planck Society

External Links

Personal website of Gaute Lavik

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