List of works - Kirsten Küsel

Acetogenic Prokaryotes

article

Acid-tolerant microaerophilic Fe(II)-oxidizing bacteria promote Fe(III)-accumulation in a fen.

scientific article

Active autotrophic ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in biofilm enrichments from simulated creek ecosystems at two ammonium concentrations respond to temperature manipulation

scientific article published on 2 September 2011

Altered carbon turnover processes and microbiomes in soils under long-term extremely high CO2 exposure

scientific article

Ammonium Availability Affects the Ratio of Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacteria to Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea in Simulated Creek Ecosystems ⬇️

scientific article published on January 14, 2011

Anaerobic activities of bacteria and fungi in moderately acidic conifer and deciduous leaf litter

scientific article published in July 2002

Archaeal Diversity and CO2 Fixers in Carbonate-/Siliciclastic-Rock Groundwater Ecosystems

scientific article published on 13 June 2017

Arsenic-rich acid mine water with extreme arsenic concentration: mineralogy, geochemistry, microbiology, and environmental implications

scientific article

Artificial Microbial Arenas: Materials for Observing and Manipulating Microbial Consortia

scientific article published on 16 April 2019

Assessing the Impact of Effluents from a Modern Wastewater Treatment Plant on Breakdown of Coarse Particulate Organic Matter and Benthic Macroinvertebrates in a Lowland River

article

Biogeochemical Regimes in Shallow Aquifers Reflect the Metabolic Coupling of the Elements Nitrogen, Sulfur, and Carbon

scientific article published on 20 February 2019

Biological Low-pH Mn(II) Oxidation in a Manganese Deposit Influenced by Metal-Rich Groundwater

scientific article

Blind spots in global soil biodiversity and ecosystem function research

scientific article published on 03 August 2020

C-Free Carbon Is a Major Contributor to Cellular Biomass in Geochemically Distinct Groundwater of Shallow Sedimentary Bedrock Aquifers

scientific article published on 15 March 2019

Calcite biomineralization by bacterial isolates from the recently discovered pristine karstic herrenberg cave

scientific article

Candidate Brocadiales dominates C, N and S cycling in anoxic groundwater of a pristine limestone-fracture aquifer

scientific article

Canopy Position Has a Stronger Effect than Tree Species Identity on Phyllosphere Bacterial Diversity in a Floodplain Hardwood Forest

scientific article published on 06 August 2020

Carbon dioxide triggered metal(loid) mobilisation in a mofette

scholarly article

Carbon fixation rates in groundwater similar to those in oligotrophic marine systems

scientific article published in 2022

Carbon flow from volcanic CO2 into soil microbial communities of a wetland mofette

scientific article

Carbon isotopes of dissolved inorganic carbon reflect utilization of different carbon sources by microbial communities in two limestone aquifer assemblages

Characterization of pH dependent Mn(II) oxidation strategies and formation of a bixbyite-like phase by Mesorhizobium australicum T-G1

scientific article published on 17 July 2015

Characterizing the redox status in three different forested wetlands with geochemical data

scientific article

Colonization dynamics of biofilm-associated ciliate morphotypes at different flow velocities

scientific article published on 11 November 2008

Community Composition and Abundance of Bacterial, Archaeal and Nitrifying Populations in Savanna Soils on Contrasting Bedrock Material in Kruger National Park, South Africa

scientific article

Compaction of forest soil by logging machinery favours occurrence of prokaryotes

scientific article published in December 2006

Competition of Fe(III) reduction and methanogenesis in an acidic fen.

scientific article published in July 2008

Corrigendum: Community Composition and Abundance of Bacterial, Archaeal, and Nitrifying Populations in Savanna Soils on Contrasting Bedrock Material in Kruger National Park, South Africa

scientific article published on 29 November 2016

DNA- and RNA- Derived Fungal Communities in Subsurface Aquifers Only Partly Overlap but React Similarly to Environmental Factors

scientific article published on 11 September 2019

Differential contribution of nitrifying prokaryotes to groundwater nitrification

scientific article published in 2023

Divergent microbial communities in groundwater and overlying soils exhibit functional redundancy for plant-polysaccharide degradation

article

Does iron cycling trigger generation of acidity in groundwaters of Western Australia?

