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Overview

Ulrich Struck is affiliated with the Museum für Naturkunde in Germany and has contributed significantly to fields related to Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research spans several subfields including Ecology, Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their published work covers a range of topics with particular emphasis on:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry

Frequent publication venues for Ulrich Struck include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Fossil record
  • Scientific Reports
  • Papers in Palaeontology
  • Precambrian Research

They have collaborated often with researchers such as Christian Wild, Florian Roth, Dieter Korn, Nils Rädecker, and Christian R. Voolstra.

Recent papers by Ulrich Struck illustrate a focus on environmental impacts and marine ecology:

  • Distribution and source of heavy metals in the sediments of the coastal East China sea: Geochemical controls and typhoon impact (2020), published in Environmental Pollution
  • Nitrogen eutrophication particularly promotes turf algae in coral reefs of the central Red Sea (2020), published in PeerJ
  • Heat stress reduces the contribution of diazotrophs to coral holobiont nitrogen cycling (2021), published in The ISME Journal
  • Corals reveal ENSO-driven synchrony of climate impacts on both terrestrial and marine ecosystems in northern Borneo (2020), published in Scientific Reports
  • Superfrogs in the city: 150 year impact of urbanization and agriculture on the European Common Frog (2020), published in Global Change Biology

Best Publications

  • Temperature and salinity variations of Mediterranean Sea surface waters over the last 16,000 years from records of planktonic stable oxygen isotopes and alkenone unsaturation ratios

    Kay-Christian Emeis;Ulrich Struck;Hans-Martin Schulz;Reinhild Rosenberg

  • A multiproxy reconstruction of the evolution of deep and surface waters in the subarctic Nordic seas over the last 30,000yr

    Henning A. Bauch;Helmut Erlenkeuser;Robert F. Spielhagen;Ulrich Struck

  • Changes in the C, N, P burial rates in some Baltic Sea sediments over the last 150 years—relevance to P regeneration rates and the phosphorus cycle

    K.-C Emeis;U Struck;T Leipe;F Pollehne

  • Hypoxia causes preservation of labile organic matter and changes seafloor microbial community composition (Black Sea).

    Gerdhard L. Jessen;Anna Lichtschlag;Alban Ramette;Silvio Pantoja

  • Stable nitrogen and carbon isotopes as indicator of eutrophication of the Oder river (Baltic sea)

    Maren Voβ;Ulrich Struck

  • Eastern Mediterranean surface water temperatures and d18O composition during deposition of sapropels in the late Quaternary

    Kay-Christian Emeis;Hartmut Schulz;Ulrich Struck;Martine Rossignol-Strick

  • Coral mucus fuels the sponge loop in warm- and cold-water coral reef ecosystems

    Laura Rix;Jasper M. de Goeij;Christina E. Mueller;Ulrich Struck

  • Salinity changes in the central Baltic Sea (NW Europe) over the last 10000 years

    Kay-Christian Emeis;Ulrich Struck;Thomas Blanz;Alexander Kohly

  • Shallow gas in shelf sediments of the Namibian coastal upwelling ecosystem

    K.-C. Emeis;V. Brüchert;B. Currie;R. Endler

  • How to account for the lipid effect on carbon stable‐isotope ratio (δ13C): sample treatment effects and model bias

    Katja Mintenbeck;Thomas Brey;Ute Jacob;Rainer Knust

  • Differential recycling of coral and algal dissolved organic matter via the sponge loop

    Laura Rix;Jasper M. de Goeij;Dick van Oevelen;Ulrich Struck

  • Records of southern and central Baltic Sea eutrophication in δ 13 C and δ 15 N of sedimentary organic matter

    U. Struck;K.-C. Emeis;M. Voss;C. Christiansen

  • Organic matter release by dominant hermatypic corals of the Northern Red Sea

    M. S. Naumann;A. Haas;U. Struck;C. Mayr

  • Marine biogeochemical cycling during the early Cambrian constrained by a nitrogen and organic carbon isotope study of the Xiaotan section, South China

    Lorenzo Cremonese;Graham Shields-Zhou;Ulrich Struck;Hong-Fei Ling

  • Palaeoenvironmental changes in southern Patagonia during the last millennium recorded in lake sediments from Laguna Azul (Argentina)

    Christoph Mayr;Michael Fey;Torsten Haberzettl;Stephanie Janssen

  • Coupling of ocean redox and animal evolution during the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition.

    Dan Wang;Hong-Fei Ling;Ulrich Struck;Xiang-Kun Zhu

  • Palaeoceanographic controls on spatial redox distribution over the Yangtze Platform during the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition

    Lawrence M. Och;Lorenzo Cremonese;Graham A. Shields-Zhou;Graham A. Shields-Zhou;Simon W. Poulton

  • Biological productivity during sapropel S5 formation in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea: Evidence from stable isotopes of nitrogen and carbon

    Ulrich Struck;Kay-Christian Emeis;Maren Voß;Michael D. Krom

  • Organic matter release by coral reef associated benthic algae in the Northern Red Sea

    Andreas F. Haas;Malik S. Naumann;Ulrich Struck;Christoph Mayr

  • Paleoecological studies on variability in marine fish populations: A long-term perspective on the impacts of climatic change on marine ecosystems

    Bruce P. Finney;Juergen Alheit;Kay-Christian Emeis;David B. Field

  • Benthic metabolism and degradation of natural particulate organic matter in carbonate and silicate reef sands of the northern Red Sea

    Christian Wild;Mohammed Rasheed;Carin Jantzen;Perran Cook

  • Reef sponges facilitate the transfer of coral-derived organic matter to their associated fauna via the sponge loop

    Laura Rix;Jasper M. de Goeij;Dick van Oevelen;Ulrich Struck

  • Geochemical and mineralogical investigation of the Permian-Triassic boundary in the Continental Realm of the Southern Karoo Basin, South Africa

    Louise Coney;W. Uwe Reimold;W. Uwe Reimold;P. John Hancox;Dieter Mader

  • Oncoids from the river Alz (southern Germany): Tiny ecosystems in a phosphorus-limited environment

    Daniela Hägele;Reinhold Leinfelder;Jürke Grau;Ernst-Gerhard Burmeister

Frequent Co-Authors

Kay-Christian Emeis
Kay-Christian Emeis Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Antje Boetius
Antje Boetius Max Planck Society
Helmut Erlenkeuser
Helmut Erlenkeuser Kiel University
Christian Wild
Christian Wild University of Bremen
Jörn Thiede
Jörn Thiede Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Silvio Pantoja
Silvio Pantoja University of Concepción
Carsten J. Schubert
Carsten J. Schubert Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Francisca Martínez-Ruiz
Francisca Martínez-Ruiz Spanish National Research Council
Christoph Mayr
Christoph Mayr University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

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