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Article(s) in 2024


Guiglielmoni, N., Villegas, L., Kirangwa, J., Schiffer, P., 2024.
Revisiting genomes of non-model species with long reads yields new insights into their biology and evolution.
Frontiers in Genetics. 1 - 11.

Jaeschke, A., May, M., Hakobyan, A., Mörchen, R., Bubenzer, O., Bernasconi, S., Schefuß, E., Hoffmeister, D., Latorre, C., Gwozdz, M., Rethemeyer, J., Knief, C., 2024.
Microbial hotspots in a relict fog-dependent Tillandsia landbeckii dune from the coastal Atacama Desert.
Global and Planetary Change. 104383, 1 - 1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104383.

Jaeschke, A., 2024.
Evaluating the isotopic composition of leaf organic compounds in fog-dependent Tillandsia landbeckii across the coastal Atacama Desert: Implications for hydroclimate reconstructions at the dry limit.
Global and Planetary Change. 1 - 43.

Jaeschke, A., 2024.
Evaluating the isotopic composition of leaf organic compounds in fog-dependent Tillandsia landbeckii across the coastal Atacama Desert: Implications for hydroclimate reconstructions at the dry limit.
Global and Planetary Change. 1 - 43.

Ritter, B., Albert, R., Rapikov, A., Van Der Wateren, F., Dunai, T., Gerdes, A., 2024.
Late Neogene terrestrial climate reconstruction of the central Namib Desert derived by the combination of U–Pb silcrete and terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide exposure dating.
Geochronology. 5, 433 - 450. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-5-433-2023.

Vargas-Machuca, B., Wennrich, V., Melles, M., 2024.
Regional phytoliths from the Coastal Cordillera of the Atacama Desert, Chile, and their potential for paleoecological reconstructions.
Quaternary International. 1 - 11.

Villegas, L., Ferreti, L., Wiehe, T., Waldvogel, A., Schiffer, P., 2024.
Parthenogenomics: Insights on mutation rates and nucleotide diversity in parthenogenetic Panagrolaimus nematodes.
Ecology and Evolution. 1 - 14.

Wennrich, V., 2024.
Late Pleistocene to modern precipitation changes at the Paranal clay pan, central Atacama Desert.
Global and Planetary Change. 233, 1 - 22.

Zinelabedin, A., Mohren, J., Wierzbicka-Wieczorek, M., Dunai, T., Heinze, S., Ritter, B., 2024.
Haloturbation in the northern Atacama Desert revealed by a hidden subsurface network of calcium sulphate wedges.
Earth Surface Dynamics. 1 - 35. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-592.

Article(s) in 2023


Acosta, E., Nitsche, F., Dorador, C., Arndt, H., 2023.
Protist communities of microbial mats from extreme environments of five saline Andean lagoons at high elevation in the Atacama Desert.
Frontiers of Microbiology. 1 - 25.

Acosta, E., Fincke, V., Nitsche, F., Arndt, H., 2023.
Novel cercozoan and heterolobosean protists from the rhizosphere and phyllosphere of two endemic cacti from the Atacama Desert.
European Journal of Protistology. 91, 1 - 13.

Anders, L., Koch, M., 2023.
Der Einfluss von Sandynamiken auf die Vegetation hyperarider Wüstenstandorte in der Atacama (Chile) am Beispiel der Tillandsiales..
Not published. 1 - 34.

Bratzel, F., Paule, J., Leebens-Mack, J., Leme, E., Forzza, R., Koch, M., Heller, S., Zizka, G., 2023.
Target-enrichment sequencing reveals for the first time a well-resolvedphylogeny of the core Bromelioideae (family Bromeliaceae).
TAXON. 1 - 17. DOI: 10.1002/tax.12831.

Guerrero, M., Diéguez, V., Anguita-Salinas, S., Zúñiga-Reinoso, A., 2023.
The discarded cow from the flowered desert: revalidation of Gyriosomus crispaticollis Fairmaire, 1886 stat. rev. (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) in Southern Atacama, Chile.
Magnolia Press. 5319 (2), 283 - 291.

Hakobyan, A., Velte, S., Sickel, W., Quandt, D., Stoll, A., Knief, C., 2023.
Tillandsia landbeckii phyllosphere and laimosphere as refugia for bacterial life in a hyperarid desert environment.
Microbiome. 11 (246), 1 - 18. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-023-01684-x.

Jabbusch, S., Koch, M., 2023.
) High phenotypic variability and clonality – the adaptation potential of T. landbeckii under changing environmental conditions..
Not yet published. 1 - 85.

Klipsch, S., Herwartz, D., Voigt, C., Münker, C., Chong, G., Böttcher, M., Staubwasser, M., 2023.
Sulfate sources, biologic cycling, and mobility in Atacama Desert soils revealed by isotope signatures.
Global and Planetary Change. 230, 1 - 16.

Maßon, L., Riedesel, S., Zander, A., Sontag-González, M., Reimann, T., 2023.
Testing the applicability of standardised growth curves (SGC) for chemically heterogeneous single-grain feldspars from the Atacama Desert, Chile.
Quaternary Geochronology. 1 - 33. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31223/X5MM53.

Nienhaus, H., Yogeshwar, P., Mörbe, W., Tezkan, B., Büttner, C., Legler, M., Buske, S., Lushetile, B., Wennrich, V., Melles, M., 2023.
Geophysical and geological exploration of the Aurus clay pan as an archive of the long-term climatic and environmental history of the Namib Desert.
Global and Planetary Change. 230, 1 - 16. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2023.104259.

Nitsche, F., Carduck, S., Von Ameln, J., Mach, N., Dorador, C., Predel, R., Rueckert, S., Arndt, H., 2023.
Gregarines from darkling beetles of the Atacama Desert, Atacamagregarina paposa gen. et sp. nov. from Scotobius and Xiphocephalus ovatus sp. nov. from Psectrascelis (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae).
European Journal of Protistology. 90, 1 - 11.

Otto, M., Wiehe, T., 2023.
The structured coalescent in the context of gene copy number variation.
ScienceDirect. 67 - 78. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tpb.2023.08.001.

Peters, A., Koch, M., 2023.
Drowning in sand? - epiarenic Tillandsia landbeckii loma’s in the Chilean Atacama Desert.
Not yet published. 1 - 27.

Ragionieri, L., Zúñiga-Reinoso, A., Bläser, M., Predel, R., 2023.
Phylogenomics of darkling beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from the Atacama Desert.
PeerJ. 1 - 29.

Reyers, M., Fiedler, S., Ludwig, P., Böhm, C., Wennrich, V., Shao, Y., 2023.
On the importance of moisture conveyor belts from the tropical eastern Pacific for wetter conditions in the Atacama Desert during the mid-Pliocene.
Climate of the Past. 19 (2), 517 - 532. DOI: 10.5194/cp-19-517-2023.

Ritter, B., Mohren, J., Binnie, S., Wennrich, V., Dunkl, I., Albert Roper, R., Gerdes, A., Lobue, S., Dunai, T., 2023.
Shaping the Huara Intrusive Complex in the Hyperarid Atacama Desert—Erosional Near-Stasis Contrasting High Topographic Gradients.
JGR Earth Surface. 1 - 20.

Rosinger, C., Rousk, J., Bonkowski, M., Rethemeyer, J., Jaeschke, A., 2023.
Rewetting the hyper-arid Atacama Desert soil reactivates a carbon-starved microbial decomposer community and also triggers archaeal metabolism.
Science of the Total Environment. 892, 1 - 8. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164785..

