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Publications

2024-2025

Greiffenhagen L, Titschack J, Wienberg C, Wang H, Hebbeln D (2025). Cold-water coral mounds are effective carbon sinks in the western Mediterranean Sea. Biogeosciences 22:2201–2223. DOI:10.5194/bg-22-2201-2025. Highlight Paper

Beisel E, Therre S, Wienberg C, Friedrich R, Frank N (2025). Status report of the Heidelberg Radiocarbon Laboratory: precision and application in Mauritanian cold-water corals over the last 30.000 years. Radiocarbon:1-11. DOI:10.1017/RDC.2025.7

Aurelle D, Haguenauer A, Blaise C, Reynes L, Arnaud-Haond S, Boavida J, Cabau C, Klopp C, Lundalv T, Noûs C, Sartoretto S, Wienberg C, Jiménez C, Orejas C (2024). On the specific status of eastern Mediterranean Dendrophyllia corals (Cnidaria, Anthozoa): Genetic characterization and speciation scenarios. Zoologica Scripta 53:235-247. DOI:10.1111/zsc.12643

2023

Bridges AEH, Howell KL, Amaro T, Atkinson L, Barnes DKA, Bax N, Bell JB, Bernardino AF, Beuck L, Braga-Henriques A, Brandt A, Bravo ME, Brix S, Butt S, Carranza A, Doti BL, Elegbede IO, Esquete P, Freiwald A, Gaudron SM, Guilhon M, Hebbeln D, Horton T, Kainge P, Kaiser S, Lauretta D, Limongi P, McQuaid KA, Milligan RJ, Miloslavich P, Narayanaswamy BE, Orejas C, Paulus S, Pearman TRR, Perez JA, Ross RE, Saeedi H, Shimabukuro M, Sink K, Stevenson A, Taylor M, Titschack J, Vieira RP, Vinha B, Wienberg C (2023). Review of the Central and South Atlantic Shelf and Deep-Sea Benthos: Science, Policy and Management. Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review Vol. 61.
DOI:10.1201/9781003363873-5

Cordes E, Mienis F, Gasbarro R, Davies A, Baco AR, Bernardino AF, Clark MR, Freiwald A, Hennige SJ, Huvenne VAI, Buhl-Mortensen P, Orejas C, Quattrini AM, Tracey DM, Wheeler AJ, Wienberg C (2023). A global view of the cold-water coral reefs of the world. In: Cordes E, Mienis F, Cold-Water Coral Reefs of the World. Sprin­ger se­ries: Co­ral Reefs of the World. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 1-30. DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-40897-7_1

Gori A, Wienberg C, Grinyo J, Taviani M, Hebbeln D, Lo Iacono C, Freiwald A, Orejas C (2023). Life and death of cold-water corals across the Mediterranean Sea. In: Cordes E, Mienis F, Cold-Water Coral Reefs of the World. Sprin­ger se­ries: Co­ral Reefs of the World. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 171-197. DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-40897-7_7

Gori A, Orejas C, Mienis F, Ferrier-Pagès C, Bilan M, DFlöter S, Reynaud S, Sweetman AK, Roberts JM, Wienberg C, Hebbeln D (2023). Natural hypoxic conditions do not affect the respiration rates of the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa living in the Angola margin (Southeastern Atlantic Ocean). Deep Sea Research Part I 197:104052. DOI:10.1016/j.dsr.2023.104052

Korpanty C, Hoffman L, Portilho-Ramos R, Titschack J, Wienberg C, Hebbeln D (2023). Decline in cold-water coral growth promotes molluscan diversity: a paleontological perspective from a cold-water coral mound in the western Mediterranean Sea. Fron­ti­ers in Mar­ine Sci­ence 9:895946. DOI:10.3389/fmars.2022.895946