scientific article published in September 2009

Draft Genome Sequence of Mn(II)-Oxidizing Bacterium Oxalobacteraceae sp. Strain AB_14

scientific article published on 24 October 2019

Draft Genome Sequence of Sideroxydans sp. Strain CL21, an Fe(II)-Oxidizing Bacterium

scientific article published on 09 January 2020

Ecological consequences of the phylogenetic and physiological diversities of acetogens

scientific article

Ecophysiology of Fe-cycling bacteria in acidic sediments

scientific article

Environmental selection shapes the formation of near-surface groundwater microbiomes

scientific article published on 25 November 2019

Erratum for Wegner et al., "Biogeochemical Regimes in Shallow Aquifers Reflect the Metabolic Coupling of the Elements Nitrogen, Sulfur, and Carbon"

scholarly article published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Extracellular and Intracellular Lanthanide Accumulation in the Methylotrophic Beijerinckiaceae Bacterium RH AL1

scientific article published on 11 June 2021

Extremophile microbiomes in acidic and hypersaline river sediments of Western Australia

scientific article published on 3 November 2015

First insights into the living groundwater mycobiome of the terrestrial biogeosphere

scientific article published on 28 July 2018

Functional diversity and electron donor dependence of microbial populations capable of U(VI) reduction in radionuclide-contaminated subsurface sediments

scientific article published on 31 March 2008

Functional diversity of microbial communities in pristine aquifers inferred by PLFA- and sequencing-based approaches

article

Gene Expression Correlates with Process Rates Quantified for Sulfate- and Fe(III)-Reducing Bacteria in U(VI)-Contaminated Sediments

scientific article

Genome-inferred spatio-temporal resolution of an uncultivated Roizmanbacterium reveals its ecological preferences in groundwater

scientific article published on 14 December 2019

Growth promotion and inhibition induced by interactions of groundwater bacteria

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Heavy metal tolerance of Fe(III)-reducing microbial communities in contaminated creek bank soils

scientific article

High unique diversity of sulfate-reducing prokaryotes characterized in a depth gradient in an acidic fen.

scientific article

How Deep Can Surface Signals Be Traced in the Critical Zone? Merging Biodiversity with Biogeochemistry Research in a Central German Muschelkalk Landscape

article

Hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis by moderately acid-tolerant methanogens of a methane-emitting acidic peat

scientific article

Identification of Mn(II)-oxidizing bacteria from a low-pH contaminated former uranium mine

scientific article

Impact of biostimulated redox processes on metal dynamics in an iron-rich creek soil of a former uranium mining area

scientific article published in January 2010

Impact of manipulated drought and heavy rainfall events on peat mineralization processes and source-sink functions of an acidic fen

scientific article published in 2009

Inclusion of Oxford Nanopore long reads improves all microbial and viral metagenome-assembled genomes from a complex aquifer system

scientific article published on 05 August 2020

Insights into Autotrophic Activities and Carbon Flow in Iron-Rich Pelagic Aggregates (Iron Snow)

scientific article published in 2021

Insights into the structure and metabolic function of microbes that shape pelagic iron-rich aggregates ("iron snow").

scientific article

Iron is not everything: unexpected complex metabolic responses between iron-cycling microorganisms

scientific article published on 20 July 2020

Iron mineralogy across the oxycline of a lignite mine lake

scholarly article

Iron-organic matter complexes accelerate microbial iron cycling in an iron-rich fen

scientific article published on 30 July 2018

Isolation of Individual Saturated Fatty Acid Methyl Esters Derived From Groundwater Phospholipids by Preparative High‐Pressure Liquid Chromatography for Compound‐Specific Radiocarbon Analyses

scientific article published in 2019

Lanthanide-Dependent Methylotrophs of the Family Beijerinckiaceae: Physiological and Genomic Insights

