Dr. Birgit Gaye
Wissenschaftlerin
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Research Interest
Marine Biogeochemistry, sedimentation processes, influence of climatic fluctuations and global change on biogeochemical cycling of elements, preservation of proxies of biogeochemical cycling in the sediments, palaeoclimate reconstruction from marine and terrestrial records.
Lebenslauf
Academic Degrees
1987 Master in Geology and Palaeontology (University of Hamburg)
1990 Dissertation at the Department of Geosciences (University of Hamburg) on the “Biogeochemistry of sinking particles in the Arabian Sea: Implications for the Marine Carbon Cycle”.
Current Position
since 1994 Research Scientist at the Institute of Biogeochemistry and Marine Chemistry, Unversity of Hamburg.
Projekte
2017-2020 Anthropogenic Fingerprints in East China Marginal Seas: Investigation of Hydrodynamics and Nutrient Dynamics (FINGNUTS), BMBF (MEGAPOL)
2016-2019 Central Asian Holocene Climate (CAHOL), BMBF
2011-2014 Natural versus anthropogenic controls of past monsoon variability in Central Asia recorded in marine archives (CARIMA), BMBF (CAME)
2009-2010 Model and data based estimate of the nitrogen cycle of the Arabian Sea, CLISAP.
2007-2009 Nitrogen cycle of the Arabian Sea Meteor 74/1, DFG.
2006-2008 Biogeochemical fluxes in Vietnam seas: lateral advection versus primary productivity events, DFG.
2005-2006 Himalayan Lake Study – Reconstruction of the Holocene climatic history and recent anthropogenic changes in the southwestern Himalayas (Panjab and Kumaun Lakes), DFG.
2003-2005 Biogeochemical Fluxes in Vietnam Seas: Response to ENSO events and Holocene warming, DFG.
2002-2003 Particle flux in the Levantine Sea – Results of Meteor Cruises 51/2 and M 53/1a, DFG.
2001-2003 Brantas Madura Strait Project, BMBF.
2001-2003 Biogeochemical fluxes in the Indonesian Seas I, Modul 2: India: Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal, BMBF.
2001-2002 Zooplankton structure and particle fluxes in the Levantine Sea in relation to changes of the thermohaline circulation (cruises Meteor 51/2 and M 53/1), DFG
2000-2003 Siberian River Run-off (SIRRO), Subproject D, “Influence of freshwater and sediment supply on the biogeochemistry of carbon and silica in the Kara Sea”, BMBF.
1998-2000 JGOFS-Indik III, “Long-term study of particle fluxes in the Arabian Sea: coupling of ocean and atmosphere”, BMBF.
1997-1998 JGOFS-Indik II, “Long-term study of particle fluxes in the Arabian Sea: coupling of ocean and atmosphere”, BMBF.
1996-1998 Monsoonal history of the Arabian Sea, DFG.
1995-1996 JGOFS-Indik I, “Long-term study of particle fluxes in the Arabian Sea: coupling of ocean and atmosphere“, BMBF.
Publikationen
Publications in Journals
2022
Ankit, Y., Muneer, W., Gaye, B., Lahajnar, N., Bhattacharya, S., Bulbul, M., Jehangir, A., Anoop, A., and Mishra, P. K.: Apportioning sedimentary organic matter sources and its degradation state: Inferences based on aliphatic hydrocarbons, amino acids and δ15N, Environmental Research, 205, 112409, https://doi.org/10.1016/ j.envres.2021.112409, 2022.
Gaye, B., Lahajnar, N., Harms, N., Paul, S. A. L., Rixen, T., and Emeis, K. C.: What can we learn from amino acids about oceanic organic matter cycling and degradation?, Biogeosciences, 19, 807-830, 10.5194/bg-19-807-2022, 2022.
Maeda, A., Kuroyanagi, A., Iguchi, A., Gaye, B., Rixen, T., Nishi, H., and Kawahata, H.: Seasonal variation of fluxes of planktic foraminiferal tests collected by a time-series sediment trap in the central Bay of Bengal during three different years, Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 183, 103718, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2022.103718, 2022.