Vinha B, Rossi S, Gori A, Hanz U, Pennetta A, Mienis F, Huvenne VAI, Hebbeln D, Wienberg C, Titschack J, Freiwald A, Piraino S, Orejas C (2023). Trophic ecology of Angolan cold-water coral mounds reefs (SE Atlantic) based on stable isotope analyses. Scientific Reports (Special Issue: Deep sea biodiversity and conservation) 13:9933. DOI:10.1038/s41598-023-37035-x

Wienberg C, Freiwald A, Frank N, Mienis F, Titschack J, Orejas C, Hebbeln D (2023). Cold-water coral reefs in the oxygen minimum zones off West Africa. In: Cordes E, Mienis F, Cold-Water Coral Reefs of the World. Sprin­ger se­ries: Co­ral Reefs of the World. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 199-235. DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-40897-7_8

2022

Portilho-Ramos R, Titschack J, Wienberg C, Siccha M, Yokohama Y, Hebbeln D (2022). Major environmental drivers determining life and death of cold-water corals through time. Plos Biology 20(5):e3001628. DOI:10.1371/journal.pbio.3001628.

Sánchez-Guillamón O, Rueda JL, Wienberg C, Ercilla G, Vázques J-T, Gómez-Ballesteros M, Urra J, Moya-Urbano E, Estrada F, Hebbeln D (2022). Morphosedimentary, structural and benthic characterization of carbonate mound fields on the upper continental slope of the northern Alboran Sea (western Mediterranean). Geosciences 12:111. DOI:10.3390/geosciences12030111

Tamborrino L, Titschack J, Wienberg C, Purkis S, Eberli GP, Hebbeln D (2022). Spatial distribution and morphometry of the Namibian coral mounds controlled by the hydrodynamic regime and outer-shelf topography. Frontiers in Marine Science 9:877616. DOI:10.3389/fmars.2022.877616.

Wienberg C, Krengel T, Frank N, Wang H, Hebbeln D (2022). Cold-water coral mounds in the western Mediterranean Sea: New insights into their initiation and development since the Mid-Pleistocene in response to changes in African hydroclimate. Quaternary Science Reviews 293:107723. DOI:10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107723

2021

Bartzke G, Siemann L, Büssing R, Nardone P, Koll K, Hebbeln D, Huhn K (2021). Investigating the prevailing hydrodynamics around a cold-water coral colony using a physical and a numerical approach. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8. DOI:10.3389/fmars.2021.663304

Corbera G, Lo Iacono C, Standish CD, Anagnostou E, Titschack J, Katsamenis O, Cacho I, Van Rooij D, Huvenne VAI, Foster GL (2021). Glacio-eustatic variations and sapropel events as main controls on the Middle Pleistocene-Holocene evolution of the Cabliers Coral Mound Province (W Mediterranean). Quaternary Science Reviews, 253. 106783. DOI:10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106783

Orejas C, Wienberg C, Titschack J, Tamborrino L, Freiwald A, Hebbeln D (2021). Madrepora oculata forms large frameworks in hypoxic waters off Angola (SE Atlantic). Scientific Reports 11:15170. DOI:10.1038/s41598-021-94579-6.

Wang H, Titschack J, Wienberg C, Korpanty C, Hebbeln D (2021). The importance of ecological accommodation space and sediment supply for cold-water coral mound formation, a case study from the Western Mediterranean Sea. Frontiers in Marine Science 8:760909. DOI:10.3389/fmars.2021.760909

2020

Hebbeln D, Wienberg C, Dullo WC, Freiwald A, Mienis F, Orejas C, Titschack (2020). Cold-water coral reefs thriving under hypoxia. Coral Reefs 39:853–859. DOI:10.1007/s00338-020-01934-6