scientific article published on 13 December 2019

Large fractions of CO2-fixing microorganisms in pristine limestone aquifers appear to be involved in the oxidation of reduced sulfur and nitrogen compounds

scientific article

Linking specific heterotrophic bacterial populations to bioreduction of uranium and nitrate in contaminated subsurface sediments by using stable isotope probing

scientific article published on 23 September 2011

Macroecology to Unite All Life, Large and Small

scientific article published in 2018

Metals other than uranium affected microbial community composition in a historical uranium-mining site

scientific article published on July 2015

Microarray and functional gene analyses of sulfate-reducing prokaryotes in low-sulfate, acidic fens reveal cooccurrence of recognized genera and novel lineages

scientific article published on December 2004

Microbial Fe(II) oxidation by Sideroxydans lithotrophicus ES-1 in the presence of Schlöppnerbrunnen fen-derived humic acids

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Microbial community changes in response to ethanol or methanol amendments for U(VI) reduction

scientific article

Microbial diversity-ecosystem function relationships across environmental gradients

Microbial links between sulfate reduction and metal retention in uranium- and heavy metal-contaminated soil.

scientific article

Microbial reduction of Fe(III) and turnover of acetate in Hawaiian soils

scientific article published on April 2002

Microbial reduction of Fe(III) in the presence of oxygen under low pH conditions

scientific article

Mixotrophic Iron-Oxidizing Thiomonas Isolates from an Acid Mine Drainage-Affected Creek

scientific article published on 02 October 2020

Mixotrophy broadens the ecological niche range of the iron oxidizer Sideroxydans sp. CL21 isolated from an iron-rich peatland

scientific article published in 2023

Molecular Mechanisms Underpinning Aggregation in Acidiphilium sp. C61 Isolated from Iron-Rich Pelagic Aggregates

scientific article published on 25 February 2020

Nematode grazing increases the allocation of plant-derived carbon to soil bacteria and saprophytic fungi, and activates bacterial species of the rhizosphere

scientific article published on 30 December 2021

Nitrogen Loss from Pristine Carbonate-Rock Aquifers of the Hainich Critical Zone Exploratory (Germany) Is Primarily Driven by Chemolithoautotrophic Anammox Processes

scientific article

Origin and fate of acetate in an acidic fen.

scientific article published on 4 April 2012

Oxygen availability and distance to surface environments determine community composition and abundance of ammonia-oxidizing prokaroytes in two superimposed pristine limestone aquifers in the Hainich region, Germany

scientific article

Pelagic boundary conditions affect the biological formation of iron-rich particles (iron snow) and their microbial communities

Phagotrophic protist diversity in the groundwater of a karstified aquifer - morphological and molecular analysis

scientific article

Phenotypic Differentiation of Autotrophic and Heterotrophic Bacterial Cells Using Raman-D2O Labeling

scientific article published in 2022

Phylogenetic and metabolic diversity have contrasting effects on the ecological functioning of bacterial communities

scientific article published on 12 February 2021

Phylogenetic and metabolic diversity have contrasting effects on the ecological functioning of bacterial communities

Physiological and ecological implications of an iron- or hydrogen-oxidizing member of the Zetaproteobacteria, Ghiorsea bivora, gen. nov., sp. nov.

scientific article

Pioneering bacterial and algal communities and potential extracellular enzyme activities of stream biofilms

scientific article published on 16 December 2009

Plants, microorganisms, and soil temperatures contribute to a decrease in methane fluxes on a drained Arctic floodplain

scientific article

Polycrystallinity of green rust minerals and their synthetic analogs: Implications for particle formation and reactivity in complex systems

scientific article published in October 2015

Predominance of Cand. Patescibacteria in Groundwater Is Caused by Their Preferential Mobilization From Soils and Flourishing Under Oligotrophic Conditions

scientific article published on 20 June 2019

Predominance of thaumarchaeal ammonia oxidizer abundance and transcriptional activity in an acidic fen ⬇️