Prasad, S., Mishra, P. K., Priya, P., Yousuf, A. R., Andersen, N., Anoop, A., Jehangir, A., Yaseen, T., Gaye, B., and Stebich, M.: Impact of precipitation and temperature changes on limnology and sediment characteristics in NW Himalaya, Appl. Geochem., 137, 105200, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2022.105200, 2022.
Tian, S., Gaye, B., Tang, J., Luo, Y., Li, W., Lahajnar, N., Dähnke, K., Sanders, T., Xiong, T., Zhai, W., and Emeis, K. C.: A nitrate budget of the Bohai Sea based on an isotope mass balance model, Biogeosciences, 19, 2397-2415, 10.5194/bg-19-2397-2022, 2022.
Tian, S., Gaye, B., Tang, J., Luo, Y., Lahajnar, N., Dähnke, K., Sanders, T., Xiong, T., Zhai, W., and Emeis, K.-C.: Nitrate Regeneration and Loss in the Central Yellow Sea Bottom Water Revealed by Nitrogen Isotopes, Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, 10.3389/fmars.2022.834953, 2022.
2021
Ankit, Y., Muneer, W., Lahajnar, N., Gaye, B., Misra, S., Jehangir, A., Anoop, A., and Mishra, P. K.: Long term natural and anthropogenic forcing on aquatic system-evidence based on biogeochemical and pollen proxies from lake sediments in Kashmir Himalaya, India, Appl. Geochem., 131, 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2021.105046, 2021.
Burdanowitz, N., Rixen, T., Gaye, B., and Emeis, K. C.: Signals of Holocene climate transition amplified by anthropogenic land-use changes in the westerly–Indian monsoon realm, Clim. Past, 17, 1735-1749, 10.5194/cp-17-1735-2021, 2021.
Harms, N. C., Lahajnar, N., Gaye, B., Rixen, T., Schwarz-Schampera, U., and Emeis, K.-C.: Sediment trap-derived particulate matter fluxes in the oligotrophic subtropical gyre of the South Indian Ocean, Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 183, 104924, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2020.104924, 2021.
Maier, J., Perkuhn, C., Tian, S., Waniek, J.J., Lahanjnar, N., Emeis, K. and Gaye, B.: The nitrogen cycle in the northern South China Sea: Impact of the Pearl River. In: Waniek, J.J., Schulz-Bull, D., Gaye, B., Ebinghaus, R., Kunz, F., Pohlmann, T., Emeis, K.-C., (eds): Megacity’s fingerprint in Chinese marginal seas. Meereswiss. Ber., Warnemünde, 116 (2021), p. 27-29, doi:10.12754/msr-2021-0116.
2020
Hood, R.R., Beckley, L.E., Vialard, J., Gaye, B. (2020) The Second International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE-2): Motivating new exploration in a poorly understood ocean basin (volume 3). Deep-Sea Research Part II-Topical Studies in Oceanography 179. 10.1016/j.dsr2.2020.104876
Prasad, S., Marwan, N., Eroglu, D., Goswami, B., Mishra, P.K., Gaye, B., Anoop, A., Basavaiah, N., Stebich, M., Jehangir, A. (2020) Holocene climate forcings and lacustrine regime shifts in the Indian summer monsoon realm. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 10.1002/esp.5004
Shen, J., Jiao, N., Dai, M., Wang, H., Qiu, G., Chen, J., Li, H., Kao, S.-J., Yang, J.-Y.T., Cai, P., Zhou, K., Yang, W., Zhu, Y., Liu, Z., Chen, M., Zuo, Z., Gaye, B., Wiesner, M.G., Zhang, Y. (2020) Laterally Transported Particles From Margins Serve as a Major Carbon and Energy Source for Dark Ocean Ecosystems. Geophysical Research Letters 47, e2020GL088971.
2019
Burdanowitz, N., Gaye, B., Hilbig, L., Lahajnar, N., Lückge, A., Rixen, T., Emeis, K.-C. (2019) Holocene monsoon and sea level-related changes of sedimentation in the northeastern Arabian Sea. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 166, 6-18.
