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Schmid, M.C., Risgaard-Petersen, N., van de Vossenberg, J., Kuypers, M.M.M., Lavik, G., Petersen, J., Hulth, S., Thamdrup, B., Canfield, D.E., Dalsgaard, T., Rysgaard, S., Sejr, M.K., Strous, M., Op den Camp, H.J.M., Jetten, M.S.M. (In review) Anaerobic ammonium oxidizing bacteria in marine environments: Widespread occurrence but low diversity. PLOS Biology.

Oren, A., Sørensen, K.B., Canfield, D.E., Teske, A.P., Ionescu, D., Lipski, A., Altendorf, K. (in review) Microbial communities and processes within a hypersaline gypsum crust in a saltern evaporation pond (Eilat, Israel). Hydrobiologia.

Hoek, J., Canfield, D.E., Reysenbach, A.-L., Iversen, J.J.L. (In press) A bioreactor for growth of sulfate-reducing bacteria: Online estimation of specific growth rate and biomass for the deep-sea hydrothermal vents thermophile Thermodesulfatator indicus. Environmental Microbiology.

Canfield, D.E., Poulton S.W., Narbonne, G.M. (2006) Late Proterozoic deep ocean oxygenation and the rise of animal life. Science 315: 92-95. DOI: 10.1126/science.1135013. [abstract] [Reprint]

Johnston, D.T., Poulton, S.W., Fralick, P.W., Wing, B.A., Canfield, D.E., Farquhar, J. (2006) Evolution of the oceanic sulfur cycle at the end of the Paleoproterozoic. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 70: 5723-5739.

Zerkle, A.L., Cox, R.P., House, C.H., and Canfield, D.E. (2006) Metal limitation of cyanobacterial N2 fixation and implications for the Precambrian nitrogen cycle. Geobiology 4: 285-297. DOI:10.1111/j.1472-4669.2006.00082.x (December 2006). [article]80.

Canfield, D.E. (2006) Models of oxic respiration, denitrification and sulfate reduction in zones of coastal upwelling. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 70: 5753-5765.

Hoek, J., Canfield, D.E., Habicht, K.S., Reysenbach, A.-L. (2006) The effect of temperature and hydrogen-limitated growth on the fractionation of sulfur isotopes by Thermodesulfatator indicus, a deep-sea hydrothermal vent sulfate-reducing bacterium. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 70: 5831-5841.

Ferdelman, T.G., Thamdrup, B., Canfield, D.E., Glud, R.N., Lillebæk, R., Kuever, J. Ramsing, N.B., and Wawer, C. (2006) Biogeochemical and microbiological controls on the oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur distributions in the water column of Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica: an anoxic basin revisited. Revista de Biología Tropical (Int. J. Trop. Biol. ISSN-0034-7744) 54: 171-191.

Poulton, S.W., Canfield, D.E. (2006) Co-diagenesis of iron and phosphorus in hydrothermal sediments from the southern East Pacific Rise: Implications for the evaluation of paleoseawater phosphate concentrations. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 70: 5883-5898.

Canfield, D.E., Rosing, M.T., Bjerrum, C. (2006) Early anaerobic metabolisms. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B 361: 1819-1836.

Canfield, D.E. (2006) Gas with an ancient history. Nature 440: 426-427.

Canfield, D.E., Olesen, C.A., Cox, R.P. (2006) Temperature and its control of isotope fractionation by a sulfate-reducing bacterium. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 70: 548-561.

Hoek, J., Canfield, D.E., Reysenbach, A.-L., Lønsmann Iversen, J.J. (2006) A bioreactor for growth of sulphate-reducing bacteria: Online estimation of specific growth rate and biomass for the deep-sea hydrothermal vent thermophile Thermodesulfatator indicus. Environmental Microbiology DOI: 10.1007/s00248-006-9046-8.

