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Overview

Henk Visscher is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands and works primarily within the Earth and Planetary Sciences field.

Their research contributions focus on multiple subfields including:

  • Paleontology
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Geophysics
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Geology

Their main topics of work cover areas such as:

  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Plant Diversity and Evolution
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies

Visscher has co-authored publications with frequently collaborating researchers including:

  • Bas van de Schootbrugge
  • Carolien van der Weijst
  • Teuntje P. Hollaar
  • Marco Vecoli
  • Paul K. Strother

Publications by Visscher appear notably in the following journals:

  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Geology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Visscher comprise:

  • Catastrophic soil loss associated with end-Triassic deforestation, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • A molecular biomarker for end-Permian plant extinction in South China, 2021, Geology

Best Publications

  • Rapid and synchronous collapse of marine and terrestrial ecosystems during the end-Permian biotic crisis

    Richard J. Twitchett;Cindy V. Looy;Ric Morante;Henk Visscher

  • Paleoatmospheric Signatures in Neogene Fossil Leaves

    Johan Van Der Burgh;Henk Visscher;David L. Dilcher;Wolfram M. Kürschner

  • Oak leaves as biosensors of late Neogene and early Pleistocene paleoatmospheric CO2 concentrations

    Wolfram M. Kürschner;Johan van der Burgh;Henk Visscher;David L. Dilcher

  • Late Jurassic to earliest Cretaceous palaeoclimatic evolution of the southern North Sea

    Oscar Abbink;Jordi Targarona;Henk Brinkhuis;Henk Visscher

  • The terminal Paleozoic fungal event: evidence of terrestrial ecosystem destabilization and collapse.

    Henk Visscher;Henk Brinkhuis;David L. Dilcher;William C. Elsik

  • Life in the end-Permian dead zone

    Cindy V. Looy;Richard J. Twitchett;David L. Dilcher;Johanna H. A. Van Konijnenburg-Van Cittert

  • Catastrophic soil erosion during the end-Permian biotic crisis

    Mark A. Sephton;Cindy V. Looy;Henk Brinkhuis;Paul B. Wignall

  • The delayed resurgence of equatorial forests after the Permian–Triassic ecologic crisis

    C. V. Looy;W. A. Brugman;D. L. Dilcher;H. Visscher

  • Environmental mutagenesis during the end-Permian ecological crisis

    Henk Visscher;Cindy V. Looy;Margaret E. Collinson;Henk Brinkhuis

  • A sporomorph ecogroup model for the Northwest European Jurassic - Lower Cretaceousi: concepts and framework

    O.A. Abbink;J.H.A. van Konijnenburg-van Cittert;H. Visscher

  • The Apectodinium acme and terrestrial discharge during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum: new palynological, geochemical and calcareous nannoplankton observations at Tawanui, New Zealand

    Erica M. Crouch;Erica M. Crouch;Gerald R. Dickens;Gerald R. Dickens;Henk Brinkhuis;Marie Pierre Aubry

  • Dinoflagellate-based sea surface temperature reconstructions across the Cretaceous–Tertiary boundary

    H Brinkhuis;J.P Bujak;J Smit;G.J.M Versteegh

  • Fungal event and palynological record of ecological crisis and recovery across the Permian-Triassic boundary

    Yoram Eshet;Michael R. Rampino;Henk Visscher

  • Integration of proxy data and model scenarios for the mid-Holocene onset of modern ENSO variability

    Timme H. Donders;Friederike Wagner-Cremer;Henk Visscher

  • Century-scale shifts in early holocene atmospheric CO2 concentration

    Friederike Wagner;Sjoerd J. P. Bohncke;David L. Dilcher;Wolfram M. Kürschner

  • Palynology of the circum-mediterranean triassic: Phytogeographical and palaeoclimatological implications

    H. Visscher;C. J. van der Zwan

  • Pollen evidence for the transition of the Eastern Australian climate system from the post-glacial to the present-day ENSO mode

    Timme H. Donders;Simon G. Haberle;Geoffrey Hope;Friederike Wagner

  • Bias of the paleobotanical record as a consequence of variations in the chemical composition of higher vascular plant cuticles

    Erik W. Tegelaar;Hans Kerp;Henk Visscher;Pieter A. Schenck

  • A natural experiment on plant acclimation: lifetime stomatal frequency response of an individual tree to annual atmospheric CO2 increase.

    Friederike Wagner;Raimond Below;Pim de Klerk;David L. Dilcher

  • Stomatal frequency adjustment of four conifer species to historical changes in atmospheric CO2.

    Lenny L. R. Kouwenberg;Jennifer C. McElwain;Wolfram M. Kürschner;Friederike Wagner

Frequent Co-Authors

Henk Brinkhuis
Henk Brinkhuis Utrecht University
Wolfram M. Kürschner
Wolfram M. Kürschner University of Oslo
Cindy V. Looy
Cindy V. Looy University of California, Berkeley
David L. Dilcher
David L. Dilcher Indiana University
Mark A. Sephton
Mark A. Sephton Imperial College London
Matthew Huber
Matthew Huber Purdue University West Lafayette
Peter K Bijl
Peter K Bijl Utrecht University
Lisa C. Sloan
Lisa C. Sloan University of California, Santa Cruz
Torsten Wappler
Torsten Wappler Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt
Gerald R. Dickens
Gerald R. Dickens Trinity College Dublin

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