Forke, S., Rixen, T., Burdanowitz, N., Luckge, A., Ramaswamy, V., Munz, P., Wilhelms-Dick, D., Vogt, C., Kasten, S., Gaye, B., 2019. Sources of laminated sediments in the northeastern Arabian Sea off Pakistan and implications for sediment transport mechanisms during the late Holocene. Holocene 29, 130-144.
Harms, N.C., Lahajnar, N., Gaye, B., Rixen, T., Dähnke, K., Ankele, M., Schwarz-Schampera, U., Emeis, K.C., 2019. Nutrient distribution and nitrogen and oxygen isotopic composition of nitrate in water masses of the subtropical southern Indian Ocean. Biogeosciences 16, 2715-2732.
Rixen, T., Gaye, B., Emeis, K.C., Ramaswamy, V., 2019. The ballast effect of lithogenic matter and its influences on the carbon fluxes in the Indian Ocean. Biogeosciences 16, 485-503.
Rixen, T., Gaye, B., Emeis, K.-C., 2019. The monsoon, carbon fluxes, and the organic carbon pump in the northern Indian Ocean. Progress in Oceanography 175, 24-39.
2018
Gaye, B., Böll, A., Segschneider, J., Burdanowitz, N., Emeis, K.-C., Ramaswamy, V., Lahajnar, N., Lückge, A., Rixen, T., 2018. Glacial-interglacial changes and Holocene variations in Arabian Sea denitrification. Biogeosciences 15, 507–527. doi:10.5194/bg-15-507-2018
Mishra, P. K., Prasad, S., Marwan, N., Anoop, A., Krishnan, R., Gaye, B., Basavaiah, N., Stebich, M., Menzel, P., and Riedel, N.: Contrasting pattern of hydrological changes during the past two millennia from central and northern India: Regional climate difference or anthropogenic impact?, Global and Planetary Change 161, 97-107, 2018.
Mishra, P. K., Prasad, S., Jehangir, A., Anoop, A., Yousuf, A. R., and Gaye, B.: Investigating the role of meltwater versus precipitation seasonality in abrupt lake-level rise in the high-altitude Tso Moriri Lake (India), Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 493, 20-29, 2018.
Paul, S. A. L., Gaye, B., Haeckel, M., Kasten, S., and Koschinsky, A.: Biogeochemical Regeneration of a Nodule Mining Disturbance Site: Trace Metals, DOC and Amino Acids in Deep-Sea Sediments and Pore Waters, Frontiers in Marine Science 5, 2018.
Mbaye, M.L., Gaye, A.T., Spitzy, A., Dähnke, K., Afouda, A., Gaye, B., 2016. Seasonal and spatial variation in suspended matter, organic carbon, nitrogen, and nutrient concentrations of the Senegal River in West Africa. Limnologica - Ecology and Management of Inland Waters 57, 1-13.
Nagel, B., Gaye, B., Lahajnar, N., Struck, U., Emeis, K.-C., 2016. Effects of current regimes and oxygenation on particulate matter preservation on the Namibian shelf: Insights from amino acid biogeochemistry. Marine Chemistry 186, 121-132.
Prasad, S., Mishra, P.K., Menzel, P., Gaye, B., Jehangir, A., Yousuf, A.R., 2016. Testing the validity of productivity proxy indicators in high altitude Tso Moriri Lake, NW Himalaya (India). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 449, 421-430.
Böll, A., Schulz, H., Munz, P., Rixen, T., Gaye, B., Emeis, K.-C., 2015. Contrasting sea surface temperature of summer and winter monsoon variability in the northern Arabian Sea over the last 25 ka. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 426, 10-21.
Menzel, P., Anupama, K., Basavaiah, N., Das, B.K., Gaye, B., Hermann, N., Prasad, S., 2015. The use of amino acid analyses in (palaeo-) limnological investigations: A comparative study of four Indian lakes in different climate regimes. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 160, 25-37.
Mishra, P.K., Anoop, A., Schettler, G., Prasad, S., Jehangir, A., Menzel, P., Naumann, R., Yousuf, A.R., Basavaiah, A.R., Deenadayalan, K., Wiesner, M.G., Gaye, B., 2015. Reconstructed late Quaternary hydrological changes from Tso Moriri Lake, NW Himalaya. Quaternary International, doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2014.11.040.