Morato T, González-Irusta J-M, Dominguez-Carrió C, Wei C-L, Davies A, Sweetman AK, Taranto GH, Beazley L, García-Alegre A, Grehan A, Laffargue P, Murillo FJ, Sacau M, Vaz S, Kenchington E, Arnaud-Haond S, Callery O, Chimienti G, Cordes E, Egilsdottir H, Freiwald A, Gasbarro R, Gutierrez-Zárate C, Gianni M, Gilkinson K, Wareham Hayes VE, Hebbeln D, Hedges K, Henry L-A, Johnson D, Koen-Alonso M, Lirette C, Mastrototaro F, Menot L, Molodtsova T, Durán Muñoz P, Orejas C, Pennino MG, Puerta P, Ragnarsson SA, Ramiro-Sánchez B, Rice J, Rivera J, Roberts M, Ross SW, Rueda JL, Sampaio I, Snelgrove P, Stirling D, Treble MA, Urra J, Vad J, van Oevelen D, Watling L, Walkusz W, Wienberg C, Woillez M, Levin LA, Carreiro-Silva M (2020). Climate-induced changes in the habitat suitability of cold-water corals and commercially important deep-sea fishes in the North Atlantic. Global Change Biology 26:2181-2202. DOI:10.1111/gcb.14996

Wienberg C, Titschack J, Frank N, De Pol-Holz R, Fietzke J, Eisele M, Kremer A, Hebbeln D (2020). Deglacial upslope shift of NE Atlantic intermediate waters controlled slope erosion and cold-water coral mound formation (Porcupine Seabight, Irish margin). Quaternary Science Reviews 237:106310. DOI:10.1016/​j.qua­sci­rev.2020.106310.

2019

Hanz U, Wienberg C, Hebbeln D, Duineveld G, Lavaleye M, Juva K, Dullo W-C, Freiwald A, Tamborrino L, Reichart G-J, Flögel S, Mienis F (2019). Environmental factors influencing cold-water coral ecosystems in the oxygen minimum zones on the Angolan and Namibian margins. Biogeosciences 16:4337–4356. DOI:0.5194/bg-16-4337-2019

Hebbeln D, Portihlo-Ramos R, Wienberg C, Titschack J (2019). The fate of cold-water corals in a changing world: a gelogical perspective. Frontiers in Marine Science 6:119. DOI:10.3389/fmars.2019.00119

Hebbeln D, Bender M, Gaide S, Titschack J, Vandorpe T, Van Rooij D, Wintersteller P, Wienberg C (2019). Thousands of cold-water coral mounds along the Moroccan Atlantic continental margin: distribution and morphometry. Marine Geology 411:51-61. DOI:10.1016/j.margeo.2019.02.001

Hebbeln, D (2019) Highly variable submarine landscapes in the Alborán Sea created by cold-water corals. In: Orejas, C and Jiménez, C (eds.) Mediterranean Cold-Water Corals: Past, Present and Future (Understanding the Deep-Sea Realms of Coral). Coral Reefs of the World, 9. Springer International Publishing, 61-65. DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-91608-8

Tamborrino L, Wienberg C, Titschack J, Wintersteller P, Mienis F, Schröder-Ritzrau A, Freiwald A, Orejas C, Dullo C, Haberkern J, Hebbeln D (2019). Mid-Holocene extinction of cold-water corals on the Namibian shelf steered by the Benguela oxygen minimum zone. Geology 47(12):1185-1188. DOI:10.1130/G46672.1

Titschack, J (2019) 10 Bathyal corals within the Aegean Sea and the adjacent Hellenic Trench. In: Orejas, C and Jiménez, C (eds.) Mediterranean Cold-Water Corals: Past, Present and Future. Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, 85-94. DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-91608-8_10

Wang H, Lo Iacono C, Wienberg C, Titschack J, Hebbeln D (2019). Cold-water coral mounds in the southern Alboran Sea (western Mediterranean Sea): Internal waves as an important driver for mound formation since the last deglaciation. Marine Geology 412:1-18. DOI:10.1016/j.margeo.2019.02.007

