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List of works by Donald Canfield

A Mesoproterozoic iron formation

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

A bioreactor for growth of sulfate-reducing bacteria: online estimation of specific growth rate and biomass for the deep-sea hydrothermal vent thermophile Thermodesulfatator indicus

scientific article

A case for an active eukaryotic marine biosphere during the Proterozoic era

scientific article published in 2022

A cryptic sulfur cycle in oxygen-minimum-zone waters off the Chilean coast

scientific article published on 11 November 2010

A model-based insight into the coupling of nitrogen and sulfur cycles in a coastal upwelling system

scientific article published on 19 March 2014

A trophic framework for animal origins

scientific article published on 29 September 2016

Active Microbial Sulfur Disproportionation in the Mesoproterozoic

scientific article published in Science

Aerobic growth at nanomolar oxygen concentrations

scientific article

Aerobic sulfate reduction in microbial mats

scientific article published in March 1991

Ammonium and nitrite oxidation at nanomolar oxygen concentrations in oxygen minimum zone waters

scientific article published on 06 September 2016

Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) in the marine environment

scientific article

Anaerobic ammonium oxidation by marine and freshwater planctomycete-like bacteria.

scientific article

Anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing bacteria in marine environments: widespread occurrence but low diversity

scientific article

Animal evolution, bioturbation, and the sulfate concentration of the oceans

scientific article (publication date: 19 May 2009)

Animal origins and the Tonian Earth system

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Aquatic geomicrobiology.

scientific article

Atmospheric oxygenation three billion years ago.

scientific article

Bioavailability of Mo in the Palaeoproterozoic ocean

scholarly article

Biochemistry: gas with an ancient history

scientific article published in March 2006

Biogenic Fe(III) minerals: From formation to diagenesis and preservation in the rock record

Bioturbation and directionality in Earth's carbon isotope record across the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian transition

scientific article published on 2 March 2018

Calibration of sulfate levels in the archean ocean.

scientific article published on December 2002

Carbon Cycle Makeover

scientific article published in Science

Carbon isotope fractionation by anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria in euxinic Lake Cadagno.

scientific article published on 3 September 2017

Climate change and the integrity of science

scientific article

Comment on "Physical Model for the Decay and Preservation of Marine Organic Carbon"

scientific article published in Science

Community composition of a hypersaline endoevaporitic microbial mat

scientific article

Comparative Earth history and Late Permian mass extinction

scientific article

Construction of STOX oxygen sensors and their application for determination of O2 concentrations in oxygen minimum zones

scientific article published on 01 January 2011

Decrypting the sulfur cycle in oceanic oxygen minimum zones

scientific article published on 08 June 2018

Deep-water anoxygenic photosythesis in a ferruginous chemocline.

scientific article

Deposition and Cycling of Sulfur Controls Mercury Accumulation in Isle Royale Fish

article

Dominance of a clonal green sulfur bacterial population in a stratified lake.

scientific article

Early anaerobic metabolisms

scientific article (publication date: 29 October 2006)

Effect of low sulfate concentrations on lactate oxidation and isotope fractionation during sulfate reduction by Archaeoglobus fulgidus strain Z

scientific article

Effects of Seasonal Anoxia on the Microbial Community Structure in Demosponges in a Marine Lake in Lough Hyne, Ireland

scientific article published on 16 February 2021

Evidence of molybdenum association with particulate organic matter under sulfidic conditions

scientific article

Evidence of oxygenic phototrophy in ancient phosphatic stromatolites from the Paleoproterozoic Vindhyan and Aravalli Supergroups, India.

scientific article published on 30 January 2018

Evolution of the oceanic sulfur cycle in the early Paleoproterozoic

scholarly article

Experimental incubations elicit profound changes in community transcription in OMZ bacterioplankton

scientific article

Factors influencing organic carbon preservation in marine sediments

scholarly article

Ferruginous conditions dominated later neoproterozoic deep-water chemistry

scientific article

Fluctuations in Precambrian atmospheric oxygenation recorded by chromium isotopes

scientific article

High rates of microbial carbon turnover in sediments in the deepest oceanic trench on Earth

scientific article

Highly fractionated chromium isotopes in Mesoproterozoic-aged shales and atmospheric oxygen

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Increased accumulation of sulfur in lake sediments of the high arctic

scientific article

Insight into the variability within the Proterozoic sulphur cycle

scholarly article

Iron oxides, divalent cations, silica, and the early earth phosphorus crisis

scholarly article

Isotope fractionation by natural populations of sulfate-reducing bacteria

article by Donald Canfield published April 2001 in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Isotopic evidence for microbial sulphate reduction in the early Archaean era.

scientific article

LUMOS--A Sensitive and Reliable Optode System for Measuring Dissolved Oxygen in the Nanomolar Range.

scientific article published on June 2015

Late Proterozoic rise in atmospheric oxygen concentration inferred from phylogenetic and sulphur-isotope studies

scientific article (publication date: 11 July 1996)

Late-Neoproterozoic deep-ocean oxygenation and the rise of animal life

scientific article

Mass spectrometric data characteristics of commonly abused amphetamines with sequential derivatization at two active sites.

