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Lorenz Schwark

Lorenz Schwark

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Earth Science

D-Index
63
Citations
15909
World Ranking
1578
National Ranking
97

Overview

Lorenz Schwark is affiliated with Kiel University in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields of study, primarily focusing on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Within these domains, their work addresses several subfields including Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, Mechanics of Materials, Ecology, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's research covers a range of main topics such as Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Petroleum Processing and Analysis, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, and Geological Studies and Exploration.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • International Journal of Earth Sciences

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Lorenz Schwark include:

  • Towards a more labor-saving way in microbial ammonium oxidation: A review on complete ammonia oxidization (comammox), 2022, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Molecular paleothermometry of the early Toarcian climate perturbation, 2020, Global and Planetary Change
  • δ13C of terrestrial vegetation records Toarcian CO2 and climate gradients, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Abundance and Functional Importance of Complete Ammonia Oxidizers and Other Nitrifiers in a Riparian Ecosystem, 2021, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Microbial life in the nascent Chicxulub crater, 2020, Geology

Their collaborative network includes frequent co-authors such as Wolfgang Ruebsam, Thorsten Bauersachs, Kliti Grice, Matías Reolid, and Emanuela Mattioli.

Best Publications

  • Archaea predominate among ammonia-oxidizing prokaryotes in soils

    S. Leininger;T. Urich;M. Schloter;L. Schwark

  • How relevant is recalcitrance for the stabilization of organic matter in soils

    Bernd Marschner;Sonja Brodowski;Alexander Dreves;Gerd Gleixner

  • Astronomical pacing of methane release in the Early Jurassic period

    David B. Kemp;Angela L. Coe;Anthony S. Cohen;Lorenz Schwark

  • The Posidonia Shale (Lower Toarcian) of SW-Germany: an oxygen-depleted ecosystem controlled by sea level and palaeoclimate

    Hans-Joachim Röhl;Annette Schmid-Röhl;Wolfgang Oschmann;Andreas Frimmel

  • Osmium isotope evidence for the regulation of atmospheric CO2 by continental weathering

    Anthony S. Cohen;Angela L. Coe;Stephen M. Harding;Lorenz Schwark

  • Hotspots of anaerobic ammonium oxidation at land–freshwater interfaces

    Guibing Zhu;Shanyun Wang;Shanyun Wang;Weidong Wang;Yu Wang

  • Reconstruction of postglacial to early Holocene vegetation history in terrestrial Central Europe via cuticular lipid biomarkers and pollen records from lake sediments

    L. Schwark;K. Zink;J. Lechterbeck

  • Chemostratigraphy of the Posidonia Black Shale, SW-Germany: II. Assessment of extent and persistence of photic-zone anoxia using aryl isoprenoid distributions

    L Schwark;A Frimmel

  • Biomonitoring of air quality in the Cologne Conurbation using pine needles as a passive sampler: Part II: polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH)

    E Lehndorff;L Schwark

  • Nitrification in terrestrial hot springs of Iceland and Kamchatka

    Laila J. Reigstad;Andreas Richter;Holger Daims;Tim Urich;Tim Urich

  • Sterane biomarkers as indicators of palaeozoic algal evolution and extinction events

    Lorenz Schwark;Petra Empt

  • Source and turnover of organic matter in agricultural soils derived from n-alkane/n-carboxylic acid compositions and C-isotope signatures

    Guido L.B. Wiesenberg;Jan Schwarzbauer;Michael W.I. Schmidt;Lorenz Schwark

  • Analysis of late Palaeozoic glacial to postglacial sedimentary successions in South Africa by geochemical proxies – Response to climate evolution and sedimentary environment

    Kay Scheffler;Dieter Buehmann;Lorenz Schwark

  • Carbon, sulfur, oxygen and strontium isotope records, organic geochemistry and biostratigraphy across the Permian/Triassic boundary in Abadeh, Iran

    Christoph Korte;Heinz W. Kozur;Michael M. Joachimski;Harald Strauss

  • Chemostratigraphy of the Posidonia Black Shale, SW Germany

    A Frimmel;A Frimmel;W Oschmann;L Schwark

  • Cryosphere carbon dynamics control early Toarcian global warming and sea level evolution

    Wolfgang Ruebsam;Bernhard Mayer;Lorenz Schwark;Lorenz Schwark

  • Temperature dependency of long-chain alkenone distributions in recent to fossil limnic sediments and in lake waters

    Klaus-G Zink;Detlev Leythaeuser;Michael Melkonian;Lorenz Schwark

  • Global changes during Carboniferous–Permian glaciation of Gondwana: Linking polar and equatorial climate evolution by geochemical proxies

    K. Scheffler;S. Hoernes;L. Schwark

  • Molecular indicators of palaeoenvironmental conditions in an immature Permian shale (Kupferschiefer, Lower Rhine Basin, north-west Germany) from free and S-bound lipids

    Kliti Grice;Philippe Schaeffer;Lorenz Schwark;James R. Maxwell

  • A multi-proxy approach to reconstruct hydrological changes and Holocene climate development of Nam Co, Central Tibet

    I. Mügler;Gerd Gleixner;F. Günther;R. Mäusbacher

  • Biomonitoring of air quality in the Cologne conurbation using pine needles as a passive sampler—Part I: magnetic properties

    M Urbat;E Lehndorff;L Schwark

Frequent Co-Authors

Kliti Grice
Kliti Grice Curtin University
Guido L. B. Wiesenberg
Guido L. B. Wiesenberg University of Zurich
Detlev Leythaeuser
Detlev Leythaeuser University of Cologne
Paul F. Greenwood
Paul F. Greenwood Curtin University
Gerd Gleixner
Gerd Gleixner Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Michael E. Böttcher
Michael E. Böttcher Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Michael Schloter
Michael Schloter Technical University of Munich
Ingrid Kögel-Knabner
Ingrid Kögel-Knabner Technical University of Munich
Wulf Amelung
Wulf Amelung University of Bonn
Yakov Kuzyakov
Yakov Kuzyakov University of Göttingen

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