Scientific Publications

Meijers, M. J. M., Mikes, T., Rojay, B., Cubukcu, H. E., Aydar, E., Lüdecke, T. and Mulch, A.: Climate change drove Late Miocene to Pliocene rise and fall of C₄ vegetation at the crossroads of Africa and Eurasia (Anatolia, Turkiye), Climate of the Past, 22(5), 975–988, doi:10.5194/cp-22-975-2026, 2026.

Vogel, B., Lauther, V., Köllner, F., Ekinci, F., Rolf, C., Strobel, J., van Luijt, R., Volk, C. M., Borrmann, S., Dragoneas, A., Eppers, O., Molleker, S., Hoor, P., Ort, L., Weyland, F., Zahn, A., Clemens, J., Gunther, G., Kachula, O., Müller, R., Ploeger, F. and Riese, M.: Continental and marine source regions contributing to the outflow of the Asian summer monsoon anticyclone during the PHILEAS campaign in summer 2023, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 26(9), 6283–6319, doi:10.5194/acp-26-6283-2026, 2026.

Arns, A. I., Evans, D., Schiebel, R., Wolf, S. E., Jantschke, A., Hansen, M., Leitner, J., Vonhof, H. and Haug, G. H.: Probing salty waters: re-assessment of the early stages of calcium carbonate formation in seawater, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 420, 323–339, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2026.03.048, 2026.

Umbo, S., Box, M., Intveld, A., Longman, J., Modestou, S., Carolin, S. A., James, D. H., Martinez-Garcia, A., Lope, C. P., Brenner, M., Hodell, D. and Breitenbach, S. F. M.: Clumped Isotope Temperature Reconstruction Using Stalagmite Drip Cups, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 40(8), doi:10.1002/rcm.70027, 2026.

Brömme, S., Oelze, V. M., Martinez-Garcia, A., Leichliter, J. N., Haug, G. H., Vonhof, H. B., Stewart, F. A., Piel, A. K. and Lüdecke, T.: Multi-isotope analysis reconstructs termite feeding in chimpanzees, Scientific Reports, 16(1), doi:10.1038/s41598-026-45049-4, 2026.

Ryu, Y., Marconi, D., Smart, S., Fawcett, S., Johnson, R., Zhang, R., Knapp, A., Oleynik, S., Martinez-Garcia, A., Haug, G. and Sigman, D.: The isotopic composition of solid-phase extracted dissolved organic nitrogen in seawater, Marine Chemistry, 276, doi:10.1016/j.marchem.2026.104646, 2026.

Cauhy, J., Della Libera, M. E., Strikis, N. M., Vuille, M., Pedron, I. T., Azevedo, V., Cruz, F. W., Novello, V. F., Vonhof, H. and Scholz, D.: A Holocene history of extreme rainfall events in Southern Brazil, Communications Earth & Environment, 7(1), doi:10.1038/s43247-026-03506-y, 2026.

Jung, J., Wald, T., Foreman, A., Bieler, A., Janussen, D., Moretti, S., Duprey, N., Marconi, D., Pérez-Medina, C., O'Dea, A., Schiebel, R., Halfar, J., Fernandez-Garcia, C., Berger, M., Donovan, M., Frazier, A., Cramer, K., Haug, G. H., Sigman , D. and Martinez-Garcia, A.: Crustose Coralline Algae as a Proxy for Marine Nitrogen Cycling and Coral Trophic Strategies, Communications Earth & Environment, doi:10.1038/s43247-026-03459-2, 2026.

Schmitt, C., Vasiliev, I., Martinez-Garcia, A., Meijer, N. and Mulch, A.: Increased hydroclimate variability in midlatitude Europe during the middle Eocene greenhouse, Global and Planetary Change, 259, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2026.105357, 2026.

Chaabane, S., Schiebel, R., Meilland, J., Brummer, G.-J. A., Mortyn, P. G., Sulpis, O., Chalk, T. B., Giraud, X., Howa, H., Kuroyanagi, A., Beaugrand, G. and de Garidel-Thoron, T.: Reassessment of the global distribution and diversity of modern planktonic foraminifera from the FORCIS database, Journal of micropalaeontology / Geological Society, 45(1), 195–217, doi:10.5194/jm-45-195-2026, 2026.

