What made Earth a habitable planet?
Our research group focuses on studying the interactions between the lithosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere with the biosphere over geological timescales, as interpreted from rocks, minerals, and meteorites. Using advanced analytical techniques in isotope geochemistry, we explore a range of topics, from the formation of terrestrial planets in the early Solar System to the evolution of Earth's earliest surface environments where life may have originated and evolved. Furthermore, we investigate the mineralisation processes of minerals crucial for a sustainable future. Central to our work is our collection of over 90,000 specimens, which, along with our developing analytical infrastructure for geochemical methods, forms the heart of our work.
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- Management Museum of Nature Hamburg - Mineralogy
Phone: +49 40 238317 808
E-Mail: s.peters@leibniz-lib.de
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2026/01
Mountains of diversity: a systematic revision of the Andean rodent genus Oreoryzomys (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae)
PeerJ, 14
2025/12
Wooden or metal: live-trap type preferences of small mammals in relation to habitat, taxon, and sex
Mammalian Biology
2025/12
Revisiting the taxonomy and biogeography of the largest sigmodontine rodent (Rodentia, Cricetidae) through ancient DNA
Zoological journal of the Linnean Society, 4, 205
2025/09
Mineralien und Gesteine
2025/08
Preserving geodiversity of ore deposits for future research: a call for action
2025/06
The shrew of Nagaland : a remarkable new genus and species from northeast India, with a discussion of the phylogeny and classification of the Soricidae (Mammalia)
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 474
2025/04
Wimmer’s Shrew - Crocidura wimmeri
2025/04
Baers’s Wood Mouse - Hylomyscus baeri
2025/02
Large scale monitoring of terrestrial small mammals using noninvasive sampling and COI barcoding
Mammal Research
2024/12
Oxygen isotope identity of the Earth and Moon with implications for the formation of the Moon and source of volatiles
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 52, 121
2024/09
The anomalous polymict ordinary chondrite breccia of Elmshorn (‐6)—Late reaccretion after collision between two ordinary chondrite parent bodies, complete disruption, and mixing possibly about 2.8 Gyr ago
Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 9, 59
2024/02
The bii4africa dataset of faunal and floral population intactness estimates across Africa’s major land uses
Scientific data, 1, 11
2023/11
Metabarcoding dietary analysis in the insectivorous bat Nyctalus leisleri and implications for conservation
Biodiversity Data Journal, 11
2023/10
Saint‐Pierre‐le‐Viger (L5‐6) from asteroid 2023 CX1recovered in the Normandy, France—220 years after the historic fall of L'Aigle (L6 breccia) in the neighborhood
Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 10, 58
2023/04
A Gyrfalcon Falco rusticolus from an Uyghur well in Karabalgasun (Ordu-Baliq), Central Mongolia
Journal of Global Archaeology, 6, 2023
2022/12
Diversität von Kleinsäugern im nördlichen Teil des Nationalparks Unteres Odertal
2022/08
The chondrite breccia of Antonin (L4‐5)—A new meteorite fall from Poland with a heterogeneous distribution of metal
12, 57
2021/12
Aktualisierung unserer Kenntnisse über die Kleinsäugergemeinschaften im Nationalpark Unteres Odertal
2021/09
Tight bounds on missing late veneer in early Archean peridotite from triple oxygen isotopes
Geochemical Perspectives Letters, 18
2021/09
Phylogenetic relationships and biogeography of the Hybomys division (Muridae: Murinae: Arvicanthini), rodents endemic to Africa's rainforests
Journal of Vertebrate Biology, 2, 70
2021/05
A survey of small mammals in the Volta Region of Ghana with comments on zoogeography and conservation
Zoosystema, 14, 43
2021/01
A phylogeny for AfricanPipistrellusspecies with the description of a new species from West Africa (Mammalia: Chiroptera)
Zoological journal of the Linnean Society, 2, 191
2021/00
A triple oxygen isotope search for evaporite-derived oxygen in magnetite apatite deposits
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 6, 53
2020/12
Response of mammals to ecotourism, cattle farming, and habitat structure in the northern and southern Brazilian Pantanal
Mastozoología neotropical, 2, 27
2020/10
Taxonomic revision of the Levant moles of Turkey (Mammalia: Talpidae)
Bonn zoological Bulletin, 2, 69
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