Rybarski, A., Staubwasser, M., Voigt, C., Nitsche, F., Arndt, H., 2023.
High diversity and isolated distribution of aquatic heterotrophic protists in salars of the Atacama Desert at different salinities.
European Journal of Protistology. 89, 1 - 17.

Schmitz, J., Bechteler, J., Münker, C., 2023.
Leaf element composition of the desert shrub Huidobria chilensis (Loasaceae): potential correlation with genetic structure, leaf age and substrate element composition.
Bachelor Thesis. 1 - 84.

Stein, E., Koch, M., 2023.
Reticulate evolution in sympatrically growing species of epiarenic Tillandsia in Camaná, southern Peru: a case study..
Not published. 1 - 86.

Stein, E., Luque-Fernández, C., Kiefer, C., Möbus, J., Pauca-Tanco, G., Jabbusch, S., Harpke, D., Bechteler, J., Quandt, D., Villasante Benavides, F., Koch, M., 2023.
Climate-driven past and present interspecies gene flow may have contributed to shape microscale adaptation capacity in Tillandsia lomas in hyperarid south American desert systems.
Elsevier. 230 (104258), 1 - 19. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2023.104258.

Sun, X., Amelung, W., Klumpp, E., Walk, J., Mörchen, R., Böhm, C., Moradi, G., May, M., Tamburini, F., Wang, Y., Bol, R., 2023.
Fog controls biological cycling of soil phosphorus in the Coastal Cordillera of the Atacama Desert.
Global Change Biology. 30:e17068 (1), 1 - 19. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.17068.

Sun, X., May, M., Amelung, W., Tang, N., Brill, D., Arenas-Díaz, F., Contreras, D., Fuentes, B., Bol, R., Klumpp, E., 2023.
Water-dispersible colloids distribution along an alluvial fan transect in hyper-arid Atacama Desert.
Geoderma. 438 (116650), 1 - 13. DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2023.116650.

Vicencio Veloso, J., Böhm, C., Schween, J., Löhnert, U., Crewell, S., 2023.
A comparative study of the atmospheric water vapor in the Atacama and Namib Desert.
Global and Planetary Change, 104320. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2023.104320. 1 - 17.

Walk, J., Schulte, P., Bartz, M., Binnie, A., Kehl, M., Mörchen, R., Sun, X., Stauch, G., Tittmann, C., Bol, R., Brückner, H., Lehmkuhl, F., 2023.
Pedogenesis at the coastal arid-hyperarid transition deduced from a Late Quaternary chronosequence at Paposo, Atacama Desert.
Catena. 228 (2023) (107171), 1 - 21. DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2023.107171.

Wehmann, N., 2023.
Calcium sulfates in planetary surface environments.
Global and Planetary Change. 230, 1 - 14.

Wennrich, V., 2023.
Late Pleistocene to modern precipitation changes at the Paranal clay pan, central Atacama Desert.
Zenodo. 1 - 63.

Zúñiga-Reinoso, A., Mardones, D., Ritter, B., Flores, G., Giraldo, A., Predel, R., 2023.
Impact of geoclimatic events on the diversifcation of newly defned Megelenophorini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) in South America.
Global and Planetary Change. 228, 32767 - 32767.

Zúñiga-Reinoso, A., Mardones, D., Mbulu, R., Dunai, T., Predel, R., 2023.
Spatio-temporal diversification pattern of Brinckia (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) in the Namib coastal belt.
Global and Planetary Change. 231, 32767 - 32767.

Event Paper(s) in 2023


Bouhdayad, F., Menezes Freire, T., Auer, G., Carballeira, R., Petersen, J., Nielsen, S., Rivadeneira, M., Grunert, P., 2023.
Dating of coastal upwelling in northern-central Chile: an integrated microfossil record of diatomaceous sediments from the Neogene Bahía Inglesa formation.
The Micropalaeontological Society Annual Conference 2023. Proc. of The Micropalaeontological Society Annual Conference 2023, November 15 - 17, 2023, Southampton, United Kingdom, 62 - 63.

Bouhdayad, F., Menezes Freire, T., Auer, G., Carballeira, R., Herwartz, D., Scheidt, S., Leicher, N., Wennrich, V., Albert Roper, R., Gerdes, A., Petersen, J., Nielsen, S., Rivadeneira, M., Grunert, P., 2023.
Stratigraphy and depositional environment of Neogene diatom-rich sediments (Bahía Inglesa Formation) at Quebrada Tiburón, northern-central Chile.
Proc. of EGU General Assembly 2023, April 23 - 28, 2023, Vienna, Austria, 9253 - 9254.

Bouhdayad, F., Menezes Freire, T., Auer, G., Carballeira, R., Herwartz, D., Scheidt, S., Leicher, N., Wennrich, V., Albert Roper, R., Gerdes, A., Petersen, J., Nielsen, S., Rivadeneira, M., Grunert, P., 2023.
Integrated stratigraphy of Neogene diatom-rich sediments (Bah´ıa Inglesa Formation) in northern-central Chile.
Proc. of Strati 2023, July 11 - 13, 2023, Lille France, 59 - 60.

Bouhdayad, F., Menezes Freire, T., Auer, G., Carballeira, R., Herwartz, D., Scheidt, S., Leicher, N., Wennrich, V., Albert, R., Gerdes, A., Petersen, J., Nielsen, S., Rivadeneira, M., Grunert, P., 2023.
Stratigraphy and depositional environment of Neogene diatom-rich sediments (Bahía Inglesa Formation) at Quebrada Tiburón, northern-central Chile.
Proc. of EGU General Assembly 2023, April 23 - 28, 2023, Vienna, Austria, 9253 - 9253.

Vega-Ruiz, A., Victor, P., Pena-Castellnou, S., Reicherter, K., Binnie, A., Binnie, S., 2023.
EGU 2023 Abstract: Evidence of Late Cenozoic transpressive reactivation of an inherited strike-slip fault system and its influence in drainage reorganization in the Longitudinal Valley of Northernmost Chile.
Proc. of EGU23 General Assembly, April 24 - 28, 2023, Vienna, 7228 - 7228. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-7228.

Vega-Ruiz, A., Victor, P., Steinritz, V., Binnie, A., González, G., Lampert, K., Reicherter, K., Binnie, S., 2023.
PATADays 2022 Abstract: Late Cenozoic reactivation of a trench parallel strike- slip system and tectonic forcing of drainages close to the Oroclinal Bend, Andean forearc of N-Chile.
Proceedings of the 11th International INQUA Workshop on Paleoseismology, Active Tectonics and Archaeoseismology ("PATA Days") 25 - 30 September 2022, Aix-En-Provence, FRANCE. Proc. of 11th International INQUA Meeting on Paleoseismology, Active Tectonics and Archeoseismology (PATA), September 25 - 30, 2022, Aix-en-Provence, 233 - 236. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7736477.

Vega-Ruiz, A., Victor, P., Pena-Castellnou, S., Reicherter, K., 2023.
INQUA 2023 Abstract: Evidence of Late Cenozoic reactivation of an inhereted strike-slip fault system in the Longitudinal Valley of Northernmost Chile.
Proc. of XXI INQUA Congress 2023, July 14 - 20, 2023, Rome, 1 - 1.

Vega-Ruiz, A., Binnie, A., Victor, P., Lampert, K., Reicherter, K., González, G., Evenstar, L., 2023.
CGCh 2023 Abstract: Tectonic forcing of rivers in the Atacama Desert: Late Cenozoic strike-slip tectonics and drainage reorganization across the N-Chile forearc.
Proc. of XVI Congreso Geologico Chileno, November 26 - December 01, 2023, Santiago de Chile, 1 - 1.

