List of works - Dirk Verschuren

A 25,000-year record of climate-induced changes in lowland vegetation of eastern equatorial Africa revealed by the stable carbon-isotopic composition of fossil plant leaf waxes

article

A late-Quaternary perspective, on atmospheric pCO2, climate, and fire as drivers of C4-grass abundance.

scientific article

A revised classification and terminology for stacked and amalgamated turbidites in environments dominated by (hemi)pelagic sedimentation

scientific article

Accelerated Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Associated with Agricultural Activity in Crater-Lake Catchments of Western Uganda

scientific article published in 2023

African hydroclimatic variability during the last 2000 years

scholarly article

Altitudinal shifts in the branched tetraether lipid distribution in soil from Mt. Kilimanjaro (Tanzania): Implications for the MBT/CBT continental palaeothermometer

Aquatic community response in a groundwater-fed desert lake to Holocene desiccation of the Sahara

article

Biogenic Si analysis in volcanically imprinted lacustrine systems: the case of Lake Rutundu (Mt. Kenya)

scientific article published in 2015

Carbon cycling within an East African lake revealed by the carbon isotope composition of diatom silica: a 25-ka record from Lake Challa, Mt. Kilimanjaro

article

Comparison of simulated and reconstructed variations in East African hydroclimate over the last millennium

scientific article published on 2016

Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia

scientific article (publication date: 21 April 2013)

Corrigendum to “Ecohydrological evolution of Lake Naivasha (central Rift Valley, Kenya) during the past 1650 years, as recorded by ostracod assemblages and stable-isotope geochemistry” [Quat. Sci. Rev. 223 (2019) 105906]

scientific article

Cryptic invasion and dispersal of an American Daphnia in East Africa

article

Daphniaspecies diversity in Kenya, and a key to the identification of their ephippia

scholarly article by Joachim Mergeay et al published July 2005 in Hydrobiologia

Depositional history of Lake Chala (Mt. Kilimanjaro, equatorial East Africa) from high-resolution seismic stratigraphy

scholarly article

Determining patterns of stratification and mixing in tropical crater lakes through intermittent water-column profiling: A case study in western Uganda

scholarly article

Developing a methodology for carbon isotope analysis of lacustrine diatoms

scientific article

Distribution of tetraether lipids in the 25-ka sedimentary record of Lake Challa: extracting reliable TEX86 and MBT/CBT palaeotemperatures from an equatorial African lake

scholarly article

Diversity and ecology of tropical African fungal spores from a 25,000-year palaeoenvironmental record in southeastern Kenya

scholarly article by Bas van Geel et al published April 2011 in Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

EFFECTS OF DEPTH, SALINITY, AND SUBSTRATE ON THE INVERTEBRATE COMMUNITY OF A FLUCTUATING TROPICAL LAKE

article

Ecohydrological evolution of Lake Naivasha (central Rift Valley, Kenya) during the past 1650 years, as recorded by ostracod assemblages and stable-isotope geochemistry

scientific article

Effects of temperature, pH and nutrient concentration on branched GDGT distributions in East African lakes: Implications for paleoenvironmental reconstruction

article

Extinction, recolonization, and dispersal through time in a planktonic crustacean

scientific article

Fluxes and distribution of tetraether lipids in an equatorial African lake: Constraints on the application of the TEX86 palaeothermometer and BIT index in lacustrine settings

article

Fossil Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera) as quantitative indicators of past salinity in African lakes

article

Global change: the heat on Lake Tanganyika

scientific article

Half-precessional dynamics of monsoon rainfall near the East African Equator

scientific article

High-throughput sequencing and marker pigment analysis of freshwater phytoplankton: A direct comparison with microscopic count data in the tropical crater lakes of Western Uganda

scientific article published in 2023

History and timing of human impact on Lake Victoria, East Africa

scientific article (publication date: 7 February 2002)

History of scoria‐cone eruptions on the eastern shoulder of the Kenya–Tanzania Rift revealed in the 250‐ka sediment record of Lake Chala near Mount Kilimanjaro

Holocene evolution of the crater lake at Malha, Northwest Sudan

scholarly article

Influence of plant growth form, habitat and season on leaf-wax n-alkane hydrogen-isotopic signatures in equatorial East Africa

Interannual and (multi-)decadal variability in the sedimentary BIT index of Lake Challa, East Africa, over the past 2200 years: assessment of the precipitation proxy

article

Invasion of an asexual American water flea clone throughout Africa and rapid displacement of a native sibling species ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 22 November 2006)

Lake Chala turbidites produced by surficial slope sediment remobilization: A mechanism to bring near-shore macrofossils to the deep basin with only limited time offset

Late Quaternary behavior of the East African monsoon and the importance of the Congo Air Boundary

scholarly article

Latitudinal Linkages in Late Holocene Moisture-Balance Variation

article

Linking isoprenoidal GDGT membrane lipid distributions with gene abundances of ammonia-oxidizing Thaumarchaeota and uncultured crenarchaeotal groups in the water column of a tropical lake (Lake Challa, East Africa).