scientific article

Mechanism for Burgess Shale-type preservation

scientific article (publication date: 3 April 2012)

Mesophilic microorganisms build terrestrial mats analogous to Precambrian microbial jungles

scientific article published on 20 September 2019

Metabolomics Reveals Cryptic Interactive Effects of Species Interactions and Environmental Stress on Nitrogen and Sulfur Metabolism in Seagrass.

scientific article

Metagenomic data for Halichondria panicea from Illumina and nanopore sequencing and preliminary genome assemblies for the sponge and two microbial symbionts

publication published on 09 April 2022

Metal dynamics in Lake Vanda (Wright Valley, Antarctica).

scholarly article

Microbial oceanography of anoxic oxygen minimum zones

scientific article

Mn, Fe, Cu and Cd distributions and residence times in closed basin Lake Vanda (Wright Valley, Antarctica)

scientific article (publication date: March 1986)

Models of oxic respiration, denitrification and sulfate reduction in zones of coastal upwelling

article

N2 production by the anammox reaction in the anoxic water column of Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica

scientific article published in April 2003

Nitrogen cycle feedbacks as a control on euxinia in the mid-Proterozoic ocean

scientific article

Novel anammox bacteria and nitrogen loss from Lake Superior

scientific article

Ocean productivity before about 1.9 Gyr ago limited by phosphorus adsorption onto iron oxides

scientific article published in Nature

Orbital forcing of climate 1.4 billion years ago.

scientific article

Organism motility in an oxygenated shallow-marine environment 2.1 billion years ago

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Oxygen and animal evolution: did a rise of atmospheric oxygen "trigger" the origin of animals?

scientific article

Oxygen at nanomolar levels reversibly suppresses process rates and gene expression in anammox and denitrification in the oxygen minimum zone off northern Chile

scientific article

Oxygen dynamics in the aftermath of the Great Oxidation of Earth's atmosphere

scientific article (publication date: 15 October 2013)

Oxygen requirements of the earliest animals

scientific article (publication date: 18 March 2014)

Paleoenvironmental proxies and what the Xiamaling Formation tells us about the mid-Proterozoic ocean

scientific article published on 06 March 2019

Pelagic photoferrotrophy and iron cycling in a modern ferruginous basin

scientific article published on 8 September 2015

Photoferrotrophs thrive in an Archean Ocean analogue

scientific article

Rates and pathways of CH4 oxidation in ferruginous Lake Matano, Indonesia

scientific article published on 28 December 2018

Rates of reaction between silicate iron and dissolved sulfide in Peru Margin sediments

scholarly article

Reactive iron in marine sediments

scientific article (publication date: 1989)

Reply to Butterfield: Low-sulfate and early cements inhibit decay and promote Burgess Shale-type preservation

scientific article (publication date: 27 June 2012)

Reply to Butterfield: The Devonian radiation of large predatory fish coincided with elevated atmospheric oxygen levels

scientific article (publication date: 16 February 2011)

Reply to Planavsky et al.: Strong evidence for high atmospheric oxygen levels 1,400 million years ago.

scientific article published on 20 April 2016

Reproductive cyst and operculum formation in the Cambrian–Ordovician galeate-plexus microfossils

Robert A. Berner (1935-2015)

scientific article

Selenium isotope evidence for progressive oxidation of the Neoproterozoic biosphere

scientific article

Sufficient oxygen for animal respiration 1,400 million years ago.

scientific article published on 4 January 2016

Sulfate reduction and oxic respiration in marine sediments: implications for organic carbon preservation in euxinic environments

scientific article (publication date: 1989)

Sulfate was a trace constituent of Archean seawater

scientific article

Sulfur isotopes in coal constrain the evolution of the Phanerozoic sulfur cycle

scientific article (publication date: 21 May 2013)

Sulphur isotopes and the search for life: strategies for identifying sulphur metabolisms in the rock record and beyond.

scientific article

The 2.1 Ga old Francevillian biota: biogenicity, taphonomy and biodiversity

scientific article published on 25 June 2014

The Archean sulfur cycle and the early history of atmospheric oxygen

scientific article

The Global Carbon Cycle: A Test of Our Knowledge of Earth as a System

scientific article

The aerobic diagenesis of Mesoproterozoic organic matter

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

The early history of atmospheric oxygen

article

The evolution and future of Earth's nitrogen cycle

scientific article

The evolution of the Earth surface sulfur reservoir

scientific article (publication date: December 2004)

The evolution of the sulfur cycle

scientific article (publication date: November 1999)

The last common ancestor of animals lacked the HIF pathway and respired in low-oxygen environments

scientific article published on 6 February 2018

The transition to a sulphidic ocean ∼ 1.84 billion years ago

scientific article published in Nature

Towards a consistent classification scheme for geochemical environments, or, why we wish the term 'suboxic' would go away

scientific article published in September 2009

Towards a quantitative understanding of the late Neoproterozoic carbon cycle

scientific article (publication date: 5 April 2011)

Uranium isotopes distinguish two geochemically distinct stages during the later Cambrian SPICE event.

scientific article

Vertical partitioning of nitrogen-loss processes across the oxic-anoxic interface of an oceanic oxygen minimum zone

scientific article published on 30 September 2013