List of works - Enno Schefuß

A novel proxy for terrestrial organic matter in sediments based on branched and isoprenoid tetraether lipids

scholarly article

A two-million-year-long hydroclimatic context for hominin evolution in southeastern Africa

scientific article published in Nature

African vegetation controlled by tropical sea surface temperatures in the mid-Pleistocene period.

scientific article

Bacteriohopanepolyols in tropical soils and sediments from the Congo River catchment area

Carbon isotope analyses of n-alkanes in dust from the lower atmosphere over the central eastern Atlantic

scholarly article

Climate and land-use effects on hydrological and vegetation signals during the last three millennia: Evidence from sedimentary leaf waxes in southwestern Morocco

Climate induced sub-basin source-area shifts of Zambezi River sediments over the past 17ka

scholarly article

Climatic controls on central African hydrology during the past 20,000 years

scientific article

Constraints on the sources of branched tetraether membrane lipids in distal marine sediments

Controls on the age of vascular plant biomarkers in Black Sea sediments

scientific article

Correction to “Forcing of tropical Atlantic sea surface temperatures during the mid-Pleistocene transition”

scholarly article published in Paleoceanography

Corrigendum to “Distributional variations in marine crenarchaeotal membrane lipids: a new tool for reconstructing ancient sea water temperatures?”

scholarly article published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Coupled thermal and hydrological evolution of tropical Africa over the last deglaciation

scientific article published on March 2007

Different precipitation patterns across tropical South America during Heinrich and Dansgaard-Oeschger stadials

scholarly article

Disentangling marine, soil and plant organic carbon contributions to continental margin sediments: A multi-proxy approach in a 20,000 year sediment record from the Congo deep-sea fan

article

Distribution and stable isotopes of plant wax derived n-alkanes in lacustrine, fluvial and marine surface sediments along an Eastern Italian transect and their potential to reconstruct the hydrological cycle

article

Distributional variations in marine crenarchaeotal membrane lipids: a new tool for reconstructing ancient sea water temperatures?

scholarly article

Early anthropogenic impact on Western Central African rainforests 2,600 y ago.

scientific article

Elevated dust depositions in West Asia linked to ocean-atmosphere shifts during North Atlantic cold events

scientific article published on 20 July 2020

Estimating the hydrogen isotopic composition of past precipitation using leaf-waxes from western Africa

article

Evaluation of long chain 1,14-alkyl diols in marine sediments as indicators for upwelling and temperature

Forcing of tropical Atlantic sea surface temperatures during the mid-Pleistocene transition

Forcing of wet phases in southeast Africa over the past 17,000 years

scientific article

Geochemical and microbiological fingerprinting of airborne dust that fell in Canberra, Australia, in October 2002

article

Glacial to Holocene changes in sea surface temperature and coastal vegetation in north central Chile: high versus low latitude forcing

article

Glacial–interglacial variability in Atlantic meridional overturning circulation and thermocline adjustments in the tropical North Atlantic

scientific article

Global-scale evidence for the refractory nature of riverine black carbon

Highly branched isoprenoids for Southern Ocean sea ice reconstructions: a pilot study from the Western Antarctic Peninsula

scientific article published in 2019

Holocene vegetation and climate variability in the winter and summer rainfall zones of South Africa

article

Hybrid insolation forcing of Pliocene monsoon dynamics in West Africa

scientific article published on 16 January 2018

Hydroclimate variability in the Nile River Basin during the past 28,000 years

scientific article

Hydroclimatic vulnerability of peat carbon in the central Congo Basin

scientific article published in 2022

Hydrogen isotope fractionation of leaf wax n -alkanes in southern African soils

Hydrologic control of carbon cycling and aged carbon discharge in the Congo River basin

Hydrologic controls on seasonal and inter-annual variability of Congo River particulate organic matter source and reservoir age

scholarly article

Impact of temperature on long chain diol and mid-chain hydroxy methyl alkanoate composition in Proboscia diatoms: Results from culture and field studies

article

Increased Amazon freshwater discharge during late Heinrich Stadial 1

scholarly article

Interaction of Fire, Vegetation, and Climate in Tropical Ecosystems: A Multiproxy Study Over the Past 22,000 Years

scientific article published in 2020

Interhemispheric symmetry of the tropical African rainbelt over the past 23,000 years

scholarly article

Investigation of organic matter and biomarkers from Diepkloof Rock Shelter, South Africa: Insights into Middle Stone Age site usage and palaeoclimate

Last deglacial abrupt climate changes caused by meltwater pulses in the Labrador Sea

