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Peter Stief is affiliated with the University of Southern Denmark in Denmark, specializing in environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their research primarily focuses on environmental processes related to microbial ecology and marine systems.

The main fields of their study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Their subfields are:

  • Ecology
  • Oceanography
  • Pollution
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Global and Planetary Change

Key research topics covered by Peter Stief encompass:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Polar Research and Ecology
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology

Among Peter Stief's notable recent scientific papers are:

  • Intracellular nitrate storage by diatoms can be an important nitrogen pool in freshwater and marine ecosystems, 2022, Communications Earth & Environment
  • Respiration by "marine snow" at high hydrostatic pressure: Insights from continuous oxygen measurements in a rotating pressure tank, 2021, Limnology and Oceanography
  • Hydrostatic pressure induces transformations in the organic matter and microbial community composition of marine snow particles, 2023, Communications Earth & Environment

Peter Stief has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Ronnie N. Glud
  • Belén Franco-Cisterna
  • John Paul Balmonte
  • Clemens Schauberger
  • Mie H. S. Winding

Frequent publication venues for Peter Stief include:

  • Goldschmidt2021 abstracts
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Limnology and Oceanography
  • Marine Ecology Progress Series

Best Publications

  • The Marine Microbial Eukaryote Transcriptome Sequencing Project (MMETSP): Illuminating the Functional Diversity of Eukaryotic Life in the Oceans through Transcriptome Sequencing

    Patrick J. Keeling;Patrick J. Keeling;Fabien Burki;Heather M. Wilcox;Bassem Allam

  • Anaerobic methane oxidation coupled to denitrification is the dominant methane sink in a deep lake

    Joerg S. Deutzmann;Peter Stief;Peter Stief;Josephin Brandes;Bernhard Schink

  • Diatoms respire nitrate to survive dark and anoxic conditions

    Anja Kamp;Dirk de Beer;Jana L. Nitsch;Gaute Lavik

  • Stimulation of microbial nitrogen cycling in aquatic ecosystems by benthic macrofauna: mechanisms and environmental implications

    P. Stief;P. Stief

  • In situ distribution and activity of nitrifying bacteria in freshwater sediment

    Dörte Altmann;Peter Stief;Rudolf Amann;Dirk De Beer

  • Nitrosomonas Nm143‐like ammonia oxidizers and Nitrospira marina‐like nitrite oxidizers dominate the nitrifier community in a marine aquaculture biofilm

    Bärbel U. Foesel;Bärbel U. Foesel;Armin Gieseke;Carsten Schwermer;Peter Stief

  • Tube-dwelling invertebrates: tiny ecosystem engineers have large effects in lake ecosystems

    Franz Hölker;Michael J. Vanni;Jan J. Kuiper;Christof Meile

  • Nitrate Storage and Dissimilatory Nitrate Reduction by Eukaryotic Microbes

    Anja Kamp;Signe Høgslund;Nils Risgaard-Petersen;Peter Stief

  • Nitrous oxide emission by aquatic macrofauna

    Peter Stief;Morten Poulsen;Lars Peter Nielsen;Hans Brix

  • Cultivation-independent characterization of ‘Candidatus Magnetobacterium bavaricum’ via ultrastructural, geochemical, ecological and metagenomic methods

    Christian Jogler;Martina Niebler;W. Lin;Michael Kube

  • Anaerobic sulfide oxidation with nitrate by a freshwater Beggiatoa enrichment culture.

    Anja Kamp;Peter Stief;Peter Stief;Heide N. Schulz-Vogt

  • High rates of denitrification and nitrous oxide emission in arid biological soil crusts from the Sultanate of Oman

    Raeid M M Abed;Phyllis Lam;Dirk de Beer;Peter Stief

  • High Temporal Resolution Oxygen Imaging in Bioirrigated Sediments

    Lubos Polerecky;Nils Volkenborn;Peter Stief

  • Anaerobic Nitrogen Turnover by Sinking Diatom Aggregates at Varying Ambient Oxygen Levels.

    Peter Stief;Anja Kamp;Bo Thamdrup;Ronnie N. Glud

  • Probing the microenvironment of freshwater sediment macrofauna : Implications of deposit-feeding and bioirrigation for nitrogen cycling

    Peter Stief;Dirk de Beer

  • Intracellular nitrate storage by diatoms can be an important nitrogen pool in freshwater and marine ecosystems

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  • Ammonia-oxidizing Crenarchaeota and nitrification inside the tissue of a colonial ascidian.

    Manuel Martínez-García;Peter Stief;Marta Díaz-Valdés;Gerhard Wanner

  • Trait-mediated indirect effects of predatory fish on microbial mineralization in aquatic sediments.

    Peter Stief;Franz Hölker

  • Bioturbation effects of Chironomus riparius on the benthic N-cycle as measured using microsensors and microbiological assays

    Peter Stief;Dirk de Beer

  • Shell biofilm-associated nitrous oxide production in marine molluscs: processes, precursors and relative importance.

    Ines M Heisterkamp;Andreas Schramm;Lone Heimann Larsen;Nanna B Svenningsen

  • Vertical activity distribution of dissimilatory nitrate reduction in coastal marine sediments

    Anna Behrendt;Dirk de Beer;Peter Stief;Peter Stief

  • Shell biofilm nitrification and gut denitrification contribute to emission of nitrous oxide by the invasive freshwater mussel Dreissena polymorpha (zebra mussel).

    Nanna B Svenningsen;Ines M Heisterkamp;Maria Sigby-Clausen;Lone Heimann Larsen

  • Nitrous oxide production associated with coastal marine invertebrates

    Ines Maria Heisterkamp;Andreas Schramm;Dirk de Beer;Peter Stief

Frequent Co-Authors

Dirk de Beer
Dirk de Beer Max Planck Society
Ronnie N. Glud
Ronnie N. Glud University of Southern Denmark
Andreas Schramm
Andreas Schramm Aarhus University
Bo Thamdrup
Bo Thamdrup University of Southern Denmark
Hans-Peter Grossart
Hans-Peter Grossart University of Potsdam
Rudolf Amann
Rudolf Amann Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Gaute Lavik
Gaute Lavik Max Planck Society
Denis H. Lynn
Denis H. Lynn University of British Columbia
John M. Archibald
John M. Archibald Dalhousie University
Patrick J. Keeling
Patrick J. Keeling University of British Columbia

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