2010	Gao, H., F. Schreiber, G. Collins, M. M. Jensen, J. E Kostka, G. Lavik, D. de Beer, H.-Y. Zhou, M. M. M. Kuypers (2010) Aerobic denitrification in permeable Wadden Sea sediments, The ISME Journal, 4, 417-426.
	Gihring, T. M., G. Lavik, M. M. M. Kuypers, J. E. Kostka (2010) Direct determination of nitrogen cycling rates and pathways in Arctic fjord sediments (Svalbard, Norway), Limnology and Oceanography, 55, 740–752.
	Ploug, H., N. Musat, B. Adam, C.L. Moraru, G. Lavik, T. Vagner, B. Bergman, M.M.M. Kuypers. Carbon and nitrogen fluxes associated with the cyanobacterium Aphanizomenon sp. in the Baltic Sea. ISME Journal advance online publication 29 April 2010.
2009	Halm, H., N. Musat, P. Lam, R. Langlois, F. Musat, S. Peduzzi, G. Lavik, C.J. Schubert, B. Sinha, J. LaRoche and M.M.M. Kuypers (2009) Co-occurrence of denitrification and nitrogen fixation in a meromictic lake, Lake Cadagno (Switzerland). Environmental Microbiology, 11, 1945-1958.
	Hamersley, M.R., D. Woebken, B. Boehrer, M. Schultze, G. Lavik, and M. M. M. Kuypers. (2009) Water column anammox and denitrification in a temperate permanently stratified lake (Lake Rassnitzer, Germany). Systematic and Applied Microbiology 32, 571-582.
	Hoffmann, F., R. Radax, D. Woebken, M. Holtappels, G. Lavik, H.T. Rapp, M.-L. Schläppy, C. Schleper, M.M.M. Kuypers (2009) Complex nitrogen cycling in the sponge Geodia barrette, Environmental Microbiology, 11, 2228-2243.
	Lavik, G., T. Stührmann, V. Brüchert, A. Van der Plas, V. Mohrholz, P. Lam, M. Mußmann, B.M. Fuchs, R. Amann, U. Lass, and M.M.M. Kuypers (2009) Detoxification of sulphidic African shelf waters by blooming chemolithotrophs. Nature, 457, 581-584.
	Lam, P., G. Lavik, M. M. Jensen, J. van de Vossenberg, M. Schmid, D. Gutiérrez, R. Amann, M.S M. Jetten and M.M.M. Kuypers (2009) Revising the nitrogen cycle in the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone, PNAS, 104, 7104–7109.
	Rattray, J. E., J. van de Vossenberg, A. Jaeschke, E. C. Hopmans, S. G. Wakeham, G. Lavik, M.M.M. Kuypers, M. Strous, M. S.M. Jetten, S. Schouten, J. S. Sinninghe Damsté (2009) Impact of Temperature on Ladderane Lipid Distribution in Anammox Bacteria, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, doi:10.1128/AEM.01796-09.
	Schläppy, M.-L., S. I. Schöttner, G. Lavik, M. M. M. Kuypers, D. de Beer, F. Hoffmann (2009) Evidence for nitrification and denitrification in high and low microbial abundance sponges, Marine Biology, 157, 593-602.
2008	Galán, A., V. Molina, B. Thamdrup, D. Woebken, G. Lavik, M.M.M. Kuypers and O. Ulloa (2008) Anammox bacteria and the anaerobic oxidation of ammonium in the oxygen minimum zone off northern Chile, Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 56, 1021-1031.
	Jensen, M.M., M.M.M. Kuypers, G. Lavik, and B. Thamdrup (2008) Rates and regulation of anaerobic ammonium oxidation and denitrification in the Black Sea, Limnology and Oceanography, 53, 23–36
	Schwermer, C.U., Lavik, G., Abed, R.M.M., Dunsmore, B., Ferdelman, T.G., Stoodley, P. et al. (2008) Impact of nitrate on the structure and function of bacterial biofilm communities in pipelines used for injection of seawater into oil fields. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 74, 2841-2851.

2007	De Beer, D., Lichtschlag, A., Lavik, G., and Jorgensen, B.B. (2007) Biological versus chemical sulfide oxidation in Beggiatoa inhabited sediment. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 71: A209-A209.
	Hamersley, M.R., Lavik, G., Woebken, D., Rattray, J.E., Lam, P., Hopmans, E.C. et al. (2007) Anaerobic ammonium oxidation in the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone. Limnology and Oceanography 52: 923-933.
	Hannig, M., Lavik, G., Kuypers, M.M.M., Woebken, D., Martens-Habbena, W., and Jurgens, K. (2007) Shift from denitrification to anammox after inflow events in the central Baltic Sea. Limnology and Oceanography 52: 1336-1345.
	Hinck, S., Neu, T.R., Lavik, G., Mussmann, M., De Beer, D., and Jonkers, H.M. (2007) Physiological adaptation of a nitrate-storing beggiatoa sp to diel cycling in a phototrophic hypersaline mat. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 73: 7013-7022.