Canfield, D.E., Kristensen E., Thamdrup B. (2005) Aquatic Geomicrobiology. Academic Press. 638p.

Johnston, D.T., Farquhar, J. Wing, B.A., Kaufman, A.J., Canfield, D.E., Habicht, K. (2005) Multiple sulfur isotope fractionations in biological systems: a case study with sulfate reducers and sulfur disproportionators. American Journal of Science 305: 645-660.

Sørensen, K.B., Canfield, D.E., Teske, A.P., and Oren, A. (2005) Community composition of a hypersaline endoevaporitic microbial mat. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 71, 7352-7365.

Poulton, S.W., and Canfield, D.E. (2005) Development of a sequential extraction procedure for iron: Implications for iron partitioning in continentally-derived particulates. Chemical Geology 214: 209-221. (pdf 598K)

Dalsgaard, T., Thamdrup, B., and Canfield, D.E. (2005) Mini-review. Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) in the marine environment. Research in Microbiology 156: 457–464.

Canfield, D.E. (2005) The early history of atmospheric oxygen: Homage to Robert M. Garrels. Annual Reviews of the Earth and Planetary Sciences 33: 1-36.

Habicht, K.S., Salling, L., Thamdrup, B. and Canfield, D.E. (2005) Effect of low sulfate concentrations on lactate oxidation and isotope fractionation during sulfate reduction by Archaeoglobus fulgidus strain Z. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 71: 3770-3777.

Hulth, S., Aller, R.C., Canfield, D.E., Dalsgaard, T., Engström, P., Gilbert, F., Sundbäck, K. and Thamdrup, B. (2005) N removal in marine environments: recent developments and future research challenges. Marine Chemistry 94: 125-145.

Poulton, S.W., and Canfield, D.E. (2005) Development of a sequential extraction procedure for iron: Implications for iron partitioning in continentally-derived particulates. Chemical Geology 214: 209-221.

Sørensen, K.B., Canfield, D.E., and Oren, A. (2004) Salinity responses of benthic microbial communities in a solar saltern (Eilat, Israel). Applied and  Environmental Microbiology 70: 1608-1616.(Abstract) (Full text)

Canfield, D.E. (2004) The evolution of the Earth surface sulfur reservoir. American Journal of Science 304: 839-861.  (pdf 828 k)

Poulton, S.W., Fralick, P.W., and Canfield, D.E. (2004) The transition to a sulfidic ocean ~1.84 billion years ago. Nature 431: 173 - 177. (Abstract) (pdf 332k)

Canfield, D.E., Sørensen, K.B., Oren, A. (2004) Biogeochemistry of a gypsum-encrusted microbial ecosystem. Geobiology 2: 133-150. (pdf 770k)

Thomsen, U., Thamdrup, B., Stahl, D.A., and Canfield, D.E. (2004) Pathways of organic carbon oxidation in a deep lacustrine sediment, Lake Michigan. Limnology and Oceanography 49: 2046-2057.

Bjerrum, C.J., and Canfield, D.E. (2004) New insights into the burial history of organic carbon on the Early Earth. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems Vol. 5, No. 8, Q08001 DOI 10.1029/2004GC000713, 05 August 2004. (pdf 263k)

Sørensen, K.B., Canfield, D.E., and Oren, A. (2004) Salt adaptations of benthic microbial communities in a solar saltern (Eilat, Israel). Applied Environmental Microbiology,70, 1608-1616.

Sørensen, K.B., and Canfield, D.E. (2004) Annual fluctuations in sulfur isotope fractionation in the water column of an anoxic marine basin. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 68: 503-515. (pdf 268k)

Jetten, M.S.M., Sliekers, O., Kuypers, M., Dalsgaard, T., van Niftrik, L., Cirpus, I., van de Pas-Schoonen, K., Lavik. G., Thamdrup, B., Le Paslier, D., Op den Camp, H.J.M., Hulth, S., Nielsen, L.P., Abma, W., Third, K., Engstrom, P., Kuenen, J.G., Jørgensen, B.B., Canfield, D.E., Damsté, J.S.S., Revsbech, N.P., Fuerst, J., Weissenbach, J., Wagner, M., Schmidt, I., Schmid, M., and Strous, M. (2003) Anaerobic ammonium oxidation by marine and freshwater planctomycete-like bacteria. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 63, 107-114.