Wienberg C (2019). A deglacial cold-water coral boom in the Alboran Sea: from coral mounds and species dominance (drop chapter 7). In: Orejas C, Jiménez C, Mediterranean Cold-Water Corals: Past, Present and Future (Understanding the Deep-Sea Realms of Coral). Springer series: Coral Reefs of the World 9. Springer International Publishing, pp. 57-60. DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-91608-8_7

2018

Titschack, J, Baum, D, Matsuyama, K, Boos, K, Färber, C, Kahl, WA, Ehrig, K, Meinel, D, Soriano, C and Stock, SR (2018) Ambient occlusion – A powerful algorithm to segment shell and skeletal intrapores in computed tomography data. Computers & Geosciences, 115. 75-87. doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2018.03.007

Wienberg C, Tit­schack J,Frei­wald A, Frank N, Lun­dälv T, Ta­via­ni M, Beuck L, Schrö­der-Ritzrau A, Kren­gel T, Heb­beln D (2018). The gi­ant Mau­ri­ta­ni­an cold-wa­ter co­ral mound pro­vin­ce: oxy­gen con­trol on co­ral mound for­ma­ti­on. Qua­tern­ary Sci­ence Re­views 185:135–152. DOI:10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.02.012

2017

Dubois-Dauphin Q, Montagna P, Siani G, Douville E, Wienberg C, Hebbeln D, Liu Z, Kallel N, Dapoigny M. Revel M, Pons-Branchu E, Colin C (2017). Hydrological variations of the intermediate water masses of the western Mediterranean Sea during the past 20 ka inferred from neodymium isotopic composition in foraminifera and cold-water corals. Climate of the Past 13: 17-37. DOI:10.5194/cp-2016-64

Matos L, Wienberg C, Titschack J, Schmiedl G, Frank N, Abrantes F, Cunha MR, Hebbeln D (2017). Coral mound development at the Campeche cold-water coral province, southern Gulf of Mexico: Implications of Antarctic Intermediate Water increased influence during interglacials. Marine Geology 392:53-65. DOI:10.1016/j.margeo.2017.08.012

Vandorpe T, Wienberg C, Hebbeln D, Van den Berghe M, Gaide S, Wintersteller P, Van Rooij D (2017). Multiple generations of buried cold-water coral mounds since the Early-Middle Pleistocene Transition in the Atlantic Moroccan Coral Province, southern Gulf of Cádiz. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 485:293-304. DOI:10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.06.021

Wefing A-M, Arps J, Blaser P, Wienberg C, Hebbeln D, Frank N (2017). High precision U-series dating of scleractinian cold-water corals using an automated chromatographic U and Th extraction. Chemical Geology 475:140-148. DOI:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.10.036

Wienberg C, Titschack J (2017). Framework-forming scleractinian cold-water corals through space and time: A late Quaternary North Atlantic perspective. In: Rossi S, Bramanti L, Gori A, Orejas C, Marine Animal Forests: the Ecology of Benthic Biodiversity Hotspots. Springer, pp. 699-732. DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-17001-5_16-1

before 2017

Hebbeln D, Van Rooij D, Wienberg C (2016). Good neighbours shaped by vigorous currents: cold-water coral mounds and contourites in the North Atlantic. Marine Geology 378; 171–185. DOI:10.1016/j.margeo.2016.01.014

Titschack J, Fink HG, Baum D, Wienberg C, Hebbeln D, Freiwald A (2016). Mediterranean cold-water corals – an important regional carbonate factory? The Depositional Record 2(1): 74-96. DOI:10.1002/dep2.14

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Fink HG, *Wienberg C, De Pol-Holz R, Hebbeln D (2015). Spatio-temporal distribution patterns of Mediterranean cold-water corals (Lophelia pertusa and Madrepora oculata) during the past 14,000 years. Deep-Sea Research Part 1 103: 37-48. DOI:10.1016/j.dsr.2015.05.006 *corresponding author