Mishra, P.K., Prasad, S., Anoop, A., Plessen, B., Jehangir, A., Gaye, B., Menzel, P., Weise, S.M., Yousuf, A.R., 2015. Carbonate isotopes from high altitude Tso Moriri Lake (NW Himalayas) provide clues to late glacial and Holocene moisture source and atmospheric circulation changes. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 425, 76-83.
Mishra, P.K., Anoop, A., Jehangir, A., Prasad, S., Menzel, P., Schettler, G. Naumann, R. Weise, S., Yousuf, A.R., Gaye, B., in press. Limnology and modern sedimentation patterns in high altitude Tso Moriri Lake, NW Himalaya – implications for proxy development. Fundamental and Applied Limnology, 185, 3-4, 329-348.
Basavaiah, N., Wiesner, M., Anoop, A., Menzel, P., Nowaczyk, N.R., Deenadayalan, K., Brauer, A., Gaye, B., Naumann, R., Riedel, N., Prasad, S., Stebich, M., 2014. Physicochemical analyses of surface sediments from the Lonar Lake, central India – implications for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Fundamental and Applied Limnology 184 (1), 51-68.
Böll, A., Lückge, A., Munz, P., Forke, S., Schulz, H., Ramaswamy, V., Rixen, T., Gaye, B., Emeis, K.-C., 2014. Late Holocene primary productivity and sea surface temperature variations in the northeastern Arabian Sea: Implications for winter monsoon variability. Paleoceanography 29, doi:10.1002/2013PA002579.
Menzel, P., Gaye, B., Mishra, P.K., Anoop. A., Basavaiah, N., Marwan, N., Plessen, B., Prasad, S., Riedel, N., Stebich, N., Wiesner, M.G., 2014. Linking Holocene drying trends from Lonar Lake in monsoonal central India to North Atlantic cooling events. Paleogeography Paleoclimatology Paleoecology 410, 164-178.
Prasad, S., Anoop, A., Riedel, N., Sarkar, S., Menzel, P., Basavaiah, N., Krishnan, R., Fuller, D., Plessen, B., Gaye, B., Röhl, U., Wilkes, H., Sachse, D., Sawant, R., Wiesner, M., Stebich, M., 2014. Prolonged monsoon droughts and links to Indo-Pacific warm pool: A Holocene record from Lonar Lake, central India. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 391, 171-182.
Anoop, A., Prasad, S., Plessen, B., Basavaiah, B. Gaye, Naumann, R., Menzel, P., Weise, S., Brauer, A. 2013. Palaeoenvironmental implications of evaporative gaylussite crystals from Lonar lake, Central India. Journal of Quaternary Science 28 (4), 349-359.
Gaye, B., Nagel, B., Dähnke, K., Rixen, T., Emeis, K., 2013. Evidence of parallel denitrification and nitrite oxidation in the ODZ of the Arabian Sea from paired stable isotopes of nitrate and nitrite. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 27, doi:10.1002/2011GB004115.
Gaye, B., Nagel, B., Dähnke, K., Rixen, T., Lahajnar, N., Emeis, K.-C., 2013. Amino acid composition and d15N of suspended matter in the Arabian Sea: implications for organic matter sources and degradation. Biogeosciences 10, 7689-7702, doi:10.5194/bg-10-1-2013.
Menzel P., B. Gaye, S. Prasad, M. Stebich, B. K. Das, A. Anoop, N. Riedel, N. Basavaiah, 2013. Influence of bottom water anoxia on nitrogen isotopic ratios and amino acid contributions of recent sediments from small eutrophic Lonar Lake, central India. Limnology and Oceanography 58 (3), 1061-1074.
Rixen, T., Baum, A. Gaye, B., Nagel, B., 2014. Seasonal and interannual variations of the nitrogen cycle zone in the Arabian Sea. Biogeosciences 11, 5733–5747.
Jensen, M.M., Lam, P., Revsbech, N.P., Nagel, B., Gaye, B., Jetten, M.S.M., Kuypers, M.M.M., 2011. Intensive nitrogen loss over the Omani shelf due to anammox coupled with dissimilatory nitrite reduction to ammonium. The International Society for Microbial Ecology Journal, doi:10.1038/ismej.2011.44
Möbius, J., Gaye, B., Lahajnar, N., Bahlmann, E., Emeis, K.-C., 2011. Influence of diagenesis on sedimentary δ15N in the Arabian Sea over the last 130 kyr. Marine Geology, 284, 1-4, 127-138. doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2011.03.013.