Walk, J., Boemke, B., Ullmann, T., 2023.
Spatial flood frequency analysis of ephemeral rivers in Northwest Namibia based on cloud computing of Landsat time series.
Proc. of EGU General Assembly 2023, EGU23 (12947), April 23 - 28, 2023, Vienna, Austria, 1 - 1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-12947.

Zinelabedin, A., Ritter, B., Mohren, J., Dunai, T., 2023.
EGU23 Abstract: Calcium sulphate-wedge formation in deposits from the Aroma alluvial fan as indicator for haloturbation in the Atacama Desert.
Proc. of EGU23 General Assembly, April 24 - 28, 2023, Vienna, Austria, 15175 - 15175. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-15175.

Zinelabedin, A., Riedesel, S., Duller, G., Gunn, M., Reimann, T., Ritter, B., Dunai, T., 2023.
LED23 Abstract: Testing the attenuation of light in evaporite-dominated sediments from the Atacama Desert.
Proc. of International Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Dating conference (LED) 2023, June 25 - 30, 2023, Copenhagen, Denmark, 231 - 231.

Article(s) in 2022


Agnes, M., Bechteler, J., 2022.
Technical and biological aspects of whole-genome assembly and analysis of Huidobria chilensis and H. fruticosa (Loasaceae) from the Atacama Desert in Chile.
Bachelor Thesis. 1 - 72.

Arenas-Díaz, F., Fuentes, B., Reyers, M., Fiedler, S., Böhm, C., Campos, E., Shao, Y., Bol, R., 2022.
Dust and aerosols in the Atacama Desert.
Earth-Science Reviews. 226 (March 2022, 103925), 1 - 26. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.103925.

Arndt, H., Pietsch, T., Nitsche, F., 2022.
High molecular diversity in the functional group of small bacterivorous non-scaled chrysomonad flagellates.
European Journal of Protistology. 86, 1 - 14.

Blanco, B., Yogeshwar, P., Tezkan, B., Mörbe, W., Díaz, D., Farah, B., Buske, S., Ninnemann, L., Diederich, J., Wennrich, V., 2022.
Exploration of sedimentary deposits in the Atacama Desert, Chile, using integrated geophysical techniques.
Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 115, 32767 - 32767. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2022.103746.

Böhnert, T., Luebert, F., Merklinger, F., Harpke, D., Stoll, A., Schneider, J., Blattner, F., Quandt, D., Weigend, M., 2022.
Plant migration under long-lasting hyperaridity – phylogenomics unravels recent biogeographic history in one of the oldest deserts on Earth.
New Phytologist. 1 - 13. DOI: 10.1111/nph.18082.

Contreras, S., Landahur, M., García, K., Latorre, C., Reyers, M., Rethemeyer, J., Jaeschke, A., 2022.
Leaf wax composition and distribution of Tillandsia landbeckii reflects moisture gradient across the hyperarid Atacama Desert.
Plant Systematics and Evolution. 308 (8), 1 - 13.

Fuentes, B., Choque, A., Arenas-Díaz, F., Mörchen, R., Amelung, W., Knief, C., Moradi, G., Klumpp, E., Bol, R., 2022.
Influence of Physical-Chemical Soil Parameters on Microbiota Composition and Diversity in a Deep Hyperarid Core of the Atacama Desert.
Frontiers In Microbiology. 1 - 14. DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.794743.

Hohlfeld, M., Schönle, A., Nitsche, F., Arndt, H., Meyer, C., 2022.
Biogeography, autecology, and phylogeny of Percolomonads based on newly described species.
Journal of Eukariotic Microbiology. 70, 1 - 19.

Hohlfeld, M., Schönle, A., Nitsche, F., Arndt, H., Rybarski, A., Sachs, M., 2022.
Cafeteria in extreme environments: Investigations on C. burkhardae and three new species from the Atacama Desert and the deep ocean.
European Journal of Protistology. 85, 1 - 19.

Iaboli, L., Bechteler, J., 2022.
Transcriptomic studies in seedlings of two different populations of the desert plant H. chilensis.
Master Thesis. 1 - 31.

Koch, M., Kiefer, C., Möbus, J., Quandt, D., Merklinger, F., Harpke, D., Villasante Benavides, F., 2022.
Range expansion and contraction of Tillandsia landbeckii lomas in the hyperarid Chilean Atacama Desert indicates ancient introgression and geneflow.
Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics. 56 (125689), 1 - 14. DOI: 10.1016/j.ppees.2022.125689.

Koch, M., Quandt, D., Siegmund, A., 2022.
Living at its dry limits: Tillandsiales in the Atacama Desert.
Plant Systematics and Evolution. 308 (11), 1 - 3. DOI: 10.1007/s00606-022-01804-4.

Mikulane, S., Siegmund, A., del Río, C., Koch, M., Osses, P., García, J., 2022.
Remote sensing based mapping of Tillandsia fields - A semi-automatic detection approach in the hyperarid coastal Atacama Desert, northern Chile.
Journal of Arid Environments. 205 (104821), 1 - 11. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2022.104821.

Munoz, S., Ritter, B., Dunai, T., Morales-Leal, J., Campos, E., Spiking, R., Riquelme, R., 2022.
Geomorphological significance of the Atacama Pediplain as a marker for the climatic and tectonic evolution of the Andean forearc, between 26◦ to 28◦S.
Geomorphology. 1 - 12.

Otto, M., Zheng, Y., Wiehe, T., 2022.
Recombination, selection, and the evolution of tandem gene arrays.
Genetics. 221 (3), 1 - 18. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/iyac052.

Pinto, P., Larra-Meza, S., Zúñiga-Reinoso, A., 2022.
A new species of Diastoleus Solier (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from the hyperarid Andes of the Atacama Desert of Chile.
Annales Zoologici. 72 (1), 91 - 96.

Ritter, B., Diederich, J., Binnie, S., Stuart, F., Wennrich, V., Bolten, A., Dunai, T., 2022.
Impact of CaSO4‑rich soil on Miocene surface preservation and Quaternary sinuous to meandering channel forms in the hyperarid Atacama Desert.
Nature Scientific Reports. 1 - 9.

Schween, J., Westbrook, S., Osses, P., del Río, C., Löhnert, U., 2022.
Life Cycle of Stratocumulus Clouds over one Year at the Coast of the Atacama Desert.
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 22 (18), 12241 - 12267. DOI: 10.5194/acp-22-12241-2022.

Ullmann, T., Jagdhuber, T., Hoffmeister, D., May, M., Baumhauer, R., Bubenzer, O., 2022.
Exploring Sentinel-1 backscatter time series over the Atacama Desert (Chile) for seasonal dynamics of surface soil moisture.
Remote Sensing of Environment. 285,113413, 1 - 18.

Vogel, A., Alessa, G., Scheele, R., Weber, L., Dubovik, O., North, P., Fiedler, S., 2022.
Uncertainty in Aerosol Optical Depth From Modern Aerosol-Climate Models, Reanalyses, and Satellite Products.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 127 (2), 1 - 27. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD035483.

Zilken, P., Bechteler, J., Quandt, D., 2022.
Evolutionary history of Copiapoa (Cactaceae) in the Atacama Desert based on a plastid marker dataset.
Bachelor Thesis. 1 - 47.

Zinelabedin, A., Riedesel, S., Reimann, T., Ritter, B., Dunai, T., 2022.
Testing the potential of using coarse-grain feldspars for post-IR IRSL dating of calcium sulphate-wedge growth in the Atacama Desert.
Quaternary Geochronology. 71, 1 - 9. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2022.101341.