Hebbeln, D and Samankassou, E (2015) Where did ancient carbonate mounds grow — In bathyal depths or in shallow shelf waters? Earth-Science Reviews, 145. 56-65. DOI:10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.03.001

Matos L, Mienis F, Wienberg C, Frank N, Kwiatkowski C, Groeneveld J, Thil F, Abrantes F, Cunha MR, Hebbeln D (2015). Interglacial occurrence of cold-water corals off Cape Lookout (NW Atlantic): first evidence of the Gulf Stream influence. Deep-Sea Research Part 1 105: 158-170. DOI:10.1016/j.dsr.2015.09.003

Titschack, J, Baum, D, de Pol-Holz, R, López Correa, M, Forster, N, Flögel, S, Hebbeln, D, Freiwald, A and Riegl, BM (2015) Aggradation and carbonate accumulation of Holocene Norwegian cold-water coral reefs. Sedimentology, 62(7). 1873-1898. DOI:10.1111/sed.12206

Wehrmann, LM, Titschack, J, Böttcher, ME and Ferdelman, TG (2015) Linking sedimentary sulfur and iron biogeochemistry to growth patterns of a cold-water coral mound in the Porcupine Basin, S.W. Ireland (IODP Expedition 307). Geobiology, 13(5). 424-442. DOI:10.1111/gbi.12147

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Eisele M, Frank N, Wienberg C, Titschack J, Mienis F, Beuck L, Tisnerat-Laborde N, Hebbeln D (2014). Sedimentation patterns on a cold-water coral mound off Mauritania. Deep-Sea Research Part II 99: 307-315. DOI:10.1016/j.dsr2.2013.07.004

Fink HG, Wienberg C, De Pol-Holz R, Wintersteller P, Hebbeln D (2013). Cold-water coral growth in the Alboran Sea related to high productivity during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. Marine Geology 339: 71-82. DOI:10.1016/j.margeo.2013.04.009

Hebbeln D, Wienberg C, Wintersteller P, Freiwald A, Becker M, Beuck L, Dullo C, Eberli GP, Glogowski S, Matos L, Forster N, Reyes-Bonilla H, Taviani M, and the MSM 20-4 shipboard scientific party (2014). Environmental forcing of the Campeche cold-water coral province, southern Gulf of Mexico. Biogeosciences 11: 1799-1815. DOI:10.5194/bgd-10-18757-2013

Henry L-A, Frank N, Hebbeln D, Wienberg C, Robinson L, van de Flierdt T, Dahl M, Douarin M, Morrison CL, López Correa M, Rogers AD, Ruckelshausen M, Roberts JM (2014). Global ocean conveyor lowers extinction risk in the deep sea. Deep-Sea Research Part I 88: 8-16. DOI:10.1016/j.dsr.2014.03.004

Morato T, Kvile KØ, Taranto GH, Tempera F, Narayanaswamy BE, Hebbeln D, Menezes G, Wienberg C, Santos RS, Pitcher TJ (2013). Seamount physiography and biology in north-east Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea. Biogeosciences 10: 3039-3054. DOI:10.5194/bg-10-3039-2013

Fabri MC, Pedel L, Beuck L, Galgani F, Hebbeln D, Freiwald A (2014) Megafauna of vulnerable marine ecosystems in French mediterranean submarine canyons: Spatial distribution and anthropogenic impacts. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 104. 184-207. DOI:10.1016/j.dsr2.2013.06.016

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Wienberg C, Wintersteller P, Beuck L, Hebbeln D (2013). Coral Patch seamount (NE Atlantic) - a sedimentological and megafaunal reconnaissance based on video and hydroacoustic surveys. Biogeosciences 10: 3421-3443. DOI:10.5194/bg-10-3421-2013

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Fink HG, Wienberg C, Hebbeln D, McGregor HV, Schmiedl G, Taviani M, Freiwald A (2012). Oxygen control on Holocene cold-water coral development in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Deep Sea Research Part I 62: 89-96. DOI:10.1016/j.dsr.2011.12.013

