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Volker Brüchert

Volker Brüchert

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Earth Science

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41
Citations
5838
World Ranking
5581
National Ranking
50

Overview

Volker Brüchert is a researcher affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden, with a professional focus in Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including Environmental Chemistry, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, and Ecology.

The scientist's research typically addresses topics such as Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Marine and coastal ecosystems, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Climate change and permafrost, and Cryospheric studies and observations.

Volker Brüchert has contributed to numerous publications, appearing frequently in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) at La Trobe University, Communications Earth & Environment, Frontiers in Marine Science, and Biogeosciences.

Recent papers authored by or involving Volker Brüchert include:

  • Ryder Glacier in northwest Greenland is shielded from warm Atlantic water by a bathymetric sill (2020, Communications Earth & Environment)
  • Source apportionment of methane escaping the subsea permafrost system in the outer Eurasian Arctic Shelf (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Physical Disturbance by Bottom Trawling Suspends Particulate Matter and Alters Biogeochemical Processes on and Near the Seafloor (2021, Frontiers in Marine Science)
  • Methane emissions offset atmospheric carbon dioxide uptake in coastal macroalgae, mixed vegetation and sediment ecosystems (2023, Nature Communications)
  • Impacts of bottom trawling on benthic biogeochemistry in muddy sediments: Removal of surface sediment using an experimental field study (2021, Marine Environmental Research)

Frequent collaborators of Volker Brüchert include Gerold Wefer, Wolfgang Berger, Carl Richter, Donald D. Adams, and Linda Davis Anderson, each having partnered on numerous publications.

Best Publications

  • Diversity of Sulfur Isotope Fractionations by Sulfate-Reducing Prokaryotes

    Jan Detmers;Volker Brüchert;Kirsten S. Habicht;Jan Kuever

  • The importance of benthic-pelagic coupling for marine ecosystem functioning in a changing world

    Jennifer R. Griffiths;Martina Kadin;Francisco J. A. Nascimento;Tobias Tamelander

  • Detoxification of sulphidic African shelf waters by blooming chemolithotrophs

    Gaute Lavik;Torben Stührmann;Volker Brüchert;Volker Brüchert;Anja Van der Plas

  • Ryder Glacier in northwest Greenland is shielded from warm Atlantic water by a bathymetric sill

    Martin Jakobsson;Larry A. Mayer;Johan Nilsson;Christian Stranne

  • Meiofauna increases bacterial denitrification in marine sediments

    Stefano Bonaglia;Francisco J. A. Nascimento;M. Bartoli;Isabell Klawonn

  • Microbial sequestration of phosphorus in anoxic upwelling sediments

    Tobias Goldhammer;Volker Brüchert;Timothy G. Ferdelman;Timothy G. Ferdelman;Matthias Zabel

  • Regulation of bacterial sulfate reduction and hydrogen sulfide fluxes in the central namibian coastal upwelling zone

    Volker Brüchert;Bo Barker Jørgensen;Kirsten Neumann;Daniela Riechmann

  • A constant flux of diverse thermophilic bacteria into the cold arctic seabed

    Casey R. J. Hubert;Alexander Loy;Maren Nickel;Carol Arnosti

  • Reviews and syntheses: Carbon use efficiency from organisms to ecosystems – definitions, theories, and empirical evidence

    Stefano Manzoni;Petr Čapek;Philipp Porada;Martin Thurner

  • Contemporaneous early diagenetic formation of organic and inorganic sulfur in estuarine sediments from St. Andrew Bay, Florida, USA

    Volker Brüchert;Lisa M. Pratt

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

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

  • Paradox reconsidered: Methane oversaturation in well-oxygenated lake waters

    Kam W. Tang;Kam W. Tang;Daniel Frank Mcginnis;Daniel Frank Mcginnis;Katharina Frindte;Volker Brüchert

  • Controls on stable sulfur isotope fractionation during bacterial sulfate reduction in Arctic sediments

    Volker Brüchert;Christian Knoblauch;Bo Barker Jørgensen

  • An integrated sulfur isotope model for Namibian shelf sediments

    Andrew W. Dale;Volker Brüchert;Marc Alperin;Pierre Regnier;Pierre Regnier

  • Kinetic oxygen isotope effects during dissimilatory sulfate reduction: a combined theoretical and experimental approach.

    Alexandra V. Turchyn;Volker Brüchert;Timothy W. Lyons;Gregory S. Engel

  • The impact of temperature change on the activity and community composition of sulfate-reducing bacteria in arctic versus temperate marine sediments

    Alberto Robador;Volker Brüchert;Bo Barker Jørgensen

  • Seasonal oxygen, nitrogen and phosphorus benthic cycling along an impacted Baltic Sea estuary: regulation and spatial patterns

    Stefano Bonaglia;Barbara Deutsch;Marco Bartoli;Hannah K. Marchant

  • Early diagenesis of sulfur in estuarine sediments: the role of sedimentary humic and fulvic acids

    Volker Brüchert

  • Effects of freeze-thaw cycles on anaerobic microbial processes in an Arctic intertidal mud flat.

    Joanna E Sawicka;Alberto Robador;Alberto Robador;Casey Hubert;Casey Hubert;Bo Barker Jørgensen;Bo Barker Jørgensen

  • Methane emissions offset atmospheric carbon dioxide uptake in coastal macroalgae, mixed vegetation and sediment ecosystems

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  • Temporal Trends of C8-C36 Chlorinated Paraffins in Swedish Coastal Sediment Cores over the Past 80 Years.

    Bo Yuan;Volker Brüchert;Anna Sobek;Cynthia A. de Wit

  • Effect of reoxygenation and Marenzelleria spp. bioturbation on Baltic Sea sediment metabolism

    Stefano Bonaglia;Marco Bartoli;Jonas S. Gunnarsson;Lars Rahm

  • Source apportionment of methane escaping the subsea permafrost system in the outer Eurasian Arctic Shelf

    Julia Steinbach;Henry Holmstrand;Kseniia Shcherbakova;Denis Kosmach

Frequent Co-Authors

Bo Barker Jørgensen
Bo Barker Jørgensen Aarhus University
Timothy G. Ferdelman
Timothy G. Ferdelman Max Planck Society
Antje Boetius
Antje Boetius Max Planck Society
Igor Semiletov
Igor Semiletov Russian Academy of Sciences
Dirk de Beer
Dirk de Beer Max Planck Society
Marco Bartoli
Marco Bartoli University of Parma
Carol Arnosti
Carol Arnosti University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Helle Ploug
Helle Ploug University of Gothenburg
Marcel M. M. Kuypers
Marcel M. M. Kuypers Max Planck Society
Matthias Zabel
Matthias Zabel University of Bremen

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