scientific article

Long-term dynamics of algal and invertebrate communities in a small, fluctuating tropical soda lake

article

Long-term variability and rainfall control of savanna fire regimes in equatorial East Africa

scientific article

ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Taxonomy and diversity of Afroalpine Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera) on Mount Kenya and the Rwenzori Mountains, East Africa

scientific article published on 18 September 2006

Physical and chemical limnology of alpine lakes and pools in the Rwenzori Mountains (Uganda–DR Congo)

article

Plant water resource partitioning and isotopic fractionation during transpiration in a seasonally dry tropical climate

article

Potential biological sources of long chain alkyl diols in a lacustrine system

Priority effects and species sorting in a long paleoecological record of repeated community assembly through time

scientific article

Recurrent changes in cichlid dentition linked to climate‐driven lake‐level fluctuations

scientific article published in 2019

Reduced interannual rainfall variability in East Africa during the last ice age.

scientific article published on August 2011

Representation of aquatic invertebrate communities in subfossil death assemblages sampled along a salinity gradient of western Uganda crater lakes

scientific article published in 2005

Seasonal variability and sources of in situ brGDGT production in a permanently stratified African crater lake

scientific article published in 2020

Seasonality in diet and feeding habits of the endemic Chala tilapia (Oreochromis hunteri) and two introduced tilapiine cichlids in Lake Chala, East Africa

scientific article published on 08 October 2020

Sediment reflectance spectroscopy as a paleo-hydrological proxy in East Africa

scientific article published in 2017

Sedimentological and Paleoecological Research Techniques, with Applications to the Environmental History of Loboi Swamp, Kenya

scientific article published in 2016

Sources of core and intact branched tetraether membrane lipids in the lacustrine environment: Anatomy of Lake Challa and its catchment, equatorial East Africa

article

Species integrity and origin of Oreochromis hunteri (Pisces: Cichlidae), endemic to crater Lake Chala (Kenya–Tanzania)

article

Temperature variability over Africa during the last 2000 years

article

The contribution of intra- and interspecific tolerance variability to biodiversity changes along toxicity gradients

scientific article

The tropical lapse rate steepened during the Last Glacial Maximum

scientific article

Two hundred years of a diverse Daphnia community in Lake Naivasha (Kenya): effects of natural and human-induced environmental changes

article

Varved sediments of Lake Yoa (Ounianga Kebir, Chad) reveal progressive drying of the Sahara during the last 6100 years

article

Water‐isotope ecohydrology of Mount Kilimanjaro

Checklist of the diatoms (Bacillariophyta) from Lake Naivasha, Kenya, with some historical notes ⬇️

scientific article published on 7 April 2023

List of works by Dirk Verschuren

A 25,000-year record of climate-induced changes in lowland vegetation of eastern equatorial Africa revealed by the stable carbon-isotopic composition of fossil plant leaf waxes

A late-Quaternary perspective, on atmospheric pCO2, climate, and fire as drivers of C4-grass abundance.

A revised classification and terminology for stacked and amalgamated turbidites in environments dominated by (hemi)pelagic sedimentation

Accelerated Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Associated with Agricultural Activity in Crater-Lake Catchments of Western Uganda

African hydroclimatic variability during the last 2000 years

Altitudinal shifts in the branched tetraether lipid distribution in soil from Mt. Kilimanjaro (Tanzania): Implications for the MBT/CBT continental palaeothermometer

Aquatic community response in a groundwater-fed desert lake to Holocene desiccation of the Sahara

Biogenic Si analysis in volcanically imprinted lacustrine systems: the case of Lake Rutundu (Mt. Kenya)

Carbon cycling within an East African lake revealed by the carbon isotope composition of diatom silica: a 25-ka record from Lake Challa, Mt. Kilimanjaro

Comparison of simulated and reconstructed variations in East African hydroclimate over the last millennium

Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia

Corrigendum to “Ecohydrological evolution of Lake Naivasha (central Rift Valley, Kenya) during the past 1650 years, as recorded by ostracod assemblages and stable-isotope geochemistry” [Quat. Sci. Rev. 223 (2019) 105906]

Cryptic invasion and dispersal of an American Daphnia in East Africa

Daphniaspecies diversity in Kenya, and a key to the identification of their ephippia

Depositional history of Lake Chala (Mt. Kilimanjaro, equatorial East Africa) from high-resolution seismic stratigraphy

Depositional history of Lake Chala (Mt. Kilimanjaro, equatorial East Africa) from high-resolution seismic stratigraphy

Determining patterns of stratification and mixing in tropical crater lakes through intermittent water-column profiling: A case study in western Uganda

Developing a methodology for carbon isotope analysis of lacustrine diatoms

Distribution of tetraether lipids in the 25-ka sedimentary record of Lake Challa: extracting reliable TEX86 and MBT/CBT palaeotemperatures from an equatorial African lake