Zúñiga-Reinoso, A., 2022.
Psectrascelis senex sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), a new species from the southern Atacama Desert, Chile.
Magnolia Press. 5174 (3), 285 - 293.

Event Paper(s) in 2022


Bouhdayad, F., Menezes Freire, T., Auer, G., Carballeira, R., Petersen, J., Nielsen, S., Rivadeneira, M., Grunert, P., 2022.
Late Miocene–Pliocene palaeoceanographic and sea level changes off northern-central Chile based on Foraminifera from the Bahía Inglesa Formation.
Proc. of TMS 2022 The annual conference of the Micropalaeontological Society, September 11 - 15, 2022, MARUM, the University of Bremen, Germany, 67 - 68.

Morales Sanhueza, P., Iaboli, L., Ferchichi, K., Hüttel, B., Stoll, A., Agnes, M., Wiehe, T., Quandt, D., Bechteler, J., 2022.
Genetic basis of plant adaptation to aridity through evolutionary and ecological transcriptomics and genomics.
Proc. of Botanik Tagung 2022, August 29 - September 01, 2022, Main building of the University of Bonn , Regina-Pacis-Weg 3, 146 - 146.

Walk, J., Tittmann, C., Schulte, P., Mörchen, R., Sun, X., Bartz, M., Binnie, S., Stauch, G., Bol, R., Brückner, H., Lehmkuhl, F., 2022.
Assessing soil formation under coastal hyperaridity since the Mid-Pleistocene using a chronosequence dated by in situ cosmogenic 10Be at Paposo, Atacama Desert (N Chile).
Proc. of EGU General Assembly 2022, EGU22 (7889), May 23 - 27, 2022, Vienna, Austria, 1 - 2. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-7889.

Zinelabedin, A., Ritter, B., Riedesel, S., Mohren, J., Reimann, T., Dunai, T., 2022.
GeoMinKöln22 Abstract: Calcium sulphate-rich wedges in the subsurface indicating salt dynamics in alluvial-fan deposits from the Atacama Desert.
Proc. of GeoMinKöln 2022, September 11 - 15, 2022, University of Cologne, 436 - 436. DOI: https://doi.org/10.23689/fidgeo-5791.

Article(s) in 2021


Alfaro, F., Manzano, M., Almiray, C., García, J., Osses, P., del Río, C., Vargas, C., Latorre, C., Koch, M., Siegmund, A., Abades, S., 2021.
Soil bacterial community structure of fog‐dependent Tillandsia landbeckii dunes in the Atacama Desert.
Plant Systematics and Evolution. 307 (56), 1 - 11. DOI: 10.1007/s00606-021-01781-0.

Arndt, H., Nitsche, F., Carduck, S., Rybarski, A., Hohlfeld, M., 2021.
Diversity and phylogeny of percolomonads based on newly discoveredspecies from hypersaline and marine waters.
European Journal of Protistology. 80, 1 - 15.

Böhm, C., Schween, J., Reyers, M., Maier, B., Löhnert, U., Crewell, S., 2021.
Toward a Climatology of Fog Frequency in the Atacama Desert via Multispectral Satellite Data and Machine Learning Techniques.
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 60 (8), 1149 - 1169. DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-20-0208.1.

Böhm, C., Reyers, M., Knarr, L., Crewell, S., 2021.
The Role of Moisture Conveyor Belts for Precipitation in the Atacama Desert.
Geophysical Research Letters. 48 (24), 1 - 10. DOI: 10.1029/2021GL094372.

Böhnert, T., Weigend, M., Merklinger, F., Quandt, D., Luebert, F., 2021.
Historical assembly of Zygophyllaceae in the Atacama Desert.
Frontiers of Biogeography. 12 (3), 1 - 12. DOI: 10.21425/F5FBG45197.

del Río, C., Lobos-Roco, F., Latorre, C., Koch, M., García, J., Osses, P., Lambert, F., Alfaro, F., Siegmund, A., 2021.
Spatial distribution and interannual variability of coastal fog and low clouds cover in the hyperarid Atacama Desert and implications for past and present Tillandsia landbeckii ecosystems.
Plant Systematics and Evolution. 307 (58), 1 - 23. DOI: 10.1007/s00606-021-01782-z.

Di, W., Senbayram, M., Moradi, G., Mörchen, R., Knief, C., Klumpp, E., Jones, D., Well, R., Chen, R., Bol, R., 2021.
Microbial potential for denitrification in the hyperarid Atacama Desert soils.
Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 157 (108248), 1 - 1.

Di, W., Senbayram, M., Moradi, G., Mörchen, R., Knief, C., Klumpp, E., Jones, D., Well, R., Chen, R., Bol, R., 2021.
Microbial potential for denitrification in the hyperarid Atacama Desert soils.
Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 157 (108248), 1 - 8. DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2021.108248.

Dunai, T., Melles, M., Quandt, D., Knief, C., Amelung, W., 2021.
Whitepaper: Earth – Evolution at the dry limit.
Global and Planetary Change. 193 (193), 193 - 194.

Fiedler, S., Putrasahan, D., 2021.
How Does the North Atlantic SST Pattern Respond to Anthropogenic Aerosols in the 1970s and 2000s?.
Geophysical Research Letters. 48 (7), 1 - 11. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL092142.

Fiedler, S., Wyser, K., Rogelj, J., Van Noije, T., 2021.
Radiative effects of reduced aerosol emissions during the COVID-19 pandemic and the future recovery.
Atmospheric Research. 264 (15 December 2021, 105866), 1 - 11. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2021.105866.

Flores, G., Predel, R., Zúñiga-Reinoso, A., 2021.
Phylogenetic re-evaluation of Discopleurus (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Pimeliinae) and the description of a new species from the hyperarid Atacama Desert.
Zoologischer Anzeiger. 290, 71 - 78.

García, J., Lobos-Roco, F., Schween, J., del Río, C., Osses, P., Vives, R., Pezoa, M., Siegmund, A., Latorre, C., Alfaro, F., Koch, M., Löhnert, U., 2021.
Climate and coastal low-cloud dynamic in the hyperarid Atacama fog Desert and the geographic distribution of Tillandsia landbeckii (Bromeliaceae) dune ecosystems..
Plant Systematics and Evolution. 307, 1 - 22. DOI: 10.1007/s00606-021-01775-y.

García, J., Lobos-Roco, F., Schween, J., del Río, C., Osses, P., Vives, R., Pezoa, M., Siegmund, A., Latorre, C., Alfaro, F., Koch, M., 2021.
Climate and coastal low‑cloud dynamic in the hyperarid Atacama fog Desert and the geographic distribution of Tillandsia landbeckii (Bromeliaceae) dune ecosystems.
Plant Systematics and Evolution. 307 (57), 1 - 22. DOI: 10.1007/s00606-021-01775-y.

Klipsch, S., Herwartz, D., Staubwasser, M., 2021.
Optimizing sulfate pyrolysis triple oxygen isotope analysis for samples from desert environments.
Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 35 (14), 1 - 11. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.9102.

Koch, M., Stock, C., Kleinpeter, D., del Río, C., Osses, P., Merklinger, F., Quandt, D., Siegmund, A., 2021.
Vegetation growth and landscape genetics of Tillandsia lomas at their dry limits in the Atacama Desert show fine-scale response to environmental parameters.
Ecology and Evolution. 10, 1 - 15. DOI: DOI: 10.1002/ece3.6924.

Merklinger, F., Zheng, Y., Luebert, F., Harpke, D., Böhnert, T., Stoll, A., Koch, M., Blattner, F., Wiehe, T., Quandt, D., 2021.
Population genomics of Tillandsia landbeckii reveals unbalanced genetic diversity and founder effects in the Atacama Desert.
Global and Planetary Change. 184, 1 - 11. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.103076.