	Huettel, M., Cook, P., Janssen, F., Lavik, G., and Middelburg, J.J. (2007) Transport and degradation of a dinoflagellate bloom in permeable sublittoral sediment. Marine Ecology-Progress Series 340: 139-153.
	Kartal, B., Kuypers, M.M.M., Lavik, G., Schalk, J., den Camp, H., Jetten, M.S.M., and Strous, M. (2007) Anammox bacteria disguised as denitrifiers: nitrate reduction to dinitrogen gas via nitrite and ammonium. Environmental Microbiology 9: 635-642.
	Lam, P., Jensen, M.M., Lavik, G., McGinnis, D.F., Muller, B., Schubert, C.J. et al. (2007) Linking crenarchaeal and bacterial nitrification to anammox in the Black Sea. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104: 7104-7109.
	Preisler, A., de Beer, D., Lichtschlag, A., Lavik, G., Boetius, A., and Jorgensen, B.B. (2007) Biological and chemical sulfide oxidation in a Beggiatoa inhabited marine sediment. Isme Journal 1: 341-353.
	Siegel, H., Ohde, T., Gerth, M., Lavik, G., and Leipe, T. (2007) Identification of coccolithophore blooms in the SE Atlantic Ocean off Namibia by satellites and in-situ methods. Continental Shelf Research 27: 258-274.
	Schmid, M.C., Risgaard-Petersen, N., van de Vossenberg, J., Kuypers, M.M.M., Lavik, G., Petersen, J. et al. (2007) Anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing bacteria in marine environments: widespread occurrence but low diversity. Environmental Microbiology 9: 1476-1484.
2006	Kuypers, M.M.M., G. Lavik and B. Thamdrup (2006) Anaerobic ammonium oxidation in the marine environment, In Past and Present Marine Water Column Anoxia (ed. L. N. Neretin), Springer, pp. 311-336.
2005	Kuypers, M.M.M., Lavik, G., Woebken, D., Schmid, M., Fuchs, B.M., Amann, R. et al. (2005) Massive nitrogen loss from the Benguela upwelling system through anaerobic ammonium oxidation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 102: 6478-6483.
	Stuut, J.B., Zabel, M., Ratmeyer, V., Helmke, P., Schefuss, E., Lavik, G., and Schneider, R. (2005) Provenance of present-day eolian dust collected off NW Africa. Journal of Geophysical Research\|Journal of Geophysical Research vol.110, no.D4: 14.
	Schippers, A., Neretin, L.N., Lavik, G., Leipe, T., and Pollehne, F. (2005) Manganese(II) oxidation driven by lateral oxygen intrusions in the western Black Sea. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 69: 2241-2252.
2004	Holmes, M.E., Lavik, G., Fischer, G., and Wefer, G. (2004) Nitrogen isotopes in sinking particles and surface sediments in the central and southern Atlantic. South Atlantic in the Late Quaternary: Reconstruction of Material Budgets and Current Systems: 143-165.
2003	Jetten, M.S.M., Sliekers, O., Kuypers, M., Dalsgaard, T., van Niftrik, L., Cirpus, I. van de Pas-Schoonen, K., Lavik, G., Thamdrup, B., Le Paslier, D., Op den Camp, H. J. M., Hulth, S. ,Nielsen, L. P., Abma, W., Third, K., Engstrom, P., Kuenen, J. G., Jorgensen, B. B., Canfield, D. E., Damste, J. S. S., Revsbech, N. P., Fuerst, J., Weissenbach, J., Wagner, M., Schmidt, I., Schmid, M., Strous, M. (2003) Anaerobic ammonium oxidation by marine and freshwater planctomycete-like bacteria. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 63: 107-114.
	Marcel M.M. Kuypers, A. Olav Sliekers, Gaute Lavik, Markus Schmid, Bo Barker Jørgensen, J. Gijs Kuenen, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, Marc Strous and Mike S.M. Jetten. (2003) "Anaerobic ammonium oxidation by Anammox bacteria in the Black Sea". Nature, vol 422, pp 608-611.
2002	Holmes E. Lavik G. Fischer G. Segl M. Ruhland G. and Wefer G. (2002) "Seasonal variability of delta N-15 in sinking particles in the Benguela upwelling region". Deep-Sea Research Part I-Oceanographic Research Papers. 49(2):377-394.
	Romero, O, B. Boeckel, B. Donner, G. Lavik, G. Fischer and G. Wefer. (2002) Seasonal productivity dynamics in the pelagic central Benguela system inferred from the carbonate and silicate organisms. Journal of Marine Systems 37/4, 259-278
2001	Lavik G. (2001). "Nitrogen isotopes of sinking matter and sediments in the South Atlantic" Dissertation zur erlangung des Dokstogrades, Fachberreich Geowissenschaften, Universität Bremen. SFB 261, Publikation 169, 140pp.
1995	Hevrøy, K., G. Lavik, and E. Jansen. (1995) "Quarternary paleoceanography and paleoclimatology of the Fram-Strait / Yearmak Plateu region: Evidence from Site 909 and 912", in Thiede, J. et al, Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific results. Vol 151, pp 469-482.