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Eisele M, Frank N, Wienberg C, Hebbeln D, López Correa M, Douville E, Freiwald A (2011). Productivity controlled cold-water coral growth periods during the last glacial off Mauritania. Marine Geology 280: 143-149. DOI:10.1016/j.margeo.2010.12.007

Frank N, Freiwald A, López Correa M, Wienberg C, Eisele M, Hebbeln D, Van Rooij D, Henriet JP, Colin C, van Weering T, de Haas H, Buhl-Mortensen P, Roberts JM, De Mol B, Douville E, Blamart D, Hatte C (2011). Northeastern Atlantic cold-water coral reefs and climate. Geology 39: 743-746. DOI:10.1130/G31825.1

Montero-Serrano J-C, Frank N, Colin C, Wienberg C, Eisele M (2011). The climate influence on the mid-depth Northeast Atlantic gyres viewed by cold-water corals. Geophysical Research Letters 38: L19604. DOI:10.1029/2011GL048733

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Thierens, M, Titschack, J, Dorschel, B, Huvenne, VAI, Wheeler, AJ, Stuut, JB and O'Donnell, R (2010) The 2.6 Ma depositional sequence from the Challenger cold-water coral carbonate mound (IODP Exp. 307: Sediment contributors and hydrodynamic palaeo-environments. Marine Geology, 271(3-4). 260-277. DOI:10.1016/j.margeo.2010.02.021

Wienberg C, Frank N, Mertens KN, Stuut JB, Marchant M, Fietzke J, Mienis F, Hebbeln D (2010). Glacial cold-water corals growth in the Gulf of Cádiz: Implications of increased palaeo-productivity. Earth & Planetary Science Letters 298: 405-416. DOI:10.1016/j.epsl.2010.08.017

Wienberg C, Westphal H, Kwoll E, Hebbeln D (2010). An isolated carbonate knoll in the Timor Sea (Sahul Shelf, NW Australia): facies zonation and sediment composition. Facies 56: 179-193. DOI:10.1007/s10347-009-0202-8

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Freiwald A, Beuck L, Rüggeberg A, Taviani M, Hebbeln D, R/V Meteor M70-1 participants (2009) The white coral community in the Central Mediterranean Sea - Revealed by ROV surveys. Oceanography, 22(1). 58-74. DOI:10.5670/oceanog.2009.06

Wienberg C, Hebbeln D, Fink HG, Mienis F, Dorschel B, Vertino A, López Correa M, Freiwald A (2009). Scleractinian cold-water corals in the Gulf of Cádiz - first clues about their spatial and temporal distribution. Deep Sea Research Part I 56: 1873-1893. DOI:10.1016/j.dsr.2009.05.016

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Eisele M, Hebbeln D, Wienberg C (2008). Growth history of a cold-water coral-covered carbonate mound - Galway Mound, Porcupine Seabight, NE Atlantic. Marine Geology 253: 160-169. DOI:10.1016/j.margeo.2008.05.006

Wienberg C, Beuck L, Heidkamp S, Hebbeln D, Freiwald A, Pfannkuche O, Monteys X (2008). Franken Mound - facies and biocoenoses on a newly-discovered 'carbonate mound' on the western Rockall Bank, NE Atlantic. Facies 54:1-24. DOI:10.1007/s10347-007-0118-0

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Dorschel B, Hebbeln D, Rüggeberg A, Dullo WC (2007) Carbonate budget of a cold-water coral carbonate mound: Propeller Mound, Porcupine Seabight. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 96(1). 73-83. DOI:10.1007/s00531-005-0493-0

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Dorschel B, Hebbeln D, Rüggeberg A, Dullo WC, Freiwald A (2005). Growth and Erosion of a Cold-Water Coral Covered Carbonate Mound in the Northeast Atlantic during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 233(1-2). 33-44. DOI:10.1016/j.epsl.2005.01.035