Merklinger, F., Böhnert, T., Arakaki, M., Weigend, M., Quandt, D., Luebert, F., 2021.
Quaternary diversification of a columnar cactus in the driest place on earth.
Americal Journal of Botany. 108 (2), 1 - 16. DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1608.

Möbus, J., Kiefer, C., Quandt, D., Barfuss, M., Koch, M., 2021.
Setting the evolutionary timeline: Tillandsia landbeckii in the Chilean Atacama Desert.
Plant Systematics and Evolution. 307 (3), 1 - 12. DOI: 10.1007/s00606-021-01760-5.

Nitsche, F., Schiwitza, S., Arndt, H., 2021.
Extended divergence estimates and species descriptions of new craspedid choanoflagellates from the Atacama Desert, Northern Chile.
European Journal of Protistology. 79, 1 - 11.

Nitsche, F., Rybarski, A., Arndt, H., 2021.
Revision of the phylogeny of Placididea (Stramenopiles): Molecular and morphological diversity of novel placidid protists from extreme aquatic environments.
European Journal of Protistology. 81, 1 - 20.

Nitsche, F., Carduck, S., Rybarski, A., Hohlfeld, M., Arndt, H., 2021.
Diversity and phylogeny of percolomonads based on newly discovered species from hypersaline and marine waters.
European Journal of Protistology. 80, 1 - 15.

Nitsche, F., Schönle, A., Arndt, H., 2021.
High and specific diversity of protists in the deep-sea basins dominated by diplonemids, kinetoplastids, ciliates and foraminiferans.
Nature communications biology. 1 - 10.

Reyers, M., Böhm, C., Knarr, L., Shao, Y., Crewell, S., 2021.
Synoptic-to-Regional-Scale Analysis of Rainfall in the Atacama Desert (18°–26°S) Using a Long-Term Simulation with WRF.
Monthly Weather Review. 149 (1), 91 - 112. DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-20-0038.1.

Ritterbach, L., Becker-Bohatý, P., 2021.
Temperature and humidity dependent formation of CaSO4·xH2O (x = 0...2) phases.
Global and Planetary Change. 187, 1 - 11.

Schiwitza, S., Arndt, H., Nitsche, F., 2021.
Extended divergence estimates and species descriptions of new craspedid choanoflagellates from the Atacama Desert, Northern Chile.
European Journal of Protistology. 79, 1 - 11. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejop.2021.125798.

Stoll, A., Harpke, D., Schütte, C., Jimenez, L., Letelier, L., Blattner, F., Quandt, D., 2021.
Genetic consequences of human driven habitat fragmentation on endangered Atacama Desert shrub Balsamocarpon brevifolium Clos..
Global and Planetary Change. 184, 1 - 10. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.103059.

Villasante Benavides, F., Pauca-Tanco, G., Luque-Fernández, C., Del Pilar Quispe-Turpo, J., Villegas Paredes, L., Siegmund, A., Koch, M., 2021.
Distribution patterns, ecological niche and conservation status of endemic Tillandsia purpurea along the Peruvian coast.
Plant Systematics and Evolution. 307 (52), 1 - 14. DOI: 10.1007/s00606-021-01773-0.

Voigt, C., Herwartz, D., Dorador, C., Staubwasser, M., 2021.
Triple oxygen isotope systematics of evaporation and mixing processes in a dynamic desert lake system.
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 25, 1211 - 1228. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-1211-2021.

Walk, J., Bartz, M., Stauch, G., Binnie, A., Brückner, H., Lehmkuhl, F., 2021.
Weathering under coastal hyperaridity – Late Quaternary development of spectral, textural, and gravelometric alluvial fan surface characteristics.
Quaternary Science Reviews. 277 (2022) (107339), 1 - 27. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107339.

Zúñiga-Reinoso, A., Ritter, B., Predel, R., 2021.
The colonization of the Puna and Atacama Biogeographic Province by sister clades of Psectrascelis (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae): Synchronous expansion without spatial overlap.
Journal of Biogeography. 1 - 11.

Event Paper(s) in 2021


Vargas-Machuca, B., 2021.
Microwave Digestion Technique.
Proc. of Subproject A02, March 08 - 08, 2021, University of Cologne, Geology and Mineralogy Institute., 1 - 4.

Article(s) in 2020


Bartz, M., Walk, J., Binnie, S., Brill, D., Stauch, G., Lehmkuhl, F., Hoffmeister, D., Brückner, H., 2020.
Late Pleistocene alluvial fan evolution along the coastal Atacama Desert (N Chile).
Global and Planetary Change. 190 (103091), 1 - 20. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.103091.

Bartz, M., Duval, M., Brill, D., Zander, A., King, G., Rhein, A., Walk, J., Stauch, G., Lehmkuhl, F., Brückner, H., 2020.
Testing the potential of K-feldspar pIR-IRSL and quartz ESR for dating coastal alluvial fan complexes in arid environments.
Quaternary International. 556, 124 - 143. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2020.03.037.

Böhm, C., Reyers, M., Schween, J., Crewell, S., 2020.
Water vapor variability in the Atacama Desert during the 20th century.
Global and Planetary Change. 190, 1 - 18. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2020.103192.

Fiedler, S., Crueger, T., D'Agostino, R., Peters, K., Becker, T., Leutwyler, D., Paccini, L., Burdanowitz, J., Buehler, S., Uribe Cortes, A., Dauhut, T., Dommenget, D., Fraedrich, K., Jungandreas, L., Maher, N., Naumann, A., Rugenstein, M., Sakradzija, M., Schmidt, H., Stielmann, F., Stephan, C., Timmreck, C., Zhu, X., Stevens, B., 2020.
Simulated Tropical Precipitation Assessed across Three Major Phases of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP).
Monthly Weather Review. 148 (9), 3653 - 3680. DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-19-0404.1.

Heger, P., Ragionieri, L., Predel, R., Wiehe, T., 2020.
Rapid evolution of novel genes in a desert-colonizing beetle lineage (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Submitted to Genome Biology on 05022020.
Genome Biology. 1 - 45.

Heger, P., Zheng, W., Rottmann, A., Panfilio, K., Wiehe, T., 2020.
The genetic factors of bilaterian evolution.
eLife. 9, 1 - 41.

Larra-Meza, S., Pinto, P., Collado, G., Zúñiga-Reinoso, A., 2020.
A new species of Psectrascelis (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Pimeliinae) from the coastal dunes of the Atacama Desert, Chile.
Zootaxa. 4845 (1), 109 - 118.

Moradi, G., Bol, R., Trbojevic, L., Missong, A., 2020.
Contrasting depth distribution of colloid-associated phosphorus in the active and abandoned sections of an alluvial fan in a hyper-arid region of the Atacama Desert.
Global and Planetary Change. 103 - 104.

Mörchen, R., Amelung, W., Giese, C., Böhnert, T., Ruhm, J., Lehndorff, E., 2020.
Fingerprint of plant life in the Atacama Desert - insights from n-alkane analyses.
Organic Geochemistry. 104 - 145.

Mörchen, R., Amelung, W., Giese, C., Böhnert, T., Ruhm, J., Lehndorff, E., 2020.
Supplementary Information for Fingerprint of plant life in the Atacama Desert - insights from n-alkane analyses.
Organic Geochemistry. 104 - 145.

Nitsche, F., Arndt, H., Schönle, A., 2020.
Global comparison of bicosoecid Cafeteria-like flagellates from the deep ocean and surface waters, with reorganization of the family Cafeteriaceae.
European Journal of Protistology. 73, 32767 - 32767.

