Peter Stief

4.6k total citations
70 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Peter Stief is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Stief has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Ecology, 35 papers in Oceanography and 28 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Peter Stief's work include Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (27 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (25 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (22 papers). Peter Stief is often cited by papers focused on Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (27 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (25 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (22 papers). Peter Stief collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Denmark and Japan. Peter Stief's co-authors include Dirk de Beer, Anja Kamp, Andreas Schramm, Franz Hölker, Jörg S. Deutzmann, Bernhard Schink, Ronnie N. Glud, Rudolf Amann, Gaute Lavik and Bo Thamdrup and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Environmental Science & Technology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Peter Stief

68 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Peter Stief	1.5k	866	851	725	482	70	2.7k
Annamaria Zoppini	1.1k 0.7×	358 0.4×	441 0.5×	537 0.7×	201 0.4×	38	2.7k
Moritz Holtappels	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 1.3×	517 0.6×	538 0.7×	257 0.5×	67	2.3k
Florian Mermillod‐Blondin	2.0k 1.4×	1.0k 1.2×	744 0.9×	979 1.4×	492 1.0×	110	3.7k
Nicholas Bouskill	1.3k 0.9×	264 0.3×	526 0.6×	560 0.8×	411 0.9×	55	2.8k
Peter Bondo Christensen	1.6k 1.1×	1.7k 1.9×	713 0.8×	1.1k 1.5×	521 1.1×	33	3.3k
Josef Hejzlar	1.3k 0.9×	859 1.0×	352 0.4×	1.8k 2.4×	333 0.7×	125	3.5k
Tadashi Yoshinari	1.5k 1.0×	1.5k 1.7×	786 0.9×	837 1.2×	459 1.0×	28	3.4k
Morten Larsen	804 0.5×	581 0.7×	487 0.6×	456 0.6×	165 0.3×	40	2.2k
Justus E. E. van Beusekom	1.8k 1.2×	2.1k 2.4×	329 0.4×	778 1.1×	862 1.8×	78	3.6k
Mireille Pujo‐Pay	1.6k 1.1×	1.9k 2.2×	981 1.2×	423 0.6×	488 1.0×	87	3.6k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Stief, Peter, et al.. (2026). Hydrostatic pressure induces strong leakage of dissolved organic matter from “marine snow” particles. Science Advances. 12(6). eaec5677–eaec5677.

Arnosti, Carol, Dirk de Beer, Gunter Wegener, et al.. (2025). Seasonal and stable heterotrophic guilds drive Arctic benthic microbiome functioning across polar day and night. ISME Communications. 5(1). ycaf161–ycaf161.

Stief, Peter, et al.. (2024). Hydrostatic pressure impedes the degradation of sinking copepod carcasses and fecal pellets. Journal of Plankton Research. 46(2). 219–223. 2 indexed citations

Stief, Peter, Clemens Schauberger, Kevin W. Becker, et al.. (2023). Hydrostatic pressure induces transformations in the organic matter and microbial community composition of marine snow particles. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 7 indexed citations

Stief, Peter, Marcus Elvert, & Ronnie N. Glud. (2021). Respiration by “marine snow” at high hydrostatic pressure: Insights from continuous oxygen measurements in a rotating pressure tank. Limnology and Oceanography. 66(7). 2797–2809. 18 indexed citations

Treusch, Alexander H., et al.. (2017). Nitrogen cycling and bacterial community structure of sinking and aging diatom aggregates. Aquatic Microbial Ecology. 79(2). 85–99. 11 indexed citations

Kamp, Anja, Peter Stief, Laura A. Bristow, Bo Thamdrup, & Ronnie N. Glud. (2016). Intracellular Nitrate of Marine Diatoms as a Driver of Anaerobic Nitrogen Cycling in Sinking Aggregates. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7. 1669–1669. 29 indexed citations

Stief, Peter, Anja Kamp, Bo Thamdrup, & Ronnie N. Glud. (2016). Anaerobic Nitrogen Turnover by Sinking Diatom Aggregates at Varying Ambient Oxygen Levels. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7. 98–98. 59 indexed citations

Kamp, Anja, Signe Høgslund, Nils Risgaard‐Petersen, & Peter Stief. (2015). Nitrate Storage and Dissimilatory Nitrate Reduction by Eukaryotic Microbes. Frontiers in Microbiology. 6. 1492–1492. 98 indexed citations

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Beer, Dirk de, et al.. (2013). Vertical activity distribution of dissimilatory nitrate reduction in coastal marine sediments. Biogeosciences. 10(11). 7509–7523. 45 indexed citations

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Stief, Peter. (2013). Stimulation of microbial nitrogen cycling in aquatic ecosystems by benthic macrofauna: mechanisms and environmental implications. Biogeosciences. 10(12). 7829–7846. 141 indexed citations

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Kamp, Anja, et al.. (2013). Response of the Ubiquitous Pelagic Diatom Thalassiosira weissflogii to Darkness and Anoxia. PLoS ONE. 8(12). e82605–e82605. 40 indexed citations

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Lew, Beni, Peter Stief, Michael Beliavski, et al.. (2012). Characterization of denitrifying granular sludge with and without the addition of external carbon source. Bioresource Technology. 124. 413–420. 37 indexed citations

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Kamp, Anja, et al.. (2011). Diatoms respire nitrate to survive dark and anoxic conditions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(14). 5649–5654. 161 indexed citations

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Stief, Peter, Lùbos Polerecký, Morten Poulsen, & Andreas Schramm. (2010). Control of nitrous oxide emission from Chironomus plumosus larvae by nitrate and temperature. Limnology and Oceanography. 55(2). 872–884. 24 indexed citations

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Jogler, Christian, Wei Lin, Michael Kube, et al.. (2010). Cultivation‐independent characterization of ‘ Candidatus Magnetobacterium bavaricum’ via ultrastructural, geochemical, ecological and metagenomic methods. Environmental Microbiology. 12(9). 2466–2478. 69 indexed citations

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Stief, Peter, Morten Poulsen, Lars Peter Nielsen, Hans Brix, & Andreas Schramm. (2009). Nitrous oxide emission by aquatic macrofauna. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(11). 4296–4300. 90 indexed citations

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Kamp, Anja, Peter Stief, & Heide N. Schulz‐Vogt. (2006). Anaerobic Sulfide Oxidation with Nitrate by a Freshwater Beggiatoa Enrichment Culture. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 72(7). 4755–4760. 68 indexed citations

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Stief, Peter, et al.. (2004). Microbial activities in the burrow environment of the potamal mayfly Ephoron virgo. Freshwater Biology. 49(9). 1152–1163. 26 indexed citations

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Stief, Peter, et al.. (2003). Temporal variation of nitrification rates in experimental freshwater sediments enriched with ammonia or nitrite. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 46(1). 63–71. 18 indexed citations

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