Farquhar, J., Johnston, D.T., Wing, B.A., Habicht, K.S., Canfield, D.E., Airieau, S., and Thiemens, M.H. (2003) Multiple sulphur isotopic interpretations of biosynthetic pathways: implications for biological signatures in the sulphur isotope record. Geobiology 1: 27-36.

Dalsgaard, T., Canfield, D.E., Petersen, J., Thamdrup, B., and Acuña-González, J. (2003) N2 production by the anammox reaction in the anoxic water column of Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica. Nature 422: 606-608. (pdf 183k)

Poulton, S.W., Canfield, D.E. (2003) Fe-S systematics in the 1.88 Ga Virginia Formation: Implications for the chemical evolution of the Proterozoic ocean. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 67, A383-A383.

Konhauser, K.O., Hamade, T., Raiswell, R., Morris, R.C., Ferris, F.G., Southam, G., and Canfield, D.E. (2002) Could bacteria have formed the Precambrian banded iron formations? Geology 30: 1079-1082.

Habicht, K.S., Gade, M., Thamdrup, B., Berg, P., Canfield, D.E. (2002) A calibration of sulfate levels in the Archean Ocean. Science 298: 2372-2374.

Bjerrum, C.J., and Canfield, D.E. (2002) Ocean productivity before about 1.9 Gyr ago limited by phosphorus adsorption onto iron oxides. Nature 417: 159-162. (pdf 237k)

Shen, Y., Canfield, D.E., Knoll, A.H. (2002) Middle Proterozoic ocean chemistry: Evidence from the McArthur Basin, northern Australia. American Journal of Science 302: 81-109.

Bjerrum C.J., and Canfield, D.E. (2002) Carbon isotope model of the Archean: Significance of deep ocean carbonate precipitation. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 66: A80-A80.

Canfield, D.E. (2001) Biogeochemistry of sulfur isotopes. In: Valley, J.W., and Cole, D.R., (eds.) Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, The Mineralogical Society of America, Blacksburg, pp. 607-636.

Habicht, K.S. and Canfield, D.E. (2001) Isotope fractionation by sulfate-reducing natural populations and the isotopic composition of sulfide in marine sediments. Geology 29: 555-558.

Canfield, D.E. (2001) Isotope fractionation by natural populations of sulfate-reducing bacteria. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 65: 1117-1124.

Shen, Y., Buick, R., Canfield, D.E. (2001) Isotopic evidence for microbial sulphate reduction in the early Archean. Nature 410: 77-81. (pdf 254k)

Falkowski, P., Scholes, R.J., Boyle, E., Canadell, J., Canfield, D. E., Elser, J., Gruber, N., Hibbard, K., Högberg, P., Linder, S., Mackenzie, F.T., Moore III, B.,  Pedersen, T., Rosenthal, Y., Seitzinger, S., Smetacek, V., Steffen, W. (ICBP Carbon Working Group). (2000) The global carbon cycle: A test of our knowledge of Earth as a system. Science 290: 291-296.

Canfield, D.E. (2001) The Earth cubed. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (G3): An electronic journal of the Earth sciences. Nature 413: 675. (pdf 367k)

Onstad G.D., Canfield, D.E., Quay P.D. and Hedges J.I. (2000). Sources of particulate organic matter in rivers from the continental USA: Lignin phenol and stable carbon isotope compositions. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 64: 3539-3546.

Canfield, D.E., Habicht, K.S. and Thamdrup, B. (2000). The Archean sulfur cycle and the early history of atmospheric oxygen. Science 288: 658-661.