Nitsche, F., Schönle, A., Hohlfeld, M., Arndt, H., 2020.
Global comparison of bicosoecid Cafeteria-like flagellates from the deep ocean and surface waters, with reorganization of the family Cafeteriaceae.
European Journal of Protistology. 73, 1 - 21.

Ruhm, J., Böhnert, T., Weigend, M., Merklinger, F., Stoll, A., Quandt, D., Luebert, F., 2020.
Plant life at the dry limit-Spatial patterns of floristic diversity and composition around the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert.
PLoS ONE. 15 (5), 1 - 21. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0233729.

Schiffer, M., 2020.
Method developments for accelerator mass spectrometry at CologneAMS, 53Mn/3He burial dating and ultra-small 14CO2 samples.
Global and Planetary Change. 186, 1 - 7. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.103053.

Voigt, C., Herwartz, D., Dorador, C., Staubwasser, M., 2020.
Triple oxygen isotope systematics of evaporation and mixing processes in a dynamic desert lake system.
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 1 - 26. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2020-255.

Voigt, C., 2020.
Tracing the water cycle in the Atacama Desert using water isotopes (δ2H, δ17O, δ18O) and pedogenic salt distributions.
Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln. 1 - 149.

Book(s) in 2020


Walk, J., 2020.
Alluvial fans along the coastal Atacama Desert – landforms, processes, and evolution.
Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Aachen. DOI: 10.18154/RWTH-2020-06003.

Event Paper(s) in 2020


Hoffmeister, D., Herbrecht, M., Kramm, T., Schulte, P., 2020.
Evaluation of random forest-based analysis for the gypsum distribution in the Atacama desert.
Proc. of IEEE Latin American GRSS & ISPRS Remote Sensing Conference (LAGIRS 2020), March 22 - 26, 2020, Santiago, Chile, 25 - 28. DOI: 10.5194/isprs-annals-IV-3-W2-2020-25-2020.

Walk, J., Bartz, M., Stauch, G., Reyers, M., Binnie, S., Brill, D., Vásquez, P., Sepúlveda, F., Hoffmeister, D., Brückner, H., Lehmkuhl, F., 2020.
Coupled controls of climate, geology, and biota on late Pleistocene alluvial fan morphodynamics along the coast of the hyperarid Atacama Desert.
Geophysical Research Abstracts. Proc. of EGU2020: Sharing Geoscience Online, 22 (EGU2020-7461), May 04 - 08, 2020, Vienna, Austria (online), 1 - 2.

Article(s) in 2019


Arndt, H., Ritter, B., Rybarski, A., Schiwitza, S., Dunai, T., Nitsche, F., 2019.
Mirroring the effect of geological evolution: Protist speciation in the Atacama Desert.
Global Planetary Change. 1 - 30.

Binnie, S., Reicherter, K., Victor, P., González, G., Binnie, A., Niemann, K., Stuart, F., Lenting, C., Heinze, S., Freeman, S., Dunai, T., 2019.
The origins and implications of paleochannels in hyperarid, tectonically active regions: The northern Atacama Desert, Chile.
Global and Planetary Change. 0 - 0. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.103083.

Böhm, C., Sourdeval, O., Mülmenstädt, J., Quaas, J., Crewell, S., 2019.
Cloud base height retrieval from multi-angle satellite data.
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. 12 (3), 1841 - 1860. DOI: 10.5194/amt-12-1841-2019.

Böhnert, T., Luebert, F., Ritter, B., Merklinger, F., Stoll, A., Schneider, J., Quandt, D., Weigend, M., 2019.
Origin and diversification of Cristaria (Malvaceae) parallel Andean orogeny and onset of hyperaridity in the Atacama Desert.
Global and Planetary Change. 181, 1 - 8. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.102992.

Carduck, S., Nitsche, F., Rybarski, A., Arndt, H., 2019.
Diversity and phylogeny of percolomonads based on newly discovered species from hypersaline and marine waters.
European Journal of Protistology. 1 - 30.

Curdt, C., Hoffmeister, D., Kramm, T., Lang, U., Bareth, G., 2019.
Etablierung von Forschungsdatenmanagement-Services in geowissenschaftlichen Sonderforschungsbereichen am Beispiel des SFB/Transregio 32, SFB 1211 und SFB/ Transregio 228.
Bausteine Forschungsdatenmanagement. Empfehlungen und Erfahrungsberichte für die Praxis von Forschungsdatenmanagerinnen und -managern. 2019 (2), 61 - 67.

Diederich, J., Wennrich, V., Bao, R., Büttner, C., Bolten, A., Brill, D., Buske, S., Campos, E., Fernández-Galego, E., Gödickmeier, P., Ninnemann, L., Reyers, M., Ritter, B., Ritterbach, L., Rolf, C., Scheidt, S., Dunai, T., Melles, M., 2019.
A 68ka precipitation record from the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile.
Global and Planetary Change. 184, 10305 - 10305.

Jaeschke, A., Böhm, C., Merklinger, F., Reyers, M., Kusch, S., Rethemeyer, J., Bernasconi, S., 2019.
Variation in δ15N of fog-dependent Tillandsia ecosystems reflect water availability across climate gradients in the hyperarid Atacama Desert.
Global and Planetary Change. 183, 1 - 12.

Jones, D., Olivera-Ardid, S., Klumpp, E., Knief, C., Hill, P., Lehndorff, E., Bol, R., 2019.
Moisture activation and carbon use efficiency of soil microbial communities along an aridity gradient in the Atacama Desert.
Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 117, 68 - 71. DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2017.10.026.

Knief, C., Bol, R., Amelung, W., Kusch, S., Frindte, K., Eckmeier, E., Jaeschke, A., Dunai, T., Fuentes, B., Mörchen, R., Schütte, T., Lücke, A., Klumpp, E., Kaiser, K., Rethemeyer, J., 2019.
Tracing elevational changes in microbial life and organic carbon sources in soils of the Atacama Desert.
Global and Planetary Change. 1 - 14. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.103078.

Koch, M., Kleinpeter, D., Auer, E., Siegmund, A., del Río, C., Osses, P., García, J., Marzol, M., Zizka, G., Kiefer, C., 2019.
Living at the dry limits: ecological genetics of Tillandsia landbeckii lomas in the Chilean Atacama Desert.
Springer. 305, 1041 - 1053. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00606-019-01623-0.

Kramm, T., Hoffmeister, D., 2019.
A Relief Dependent Evaluation of Digital Elevation Models on Different Scales for Northern Chile.
International Journal of Geo-Information. 8 (10), 430 - 436. DOI: 10.3390/ijgi8100430.

Kusch, S., Jaeschke, A., Mörchen, R., Rethemeyer, J., 2019.
Tracing life at the dry limit using phospholipid fatty acids – does sampling matter?.
Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 141, 1 - 5.

May, M., Hoffmeister, D., Wolf, D., Bubenzer, O., 2019.
Zebra stripes in the Atacama Desert revisited – Granular fingering as a mechanism for zebra stripe formation?.
Geomorphology. 1 - 57. DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2019.07.014.

May, M., Meine, L., Hoffmeister, D., Brill, D., Medialdea, A., Wennrich, V., Gröbner, M., Schulte, P., Steininger, F., Deprez, M., de Kock, T., Bubenzer, O., 2019.
Origin and timing of past hillslope activity in the hyper-arid core of the Atacama Desert – The formation of fine sediment lobes along the Chuculay Fault System, Northern Chile.
Global and Planetary Change. 184 (103057), 1 - 18. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.103057.

