• Microbial and Chemical Characterization of Underwater Fresh Water Springs in the Dead Sea 

      Ionescu, Danny; Siebert, Christian; Polerecky, Lubos; Munwes, Yaniv Y.; Lott, Christian; Häusler, Stefan; Bižić-Ionescu, Mina; Quast, Christian; Peplies, Jörg; Glöckner, Frank Oliver; Ramette, AlbanORCIDiD; Rödiger, Tino; Dittmar, ThorstenORCIDiD; Oren, Aharon; Geyer, Stefan; Stärk, Hans-Joachim; Sauter, Martin; Licha, Tobias; Laronne, Jonathan B.ORCIDiD; de Beer, Dirk (PLoS ONE, 2012-06-05)
      Due to its extreme salinity and high Mg concentration the Dead Sea is characterized by a very low density of cells most of which are Archaea. We discovered several underwater fresh to brackish water springs in the Dead ...
    • The detection of bacterial exometabolites in marine dissolved organic matter through ultrahigh‐resolution mass spectrometry 

      Bercovici, Sarah K.ORCIDiD; Dittmar, ThorstenORCIDiD; Niggemann, JuttaORCIDiD (Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 2022-05-05)
      Bacteria play a key role in sustaining the chemodiversity of marine dissolved organic matter (DOM), yet there is limited direct evidence of a major contribution of bacterial exometabolites to the DOM pool. This study tests ...
    • Transformation of dissolved organic matter by two Indo‐Pacific sponges 

      Hildebrand, TabeaORCIDiD; Osterholz, HelenaORCIDiD; Bunse, CarinaORCIDiD; Grotheer, HendrikORCIDiD; Dittmar, ThorstenORCIDiD; Schupp, Peter J.ORCIDiD (Limnology and Oceanography, 2022-09-12)
      Dissolved organic matter (DOM) is the largest organic carbon reservoir in the ocean and an integral component of biogeochemical cycles. The role of free‐living microbes in DOM transformation has been studied thoroughly, ...
    • Zooplankton‐derived dissolved organic matter composition and its bioavailability to natural prokaryotic communities 

      De Corte, DanieleORCIDiD; Varela, Marta M.; Louro, Angeles M.; Bercovici, Sarah K.ORCIDiD; Valencia‐Vila, Joaquín; Sintes, EvaORCIDiD; Baltar, Federico; Rodríguez‐Ramos, Tamara; Simon, MeinhardORCIDiD; Bode, AntonioORCIDiD; Dittmar, ThorstenORCIDiD; Niggemann, JuttaORCIDiD (Limnology and Oceanography, 2022-12-02)
      Zooplankton grazing onphytoplankton promotes the release of particulate and dissolved organic matter (DOM) into the water column and therefore plays a key role in organic matter cycling in aquatic systems. Prokaryotes are ...