Rixen, T., Ramachandran, P., Lehnhoff, L., Dasbach, D., Gaye, B., Urban, B., Ramachandran, R., Ittekkot, V., 2011. Impact of monsoon-driven surface ocean processes on a coral off Port Blair on the Andaman Islands and their link to North Atlantic climate variations. Global and Planetary Change 75, 1-13, 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2010.09.005.
Das, B.K., Gaye, B., Malik, M.A., 2010. Biogeochemistry and paleoclimate variability during the Holocene: a record from Mansar Lake, Lesser Himalaya. Environmental Earth Science 61, 3, 565-574, 10.1007/s12665-009-0366-0.
Gaye, B. Wiesner, M.G., Lahajnar, N., 2009.
Nitrogen sources in the South China Sea, as discerned from stable nitrogen isotopic ratios in rivers, sinking particles, and sediments. Marine Chemistry 114, 72-85.
Nagel, B., Gaye, B. Kodina, L.A., Lahajnar, N., 2009.
Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes as indicators for organic matter sources in the Kara Sea. Marine Geology 266, 42-51.
Ramaswamy, V., Gaye, B., Shirodkar, V. P.V. , Rao, P.S., Chivas, A.R., Wheeler, D., and Thwin, Swe, 2008. Distribution and sources of organic carbon, nitrogen and their isotopic signatures in sediments from the Ayeyarwady (Irrawady) continental shelf, northern Andaman Sea. Marine Chemistry 111, 137-150.
Das, B. K., Gaye, B., Kaur, P., 2008.
Geochemistry of Renuka Lake and wetland sediments, Lesser Himalaya (India): implications for source-area weathering, provenance, and tectonic setting. Environmental Geology, 54, 147-163.
Gaye, B., Fahl., K., Kodina, L.A., Lahajnar, N., Nagel, B., Unger, D. and Gebhardt, C.A., 2007. Particulate matter fluxes in the southern and central Kara Sea compared to sediments: Bulk fluxes, amino acids, stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes, sterols and fatty acids. Continental Shelf Research 27, 2570-2594.
Lahajnar, N., Wiesner, M.G., Gaye, B., 2007.
Fluxes of amino acids and hexosamines to the deep South China Sea. Deep-Sea Research I 54, 2122-2140.
Hirche H.J., Kosobokova, K.N., Gaye-Haake, B., Harms, I., Meon, B. Nöthig E.-M., 2006. Structure and function of contemporary food webs on Arctic shelves: A panarctic comparison. The pelagic system of the Kara Sea – communities and components of carbon flow. Progress in Oceanography 71 (2-4), 288-313. doi: 10.1016/j.pocean.2006.09.010.
Ramaswamy, V. and Gaye, B., 2006. Regional variations in the fluxes of foraminifera carbonate, coccolithophorid carbonate and biogenic opal in the northern Indian Ocean. Deep-Sea Research I 53, 271-293.
Rixen, T. , Ittekkot, V., Herunadi, B., Wetzel, P., Maier-Reimer, E., Gaye-Haake, B., 2006.
ENSO-driven carbon see saw in the Indo-Pacific. Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L07606, doi:10.1029/2005GL024965.
Unger, D., Schäfer, P., Ittekkot, V. and Gaye, B., 2006.
Nitrogen Isotopic composition of sinking particles from the southern Bay of Bengal: evidence for variable nitrogen sources. Deep-Sea Research I, 53, 1658-1676.
Gaye-Haake, B., Guptha, M.V.S., Murty, V.S.N., Ittekkot, V., 2005. Biogeochemical Processes in the Northern Indian Ocean (Editorial). Deep-Sea Research II 52, 1845-1847.