Late Holocene slowdown of the Indian Ocean Walker circulation

scientific article published on 18 October 2017

Late Quaternary Biomass Burning in Northwest Africa and Interactions With Climate, Vegetation, and Humans

scientific article

Late Quaternary climate variability at Mfabeni peatland, eastern South Africa

scientific article published in 2019

Leaf water deuterium enrichment shapes leaf wax n-alkane δD values of angiosperm plants I: Experimental evidence and mechanistic insights

article

Leaf water deuterium enrichment shapes leaf wax n-alkane δD values of angiosperm plants II: Observational evidence and global implications

article

Linking catchment hydrology and ocean circulation in Late Holocene southernmost Africa

scientific article published on 3 November 2016

Lipid biomarkers as major source and preservation indicators in SE Atlantic surface sediments

Long chain 1,13- and 1,15-diols as a potential proxy for palaeotemperature reconstruction

scholarly article

Millennial-scale sea surface temperature changes in the eastern Mediterranean (Nile River Delta region) over the last 27,000 years

Molecular distribution and isotopic composition (δD and δ<sup>13</sup>C) of lipids dataset for a sediment core (GeoB16202-2) from the north-eastern Brazilian margin

scientific article published on 06 November 2020

Multiple plant-wax compounds record differential sources and ecosystem structure in large river catchments

article

Near-constant apparent hydrogen isotope fractionation between leaf wax n-alkanes and precipitation in tropical regions: Evidence from a marine sediment transect off SW Africa

scientific article

Negligible Quantities of Particulate Low‐Temperature Pyrogenic Carbon Reach the Atlantic Ocean via the Amazon River

scientific article published in 2021

Orbital- and millennial-scale changes in the hydrologic cycle and vegetation in the western African Sahel: insights from individual plant wax δD and δ13C

scholarly article

Origin and processing of terrestrial organic carbon in the Amazon system: lignin phenols in river, shelf, and fan sediments

scientific article published in 2017

Origin, transport and deposition of leaf-wax biomarkers in the Amazon Basin and the adjacent Atlantic

Origin, transport, and retention of fluvial sedimentary organic matter in South Africa's largest freshwater wetland, Mkhuze Wetland System

scientific article published in 2022

Paleohydrological dynamics in the Western Mediterranean during the last glacial cycle

scholarly article

Publisher Correction: Global-scale evidence for the refractory nature of riverine black carbon

scholarly article published in Nature Geoscience

Publisher Correction: Hydroclimatic vulnerability of peat carbon in the central Congo Basin

scientific article published in 2022

Rapid termination of the African Humid Period triggered by northern high-latitude cooling

scientific article published on 8 November 2017

Reconstructing C 3 and C 4 vegetation cover using n -alkane carbon isotope ratios in recent lake sediments from Cameroon, Western Central Africa

article

Reply to Clist et al.: Human activity is the most probable trigger of the late Holocene rainforest crisis in Western Central Africa

scientific article published on 8 May 2018

Reply to Giresse et al.: No evidence for climate variability during the late Holocene rainforest crisis in Western Central Africa

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

Sahel megadrought during Heinrich Stadial 1: evidence for a three-phase evolution of the low- and mid-level West African wind system

scientific article

Sources and abundances of leaf waxes in aerosols in central Europe

scholarly article

Sources, transport and deposition of terrestrial organic material: A case study from southwestern Africa

article

Southern Hemisphere anticyclonic circulation drives oceanic and climatic conditions in late Holocene southernmost Africa

article

Supplementary material to "Linking catchment hydrology and ocean circulation in Late Holocene southernmost Africa"

scientific article published on 3 November 2016

Synchronous and proportional deglacial changes in Atlantic meridional overturning and northeast Brazilian precipitation

scholarly article

Taraxerol and Rhizophora pollen as proxies for tracking past mangrove ecosystems

scholarly article by Gerard J.M. Versteegh et al published February 2004 in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Terrestrial temperature evolution of southern Africa during the late Pleistocene and Holocene: Evidence from the Mfabeni Peatland

scientific article published in 2023

The C<sub>32</sub> alkane-1,15-diol as a proxy of late Quaternary riverine input in coastal margins

The Fate of Carbon in Sediments of the Xingu and Tapajós Clearwater Rivers, Eastern Amazon

The Provenance of Terrigenous Components in Marine Sediments Along the East Coast of Southern Africa

scholarly article

The nature, timescale, and efficiency of riverine export of terrestrial organic carbon in the (sub)tropics: Insights at the molecular level from the Pearl River and adjacent coastal sea

