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ORCID: 0000-0001-9870-5495

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(58) Miramontes E, Wienberg C, Mohn C, Schwenk T, Lagunova N, Wang L, Wintersteller P, Titschack J, Oki V, Hanz U, Mienis F, Köper S, Walter M, Hebbeln D. Interaction of internal waves with the seafloor offshore Namibia (SE Atlantic Ocean): implications for seafloor geomorphology. Submitted to ESPL, July 2025.

2025

(57) Portilho-Ramos R, Hebbeln D, Hoogakker B, Titschack J, Wienberg C (2025). Warming-induced intensification of the Angolan oxygen minimum zone over the past 43,000 years. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 40:e2025PA005268. DOI:10.1029/2025PA005268

(56) Hebbeln & Wienberg (2025). Unravelling the enigma of discontinuous sedimentary deposits in cold-water coral mounds in the Atlantic Ocean (Mini-Review). Frontiers in Marine Science 12:1611432. DOI:10.3389/fmars.2025.1611432

(55) 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.

(54) 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

2022 - 2024

(53) Hoffman L, Wienberg C, Lisker M, Zettler ML (2024). Occurrence of Adacnarca (Bivalvia: Philobryidae) of Late Pleistocene age from the continental shelf off Namibia and notes on species from South Africa. Basteria 88 (2):264-270.

(52) 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

(51) 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

(50) 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

(49) 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

(48) 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

(47) 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

(46) 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

(45) 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

(44) Vandorpe T, Delivet S, Blamart D, Wienberg C, Bassinot F, Mienis F, Stuut J-B, Van Rooij D (2023). Paleoceanographic and hydrodynamic variability for the last 47 kyr in the southern Gulf of Cádiz (Atlantic Moroccan margin): sedimentary and climatic implications. The Depositional Record 9:30-51. DOI:10.1002/dep2.212

(43) 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.

(42) 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

(41) 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.

(40) 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

2019 - 2021

(39) 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

(38) 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.

(37) 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.

(36) 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

(35) 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

(34) 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

(33) 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

(32) 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

(31) 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

(30) 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

(29) 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

2015 - 2018

(28) 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

(27) 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

(26) 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

(25) 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

(24) 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

(23) 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

(22) 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

(21) 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

(20) 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

(19) 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

2011 - 2014

(18) 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

(17) 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

(16) 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

(15) 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

(14) 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

(13) 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

(12) 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

(11) 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

(10) 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

(09) 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

2004 - 2010

(08) 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

(07) 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

(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

(05) 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

(04) 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

(03) Wienberg C, Bartholomä A (2005). Acoustic seabed classification in a coastal environment (outer Weser Estuary, German Bight) - a new approach to monitor dredging and dredge spoil disposal. Continental Shelf Research 25: 1143-1156. DOI:10.1016/j.csr.2004.12.015

(02) Wienberg C, Hebbeln D (2005). Impact of dumped sediments on subaqueous dunes, outer Weser Estuary, German Bight, southeastern North Sea. Geo-Marine Letters 25: 43-53. DOI:10.1007/s00367-004-0202-1

(01) Wienberg C, Dannenberg J, Hebbeln D (2004). The fate of dumped sediments monitored by a high-resolution multibeam echosounder system, Weser Estuary, German Bight. Geo-Marine Letters 24: 22-31. DOI:10.1007/s00367-003-0155-9