Gaye-Haake, B., Lahajnar, N., Emeis, K.-Ch., Unger, D., Rixen, T., Suthhof, A., Ramaswamy, V., Schulz, H., Paropkari, A.L., Guptha, M.V.S., Ittekkot, V., 2005. Stable nitrogen isotopic ratios of sinking particles and sediments from the northern Indian Ocean. Marine Chemistry 96, 243-255.
Gebhardt, A.C., Gaye-Haake, B., Unger, D., Lahajnar, N., Ittekkot, V., 2005. A contemporary sediment budget for the Kara Sea Shelf (Siberia). Marine Geology 220, 83-100.
Gebhardt, A. C., Schoster, F., Gaye-Haake, B., Beeskow, B., Rachold, V., Unger, D., Ittekkot, V., 2005. The turbidity maximum zone of the Yenisei River (Siberia) and its impact on organic and inorganic proxies. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 65 (1-2), 61-73, j.ecss.2005.05.007.
Guptha, M.V.S., Divakar Naidu, P., Gaye-Haake, B. and Schiebel, R., 2005. Carbonate and carbon fluctuations in the Eastern Arabian Sea over 140 ka: Implications on productivity changes? Deep-Sea Research II 52, 1981-1993.
Lahajnar, N., Rixen, T., Gaye-Haake, B., and Ittekkot, V, 2005. Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) fluxes of deep-sea sediments from the Arabian Sea and NE Atlantic. Deep-Sea Research II 52, 1947-1964.
Scholten, J. Fietzke, J. Mangini, A., Stoffers, P. Rixen, T., Gaye-Haake, B., Blanz, T., Ramaswamy, V., Sirocko, F., Schulz, H. and Ittekkot, V., 2005. Radionuclide fluxes in the Arabian Sea: The role of particle composition. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 230 (3/4), 319-397. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.11.003.
Unger, D., Gaye-Haake, B., Neumann, K., Gebhardt, A.C. and Ittekkot, V., 2005. Biogeochemistry of suspended and sedimentary material in the Ob and Yenisei rivers and Kara Sea: Amino acids and amino sugars. Continental Shelf Research 25, 437-460.
Gebhardt, A.C., Gaye-Haake, B., Lahajnar, N., Unger, D. and Ittekkot, V., 2004. Particulate organic carbon and total suspended matter in the Ob and Yenisei estuaries and the adjacent Kara Sea (Siberia). Marine Geology 207, 225-245.
Jennerjahn, T.C., Ittekkot, V., Klöpper, S., Seno Adi, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, Nana Sudiana, Anyuta Yusmal, Prie Hartanto and Gaye-Haake, B., 2004. Biogeochemistry of a tropical river affected by human activities in its catchment: Brantas River estuary and adjacent coastal waters of Madura Strait, Java, Indonesia. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 60, 503-514.
Zhang, Shuo, Herbell, J.-D. and Gaye-Haake, B., 2004. Biodegradable organic matter in municipal solid waste incineration bottom ash. Waste Management, 24 (7), 673-679. Also in: Virtual Journal of Environmental Sustainability, 2 (8), 2004.
Das, B.K. and Gaye-Haake, B., 2003. Geochemistry of Rewalsar Lake sediment, Lesser Himalaya, India: implications for source-area weathering, provenance and tectonic setting. Geosciences Journal, 7 (4), 299-312.
Koschinsky, A., Gaye-Haake, B., Arndt Ch., Maue, G., Spitzy, A., Winkler, A. and Halbach, P., 2001. Experiments on the influence of disturbances on the biogeochemistry of the deep-sea environment. Deep-Sea Research II, 48: 3629-3652.
Suthhof A., Ittekkot V. and B. Gaye-Haake, 2001. Millenial-scale oscillations of denitrification intensity in the Arabian Sea during the late Quaternary and its potential influence on atmospheric N2O and global climate. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 15, 637-650.
Rixen, T., B. Haake and V. Ittekkot, 2000. Sedimentation in the western Arabian Sea: The role of water mass advection, coastal and open ocean upwelling. In: G. Gansen & G. Wefer (eds.) – Particle Flux and its preservation in Deep Sea Sediments. Deep-Sea Res. II, 47, 2155-2178.
