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Overview

Lasse Riemann is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Their primary research areas span Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions in the subfields of Ecology, Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry, Molecular Biology, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their work has been published frequently in scientific venues such as Limnology and Oceanography, Frontiers in Marine Science, Frontiers in Microbiology, Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, and The ISME Journal.

Riemann's research topics primarily cover Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Marine and coastal ecosystems, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Lasse Riemann include:

  • Ecosystem-wide metagenomic binning enables prediction of ecological niches from genomes, 2020, Communications Biology
  • Quantifying nitrogen fixation by heterotrophic bacteria in sinking marine particles, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Global oceanic diazotroph database version 2 and elevated estimate of global oceanic N 2 fixation, 2023, Earth System Science Data
  • Nitrogen Fixation in a Changing Arctic Ocean: An Overlooked Source of Nitrogen?, 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Sinking Trichodesmium fixes nitrogen in the dark ocean, 2022, The ISME Journal

The scientist has also collaborated extensively with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Mar Benavides
  • Søren Hallstrøm
  • Olivier Grosso
  • Matthias Labrenz
  • Anders F. Andersson

Best Publications

  • Dynamics of Bacterial Community Composition and Activity during a Mesocosm Diatom Bloom

    Lasse Riemann;Grieg F. Steward;Farooq Azam

  • Dynamics of Bacterial Community Composition and Activity during a Mesocosm Diatom Bloom

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  • Global patterns of diversity and community structure in marine bacterioplankton

    Thomas Pommier;B Canbäck;Lasse Riemann;Kjärstin H Boström

  • Database of diazotrophs in global ocean: abundance, biomass and nitrogen fixation rates

    Y. W. Luo;S. C. Doney;L. A. Anderson;Mar Benavides

  • Optimization of DNA extraction for quantitative marine bacterioplankton community analysis

    Kjärstin H. Boström;Karin Simu;Åke Hagström;Lasse Riemann

  • Pyrosequencing reveals contrasting seasonal dynamics of taxa within Baltic Sea bacterioplankton communities

    Anders F Andersson;Lasse Riemann;Stefan Bertilsson

  • Variations in bacterial community structure during a dinoflagellate bloom analyzed by DGGE and 16S rDNA sequencing

    Laura B. Fandino;Lasse Riemann;Grieg F. Steward;Richard A. Long

  • Role for urea in nitrification by polar marine Archaea.

    Laura Alonso-Saéz;Allison S Waller;Daniel R Mende;Kevin Bakker

  • All roads lead to home: panmixia of European eel in the Sargasso Sea

    Thomas Damm Als;Michael Møller Hansen;Gregory E. Maes;Martin Castonguay

  • Large variabilities in host strain susceptibility and phage host range govern interactions between lytic marine phages and their Flavobacterium hosts.

    Karin Holmfeldt;Mathias Middelboe;Ole Nybroe;Lasse Riemann

  • Community Dynamics of Free-living and Particle-associated Bacterial Assemblages during a Freshwater Phytoplankton Bloom.

    Lasse Riemann;A. Winding

  • Nitrogenase gene amplicons from global marine surface waters are dominated by genes of non-cyanobacteria.

    Hanna Farnelid;Anders F. Andersson;Stefan Bertilsson;Waleed Abu Al-Soud

  • Twelve previously unknown phage genera are ubiquitous in global oceans

    Karin Holmfeldt;Natalie Solonenko;Manesh B Shah;Kristen L Corrier

  • Nitrogenase genes in non-cyanobacterial plankton: prevalence, diversity and regulation in marine waters

    Lasse Riemann;Hanna Farnelid;Grieg F. Steward

  • Significant N 2 fixation by heterotrophs, photoheterotrophs and heterocystous cyanobacteria in two temperate estuaries

    Mikkel Bentzon-Tilia;Sachia J. Traving;Mustafa Mantikci;Helle Knudsen-Leerbeck

  • Bacterial motility in the sea and its ecological implications

    Hans-Peter Grossart;Lasse Riemann;Farooq Azam

  • Marine Non-Cyanobacterial Diazotrophs: Moving beyond Molecular Detection.

    Deniz Bombar;Ryan W. Paerl;Lasse Riemann

  • Widespread N-Acetyl-d-Glucosamine Uptake among Pelagic Marine Bacteria and Its Ecological Implications

    Lasse Riemann;Farooq Azam

  • Bacterial community composition during two consecutive NE Monsoon periods in the Arabian Sea studied by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) of rRNA genes

    Lasse Riemann;Grieg F. Steward;Laura B. Fandino;Lisa Campbell

  • Active nitrogen-fixing heterotrophic bacteria at and below the chemocline of the central Baltic Sea

    Hanna Farnelid;Mikkel Bentzon-Tilia;Anders F Andersson;Stefan Bertilsson

  • The native bacterioplankton community in the central baltic sea is influenced by freshwater bacterial species.

    Lasse Riemann;C. Leitet;T. Pommier;K. Simu

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Bertilsson
Stefan Bertilsson Swedish Research Council
Åke Hagström
Åke Hagström Linnaeus University
Anders F. Andersson
Anders F. Andersson Royal Institute of Technology
Torkel Gissel Nielsen
Torkel Gissel Nielsen Technical University of Denmark
Mathias Middelboe
Mathias Middelboe University of Copenhagen
Ramiro Logares
Ramiro Logares Spanish National Research Council
Hans-Peter Grossart
Hans-Peter Grossart University of Potsdam
Pia H. Moisander
Pia H. Moisander University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Jarone Pinhassi
Jarone Pinhassi Linnaeus University
Ilana Berman-Frank
Ilana Berman-Frank University of Haifa

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