Canfield, D.E., Habicht, K.S. and Thamdrup, B. (2000). Response to the Archean atmosphere and sedimentary sulfides. Science 289: 1297-1298.

Thamdrup, B., and Canfield, D.E. (2000) Benthic respiration in aquatic sediments. In: Sala, O.E., Jackson, R.B., Mooney, H.A. and Howarth, R. (eds.), Methods in Ecosystem Science. 86-103.

Nielsen, J.K., Shen, Y. and Canfield, D.E. (1999) Morphology and sulfur isotope composition of early diagenetic pyrite. In Ármannsson, H. (ed.): Geochemistry of the Earth’s surface. Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Geochemistry of the Earth’s Surface, Reykjavík, Iceland, 16-20 August 1999. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam, 335-337.

Canfield, D.E., Raiswell, R. (1999) The evolution of the sulfur cycle. American Journal of Science 299:697-723.

Canfield, D.E. (1999) A breath of fresh air. Nature, 400:503-504. (pdf 165k)

Kostka, J.E., Thamdrup, B., Glud, N.R., and Canfield, D.E. (1999) Rates and pathways of carbon oxidation in permently cold Artic sediments. Marine Ecology Progress Series 180:7-21.

Knoll, A.H., and Canfield, D.E. (1998) Isotopic inferences on early ecosystems. In: Manger, W.L. and Meeks, L.K. (eds.), Isoptope Paleobiology and Paleoecology, The Paleontological Society, Pittsburgh, pp. 212-243.

Glud, R.N., Holby, O., Hoffmann, F., Canfield, D.E. (1998) Benthic mineralisation and exchange in Artic sediments (Svalbard). Marine Ecology Progress Series. 173:237-251.

Canfield, D.E. (1998) A new model for Proterozoic ocean chemistry Nature. 396:450-453. (pdf 281k)

Raiswell, R., and Canfield, D.E. (1998) Sources of iron for pyrite formation in marine sediments American Journal of Science, 298, 219-245.

Habicht, K.S., and Canfield, D.E. (1998) Sulfur isotope fractionation during bacterial reduction and disproportionation of thiosulfate and sulfite. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 62, 2585-2595.

Canfield, D.E., Boudreau, B.P., Mucci, A., and Gundersen, J. (1998) The early diagenetic formation of organic sulfur in the sediments of Mangrove Lake, Bermuda Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 62, 767-781.

Green, W.J., Canfield, D.E. and Nixon, P. (1998) Cobalt cycling and fate in Lake Vanda. In: J. Priscu (ed.), Ecosystem dynamics in a Polar desert: The McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antartica, AGU, p. 205-215.

Canfield, D.E., Thamdrup, B., and Fleischer, S. (1998 ) Isotope fractionation and sulfur metabolism by pure and enrichment cultures of elemental sulfur disproportionating bacteria. Limnology and Oceanography, 43, 253-264.

Habicht, K.S., and Canfield, D.E. (1997) Sulfur isotope fractionation during bacterial sulfate reduction in organic rich sediments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 61, 5351-5361.

Canfield, D.E. (1997) The geochemistry of river particlates from the continental United States: major elements. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 61, 3349-3365.

Thamdrup B. and Canfield, D.E. (1996) Pathways of carbon oxidation in continental margin sediments off central Chile Limnology and Oceanography, 41, 1629-1650.

Thamdrup, B., Canfield, D.E., Ferdelman, T.G., Glud, R.N., Gundersen, J.K. A biogeochemical survey of the anoxic basin Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica. (1996) Revista de Biolog’a Tropical, 44, 19-33.

Reimers, C.E., Rittenburg, K.C., Canfield, D.E., Christiansen, M.B., and Martin, J.B. Pore water pH and the earliest diagenesis of the Santa Barbara Basin. (1996) Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 60, 4037-4057.

