Sebastian Behrens

7.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
81 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

Sebastian Behrens is a scholar working on Pollution, Ecology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Sebastian Behrens has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Pollution, 32 papers in Ecology and 22 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Sebastian Behrens's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (30 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (21 papers) and Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (21 papers). Sebastian Behrens is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (30 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (21 papers) and Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (21 papers). Sebastian Behrens collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. Sebastian Behrens's co-authors include Andreas Kappler, Johannes Harter, Caroline Schmidt, Elizabeth D. Swanner, Bernhard M. Fuchs, Rudolf Amann, Alfred M. Spormann, Martin Obst, Nikolas Hagemann and Reiner Ruser and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Environmental Science & Technology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Sebastian Behrens

81 papers receiving 6.0k citations

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The interplay of microbially mediated and abiotic reactions in the biogeochemical Fe cycle

2014 716 citations Elizabeth D. Swanner, Sebastian Behrens et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →
Linking N2O emissions from biochar-amended soil to the structure and function of the N-cycling microbial community

2013 539 citations Hans-Martin Krause, Andreas Kappler et al. profile →
Biochar as an Electron Shuttle between Bacteria and Fe(III) Minerals

2014 492 citations Andreas Kappler, Sebastian Behrens et al. profile →
Organic coating on biochar explains its nutrient retention and stimulation of soil fertility

2017 466 citations Nikolas Hagemann, Thomas Borch et al. profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Biochar as ammonia exchange biofilm carrier for enhanced aerobic nitrification in activated sludge 2024 ·Bioresource Technology ·(unknown), Sebastian Behrens	7
2	Effect of target gene sequence evenness and dominance on real-time PCR quantification of artificial sulfate-reducing microbial communities 2024 ·PLoS ONE ·(unknown), Sebastian Behrens	2
3	Nanodroplet-Based Reagent Delivery into Water-in-Fluorinated-Oil Droplets 2023 ·Biosensors ·Bo Zhu, (unknown), (unknown), Tetsuya Kitaguchi, Sebastian Behrens, Burckhard Seelig	1
4	Biochar-mediated abiotic and biotic degradation of halogenated organic contaminants – A review 2022 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Sebastian Behrens	38
5	Tracking de novo protein synthesis in the activated sludge microbiome using BONCAT-FACS 2021 ·Water Research ·(unknown), Sebastian Behrens	16
6	Anaerobic Dehalogenation by Reduced Aqueous Biochars 2020 ·Environmental Science & Technology ·(unknown), Juhee Kim, Yuwei Zhou, Danping Wu, Bo Pan, Xilong Wang, Sebastian Behrens, Ching‐Hua Huang, Yu Yang	14
7	Composition and Dynamics of the Activated Sludge Microbiome during Seasonal Nitrification Failure 2019 ·Scientific Reports ·Juliet Johnston, Timothy M. LaPara, Sebastian Behrens	89
8	Growth and Population Dynamics of the Anaerobic Fe(II)-Oxidizing and Nitrate-Reducing Enrichment Culture KS 2018 ·Applied and Environmental Microbiology ·(unknown), (unknown), Tina Lösekann-Behrens, Sebastian Behrens, Andreas Kappler	59
9	Long term farming systems affect soils potential for N2O production and reduction processes under denitrifying conditions 2017 ·Soil Biology and Biochemistry ·Hans-Martin Krause, Cécile Thonar, (unknown), Reinhard Well, Paul Mäder, Sebastian Behrens, Andreas Kappler, Andreas Gattinger	34
10	Composting-derived organic coating on biochar enhances its affinity to nitrate 2017 ·EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts ·Nikolas Hagemann, Stephen Joseph, Pellegrino Conte, Mihaela Albu, Martin Obst, Thomas Borch, Silvia Orsetti, Edisson Subdiaga, Sebastian Behrens, Andreas Kappler	9
11	Coexistence of Microaerophilic, Nitrate-Reducing, and Phototrophic Fe(II) Oxidizers and Fe(III) Reducers in Coastal Marine Sediment 2015 ·Applied and Environmental Microbiology ·Katja Laufer, (unknown), Hans Røy, Caroline Schmidt, Sebastian Behrens, Bo Barker Jørgensen, Andreas Kappler	73
12	Microbial community composition of a household sand filter used for arsenic, iron, and manganese removal from groundwater in Vietnam 2015 ·Chemosphere ·(unknown), Pascal Weigold, Tina Lösekann-Behrens, Andreas Kappler, Sebastian Behrens	85
13	The interplay of microbially mediated and abiotic reactions in the biogeochemical Fe cycle breakdown → 2014 ·Nature Reviews Microbiology ·(unknown), Elizabeth D. Swanner, Sebastian Behrens, Caroline Schmidt, Andreas Kappler	716
14	Linking environmental processes to the in situ functioning of microorganisms by high‐resolution secondary ion mass spectrometry (NanoSIMS) and scanning transmission X‐ray microscopy (STXM) 2012 ·Environmental Microbiology ·Sebastian Behrens, Andreas Kappler, Martin Obst	63
15	Impairment of the Bacterial Biofilm Stability by Triclosan 2012 ·PLoS ONE ·(unknown), Sabine U. Gerbersdorf, Cédric Hubas, Sebastian Behrens, Francesco Ricciardi, David M. Paterson	42
16	Assessment of chlorinated ethenes biodegradation in an anaerobic aquifer by isotope analysis and microcosm studies 2011 ·IAHS-AISH publication ·(unknown), Christine Laskov, Sebastian Behrens, Stefan B. Haderlein	1
17	Comparison of lactate, formate, and propionate as hydrogen donors for the reductive dehalogenation of trichloroethene in a continuous-flow column 2010 ·Journal of Contaminant Hydrology ·Mohammad F. Azizian, Ian P. G. Marshall, Sebastian Behrens, Alfred M. Spormann, Lewis Semprini	51
18	Linking Microbial Phylogeny to Metabolic Activity at the Single-Cell Level by Using Enhanced Element Labeling-Catalyzed Reporter Deposition Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (EL-FISH) and NanoSIMS 2008 ·Applied and Environmental Microbiology ·Sebastian Behrens, Tina Lösekann, Jennifer Pett‐Ridge, Peter Weber, (unknown), Bradley S. Stevenson, I. D. Hutcheon, David A. Relman, Alfred M. Spormann	170
19	Continuous-flow column study of reductive dehalogenation of PCE upon bioaugmentation with the Evanite enrichment culture 2008 ·Journal of Contaminant Hydrology ·Mohammad F. Azizian, Sebastian Behrens, (unknown), Mark E. Dolan, Alfred M. Spormann, Lewis Semprini	32
20	The Effect of Nucleobase-Specific Fluorescence Quenching on In Situ Hybridization with rRNA-Targeted Oligonucleotide Probes 2004 ·Systematic and Applied Microbiology ·Sebastian Behrens, Bernhard M. Fuchs, Rudolf Amann	11

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