scientific article published on September 27, 2012

Protists with different feeding modes change biofilm morphology

scientific article published on 12 May 2009

Raman spectroscopy-an innovative and versatile tool to follow the respirational activity and carbonate biomineralization of important cave bacteria

scientific article published on 23 August 2013

Rapid monitoring of intermediate states and mass balance of nitrogen during denitrification by means of cavity enhanced Raman multi-gas sensing

scientific article published on 12 February 2015

Revealing the microbial community structure of clogging materials in dewatering wells differing in physico-chemical parameters in an open-cast mining area

scientific article

Rhizobactin B is the preferred siderophore by a novel Pseudomonas isolate to obtain iron from dissolved organic matter in peatlands

scientific article published on 07 October 2020

STXM and NanoSIMS investigations on EPS fractions before and after adsorption to goethite

scientific article published on 13 March 2013

Schwertmannite formation at cell junctions by a new filament-forming Fe(II)-oxidizing isolate affiliated with the novel genus Acidithrix

scientific article published on 26 October 2015

Sticking together: inter-species aggregation of bacteria isolated from iron snow is controlled by chemical signaling

scientific article

Superimposed Pristine Limestone Aquifers with Marked Hydrochemical Differences Exhibit Distinct Fungal Communities

scientific article (publication date: 2016)

Surprising abundance of Gallionella-related iron oxidizers in creek sediments at pH 4.4 or at high heavy metal concentrations

scientific article published on 18 December 2013

Temperature sensitivity of dark CO2 fixation in temperate forest soils

scientific article published in 2022

The economical lifestyle of CPR bacteria in groundwater allows little preference for environmental drivers

scientific article published on 14 December 2021

The endolithic bacterial diversity of shallow bedrock ecosystems

scientific article published on 26 April 2019

The influence of intracellular storage material on bacterial identification by means of Raman spectroscopy

scientific article published on 27 June 2010

The multidimensionality of soil macroecology

scientific article published on 11 November 2020

Thiosulfate- and hydrogen-driven autotrophic denitrification by a microbial consortium enriched from groundwater of an oligotrophic limestone aquifer

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Tolerance and metabolic response of acetogenic bacteria toward oxygen

scientific article published on February 2002

Tracking active groundwater microbes with D2 O labelling to understand their ecosystem function

scientific article

Tracking the autochthonous carbon transfer in stream biofilm food webs

scientific article published in January 2012

Trophic interaction of the aerotolerant anaerobe Clostridium intestinale and the acetogen Sporomusa rhizae sp. nov. isolated from roots of the black needlerush Juncus roemerianus

scientific article

Two-dimensional single strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) of 16S rRNA gene fragments reveals highly dissimilar bacterial communities in an acidic fen

article

Use of immunomagnetic separation for the detection of Desulfovibrio vulgaris from environmental samples

scientific article published on 13 May 2011

Where less may be more: how the rare biosphere pulls ecosystems strings

scientific article

Woolly beech aphid infestation reduces soil organic carbon availability and alters phyllosphere and rhizosphere bacterial microbiomes

scientific article published in 2022

pH Gradient-Induced Heterogeneity of Fe(III)-Reducing Microorganisms in Coal Mining-Associated Lake Sediments

scientific article published in 2008

pH gradient-induced heterogeneity of Fe(III)-reducing microorganisms in coal mining-associated lake sediments

scientific article

List of works by Kirsten Küsel

Acetogenic Prokaryotes

Acid-tolerant microaerophilic Fe(II)-oxidizing bacteria promote Fe(III)-accumulation in a fen.