Diversity and ecology of tropical African fungal spores from a 25,000-year palaeoenvironmental record in southeastern Kenya

EFFECTS OF DEPTH, SALINITY, AND SUBSTRATE ON THE INVERTEBRATE COMMUNITY OF A FLUCTUATING TROPICAL LAKE

Ecohydrological evolution of Lake Naivasha (central Rift Valley, Kenya) during the past 1650 years, as recorded by ostracod assemblages and stable-isotope geochemistry

Effects of temperature, pH and nutrient concentration on branched GDGT distributions in East African lakes: Implications for paleoenvironmental reconstruction

Extinction, recolonization, and dispersal through time in a planktonic crustacean

Fluxes and distribution of tetraether lipids in an equatorial African lake: Constraints on the application of the TEX86 palaeothermometer and BIT index in lacustrine settings

Fossil Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera) as quantitative indicators of past salinity in African lakes

Global change: the heat on Lake Tanganyika

Half-precessional dynamics of monsoon rainfall near the East African Equator

High-throughput sequencing and marker pigment analysis of freshwater phytoplankton: A direct comparison with microscopic count data in the tropical crater lakes of Western Uganda

History and timing of human impact on Lake Victoria, East Africa

History of scoria‐cone eruptions on the eastern shoulder of the Kenya–Tanzania Rift revealed in the 250‐ka sediment record of Lake Chala near Mount Kilimanjaro

Holocene evolution of the crater lake at Malha, Northwest Sudan

Influence of plant growth form, habitat and season on leaf-wax n-alkane hydrogen-isotopic signatures in equatorial East Africa

Interannual and (multi-)decadal variability in the sedimentary BIT index of Lake Challa, East Africa, over the past 2200 years: assessment of the precipitation proxy

Invasion of an asexual American water flea clone throughout Africa and rapid displacement of a native sibling species ⬇️

Lake Chala turbidites produced by surficial slope sediment remobilization: A mechanism to bring near-shore macrofossils to the deep basin with only limited time offset

Late Quaternary behavior of the East African monsoon and the importance of the Congo Air Boundary

Latitudinal Linkages in Late Holocene Moisture-Balance Variation

Linking isoprenoidal GDGT membrane lipid distributions with gene abundances of ammonia-oxidizing Thaumarchaeota and uncultured crenarchaeotal groups in the water column of a tropical lake (Lake Challa, East Africa).

Long-term dynamics of algal and invertebrate communities in a small, fluctuating tropical soda lake

Long-term variability and rainfall control of savanna fire regimes in equatorial East Africa

ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Taxonomy and diversity of Afroalpine Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera) on Mount Kenya and the Rwenzori Mountains, East Africa

Physical and chemical limnology of alpine lakes and pools in the Rwenzori Mountains (Uganda–DR Congo)

Plant water resource partitioning and isotopic fractionation during transpiration in a seasonally dry tropical climate

Potential biological sources of long chain alkyl diols in a lacustrine system

Priority effects and species sorting in a long paleoecological record of repeated community assembly through time

Recurrent changes in cichlid dentition linked to climate‐driven lake‐level fluctuations

Reduced interannual rainfall variability in East Africa during the last ice age.

Representation of aquatic invertebrate communities in subfossil death assemblages sampled along a salinity gradient of western Uganda crater lakes

Seasonal variability and sources of in situ brGDGT production in a permanently stratified African crater lake

Seasonality in diet and feeding habits of the endemic Chala tilapia (Oreochromis hunteri) and two introduced tilapiine cichlids in Lake Chala, East Africa

Sediment reflectance spectroscopy as a paleo-hydrological proxy in East Africa

Sedimentological and Paleoecological Research Techniques, with Applications to the Environmental History of Loboi Swamp, Kenya

Sources of core and intact branched tetraether membrane lipids in the lacustrine environment: Anatomy of Lake Challa and its catchment, equatorial East Africa

Species integrity and origin of Oreochromis hunteri (Pisces: Cichlidae), endemic to crater Lake Chala (Kenya–Tanzania)

Temperature variability over Africa during the last 2000 years

The contribution of intra- and interspecific tolerance variability to biodiversity changes along toxicity gradients

The tropical lapse rate steepened during the Last Glacial Maximum

Two hundred years of a diverse Daphnia community in Lake Naivasha (Kenya): effects of natural and human-induced environmental changes

Varved sediments of Lake Yoa (Ounianga Kebir, Chad) reveal progressive drying of the Sahara during the last 6100 years

Water‐isotope ecohydrology of Mount Kilimanjaro

﻿Checklist of the diatoms (Bacillariophyta) from Lake Naivasha, Kenya, with some historical notes ⬇️

Checklist of the diatoms (Bacillariophyta) from Lake Naivasha, Kenya, with some historical notes ⬇️