The roles of climate and human land-use in the late Holocene rainforest crisis of Central Africa

scientific article

The stable hydrogen isotopic composition of sedimentary plant waxes as quantitative proxy for rainfall in the West African Sahel

Thermal response of the western tropical Atlantic to slowdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

scientific article

Tropical South Atlantic influence on Northeastern Brazil precipitation and ITCZ displacement during the past 2300 years

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Using distributions and stable isotopes of n-alkanes to disentangle organic matter contributions to sediments of Laguna Potrok Aike, Argentina

article

Variability in aerobic methane oxidation over the past 1.2Myrs recorded in microbial biomarker signatures from Congo fan sediments

scholarly article

Wet phases in the Sahara/Sahel region and human migration patterns in North Africa

scientific article (publication date: December 2009)

List of works by Enno Schefuß

A novel proxy for terrestrial organic matter in sediments based on branched and isoprenoid tetraether lipids

A two-million-year-long hydroclimatic context for hominin evolution in southeastern Africa

African vegetation controlled by tropical sea surface temperatures in the mid-Pleistocene period.

Bacteriohopanepolyols in tropical soils and sediments from the Congo River catchment area

Carbon isotope analyses of n-alkanes in dust from the lower atmosphere over the central eastern Atlantic

Climate and land-use effects on hydrological and vegetation signals during the last three millennia: Evidence from sedimentary leaf waxes in southwestern Morocco

Climate induced sub-basin source-area shifts of Zambezi River sediments over the past 17ka

Climatic controls on central African hydrology during the past 20,000 years

Constraints on the sources of branched tetraether membrane lipids in distal marine sediments

Controls on the age of vascular plant biomarkers in Black Sea sediments

Correction to “Forcing of tropical Atlantic sea surface temperatures during the mid-Pleistocene transition”

Corrigendum to “Distributional variations in marine crenarchaeotal membrane lipids: a new tool for reconstructing ancient sea water temperatures?”

Coupled thermal and hydrological evolution of tropical Africa over the last deglaciation

Different precipitation patterns across tropical South America during Heinrich and Dansgaard-Oeschger stadials

Disentangling marine, soil and plant organic carbon contributions to continental margin sediments: A multi-proxy approach in a 20,000 year sediment record from the Congo deep-sea fan

Distribution and stable isotopes of plant wax derived n-alkanes in lacustrine, fluvial and marine surface sediments along an Eastern Italian transect and their potential to reconstruct the hydrological cycle

Distributional variations in marine crenarchaeotal membrane lipids: a new tool for reconstructing ancient sea water temperatures?

Early anthropogenic impact on Western Central African rainforests 2,600 y ago.

Elevated dust depositions in West Asia linked to ocean-atmosphere shifts during North Atlantic cold events

Estimating the hydrogen isotopic composition of past precipitation using leaf-waxes from western Africa

Evaluation of long chain 1,14-alkyl diols in marine sediments as indicators for upwelling and temperature

Forcing of tropical Atlantic sea surface temperatures during the mid-Pleistocene transition

Forcing of wet phases in southeast Africa over the past 17,000 years

Geochemical and microbiological fingerprinting of airborne dust that fell in Canberra, Australia, in October 2002

Glacial to Holocene changes in sea surface temperature and coastal vegetation in north central Chile: high versus low latitude forcing

Glacial–interglacial variability in Atlantic meridional overturning circulation and thermocline adjustments in the tropical North Atlantic

Global-scale evidence for the refractory nature of riverine black carbon

Highly branched isoprenoids for Southern Ocean sea ice reconstructions: a pilot study from the Western Antarctic Peninsula

Holocene vegetation and climate variability in the winter and summer rainfall zones of South Africa

Hybrid insolation forcing of Pliocene monsoon dynamics in West Africa

Hydroclimate variability in the Nile River Basin during the past 28,000 years

Hydroclimatic vulnerability of peat carbon in the central Congo Basin

Hydrogen isotope fractionation of leaf wax n -alkanes in southern African soils

Hydrologic control of carbon cycling and aged carbon discharge in the Congo River basin

Hydrologic controls on seasonal and inter-annual variability of Congo River particulate organic matter source and reservoir age

Impact of temperature on long chain diol and mid-chain hydroxy methyl alkanoate composition in Proboscia diatoms: Results from culture and field studies

Increased Amazon freshwater discharge during late Heinrich Stadial 1

Interaction of Fire, Vegetation, and Climate in Tropical Ecosystems: A Multiproxy Study Over the Past 22,000 Years

