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Thomas Tütken is affiliated with Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with specific contributions spanning subfields such as Ecology, Paleontology, Anthropology, Archeology, and Animal Science and Zoology.

The scientist's work encompasses several main topics, including studies on Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Marine animal studies overview, and Ichthyology and Marine Biology.

Frequent publication venues for Thomas Tütken include:

  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution

Notable recent papers authored by Thomas Tütken cover various aspects of paleoecology and isotope analysis:

  • The turnover of dental microwear texture: Testing the" last supper" effect in small mammals in a controlled feeding experiment, 2020, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Zinc isotopes in Late Pleistocene fossil teeth from a Southeast Asian cave setting preserve paleodietary information, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Evidence for the cooking of fish 780,000 years ago at Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Israel, 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Trophic position of Otodus megalodon and great white sharks through time revealed by zinc isotopes, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Nitrogen isotopes in tooth enamel record diet and trophic level enrichment: Results from a controlled feeding experiment, 2020, Chemical Geology

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Co-authors with significant joint publications include Daniela Winkler, Marcus Clauß, Jennifer Leichliter, Nicolas Bourgon, and Klervia Jaouen. These collaborations indicate a broad network within fields related to ecology, paleoecology, and isotope geochemistry.

Best Publications

  • Bioavailable 87Sr/86Sr in different environmental samples - Effects of anthropogenic contamination and implications for isoscapes in past migration studies

    Anne-France Maurer;Stephen J.G. Galer;Corina Knipper;Lars Beierlein

  • Palaeoenvironment and palaeoclimate of the Middle Miocene lake in the Steinheim basin, SW Germany: A reconstruction from C, O, and Sr isotopes of fossil remains

    T. Tütken;T. Tütken;T.W. Vennemann;H. Janz;E.P.J. Heizmann

  • Body temperatures of modern and extinct vertebrates from (13)C-(18)O bond abundances in bioapatite.

    Robert A. Eagle;Edwin A. Schauble;Aradhna K. Tripati;Thomas Tütken

  • Dinosaur Body Temperatures Determined from Isotopic (^(13)C-^(18)O) Ordering in Fossil Biominerals

    Robert A. Eagle;Robert A. Eagle;Thomas Tütken;Taylor S. Martin;Aradhna K. Tripati

  • Effect of organic matrices on the determination of the trace element chemistry (Mg, Sr, Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca) of aragonitic bivalve shells (Arctica islandica)—Comparison of ICP-OES and LA-ICP-MS data

    Bernd R. Schöne;Zengjie Zhang;Dorrit Jacob;David P. Gillikin

  • Glacial–interglacial cycles in Sr and Nd isotopic composition of Arctic marine sediments triggered by the Svalbard/Barents Sea ice sheet

    Thomas Tütken;Anton Eisenhauer;Bettina Wiegand;Bent T Hansen

  • Early diagenesis of bone and tooth apatite in fluvial and marine settings: Constraints from combined oxygen isotope, nitrogen and REE analysis

    T. Tütken;T. Tütken;T.W. Vennemann;H.-U. Pfretzschner

  • Rare earth element systematics of fossil bone revealed by LA-ICPMS analysis

    Daniel Herwartz;Daniel Herwartz;Thomas Tütken;Klaus Peter Jochum;P. Martin Sander

  • Oxygen isotope analysis of human bone phosphate evidences weaning age in archaeological populations

    Kate Britton;Benjamin T. Fuller;Thomas Tütken;Simon Mays

  • Timescales and mechanisms of REE and Hf uptake in fossil bones

    Daniel Herwartz;Thomas Tütken;Carsten Münker;Klaus Peter Jochum

  • Empirical calibration of the clumped isotope paleothermometer using calcites of various origins

    Ulrike Wacker;Jens Fiebig;Julian Tödter;Bernd R. Schöne

  • Grain size separation and sediment mixing in Arctic Ocean sediments: evidence from the strontium isotope systematic

    A. Eisenhauer;H. Meyer;V. Rachold;T. Tütken

  • Niche partitioning between two sympatric genetically distinct cave bears (Ursus spelaeus and Ursus ingressus) and brown bear (Ursus arctos) from Austria: Isotopic evidence from fossil bones

    Hervé Bocherens;Mathias Stiller;Keith A. Hobson;Martina Pacher

  • Paleobiology and skeletochronology of Jurassic dinosaurs: implications from the histology and oxygen isotope compositions of bones

    T. Tütken;H.-U. Pfretzschner;T.W. Vennemann;G. Sun

  • Late Quaternary vegetation and environments in the Verkhoyansk Mountains region (NE Asia) reconstructed from a 50-kyr fossil pollen record from Lake Billyakh

    Stefanie Müller;Pavel E. Tarasov;Andrei A. Andreev;Thomas Tütken

  • Stable isotope compositions of mammoth teeth from Niederweningen, Switzerland: Implications for the Late Pleistocene climate, environment, and diet

    Thomas Tütken;Heinz Furrer;Torsten Walter Vennemann

  • Fossil bones and teeth: Preservation or alteration of biogenic compositions?

    Thomas Tütken;Torsten W. Vennemann

  • Nd and Sr isotope compositions in modern and fossil bones – Proxies for vertebrate provenance and taphonomy

    Thomas Tütken;Torsten W. Vennemann;Hans-U. Pfretzschner

  • Stable isotope ecology of Miocene large mammals from Sandelzhausen, southern Germany

    Thomas Tütken;Thomas Tütken;Torsten Vennemann

  • Oxygen and carbon isotope variations in a modern rodent community - implications for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions.

    Alexander Gehler;Thomas Tütken;Andreas Pack

  • Isotopic ordering in eggshells reflects body temperatures and suggests differing thermophysiology in two Cretaceous dinosaurs

    Robert A. Eagle;Marcus Enriquez;Gerald Grellet-Tinner;Alberto Pérez-Huerta

  • Constraints on Miocene oceanography and climate in the Western and Central Paratethys: O-, Sr-, and Nd-isotope compositions of marine fish and mammal remains

    László Kocsis;Torsten W. Vennemann;Ernst Hegner;Denis Fontignie

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcus Clauss
Marcus Clauss University of Zurich
Torsten Vennemann
Torsten Vennemann University of Lausanne
Daryl Codron
Daryl Codron University of the Free State
Jürgen Hummel
Jürgen Hummel University of Göttingen
Andrei Andreev
Andrei Andreev Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Michael M. Joachimski
Michael M. Joachimski University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Pavel E. Tarasov
Pavel E. Tarasov Freie Universität Berlin
Klaus Peter Jochum
Klaus Peter Jochum Max Planck Society
Bernhard Diekmann
Bernhard Diekmann Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Bernd R. Schöne
Bernd R. Schöne Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

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