Active autotrophic ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in biofilm enrichments from simulated creek ecosystems at two ammonium concentrations respond to temperature manipulation

Altered carbon turnover processes and microbiomes in soils under long-term extremely high CO2 exposure

Ammonium Availability Affects the Ratio of Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacteria to Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea in Simulated Creek Ecosystems ⬇️

Anaerobic activities of bacteria and fungi in moderately acidic conifer and deciduous leaf litter

Archaeal Diversity and CO2 Fixers in Carbonate-/Siliciclastic-Rock Groundwater Ecosystems

Arsenic-rich acid mine water with extreme arsenic concentration: mineralogy, geochemistry, microbiology, and environmental implications

Artificial Microbial Arenas: Materials for Observing and Manipulating Microbial Consortia

Assessing the Impact of Effluents from a Modern Wastewater Treatment Plant on Breakdown of Coarse Particulate Organic Matter and Benthic Macroinvertebrates in a Lowland River

Biogeochemical Regimes in Shallow Aquifers Reflect the Metabolic Coupling of the Elements Nitrogen, Sulfur, and Carbon

Biological Low-pH Mn(II) Oxidation in a Manganese Deposit Influenced by Metal-Rich Groundwater

Blind spots in global soil biodiversity and ecosystem function research

C-Free Carbon Is a Major Contributor to Cellular Biomass in Geochemically Distinct Groundwater of Shallow Sedimentary Bedrock Aquifers

Calcite biomineralization by bacterial isolates from the recently discovered pristine karstic herrenberg cave

Candidate Brocadiales dominates C, N and S cycling in anoxic groundwater of a pristine limestone-fracture aquifer

Canopy Position Has a Stronger Effect than Tree Species Identity on Phyllosphere Bacterial Diversity in a Floodplain Hardwood Forest

Carbon dioxide triggered metal(loid) mobilisation in a mofette

Carbon fixation rates in groundwater similar to those in oligotrophic marine systems

Carbon flow from volcanic CO2 into soil microbial communities of a wetland mofette

Carbon isotopes of dissolved inorganic carbon reflect utilization of different carbon sources by microbial communities in two limestone aquifer assemblages

Characterization of pH dependent Mn(II) oxidation strategies and formation of a bixbyite-like phase by Mesorhizobium australicum T-G1

Characterizing the redox status in three different forested wetlands with geochemical data

Colonization dynamics of biofilm-associated ciliate morphotypes at different flow velocities

Community Composition and Abundance of Bacterial, Archaeal and Nitrifying Populations in Savanna Soils on Contrasting Bedrock Material in Kruger National Park, South Africa

Compaction of forest soil by logging machinery favours occurrence of prokaryotes

Competition of Fe(III) reduction and methanogenesis in an acidic fen.

Corrigendum: Community Composition and Abundance of Bacterial, Archaeal, and Nitrifying Populations in Savanna Soils on Contrasting Bedrock Material in Kruger National Park, South Africa

DNA- and RNA- Derived Fungal Communities in Subsurface Aquifers Only Partly Overlap but React Similarly to Environmental Factors

Differential contribution of nitrifying prokaryotes to groundwater nitrification

Divergent microbial communities in groundwater and overlying soils exhibit functional redundancy for plant-polysaccharide degradation

Does iron cycling trigger generation of acidity in groundwaters of Western Australia?

Draft Genome Sequence of Mn(II)-Oxidizing Bacterium Oxalobacteraceae sp. Strain AB_14

Draft Genome Sequence of Sideroxydans sp. Strain CL21, an Fe(II)-Oxidizing Bacterium

Ecological consequences of the phylogenetic and physiological diversities of acetogens

Ecophysiology of Fe-cycling bacteria in acidic sediments

Environmental selection shapes the formation of near-surface groundwater microbiomes

Erratum for Wegner et al., "Biogeochemical Regimes in Shallow Aquifers Reflect the Metabolic Coupling of the Elements Nitrogen, Sulfur, and Carbon"

Extracellular and Intracellular Lanthanide Accumulation in the Methylotrophic <i>Beijerinckiaceae</i> Bacterium RH AL1

Extremophile microbiomes in acidic and hypersaline river sediments of Western Australia

First insights into the living groundwater mycobiome of the terrestrial biogeosphere

Functional diversity and electron donor dependence of microbial populations capable of U(VI) reduction in radionuclide-contaminated subsurface sediments

Functional diversity of microbial communities in pristine aquifers inferred by PLFA- and sequencing-based approaches

Gene Expression Correlates with Process Rates Quantified for Sulfate- and Fe(III)-Reducing Bacteria in U(VI)-Contaminated Sediments

Genome-inferred spatio-temporal resolution of an uncultivated Roizmanbacterium reveals its ecological preferences in groundwater

Growth promotion and inhibition induced by interactions of groundwater bacteria

Heavy metal tolerance of Fe(III)-reducing microbial communities in contaminated creek bank soils

High unique diversity of sulfate-reducing prokaryotes characterized in a depth gradient in an acidic fen.

