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Karin A F Zonneveld

Karin A F Zonneveld

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Earth Science

D-Index
45
Citations
7057
World Ranking
4492
National Ranking
315

Overview

Karin A F Zonneveld is affiliated with the University of Bremen in Germany. Their research spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a notable focus on Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, primarily concentrated on marine and environmental systems. These include:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Marine Toxins and Detection Methods
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution

Karin A F Zonneveld has contributed recent publications addressing these themes. Representative recent papers include:

  • Climate change, society, and pandemic disease in Roman Italy between 200 BCE and 600 CE (2024), published in Science Advances
  • Spatial distribution of small microplastics in the Norwegian Coastal Current (2024), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Dinoflagellate cysts production, excystment and transport in the upwelling off Cape Blanc (NW Africa) (2022), published in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Flux variability of phyto- and zooplankton communities in the Mauritanian coastal upwelling between 2003 and 2008 (2020), published in Biogeosciences
  • Better molecular preservation of organic matter in an oxic than in a sulfidic depositional environment: evidence from Thalassiphora pelagica (Dinoflagellata, Eocene) cysts (2020), published in Biogeosciences

The scientist frequently publishes in key venues including:

  • Biogeosciences
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Collaborations have been a significant part of their academic output, with frequent co-authors such as:

  • Gerard J M Versteegh
  • Iria García-Moreiras
  • Ana Amorim
  • Jens Hefter
  • Vera Pospelova

Best Publications

  • Atlas of modern organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst distribution

    Fabienne Marret;Karin A.F. Zonneveld

  • Atlas of modern dinoflagellate cyst distribution based on 2405 data points

    Karin A.F. Zonneveld;Fabienne Marret;Gerard J.M. Versteegh;Kara Bogus

  • Selective preservation of organic matter in marine environments; processes and impact on the sedimentary record

    K. A. F. Zonneveld;G. J. M. Versteegh;Sabine Kasten;T. I. Eglinton

  • Preservation of organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts in different oxygen regimes: a 10,000 year natural experiment

    Karin A.F. Zonneveld;Gerard J.M. Versteegh;Gert J. de Lange

  • Palaeoproductivity and post-depositional aerobic organic matter decay reflected by dinoflagellate cyst assemblages of the Eastern Mediterranean S1 sapropel

    K.A.F. Zonneveld;G.J.M. Versteegh;G.J. de Lange

  • A Determination Key for Modern Dinoflagellate Cysts

    Karin A.F. Zonneveld;Vera Pospelova

  • Preservation and organic chemistry of Late Cenozoic organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts: A review

    Karin A F Zonneveld;Gerard Jm Versteegh;Monika Kodrans-Nsiah

  • Process length variation in cysts of a dinoflagellate, Lingulodinium machaerophorum, in surface sediments: Investigating its potential as salinity proxy

    Kenneth N. Mertens;Sofia Ribeiro;Sofia Ribeiro;Ilham Bouimetarhan;Hulya Caner

  • Modem organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts in arctic marine environments and their (paleo-) environmental significance

    Jens Matthiessen;Anne de Vernal;Martin Head;Yuri Okolodkov

  • (Palaeo-)ecological significance, transport and preservation of organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts in the Somali Basin, NW Arabian Sea

    Karin A.F Zonneveld;GeertJan A Brummer

  • Selective preservation of organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts as a tool to quantify past net primary production and bottom water oxygen concentrations

    Karin A.F. Zonneveld;Frank Bockelmann;Ulrike Holzwarth

  • Use of selective degradation to separate preservation from productivity

    Gerard J.M. Versteegh;Karin A.F. Zonneveld

  • New species of organic walled dinoflagellate cysts from modern sediments of the Arabian Sea (Indian Ocean)

    Karin A.F. Zonneveld

  • Mechanisms forcing abrupt fluctuations of the Indian Ocean Summer Monsoon during the last deglaciation

    Karin A.F. Zonneveld;Gerald Ganssen;Simon Troelstra;Gerald J.M. Versteegh

  • Geographical distributions of organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts in surficial sediments of the Benguela upwelling region and their relationship to upper ocean conditions

    Karin A.F Zonneveld;Ramses P. Hoek;Henk Brinkhuis;Helmut Willems

  • Distribution of organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts in shelf surface sediments of the Benguela upwelling system in relationship to environmental conditions

    Ulrike Holzwarth;Oliver Esper;Karin A F Zonneveld

  • Environmental significance of dinoflagellate cysts from the proximal part of the Po-river discharge plume (off southern Italy, Eastern Mediterranean)

    Karin A.F. Zonneveld;Liang Chen;Jürgen Möbius;Magdy S. Mahmoud

  • Shifts in the position of the north equatorial current and rapid productivity changes in the western tropical Atlantic during the last glacial

    Annemiek Vink;Carsten Rühlemann;Karin A. F. Zonneveld;Stefan Mulitza

  • Geographic distribution of dinoflagellate cysts in surface sediments

    Karin A F Zonneveld;Fabienne Marret;Gerard J M Versteegh;Kara A Bogus

  • An experimental field study to test the stability of lipids used for the TEX86 and UK'37 palaeothermometers

    Jung-Hyun Kim;Carme Huguet;Karin A.F. Zonneveld;Gerard J.M. Versteegh

  • Organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts in western equatorial Atlantic surface sediments: distributions and their relation to environment.

    Annemiek Vink;Karin A.F Zonneveld;Helmut Willems

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerard J M Versteegh
Gerard J M Versteegh University of Bremen
Sabine Kasten
Sabine Kasten University of Bremen
Lydie M Dupont
Lydie M Dupont University of Bremen
Gert J. de Lange
Gert J. de Lange Utrecht University
Stefan Mulitza
Stefan Mulitza University of Bremen
Karl-Heinz Baumann
Karl-Heinz Baumann University of Bremen
Enno Schefuß
Enno Schefuß University of Bremen
Hermann Behling
Hermann Behling University of Göttingen
Gerhard Bohrmann
Gerhard Bohrmann University of Bremen

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