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L Schwab, NGallati, SM Reiter, RL Kimber, N Kumar, DS McLagan, H Biester, SM Kraemer, JG Wiederhold. (2023) Mercury isotope fractionation during dark abiotic reduction of Hg (II) by dissolved, surface-bound, and structural Fe (II). Environmental Science & Technology. LINK
L Balzer, C Baptista-Salazar, S Jonsson, H Biester. (2023) Role of formation and decay of seston organic matter in the fate of methylmercury within the water column of a eutrophic lake. Biogeosciences. LINK
DS McLagan, H Biester, T Navrátil, SM Kraemer, L Schwab. (2022) Internal tree cycling and atmospheric archiving of mercury: examination with concentration and stable isotope analyses. Biogeosciences. LINK
M Pérez-Rodríguez, H Biester. (2022) Sensitivity of river catchments to discharge-controlled dissolved carbon export: a study of eight catchments in southern Patagonia. Biogeochemistry. LINK
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J Kaal, M Pérez-Rodríguez, H Biester. (2022) Molecular Probing of DOM Indicates a Key Role of Spruce-Derived Lignin in the DOM and Metal Cycles of a Headwater Catchment: Can Spruce Forest Dieback Exacerbate Future Trends. Environmental Science & Technology. LINK
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DS McLagan, S Osterwalder, H Biester. (2021) Temporal and spatial assessment of gaseous elemental mercury concentrations and emissions at contaminated sites using active and passive measurements. Environmental Research Communications 3 (5), 051004 1. LINK
Christian Birkel, Alicia Correa Barahona, Clément Duvert, Sebastián Granados Bolaños, Andres Chavarría Palma, Ana Maria Durán Quesada, Ricardo Sánchez Murillo, Harald Biester (2021) End member and Bayesian mixing models consistently indicate near‐surface flowpath dominance in a pristine humid tropical rainforest. Hydrological Processes 35 (4), e14153. LINK
M Schütze, P Gatz, BS Gilfedder, H Biester (2021) Why productive lakes are larger mercury sedimentary sinks than oligotrophic brown water lakes. Limnology and Oceanography 66 (4), 1316-1332. LINK
M Pérez-Rodríguez, H Biester (2021) The Sensitivity of River Catchments to Dissolved Organic Carbon Release During Rain Events-A Study of Eight Catchments in Southern Patagonia. Biogeochemistry. LINK
S Zaferani, H Biester (2021) Corrigendum: Mercury Accumulation in Marine Sediments—A Comparison of an Upwelling Area and Two Large River Mouths. Frontiers in Marine Science, 1616. LINK
J Kaal, C Plaza, KGJ Nierop, M Pérez-Rodríguez, H Biester (2020) Origin of dissolved organic matter in the Harz Mountains (Germany): A thermally assisted hydrolysis and methylation (THM-GC–MS) study. Geoderma 378, 114635. LINK
S Zaferani, H Biester (2020) Biogeochemical processes accounting for the natural mercury variations in the Southern Ocean diatom ooze sediments. Ocean Science 16 (3), 729-741. LINK
JG Wiederhold, H Biester, AL Gerloff, J Hahn, L Duester (2020) Mercury contamination in German rivers: Historical trends and current situation. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, 9735. LINK
L Schwab, DS McLagan, SM Kraemer, H Biester, JG Wiederhold (2020) Mercury isotope fractionation during dark abiotic reduction of Hg (II) by dissolved and surface-bound Fe (II) species. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, 16024. LINK
Alina Kleindienst, Lorenz Schwab, David McLagan, Stephan M Krämer, Harald Biester, Jan G Wiederhold (2020) Mercury concentrations, redox state, and isotope ratios in consecutive water extracts of Hg (II)-chloride contaminated soils. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, 10564. LINK
L Balzer, K Schulz, C Birkel, H Biester (2020) Iron oxides control sorption and mobilisation of iodine in a tropical rainforest catchment. SOIL Discussions, 1-18. LINK
M Moreno-Brush, DS McLagan, H Biester (2020) Fate of mercury from artisanal and small-scale gold mining in tropical rivers: Hydrological and biogeochemical controls. A critical review. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology 50 (5), 437-475. LINK
Jiang, T., Kaal, J., Liu, J., Liang, J., Zhang, Y., Wang, D. (2020) Linking the electron donation capacity to the molecular composition of soil dissolved organic matter from the Three Gorges Reservoir areas, China. Journal of Environmental Sciences. LINK
López-Costas, O., Kylander, M., Mattielli, N., Álvarez-Fernández, N., Pérez-Rodríguez, M., Mighall, T., Bindler, R., Cortizas, A. M. (2020) Human bones tell the story of atmospheric mercury and lead exposure at the edge of Roman World. Science of the Total Environment. LINK
Mehr, M R., Keshavarzi, B., Moore, F., Fooladivanda, S., Sorooshian, A., Biester, H. (2020) Spatial distribution, environmental risk and sources of heavy metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in surface sediments-northwest of Persian Gulf. Continental Shelf Research. LINK
Birkel, C., Correa Barahona, A. B., Duvert, C., Granados Bolaños, S. G., Palma, A. C., Sanchez-Murillo, R., Duran-Quesada, A. M., Soulsby, C., Biester, H. (2019) Near-surface flowpath dominance in a pristine humid tropical rainforest. AGUFM. LINK
Osterwalder, S., Huang, J-H., Shetaya, W. H., Agnan, Y., Frossard, A., Frey, B., Alewell, C., Kretzschmar, R., Biester, H., Obrist, D. (2019) Mercury emission from industrially contaminated soils in relation to chemical, microbial, and meteorological factors. Environmental pollution. LINK
Brocza, F. M., Biester, H., Richard, J-H., Kraemer, S. M., Wiederhold, J. G. (2019) Mercury Isotope Fractionation in the Subsurface of a Hg (II) Chloride-Contaminated Industrial Legacy Site. Environmental science & technology. LINK
Myrstener, E., Biester, H., Bigler, C., Lidberg, W., Meyer-Jacob, C., Rydberg, J., Bindler, R. (2019) Environmental footprint of small-scale, historical mining and metallurgy in the Swedish boreal forest landscape: The Moshyttan blast furnace as microcosm. The Holocene. LINK
Tewolde, D. O., Koeniger, P., Beyer, M., Neukum, C., Gröschke, M., Ronelngar, M., Rieckh, H. and Vassolo, S. (2019) Soil water balance in the Lake Chad Basin using stable water isotopes and chloride of soil profiles. Isotopes Environ. Health Stud.. LINK
Marshall, J. D., Cuntz, M., Beyer, M., Dubbert, M. and Kühnhammer, K. (2019) Borehole Equilibration: Testing a New Method to Monitor the Isotopic Composition of Tree Xylem Water in situ. Front. Plant Sc. (submitted) LINK
Beyer, M., Dubbert, M. (2019) X Water Worlds and how to investigate them: A review and future perspective on in situ measurements of water stable isotopes in soils and plants. HESS. LINK
Baptista-Salazar, C., Biester, H. (2019) The role of hydrological conditions for riverine Hg species transport in the Idrija mining area. Environmental pollution. LINK
Pérez-Rodríguez, M., Biester, H., Aboal, J.R., Toro, M., Cortizas, A.M. (2019) Thawing of snow and ice caused extraordinary high and fast mercury fluxes to lake sediments in Antarctica. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. LINK
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