How Deep Can Surface Signals Be Traced in the Critical Zone? Merging Biodiversity with Biogeochemistry Research in a Central German Muschelkalk Landscape

Hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis by moderately acid-tolerant methanogens of a methane-emitting acidic peat

Identification of Mn(II)-oxidizing bacteria from a low-pH contaminated former uranium mine

Impact of biostimulated redox processes on metal dynamics in an iron-rich creek soil of a former uranium mining area

Impact of manipulated drought and heavy rainfall events on peat mineralization processes and source-sink functions of an acidic fen

Inclusion of Oxford Nanopore long reads improves all microbial and viral metagenome-assembled genomes from a complex aquifer system

Insights into Autotrophic Activities and Carbon Flow in Iron-Rich Pelagic Aggregates (Iron Snow)

Insights into the structure and metabolic function of microbes that shape pelagic iron-rich aggregates ("iron snow").

Iron is not everything: unexpected complex metabolic responses between iron-cycling microorganisms

Iron mineralogy across the oxycline of a lignite mine lake

Iron-organic matter complexes accelerate microbial iron cycling in an iron-rich fen

Isolation of Individual Saturated Fatty Acid Methyl Esters Derived From Groundwater Phospholipids by Preparative High‐Pressure Liquid Chromatography for Compound‐Specific Radiocarbon Analyses

Lanthanide-Dependent Methylotrophs of the Family Beijerinckiaceae: Physiological and Genomic Insights

Large fractions of CO2-fixing microorganisms in pristine limestone aquifers appear to be involved in the oxidation of reduced sulfur and nitrogen compounds

Linking specific heterotrophic bacterial populations to bioreduction of uranium and nitrate in contaminated subsurface sediments by using stable isotope probing

Macroecology to Unite All Life, Large and Small

Metals other than uranium affected microbial community composition in a historical uranium-mining site

Microarray and functional gene analyses of sulfate-reducing prokaryotes in low-sulfate, acidic fens reveal cooccurrence of recognized genera and novel lineages

Microbial Fe(II) oxidation by Sideroxydans lithotrophicus ES-1 in the presence of Schlöppnerbrunnen fen-derived humic acids

Microbial community changes in response to ethanol or methanol amendments for U(VI) reduction

Microbial diversity-ecosystem function relationships across environmental gradients

Microbial links between sulfate reduction and metal retention in uranium- and heavy metal-contaminated soil.

Microbial reduction of Fe(III) and turnover of acetate in Hawaiian soils

Microbial reduction of Fe(III) in the presence of oxygen under low pH conditions

Mixotrophic Iron-Oxidizing Thiomonas Isolates from an Acid Mine Drainage-Affected Creek

Mixotrophy broadens the ecological niche range of the iron oxidizer <i>Sideroxydans</i> sp. CL21 isolated from an iron-rich peatland

Molecular Mechanisms Underpinning Aggregation in Acidiphilium sp. C61 Isolated from Iron-Rich Pelagic Aggregates

Nematode grazing increases the allocation of plant-derived carbon to soil bacteria and saprophytic fungi, and activates bacterial species of the rhizosphere

Nitrogen Loss from Pristine Carbonate-Rock Aquifers of the Hainich Critical Zone Exploratory (Germany) Is Primarily Driven by Chemolithoautotrophic Anammox Processes

Origin and fate of acetate in an acidic fen.

Oxygen availability and distance to surface environments determine community composition and abundance of ammonia-oxidizing prokaroytes in two superimposed pristine limestone aquifers in the Hainich region, Germany