Mörchen, R., Lehndorff, E., Arenas-Díaz, F., Moradi, G., Bol, R., Fuentes, B., Klumpp, E., Amelung, W., 2019.
Carbon accrual in the Atacama Desert.
Global and Planetary Change. 1 - 9. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.102993.

Nitsche, F., Carduck, S., Johanna, A., Podobnik, M., Dorador, C., Predel, R., Rückert, S., Arndt, H., 2019.
First records of gregarines (Apicomplexa) from the Atacama Desert: Atacamagregarina gen. nov. associated with Scotobius and Psectrascelis (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae).
European Journal of Protistology. 1 - 32.

Rethemeyer, J., Gierga, M., Heinze, S., Stolz, A., Wotte, A., Wischhöfer, P., Berg, S., Melchert, J., Dewald, A., 2019.
CURRENT SAMPLE PREPARATION AND ANALYTICAL CAPABILITIES OF THE RADIOCARBON LABORATORY AT COLOGNEAMS.
Radiocarbon. 1 - 12.

Reyers, M., Hamidi, M., Shao, Y., 2019.
Synoptic analysis and simulation of an unusual dust event over the Atacama Desert.
Atmospheric Science Letters. 20 (6), 1 - 9. DOI: 10.1002/asl.899.

Reyers, M., Shao, Y., 2019.
Cutoff Lows over the Southeast Pacific off the Coast of the Atacama Desert under Present Day Conditions and in the Last Glacial Maximum.
Global and Planetary Change. 1 - 12.

Ritter, B., Binnie, S., Stuart, F., Wennrich, V., Dunai, T., 2019.
Evidence for multiple Plio-Pleistocene lake episodes in the hyperarid Atacama Desert.
Quaternary Geochronology. 44, 1 - 12. DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2017.11.002.

Ritter, B., Stuart, F., Binnie, S., Gerdes, A., Wennrich, V., Dunai, T., 2019.
Neogene fluvial landscape evolution in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert.
Nature Scientific Reports. 1 - 16.

Ritter, B., Wennrich, V., Medialdea, A., Brill, D., King, G., Schneiderwind, S., Niemann, K., Fernández-Galego, E., Diederich, J., Rolf, C., Bao, R., Melles, M., Dunai, T., 2019.
Climatic fluctuations in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert during the past 215 ka.
Nature Scientific Reports. 1 - 13.

Ritter, B., 2019.
Dissertation B. Ritter 2019: Landscape and climate evolution in arid to hyperarid climates with special focus on the Atacama Desert.
Universitäts- und Stadtbibliotheke Universität zu Köln. 1 - 161.

Sancho, G., Katinas, L., Viera Barreto, J., Moreira-Muñoz, A., Luebert, F., 2019.
Phylogenetic relationships and generic reassessment of Proustia and allies (Compositae: Nassauvieae).
Taxon. 67 (1), 113 - 129. DOI: 10.12705/671.7.

Schiffer, M., Spanier, R., Müller-Gatermann, C., Herb, S., Feuerstein, C., Hackenberg, G., Heinze, S., Stolz, A., Dewald, A., Binnie, S., 2019.
The first (53Mn/55Mn) isotopic ratio measurements at the Cologne FNTandem Accelerator.
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms. 437, 87 - 92. DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2018.09.029.

Schiffer, M., Altenkirch, R., Feuerstein, C., Müller-Gatermann, C., Hackenberg, G., Herb, S., Bhandari, P., Heinze, S., Stolz, A., Dewald, A., 2019.
A dedicated AMS setup for medium mass isotopes at the Cologne FN tandem accelerator.
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms. 406, 287 - 291. DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2017.03.083.

Schiwitza, S., Nitsche, F., Arndt, H., 2019.
First description of an euryoecious acanthoecid choanoflagellate species, Enibas tolerabilis gen. et sp. nov. from a salar in the Chilean Andes based on morphological and transcriptomic data.
European Journal of Protistology. 67, 106 - 113. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejop.2018.11.004.

Schiwitza, S., Arndt, H., Nitsche, F., 2019.
Four new choanoflagellate species from extreme saline environments: Indication for isolation-driven speciation exemplified by highly adapted Craspedida from salt flats in the Atacama Desert (Northern Chile).
European Journal of Protistology. 66, 86 - 96. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejop.2018.08.001.

Schönle, A., Hohlfeld, M., Rosse, M., Filz, P., Wylezich, C., Nitsche, F., Arndt, H., 2019.
Global comparison of bicosoecid Cafeteria-like flagellates from the deep ocean and surface waters, with revision of the family Cafeteriaceae.
European Journal of Protistology. 1 - 46.

Schween, J., Hoffmeister, D., Löhnert, U., 2019.
Filling the observational gap in the Atacama Desert with a new network of climate stations.
Global and Planetary Change. 184, 1 - 14. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.103034.

Schween, J., Hoffmeister, D., Löhnert, U., 2019.
Filling the observational gap in the Atacama Desert with a new network of climate stations.
EGU 2019. 2019, 1 - 1. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.103034.

Soliveres, S., van der Plas, F., Manning, P., Prati, D., Gossner, M., Renner, S., Alt, F., Arndt, H., 2019.
Biodiversity at multiple trophic levels is needed for ecosystem multifunctionality.
Nature. 536, 456 - 471.

Stolz, A., Dewald, A., Altenkirch, R., Herb, S., Heinze, S., Schiffer, M., Feuerstein, C., Müller-Gatermann, C., Wotte, A., Rethemeyer, J., Dunai, T., 2019.
Radiocarbon measurements of small gaseous samples at CologneAMS.
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B. 406, 283 - 286. DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2017.03.031.

Stolz, A., Dewald, A., Heinze, S., Altenkirch, R., Hackenberg, G., Herb, S., Müller-Gatermann, C., Schiffer, M., Zitzer, G., Wotte, A., Rethemeyer, J., Dunai, T., 2019.
Improvements in the measurement of small 14CO2 samples at CologneAMS.
Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research B. 439, 70 - 75. DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2018.12.008.

Ullmann, T., Sauerbrey, J., Hoffmeister, D., May, M., Baumhauer, R., Bubenzer, O., 2019.
Assessing Spatiotemporal Variations of Sentinel-1 InSAR Coherence at Different Time Scales over the Atacama Desert (Chile) between 2015 and 2018.
Remote Sensing. 11 (24), 2960 - 2961. DOI: 10.3390/rs11242960.

Venter, P., Nitsche, F., Domonell, A., Heger, P., Arndt, H., 2019.
The Protistan Microbiome of Grassland Soil: Diversity in the Mesoscale.
Protist. 168, 546 - 654.

Voigt, C., Klipsch, S., Herwartz, D., Chong, G., Staubwasser, M., 2019.
The spatial distribution of soluble salts in the surface soil of the Atacama Desert and their relationship to hyperaridity.
Global and Planetary Change. 184, 1 - 13.

Walk, J., Stauch, G., Bartz, M., Brückner, H., Lehmkuhl, F., 2019.
Geomorphology of the coastal alluvial fan complex Guanillos, northern Chile.
Journal of Maps. 15 (2), 436 - 447. DOI: 10.1080/17445647.2019.1611499.

Walk, J., Stauch, G., Reyers, M., Vásquez, P., Sepúlveda, F., Bartz, M., Hoffmeister, D., Brückner, H., Lehmkuhl, F., 2019.
Gradients in climate, geology, and topography affecting coastal alluvial fan morphodynamics in hyperarid regions – The Atacama perspective.
Global and Planetary Change. 185 (102994), 1 - 24. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.102994.