Canfield, D.E., Lyons, T.W., and Raiswell, R. (1996) A model for iron deposition to euxinic Black Sea sediments, Amer. Jour. Sci., 296, 818-834.

Raiswell, R. and Canfield, D.E. (1996) The kinetics of reaction between silicate iron and dissolved sulfide in Peru margin sediments. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 60, 2777-2787.

Knoll, A.H., Bambach, R.J., Canfield, D.E., and Grotzinger, J.P. (1996) Comparative Earth history and late Permian mass Extinction, Science, 273, 452-457.

Habicht, K.S. and Canfield, D.E. (1996) Sulfur fractionation by natural populations of sulfate reducing bacteria. In: S.H. Bottrell, ed. Fourth International Symposium on the Geochemistry of the Earth Surface, International Association of Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry, pp. 59-63.

Canfield, D.E. (1996) Evolution of the sulfur cycle. In: S.H. Bottrell, ed. Fourth International Symposium on the Geochemistry of the Earth Surface, International Association of Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry, p. 23-27.

Habicht, K.S. and Canfield, D.E. (1996) Sulfur isotopic fractionation in microbial mats and the evolution of the sulfur cycle. Nature, 382, 342-343.

Canfield, D.E. and Teske, A. (1996) Late Proterozoic rise in atmospheric oxygen from phylogenetic and stable isotopic studies. Nature, 382, 127-132.

Canfield, D.E. and Thamdrup, B. (1996) Fate of elemental sulfur in an intertidal sediment. FEMS Microbial Ecology, 19, 95-103.

Fossing, H., Gallardo, V.A., Jørgensen, B.B., Hüttel, M., Nielsen, L.P., Schulz, H., Canfield, D.E., Forster, S., Glud, R., Gundersen, J., Küver, J., Ramsing, N.B., Teske, A., Thamdrup, B., Ulloa, O. (1995) Concentration and transport of nitrate by the mat-forming sulphur bacterium Thioploca. Nature, 374, 713-715.

Canfield, D.E., Green, W.G., and Nixon, P (1995) 210Pb and stable Pb geochemistry in Lake Vanda, Antarctica. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 59, 2459-2468.

Canfield, D.E. and Thamdrup, B. (1994) The production of 34S-depleted sulfide during bacterial So disproportionation. Science, 266, 1973-1975.

Raiswell, R., Canfield, D.E. and Berner, R.A. (1994) A comparison of iron extraction methods for the determination of degree of pyritization and the recognition of iron-limited pyrite formation. Chemical Geology, v. 111, 101-110.

Canfield, D.E. (1994) Factors influencing organic carbon preservation in marine sediments. Chemical Geology, v. 114, 315-239.

Bebout, B.M., Paerl, H.W., Bauer, J.E., Canfield, D.E. and Des Marais, D.J. (1994) Nitrogen cycling in microbial communities: the quantitative importance of N-fixation and other sources of N for primary production. In: L.J. Stal and P. Caumette, eds., "Structure, Development and Environmental Significance of Microbial Mats" NATO-ARW, Springer-Verlag, pp. 265-272.

Canfield, D. E., Thamdrup, B. and Hansen, J. W. (1993) The anaerobic degradation of organic matter in Danish coastal sediments: Fe reduction, Mn reduction and sulfate reduction. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, v. 57. 3971-3984.

Canfield, D.E., Jørgensen, B.B., Fossing, H., Glud, R., Gundersen, J., Ramsing, N.B., Thamdrup, B., Hansen, J.W., and Nielsen, L.P. and Hall, P.O.J. (1993) Pathways of organic carbon oxidation in three continental margin sediments. Marine Geology, v. 113, 27-40.

Van Cappellen, P., and Canfield, D.E. (1993) Comment on "Lack of evidence for enhanced preservation of sedimentary organic matter in the oxygen minimum of the Gulf of California" Geology. v. 21, 570-571.

 

 

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