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Dr Verschuren, Dirk

Institutes (2)
Publications (25)

Universiteit Gent; Faculteit Wetenschappen; Vakgroep Biologie; Afdeling Limnologie, more

Function: Senior Postdoctoral Fellow
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Oceans & Lakes : Master of Marine and Lacustrine Science and Management, more

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A1 Publications (18) [show]
Baxter, A.J.; Verschuren, D.; Peterse, F.; Miralles, D.G.; Martin-Jones, C.M.; Maitituerdi, A.; Van der Meeren, T.; Van Daele, M.; Lane, C.S.; Haug, G.H.; Olago, D.O.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2023). Reversed Holocene temperature–moisture relationship in the Horn of Africa. Nature (Lond.) 620(7973): 336-343. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06272-5, more Gitau, P.N.; Duvail, S.; Verschuren, D. (2023). Evaluating the combined impacts of hydrological change, coastal dynamics and human activity on mangrove cover and health in the Tana River delta, Kenya. Regional Studies in Marine Science 61: 102898. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2023.102898, more Maitituerdi, A.; Van Daele, M.; Verschuren, D.; De Batist, M.; Waldmann, N. (2022). Depositional history of Lake Chala (Mt. Kilimanjaro, equatorial East Africa) from high-resolution seismic stratigraphy. J. Afr. Earth Sci. 189: 104499. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2022.104499, more van Bree, L.G.J.; Peterse, F.; Baxter, A.J.; De Crop, W.; van Grinsven, S.; Villanueva, L.; Verschuren, D.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S (2020). Seasonal variability and sources of in situ brGDGT production in a permanently stratified African crater lake. Biogeosciences 17(21): 5443-5463. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-5443-2020, more van Bree, L.G.J.; Peterse, F.; van der Meer, M.T.J.; Middelburg, J.J.; Negash, A.M.D.; De Crop, W.; Cocquyt, C.; Wieringa, J.J.; Verschuren, D.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2018). Seasonal variability in the abundance and stable carbon-isotopic composition of lipid biomarkers in suspended particulate matter from a stratified equatorial lake (Lake Chala, Kenya/Tanzania): Implications for the sedimentary record. Quat. Sci. Rev. 192: 208-224. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.05.023, more Loomis, S.E.; Russell, J.M.; Verschuren, D.; Morrill, C.; De Cort, G.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Olago, D.; Eggermont, H.; Street-Perrott, F.A.; Kelly, M.A. (2017). The tropical lapse rate steepened during the Last Glacial Maximum. Science Advances 3(1): e1600815. https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1600815, more Buckles, L.K.; Verschuren, D.; Weijers, J.W.H.; Cocquyt, C.; Blaauw, M.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2016). Interannual and (multi-)decadal variability in the sedimentary BIT index of Lake Challa, East Africa, over the past 2200 years: assessment of the precipitation proxy. Clim. Past 12: 1243-1262. dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-1243-2016, more Buckles, L.K.; Weijers, J.W.H.; Verschuren, D.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2014). Sources of core and intact branched tetraether membrane lipids in the lacustrine environment: Anatomy of Lake Challa and its catchment, equatorial East Africa. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 140: 106-126. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2014.04.042, more Loomis, S.E.; Russell, J.M.; Eggermont, H.; Verschuren, D.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2014). Effects of temperature, pH and nutrient concentration on branched GDGT distributions in East African lakes: Implications for paleoenvironmental reconstruction. Org. Geochem. 66: 25-37. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2013.10.012, more Villanueva, L.; Besseling, M.; Rodrigo-Gamiz, M.; Rampen, S.; Verschuren, D.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2014). Potential biological sources of long chain alkyl diols in a lacustrine system. Org. Geochem. 68: 27-30. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2014.01.001, more Buckles, L.K.; Villanueva, L.; Weijers, J.W.H.; Verschuren, D.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2013). Linking isoprenoidal GDGT membrane lipid distributions with gene abundances of ammonia-oxidizing Thaumarchaeota and uncultured crenarchaeotal groups in the water column of a tropical lake (Lake Challa, East Africa). Environ. Microbiol. 15(9): 2445-2462. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.12118, more Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Ossebaar, J.; Schouten, S.; Verschuren, D. (2012). Distribution of tetraether lipids in the 25-ka sedimentary record of Lake Challa: extracting reliable TEX₈₆ and MBT/CBT palaeotemperatures from an equatorial African lake. Quat. Sci. Rev. 50: 43-54. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.07.001, more Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Verschuren, D.; Ossebaar, J.; Blokker, J.; van Houten, R.; Plessen, B.; Schouten, S. (2011). A 25,000-year record of climate-induced changes in lowland vegetation of eastern equatorial Africa revealed by the stable carbon-isotopic composition of fossil plant leaf waxes. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 302(1-2): 236-246. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2010.12.025, more Tierney, J.; Russell, J.M.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Huang, Y.S.; Verschuren, D. (2011). Late Quaternary behavior of the East African monsoon and the importance of the Congo Air Boundary. Quat. Sci. Rev. 30(7-8): 798-807. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.01.017, more van Geel, B.; Gelorini, V.; Lyaruu, A.; Aptroot, A.; Rucina, S.; Marchant, R.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Verschuren, D. (2011). Diversity and ecology of tropical African fungal spores from a 25,000-year palaeoenvironmental record in southeastern Kenya. Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol. 164(3-4): 174-190. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2011.01.002, more Wolff, C.; Haug, G.H.; Timmermann, A.; Brauer, A.; Sigman, D.M.; Cane, M.A.; Verschuren, D.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2011). Reduced interannual rainfall variability in East Africa during the last ice age. Science (Wash.) 333(6043): 743-747. https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1203724, more Moernaut, J. ; Verschuren, D.; Charlet, F.; Kristen, I.; Fagot, M.; De Batist, M. (2010). The seismic-stratigraphic record of lake-level fluctuations in Lake Challa: Hydrological stability and change in equatorial East Africa over the last 140 kyr. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 290(1-2): 214-223. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2009.12.023, more Verschuren, D.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Moernaut, J.; Kristen, I.; Blaauw, M.; Fagot, M.; Haug, G.H.; CHALLACEA project members (2009). Half-precessional dynamics of monsoon rainfall near the East African Equator. Nature (Lond.) 462(7273): 637-641. dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature08520, more
Peer reviewed publications (4) [show]
Verschuren, D.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Haug, G.; Kristen, I.; Moernaut, J.; Milne, I.; Wolff, C.; Fagot, M.; van Geel, B.; Blaauw, M. (2008). A 25,000 years climate record from the East African equator: Half-precessional climate forcing and the history of temperature and hydrological change. Geophys. Res. Abstr. 10(EGU2008-A-01576), more Wolff, C.; Haug, G.; Plessen, B.; Verschuren, D.; CHALLACEA Participants (2008). Lake Challa (Kenya/Tanzania) sediments as archive of climate and environmental variability in equatorial East Africa. Geophys. Res. Abstr. 10(EGU2008-A-09889), more Verschuren, D. (2006). CHALLACEA: High-resolution, multi-proxy climate reconstruction for equatorial East Africa (21 ka BP to present) from laminated lake sediments near Mt. Kilimanjaro. Geophys. Res. Abstr. 8(10112), more Charlet, F.; Verschuren, D.; De Batist, M. ; Bessems, I. ; Olago, D.; Muzuka, A. (2005). Two glacial-interglacial cycles of lake-level change in equatorial East Africa documented by high-resolution seismic sequence stratigraphy from Lake Challa (Kenya). Geophys. Res. Abstr. 7: 06662, more
Other publication [show]
Verschuren, D.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Moernaut, J.; Kristen, I.; Fagot, M.; Blaauw, M.; Haug, G. H. ; CHALLACEA project members (2008). Half-precessional climate forcing of Indian Ocean monsoon dynamics on the East African equator. Eos, Trans. (Wash. D.C.) 89(53): PP41B-1450, more
Thesis (co-)promotor (2) [show]
Nguyen, T.M.P. (2022). Paleoecology of Ostracoda and daphniid Cladocera in lake Naivasha (Kenya): Documenting 7000 years of aquatic ecosystem dynamics. MSc Thesis. Universiteit Antwerpen/Ghent University/Vrije Universiteit Brussel: Antwerpen/Gent/Brussel. 42 pp., more Ortiz, L.E.A. (2019). Reconstructing the late-Holocene paleo-hydrology of desert oasis lakes in northern Chad (east-central Sahara) from sedimentological and geochemical analyses on lacustrine sediment cores. MSc Thesis. Universiteit Antwerpen/Ghent University/Vrije Universiteit Brussel: Antwerpen/Gent/Brussel. 79 pp., more