Interhemispheric symmetry of the tropical African rainbelt over the past 23,000 years

Investigation of organic matter and biomarkers from Diepkloof Rock Shelter, South Africa: Insights into Middle Stone Age site usage and palaeoclimate

Last deglacial abrupt climate changes caused by meltwater pulses in the Labrador Sea

Late Holocene slowdown of the Indian Ocean Walker circulation

Late Quaternary Biomass Burning in Northwest Africa and Interactions With Climate, Vegetation, and Humans

Late Quaternary climate variability at Mfabeni peatland, eastern South Africa

Leaf water deuterium enrichment shapes leaf wax n-alkane δD values of angiosperm plants I: Experimental evidence and mechanistic insights

Leaf water deuterium enrichment shapes leaf wax n-alkane δD values of angiosperm plants II: Observational evidence and global implications

Linking catchment hydrology and ocean circulation in Late Holocene southernmost Africa

Lipid biomarkers as major source and preservation indicators in SE Atlantic surface sediments

Long chain 1,13- and 1,15-diols as a potential proxy for palaeotemperature reconstruction

Millennial-scale sea surface temperature changes in the eastern Mediterranean (Nile River Delta region) over the last 27,000 years

Molecular distribution and isotopic composition (δD and δ<sup>13</sup>C) of lipids dataset for a sediment core (GeoB16202-2) from the north-eastern Brazilian margin

Multiple plant-wax compounds record differential sources and ecosystem structure in large river catchments

Near-constant apparent hydrogen isotope fractionation between leaf wax n-alkanes and precipitation in tropical regions: Evidence from a marine sediment transect off SW Africa

Negligible Quantities of Particulate Low‐Temperature Pyrogenic Carbon Reach the Atlantic Ocean via the Amazon River

Orbital- and millennial-scale changes in the hydrologic cycle and vegetation in the western African Sahel: insights from individual plant wax δD and δ13C

Origin and processing of terrestrial organic carbon in the Amazon system: lignin phenols in river, shelf, and fan sediments

Origin, transport and deposition of leaf-wax biomarkers in the Amazon Basin and the adjacent Atlantic

Origin, transport, and retention of fluvial sedimentary organic matter in South Africa's largest freshwater wetland, Mkhuze Wetland System

Paleohydrological dynamics in the Western Mediterranean during the last glacial cycle

Publisher Correction: Global-scale evidence for the refractory nature of riverine black carbon

Publisher Correction: Hydroclimatic vulnerability of peat carbon in the central Congo Basin

Rapid termination of the African Humid Period triggered by northern high-latitude cooling

Reconstructing C 3 and C 4 vegetation cover using n -alkane carbon isotope ratios in recent lake sediments from Cameroon, Western Central Africa

Reply to Clist et al.: Human activity is the most probable trigger of the late Holocene rainforest crisis in Western Central Africa

Reply to Giresse et al.: No evidence for climate variability during the late Holocene rainforest crisis in Western Central Africa

Sahel megadrought during Heinrich Stadial 1: evidence for a three-phase evolution of the low- and mid-level West African wind system

Sources and abundances of leaf waxes in aerosols in central Europe

Sources, transport and deposition of terrestrial organic material: A case study from southwestern Africa

Southern Hemisphere anticyclonic circulation drives oceanic and climatic conditions in late Holocene southernmost Africa

Supplementary material to "Linking catchment hydrology and ocean circulation in Late Holocene southernmost Africa"

Synchronous and proportional deglacial changes in Atlantic meridional overturning and northeast Brazilian precipitation

Taraxerol and Rhizophora pollen as proxies for tracking past mangrove ecosystems

Terrestrial temperature evolution of southern Africa during the late Pleistocene and Holocene: Evidence from the Mfabeni Peatland

The C<sub>32</sub> alkane-1,15-diol as a proxy of late Quaternary riverine input in coastal margins

The Fate of Carbon in Sediments of the Xingu and Tapajós Clearwater Rivers, Eastern Amazon

The Provenance of Terrigenous Components in Marine Sediments Along the East Coast of Southern Africa

The nature, timescale, and efficiency of riverine export of terrestrial organic carbon in the (sub)tropics: Insights at the molecular level from the Pearl River and adjacent coastal sea

The roles of climate and human land-use in the late Holocene rainforest crisis of Central Africa

The stable hydrogen isotopic composition of sedimentary plant waxes as quantitative proxy for rainfall in the West African Sahel