Armaroli, E., Lugli, F., Tacail, T., Kindler, L., Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S., Scherjon, F., Roebroeks, W., Parker, G., Vonhof, H., Cipriani, A., Tutken, T. and Muller, W.: Life histories of straight-tusked elephants from the Last Interglacial Neanderthal site of Neumark-Nord (∼125 ka), Science Advances, 12(11), doi:10.1126/sciadv.adz0114, 2026.

Lüdecke, T., Martinez-Garcia, A., Rector, A. and Reed, K.: Enamel stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes form early Homo at Ledi-Geraru: a termite feeding hypothesis, American journal of biological anthropology, 189(S), 117–117 [online] Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0013-1AF0-F, 2026.

Zhang, X.-Y., Chen, L.-H., Zeng, G., Wang, X.-J., Hofmann, A. W., Hanyu, T. and Li, W.-Q.: Chemical and lithological heterogeneity of upwelling mantle plumes inducing Zn isotope variation in Ocean Island Basalts, Earth-Science Reviews, 274, doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2025.105378, 2026.

Armaroli, E., Fontani, F., Iacovera, R., Cilli, E., Latorre, A., Luiselli, D., Silvestrini, S., Terlato, G., Dalmeri, G., Fontana, A., Nannini, N., Vonhof, H., Calcagnile, L., Quarta, G., Duches, R., Bortolini, E., Cipriani, A., Benazzi, S., Lugli, F. and Romandini, M.: Ecology and demographic structure of an extinct ibex population in late Upper Palaeolithic Italian Alps, Scientific Reports, 16(1), doi:10.1038/s41598-025-32389-w, 2026.

Ryu, Y., Maloney, A. E., Luu, V. H., Guo, L., Oleynik, S., Fawcett, S. E., Higgins, M. B., Van Oostende, N., Ward, B. B., Cook, C. C. Z., Cohen, N. R., Ewton, E., Menden-Deuer, S., Granger, J., Marchetti, A., Aardema, H. M., Slagter, H. A., Schiebel, R., Martinez-Garcia, A., Haug, G. H. and Sigman, D. M.: Prokaryotic bias in surface ocean particles, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 123(14), doi:10.1073/pnas.1515818112, 2026.

Gatti, L., Lugli, F., Rubach, F., Leichliter, J., Sciutto, G., Prati, S., Tutken, T. and Martinez-Garcia, A.: Deep-time preservation of amino acids in mammalian fossil tooth enamel, Communications Biology, 9(1), doi:10.1038/s42003-026-09716-6, 2026.

Pan, X., Zhang, Y., Xue, C., Kuhn, U., Hrabe de Angelis, I., Pöhlker, C., Ditas, J., Heins, L., Aardema, H. M., Slagter, H. A., Calleja, M. L., Dragoneas, A., Walter, D., Nillius, B., Wang, Q., Ma, N., Su, H., Pöschl, U., Haug, G. H., Schiebel, R. and Cheng, Y.: Black Carbon in the Marine Atmosphere: Concentration and Mixing State From Coastal to Remote Atlantic Regions, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 131(3), doi:10.1029/2025JD045346, 2026.

Camagni, V., Sestaioni, D., Ventisette, S., Gatti, L., Bray, F., Rolando, C., Lüdecke, T., Sciutto, G., Prati, S., Mazzeo, R. and Scarano, S.: A molecular finger-imprinting approach for detecting dental enamel amelogenins via surface plasmon resonance and bio-layer interferometry, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 294, doi:10.1016/j.bios.2025.118217, 2026.

Levy, N., Torfstein, A., Schiebel, R., Chernihovsky, N., Jochum, K. P., Weis, U., Stoll, B. and Haug, G. H.: Monthly element ∕ Ca trends and inter chamber variability in two planktic Foraminifera species: Globigerinoides ruber albus and Turborotalita clarkei from a hypersaline oligotrophic sea, Biogeosciences, 23(3), 1065–1088, doi:10.5194/bg-23-1065-2026, 2026.

Prud'homme, C., Verrecchia, E., Li, Y., Dave, A. K., Spangenberg, J. E., Vonhof, H., Venneman, T., Song, Y. and Fitzsimmons, K. E.: East Asian monsoon dynamics revealed by calcified root cells from a loess paleosol sequence in Northern China, Quaternary Research, doi:10.1017/qua.2025.10067, 2026.