Rixen T., V. Ittekkot, B. Gaye-Haake and P. Schäfer, 2000. The SW monsoon influence on the deep-sea organic carbon cycle. In: O. Pfannkuche & K. Lochte (eds.) – Biogeochemistry of the Deep Arabian Sea. Deep-Sea Research II, 47, 2629-2651.
Rixen, T., B. Haake, V. Ittekkot, M.V.S. Guptha, R.R. Nair, P. Schlüssel, 1996. Coupling between SW monsoon related surface and deep ocean processes as discerned from continues particle flux measurements and correlated satellite data. Journal of Geophysical Research Vol. 101, No. C12, 28,569-28,582.
Banakar V.K., Nair R.R., Tarkian M. and Haake B., 1993. Neogene oceanographic variations recorded in manganese nodules from the Somali Basin. Marine Geology 110, 393-402.
Haake B., Ittekkot V., Honjo S. and Manganini S., 1993. Amino acid, hexosamine and carbohydrate fluxes to the deep Subarctic Pacific (Station P). Deep-Sea Research I, 40, 547-560.
Haake B., Ittekkot V., Rixen T., Ramaswamy V., Nair R.R. and Curry W.B., 1993. Seasonality and interannual variability of particle fluxes to the deep Arabian Sea. Deep-Sea Research I, 40, 1323-1344.
Haake B., Ittekkot V., Ramaswamy V., Nair R.R. and Honjo S., 1992. Fluxes of amino acids and hexosamines to the deep Arabian Sea. Marine Chemistry 40, 291-314.
Ramaswamy V., Nair R.R., Manganini S.J., Haake B. und Ittekkot V., 1991. Lithogenic fluxes to the deep Arabian Sea measured by sediment traps. Deep-Sea Research I, 38, 169-184.
Haake B. und Ittekkot V., 1990. Eine Wind-getriebene "biologische Pumpe" und der Kohlenstoffentzug im Ozean. Naturwissenschaften 77, 75-79.
Ittekkot V., Nair R.R., Haake B., Bartsch M. und Salge U., 1990. Sedimentfallen-Untersuchungen in nördlichen Indischen Ozean. Die Geowissenschaften 7, 192-197.
Kumar M.D., Rajendran A., Somasundar K., Haake B., Jenisch A., Zhang Shuo, Ittekkot V. und Desai B.N., 1990. Dynamics of dissolved organic carbon in the northwestern Indian Ocean. Marine Chemistry 31, 299-316.
Reemtsma T., Haake B. Ittekkot V., Nair R.R. und Brockmann U.H., 1990. Downward flux of particulate fatty acids in the central Arabian Sea. Marine Chemistry 29, 183-202.
Wiesner M., Haake B. und Wirth H., 1990. Organic facies of surface sediments in the North Sea. Organic Geochemistry 15, 419-432.
Nair R.R., Ittekkot V., Manganini S.J., Ramaswamy V., Haake B., Degens E.T., Desai B.N. und Honjo S., 1989. Increased particle fluxes to the oceans related to monsoons. Nature 338, 749-751.
Publications in Books and Monographs
Rixen, T., Ramaswamy, V., Gaye, B., Herunadi, B., Maier-Reimer, E., Bange, H.W. and Ittekkot, V., 2009. Monsoonal and ENSO impacts on particle fluxes and the biological pump in the Indian Ocean. In
Indian Ocean biogeochemical processes and ecological variability (eds Wiggert, J.D.; Hood, R.R.; Naqvi, S.W.A.; Brink, K.H.; Smith, S.L.) Geophysical Monograph Series 185, American Geophysical Union, Washington DC, USA, 365-383.
Fahl, K., Gaye-Haake, B., Gebhardt, C., Kodina, L.A., Stein, R., Unger, D., and Ittekkot, V., 2003. Biomarkers in suspended matter and surface sediments from Ob and Yenisei estuaries and southern Kara Sea: Evidence for particulate organic carbon sources, pathways, and degradation. Proceedings in Marine Science, 6, 329-348,
Gaye-Haake, B. , Unger, D., Nöthig, E. Y. Okolodkov, Fahl, K. and Ittekkot, V., 2003. Particle fluxes from short-term sediment trap deployments in late summer in the southern Kara Sea. Proceedings in Marine Science, 6, 309-328.
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