Zheng, Y., Wiehe, T., 2019.
Adaptation in structured populations and fuzzy boundaries between hard and soft sweeps.
PLoS Computational Biology. 15 (11), 32767 - 32767.

Zúñiga-Reinoso, A., Mendez, M., 2019.
Hidden and cryptic species reflect parallel and correlated evolution in the phylogeny of the genus Callyntra (Coleoptera Tenebrionidae) of Central Chile.
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 127, 405 - 415.

Zúñiga-Reinoso, A., Pinto, P., Predel, R., 2019.
A New Species of Gyriosomus Guérinmeneville (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from the Chilean Atacama Desert.
Annales Zoologici. 69 (1), 105 - 112.

Zúñiga-Reinoso, A., Predel, R., 2019.
Past climatic changes and their effects on the phylogenetic pattern of the Gondwanan relict Maindronia (Insecta: Zygentoma) in the Chilean Atacama Desert.
Global and Planetary Change. 182, 10300 - 10300.

Event Paper(s) in 2019


Amelung, W., Bol, R., Dunai, T., Fuentes, B., Jaeschke, A., Lehndorff, E., Knief, C., Klumpp, E., Kusch, S., Mörchen, R., Rethemeyer, J., 2019.
Tracing altitudinal changes in microbial life and organic carbon source in soils of the Atacama Desert.
Geophysical Research Abstracts. Proc. of EGU General Assembly 2019, 21 (EGU2019-8930-1), April 07 - 12, 2019, Vienna, 1 - 1.

Bartz, M., Duval, M., Walk, J., Brill, D., Zander, A., King, G., Stauch, G., Lehmkuhl, F., Brückner, H., 2019.
Late Quaternary alluvial fan evolution along the coast of the hyper-arid Atacama Desert - the interplay between climatic and tectonic control.
Geophysical Research Abstracts. Proc. of EGU General Assembly 2019, 21 (EGU2019-10788), April 07 - 12, 2019, Vienna, Austria, 1 - 1.

Binnie, S., Reicherter, K., Victor, P., González, G., Binnie, A., Niemann, K., van der Wal, J., Mittelstaedt, J., 2019.
Are drainage adaptations in northern Chile driven by climate, tectonics, or geomorphic thresholds?.
Proc. of European Geophysical Union 2019, April 08 - 12, 2019, Vienna, Austria, 15480 - 15480.

Jaeschke, A., Böhm, C., Reyers, M., Merklinger, F., Bernasconi, S., Schefuß, E., Kusch, S., Rethemeyer, J., 2019.
Present and past distribution of fog-dependent Tillandsia vegetation in the hyperarid Atacama Desert.
Geophysical Research Abstracts. Proc. of EGU General Assembly 2019, 21 (EGU2019-9332), April 07 - 12, 2019, Vienna, 1 - 1.

Kramm, T., Hoffmeister, D., 2019.
Evaluation of digital elevation models for geomorphometric analyses on different scales for northern Chile.
Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.. Proc. of ISPRS Geospatial Week 2019, XLII-2/W13, June 10 - 14, 2019, Enschede, The Netherlands, 1229 - 1235. DOI: 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W13-1229-2019.

Lang, C., Arndt, H., 2019.
Investigations of protists in aeroplankton in the Atacama Desert.
Proc. of Bachelorthesis, March 11 - August 22, 2018, Cologne, 1 - 93.

May, M., Hoffmeister, D., Wolf, D., Bubenzer, O., 2019.
Zebra stripes in the Atacama revisited – seismicity-induced granular fingering as a mechanism for zebra stripe formation?.
Geophysical Research Abstracts. Proc. of EGU General Assembly 2019, 21 (EGU2019-6107), April 07 - 12, 2019, Vienna, Austria, 1 - 1.

Ritter, B., Dunai, T., Stuart, F., Wennrich, V., Melles, M., 2019.
Shoreline dating of the former Quillagua-Llamara Lake, N-Chile – Implications of global teleconnections to the hydrology of the Atacama Desert.
Proc. of EGU General Assembly 2016, April 17 - 22, 2016, Vienna, 1 - 1.

Ritter, B., Binnie, S., Stuart, F., Gerdes, A., Wennrich, V., Dunai, T., 2019.
Neogene fluvial landscape evolution in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert.
Proc. of EGU General Assembly 2018, April 08 - 13, 2018, Vienna, 1 - 1.

Ritter, B., Diederich, J., Stuart, F., Binnie, S., Bolten, A., Dunai, T., 2019.
Adaption of drainage and depositional systems to tectonic and climate forcing – New insights from terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide exposure dating in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert.
Proc. of EGU General Assembly 2019, April 07 - 12, 2019, Vienna, 1 - 1.

Sickel, W., Kinkel, D., Knief, C., 2019.
Ex situ irrigation of Atacama soil stimulates bacterial respiration but doesnot induce changes in the microbial community.
Geophysical Research Abstracts. Proc. of EGU General Assembly 2019, 21, April 07 - 12, 2019, Vienna, 16560 - 16560.

Walk, J., Stauch, G., Reyers, M., Bartz, M., Hoffmeister, D., Brückner, H., Lehmkuhl, F., 2019.
Alluvial fan morphodynamics along the coastal Atacama Desert – geomorphometric, geologic, and climatic perspectives.
Geophysical Research Abstracts. Proc. of EGU General Assembly 2019, 21 (EGU2019-7543), April 07 - 12, 2019, Vienna, Austria, 1 - 1.

Article(s) in 2018


Böhnert, T., Luebert, F., Weigend, M., 2018.
Atriplex retusa, the correct name for A. deserticola (Chenopodiaceae; Amaranthaceae sensu APG).
Phytotaxa. 373 (1), 95 - 98. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.373.1.6.

Herwartz, D., Surma, J., Voigt, C., Assonov, S., Staubwasser, M., 2018.
Triple oxygen isotope systematics of structurally bonded water in gypsum.
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 209, 254 - 266. DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2017.04.026.

Jones, D., Olivera-Ardid, S., Klumpp, E., Knief, C., Hill, P., Lehndorff, E., Bol, R., 2018.
Moisture activation and carbon use efficiency of soil microbial communities along an aridity gradient in the Atacama Desert.
Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 117, 68 - 71. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2017.10.026.

Surma, J., Assonov, S., Herwartz, D., Voigt, C., Staubwasser, M., 2018.
The evolution of 17O-excess in surface water of the arid environment during recharge and evaporation.
Scientific Reports. 8 (4972), 1 - 10. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-23151-6.

Event Paper(s) in 2018


Hoffmeister, D., Curdt, C., 2018.
Research data management infrastructure and services for long-term, interdisciplinary collaborative research centers with a focus on environmental sciences.
Proc. of EGU General Assembly 2018, April 08 - 13, 2018, Vienna, Austria, 1 - 1.

Hoffmeister, D., Kramm, T., 2018.
Suitability of different digital elevation models for landform classification methods and further geomorphometric analysis in the Atacama desert.
Proc. of EGU General Assembly 2018, April 08 - 13, 2018, Vienna, Austria, 1 - 1.

May, M., Hoffmeister, D., Meine, L., Bubenzer, O., 2018.
Investigating hillslope processes in the hyper-arid zone of the Atacama Desert – different forms, preliminary results, and future perspectives.
Proc. of EGU General Assembly 2018, April 08 - 13, 2018, Vienna, Austria, 1 - 1.

Event Paper(s) in 2017


Curdt, C., Hoffmeister, D., 2017.
Establishing data management services for multi-disciplinary, long-term collaborative research centres.
Proc. of 12th International Digital Curation Conference, February 20 - 23, 2017, Edinburgh, UK, 1 - 1.