Fripiat, F., Sigman, D. M., Ai, X. E., Dumoulin, C., Moretti, S., Studer, A. S., Diekmann, B., Esper, O., Frederichs, T., Lamy, F., Liu, L., Pattyn, F., Schmitt, M., Tiedemann, R., Haug, G. H. and Martinez-Garcia, A.: Deglacial stratification of the polar Southern Ocean, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 123(6), doi:10.1073/pnas.250207612, 2026.

Botia, S., Dias Junior, C. Q., Komiya, S., Van Der Woude, A. M., Terristi, M., De Kok, R. J., Koren, G., Van Asperen, H., Jones, S. P., D'oliveira, F. A. F., Weber, U., Marques-filho, E. P., Cely, I. M., Araujo, A., Lavric, J. V., Walter, D., Li, X., Wigneron, J. P., Stocker, B. D., Goncalves De Souza, J., O'sullivan, M., Sitch, S., Ciais, P., Chevallier, F., Li, W., Luijkx, I., Peters, W., Quesada, C. A., Zaehle, S., Trumbore, S. and Bastos, A.: Reduced Vegetation Uptake During the Extreme 2023 Drought Turns the Amazon Into a Weak Carbon Source, AGU Advances, 7(1), doi:10.1029/2025AV001658, 2026.

Vink, M., Leichliter, J. N., Green, D. R., Brömme, S., Tacail, T., Kindler, L., Roebroeks, W., Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S., Haug, G. H., Vonhof, H. B., Martinez-Garcia, A., Tütken, T. and Lüdecke, T.: Eemian climate seasonality reconstructed from intra-tooth oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen stable isotopes in equid enamel from Neumark-Nord 2, Germany, Quaternary Science Reviews, 373, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109724, 2026.

Hess, A. V., Auderset, A., Rosenthal, Y., Sigman, D. M. and Martinez-Garcia, A.: Contrasting evolution of the Arabian Sea and Pacific Ocean oxygen minimum zones during the Miocene, Communications Earth & Environment, 7, doi:10.1038/s43247-025-03112-4, 2026.

Nicholson, S. L., Jacobson, M. J., Markowska, M., Schröder, J., Vonhof, H. B. and Haug, G. H.: The climatic constraints on speleothem deposition in SW Asia, Geology, 54, doi:10.1130/G54103.1, 2026.

Bobowski, B. T. C., Power, A. M., Burns, F., Carbonara, P., Cuccu, D., Follesa, M. C., Jochum, K. P., Moreno, A., Sokolova, I. M., Valls, M. and Oesterwind, D.: Classification of European Illex coindetii and Loligo forbesii Squid Stocks by Trace Element Analysis of Statoliths, Fisheries management and ecology, 33(2), 181–200, doi:10.1111/fme.70016, 2026.

Gheiasvand, M., Huber, B. T., Vonhof, H. B., Fiorillo, D. and Bartolini, A.: Planktic foraminifera response to the early Eocene Climatic Optimum in the southern high-latitude Indian Ocean (ODP Site 738), Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 681, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.113370, 2026.

Libera, M. E. D., Cauhy, J., Stumpf, C., Santos, R. V., Cruz, F. W., Stríkis, N. M., Prado, L. F., Moquet, J.-S., Weber, M., Orrison, R., Cheng, H., Edwards, R. L., Novello, V. F., Vonhof, H. and Scholz, D.: Speleothem-based reconstruction of Holocene changes in monsoonal patterns and environmental conditions in Central Brazil, Global and Planetary Change, 256, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2025.105186, 2026.

Hansen, M., Brettschneider, J., Vonhof, H. and Scholz, D.: Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotope Analysis of Carbonates and DIC Using the Delta Ray Isotope Ratio Infrared Spectrometer (IRIS): Precise and Accurate Measurements Applying a 3-Point Calibration and Standard Bracketing, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 40(6), doi:10.1002/rcm.70021, 2025.

Groucutt, H. S., Stewart, M., Al-Jibreen, F., Al-Qahtani, M., Al-Shanti, M., Andrieux, E., Blinkhorn, J., Boivin, N. L., Breeze, P. S., Drake, N., Memesh, A., Mufarreh, Y., Price, G., Scerri, E. M. L., Vanwezer, N., Vonhof, H., Zalmout, I., Alsharekh, A. M. and Petraglia, M. D.: Novel archaeological and palaeontological findings in cave and palaeoriver landscapes of inland northeast Arabia, PLOS ONE, 20(11), doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0337005, 2025.