Publications

Decker C., S. Van Gaever, J.-C. Caprais, A. Lichtschlag, O. Gauthier, A. Andersen, K. Olu, (accepted). Habitat heterogeneity influences cold-seep macrofaunal communities: a multi-scale study along the Norwegian margin. Part 1: Macrofaunal community structure. Marine Ecology.

Sergeeva, N., A. J. Gooday, S.A. Mazlumyan, E.A. Kolesnikova, A. Lichtschlag, T.N., Koshelva and O.V. Anikeeva, (2011), Meiobenthos of the oxic/anoxic interface in the south-western region of the Black Sea: abundance and taxonomic composition in A.V. Altenbach, J.M. Bernhard, J. Seckbach (eds): “ANOXIA: Evidence for Eukaryote Survival and Paleontological Strategies”, Springer-Verlag, (in press).

Grünke, S., J. Felden, A. Lichtschlag, A.-C. Girnth, D. de Beer, F. Wenzhöfer, and A. Boetius. (2011), Niche differentiation among mat-forming, sulfide-oxidizing bacteria at cold seeps of the Nile Deep Sea Fan (Eastern Mediterranean Sea). Geobiology 9, 330-348.

Girnth, A.-C., S. Grünke, A. Lichtschlag, J. Felden, K. Knittel, F. Wenzhöfer, D. deBeer, A. Boetius, (2011), A novel, mat-forming Thiomargarita population associated with a sulfidic fluid flow from a deep-sea mud volcano. Environ. Microbiol. 13, 495-505.

Grünke, S., Lichtschlag, A., de Beer, D., Kuypers, M., Lösekann-Behrens, T., Ramette, A., Boetius, A., (2010) Novel observations of Thiobacterium, a sulfur-storing Gammaproteobacterium producing gelatinous mats. ISME 4,1031-1043.

Lichtschlag, A., J. Felden, F. Wenzhöfer, F. Schubotz, T. Ertefai, A. Boetius., D. deBeer, (2010), Methane and sulfide fluxes in permanent anoxia: in situ studies at the Dvurechenskii mud volcano (Sorokin Trough, Black Sea). Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 7, 5002-5018.

Lichtschlag, A., Felden, J., Brüchert, V., Boetius A., de Beer, D., (2010). Geochemical processes and chemosynthetic primary production in different thiotrophic mats of the Håkon Mosby Mud Volcano (Barents Sea). Limnology and Oceanography 55: 931-949.

Lichtschlag, A., (2009) “In situ quantification of biogeochemical processes at cold seeps” University Bremen/Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen. PhD Thesis.

Preisler, A., de Beer, D., Lichtschlag, A., Lavik, G., Boetius, A., Jørgensen, B.B., (2007). Biological and chemical sulfide oxidation in a Beggiatoa inhabited marine sediment. ISME-Journal 1: 341-353.

Lichtschlag, A., A. Kamyshny Jr., T.G. Ferdelman, D. deBeer, (in review). A deep reactive ferric iron source drives side oxidation in the euxinic surface sediments of the Dvurechenskii mud volcano (Black Sea). Submitted to Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

Grünke S., A. Lichtschlag, D. deBeer, J. Felden, V. Salman, A. Ramette, H. Schulz-Vogt, A. Boetius (in review). Diversity of deep-sea thiotrophic bacterial mats associated with cold seeps of the Norwegian continental margin. Submitted to Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

Sergeeva N.G., S.A. Mazlumyan, M. N. Çağatay, A. Lichtschlag (submitted). Hypoxic meiobenthic communities of the Istanbul Strait’s (Bosporus) outlet area of the Black Sea. Submitted to Marine Ecology Journal.

Lichtschlag, A., F. Wenzhöfer, F. Janssen, U. Struck, D. Donis, G. Jessen, A. Boetius (2011). Effect of variable oxygen conditions on benthic activity at the Crimean shelf (Black Sea). ASLO meeting San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Lichtschlag, A., Felden, J., Wenzhöfer, F., Grünke, S., Boetius, A., de Beer, D., (2008). Thiotrophic mats and their association with methane discharge- comparison of different cold seep sites, 9. International Conference on Gas in Marine Sediments, Bremen, Germany

Lichtschlag, A., Felden, J., Wenzhöfer, F., Mohr, T., Feseker, T., Boetius, A., de Beer, D., (2007). Methane fluxes and turnover in permanent anoxia: in situ studies of the Dvurechenskii mud volcano (Black Sea), Goldschmidt 2007 - "Atoms to Planets", Cologne, Germany

Lichtschlag, A., Felden, J., Wenzhöfer, F., Mohr, T., Feseker, T., Boetius, A., and de Beer, D. (2007) In situ studies at the Dvurechenskii mud volcano (Black Sea): methane-driven geochemical processes in permanent anoxia. International Conference and 97th Annual Meeting of the Geologische Vereinigung e.V. Bremen, Germany.

Lichtschlag, A., Wegener, G., Boetius, A., Schlüter, M., de Beer, D., (2007). The impact of methane on biogeochemical processes at the Håkon Mosby Mud Volcano,
EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria

Lichtschlag, A., Felden, J., Wenzhöfer, F., Mohr, T., Feseker, T., Boetius, A., de Beer, D., (2007). In situ studies at the Dvurechenskii mud volcano (Black Sea): methane-driven geochemical processes in permanent anoxia, International Conference and 97th Annual Meeting of the Geologische Vereinigung e.V. Bremen, Germany

Lichtschlag, A., Janssen, F., Fischer, J. P., Wenzhöfer, F., Jessen, G., and Boetius, A. (2011) Mat-forming sulfide-oxidizing bacteria thriving in the hypoxic zone of the Crimean shelf (Black Sea). EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria.

Lichtschlag, A., Wenzhöfer, F., Janssen, F., Struck, U., Donis, D., Jessen, G., and Boetius, A. (2011) Effect of varying oxygen conditions on biogeochemical processes and benthic activities at the Crimean shelf of the Black Sea. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria.

Lichtschlag, A., Felden, J., Grünke, S., Wenzhöfer, F., de Beer, D., Boetius, A., (2008). Methane, sulfide and oxygen fluxes at methane and brine seeps of the Nile Deep Sea Fan (Eastern Mediterranean), AOM-meeting, Aselage, Germany

Lichtschlag, A., Felden, J., Wenzhöfer, F., Grünke, S., Wegener, G., Boetius, A., Foucher J.-P., de Beer, D., (2007). Biogeochemical processes associated with microbial mats of the Nile Deep Sea Fan pockmark area, EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria

Lichtschlag, A., Felden, J., Wenzhöfer, F., Grünke, S., Wegener, G., Boetius, A., Foucher J.-P., de Beer, D., (2007). In situ fluxes and turnover rates of microbial mats of the Nile Deep Sea Fan, International Conference and 97th Annual Meeting of the Geologische Vereinigung e.V., Bremen, Germany

Lichtschlag, A., Røy, H., Niemann, H., Boetius, A., Klages, M., de Beer, D., (2006), Microbial turnover of sulfide in combination with iron precipitation at the Håkon Mosby Mud Volcano, EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria