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Mineralogy, Hamburg

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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Dr. Stefan Peters

  • Management Museum of Nature Hamburg - Mineralogy

Phone: +49 40 238317 808
E-Mail: s.peters@leibniz-lib.de

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    2026

  • 2026/01

    Brito, J., Vargas, R., Tinoco, N., García, R., Carrión-Olmedo, J.C., Koch, C., Wistuba, R., Nivelo-Villavicencio, C., Pardiñas, U.F.J.

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    Mountains of diversity: a systematic revision of the Andean rodent genus Oreoryzomys (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae)

    PeerJ, 14

  • 2025

  • 2025/12

    Jankowiak, Ł., Hoffmann, A., Decher, J., Szkudlarek, M., Eccel, N., Popiel, P., Malinowska, B., Sęk, O., Rychlik, L.

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    Wooden or metal: live-trap type preferences of small mammals in relation to habitat, taxon, and sex

    Mammalian Biology

  • 2025/12

    Bover, P., Brito, J., Castellanos, F.X., Cuéllar Soto, E., Hutterer, R., Alfaro-Ibáñez, M.P., Martín González, M.E., Tammone, M.N., Pardiñas, U.F.J.

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    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

    Peters, S.

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    Mineralien und Gesteine

  • 2025/08

    Peters, S.

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    Preserving geodiversity of ore deposits for future research: a call for action

  • 2025/06

    Hutterer, R., Swannson, M., Esselstyn, J., Heaney, L.

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    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

    Ahissa, L., Decher, J., Gazzard, A.

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    Wimmer’s Shrew - Crocidura wimmeri

  • 2025/04

    Decher, J., Schlitter, D., Adu-Tutu, P., Gazzard, A.

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    Baers’s Wood Mouse - Hylomyscus baeri

  • 2025/02

    Stefen, C., Jentke, T., Birkwald, T., Chmieleski, J., Decher, J., Kaus-Thiel, A., Morkel, C., Thielen, J., Goldberg, R., Jakobitz, J., Atzig, H., Müller, A., Krause, R., Fichter, E., Wolfram, E., Twietmeyer, S., Stuckas, H.

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    Large scale monitoring of terrestrial small mammals using noninvasive sampling and COI barcoding

    Mammal Research

  • 2024

  • 2024/12

    Fischer, M., Peters, S.T.M., Herwartz, D., Hartogh, P., Di Rocco, T., Pack, A.

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    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

    Bischoff, A., Patzek, M., Alosius, R.M.L., Barrat, J., Berndt, J., Busemann, H., Degering, D., Di Rocco, T., Ek, M., Gattacceca, J., Godinho, J.R.A., Heinlein, D., Krietsch, D., Maden, C., Marchhart, O., Martschini, M., Merchel, S., Pack, A., Peters, S., Rüfenacht, M., Schlüter, J., Schönbächler, M., Stojic, A., Storz, J., Tillmann, W., Wieser, A., Wimmer, K., Zielke, R.

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    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

    Clements, H.S., Do Linh San, E., Hempson, G., Linden, B., Maritz, B., Monadjem, A., Reynolds, C., Siebert, F., Stevens, N., Biggs, R., De Vos, A., Blanchard, R., Child, M., Esler, K.J., Hamann, M., Loft, T., Reyers, B., Selomane, O., Skowno, A.L., Tshoke, T., Abdoulaye, D., Aebischer, T., Aguirre-Gutiérrez, J., Alexander, G.J., Ali, A.H., Allan, D.G., Amoako, E.E., Angedakin, S., Aruna, E., Avenant, N.L., Badjedjea, G., Bakayoko, A., Bamba-kaya, A., Bates, M.F., Bates, P.J.J., Belmain, S.R., Bennitt, E., Bradley, J., Brewster, C.A., Brown, M.B., Brown, M., Bryja, J., Butynski, T.M., Carvalho, F., Channing, A., Chapman, C.A., Cohen, C., Cords, M., Cramer, J.D., Cronk, N., Cunneyworth, P.M.K., Dalerum, F., Danquah, E., Davies-Mostert, H.T., de Blocq, A.D., De Jong, Y.A., Demos, T.C., Denys, C., Djagoun, C.A.M.S., Doherty-Bone, T.M., Drouilly, M., du Toit, J.T., Ehlers Smith, D.A., Ehlers Smith, Y.C., Eiseb, S.J., Fashing, P.J., Ferguson, A.W., Fernández-García, J.M., Finckh, M., Fischer, C., Gandiwa, E., Gaubert, P., Gaugris, J.Y., Gibbs, D.J., Gilchrist, J.S., Gil-Sánchez, J.M., Githitho, A.N., Goodman, P.S., Granjon, L., Grobler, J.P., Gumbi, B.C., Gvozdik, V., Harvey, J., Hauptfleisch, M., Hayder, F., Hema, E.M., Herbst, M., Houngbédji, M., Huntley, B.J., Hutterer, R., Ivande, S.T., Jackson, K., Jongsma, G.F.M., Juste, J., Kadjo, B., Kaleme, P.K., Kamugisha, E., Kaplin, B.A., Kato, H.N., Kiffner, C., Kimuyu, D.M., Kityo, R.M., Kouamé, N.G., Kouete T, M., le Roux, A., Lee, A.T.K., Lötter, M.C., Lykke, A.M., MacFadyen, D.N., Macharia, G.P., Madikiza, Z.J.K., Mahlaba, T.A.M., Mallon, D., Mamba, M.L., Mande, C., Marchant, R.A., Maritz, R.A., Markotter, W., McIntyre, T., Measey, J., Mekonnen, A., Meller, P., Melville, H.I., Mganga, K.Z., Mills, M.G.L., Minnie, L., Missoup, A.D., Mohammad, A., Moinde, N.N., Moise, B.F.E., Monterroso, P., Moore, J.F., Musila, S., Nago, S.G.A., Namoto, M.W., Niang, F., Nicolas, V., Nkenku, J.B., Nkrumah, E.E., Nono, G.L., Norbert, M.M., Nowak, K., Obitte, B.C., Okoni-Williams, A.D., Onongo, J., O’Riain, M.J., Osinubi, S.T., Parker, D.M., Parrini, F., Peel, M.J.S., Penner, J., Pietersen, D.W., Plumptre, A.J., Ponsonby, D.W., Porembski, S., Power, R.J., Radloff, F.G.T., Rambau, R.V., Ramesh, T., Richards, L.R., Rödel, M., Rollinson, D.P., Rovero, F., Saleh, M.A., Schmiedel, U., Schoeman, M.C., Scholte, P., Serfass, T.L., Shapiro, J.T., Shema, S., Siebert, S.J., Slingsby, J.A., Sliwa, A., Smit-Robinson, H.A., Sogbohossou, E.A., Somers, M.J., Spawls, S., Streicher, J.P., Swanepoel, L., Tanshi, I., Taylor, P.J., Taylor, W.A., te Beest, M., Telfer, P.T., Thompson, D.I., Tobi, E., Tolley, K.A., Turner, A.A., Twine, W., Van Cakenberghe, V., Van de Perre, F., van der Merwe, H., van Niekerk, C.J.G., van Wyk, P.C.V., Venter, J.A., Verburgt, L., Veron, G., Vetter, S., Vorontsova, M.S., Wagner, T.C., Webala, P.W., Weber, N., Weier, S.M., White, P.A., Whitecross, M.A., Wigley, B.J., Willems, F.J., Winterbach, C.W., Woodhouse, G.M.

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    The bii4africa dataset of faunal and floral population intactness estimates across Africa’s major land uses

    Scientific data, 1, 11

  • 2023

  • 2023/11

    Bourlat, S.J., Koch, M., Kirse, A., Langen, K., Espeland, M., Giebner, H., Decher, J., Ssymank, A., Fonseca, V.G.

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    Metabarcoding dietary analysis in the insectivorous bat Nyctalus leisleri and implications for conservation

    Biodiversity Data Journal, 11

  • 2023/10

    Bischoff, A., Patzek, M., Di Rocco, T., Pack, A., Stojic, A., Berndt, J., Peters, S.

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    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

    Töpfer, T., Franken, C., Rohland, H., Hutterer, R., Erdenebat, U., Batbayar, T.

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    A Gyrfalcon Falco rusticolus from an Uyghur well in Karabalgasun (Ordu-Baliq), Central Mongolia

    Journal of Global Archaeology, 6, 2023

  • 2022

  • 2022/12

    Decher, J., Jentke, T., Hoffmann, A., Jankowiak, Ł.J., Modelska, Z., Piorkowska, K., Klappert, A., Kuzdrowska, K., Malinowska, B., Sek, O., Rychlik, L.

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    Diversität von Kleinsäugern im nördlichen Teil des Nationalparks Unteres Odertal

  • 2022/08

    Bischoff, A., Patzek, M., Peters, S., Barrat, J.A., Di Rocco, T., Pack, A., Ebert, S., Jansen, C.A., Kmieciak, K.

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    The chondrite breccia of Antonin (L4‐5)—A new meteorite fall from Poland with a heterogeneous distribution of metal

    12, 57

  • 2021

  • 2021/12

    Decher, J., Jentke, T., Abu-Bakarr, I., Hoffmann, A., Klappert, A., Kowalski, G., Kuzdroska, K., Malionowska, B., Rychlik, L.

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    Aktualisierung unserer Kenntnisse über die Kleinsäugergemeinschaften im Nationalpark Unteres Odertal

  • 2021/09

    Peters, S.T.M., Fischer, M.B., Pack, A., Szilas, K., Appel, P.W.U., Münker, C., Dallai, L., Marien, C.S.

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    Tight bounds on missing late veneer in early Archean peridotite from triple oxygen isotopes

    Geochemical Perspectives Letters, 18

  • 2021/09

    Pradhan, N., Norris, R.W., Decher, J., Peterhans, J.K., Gray, C.R., Bauer, G.H., Carleton, M.D., Kilpatrick, C.W.

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    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

    Decher, J., Norris, R.W., Abedi‐Lartey, M., Oppong, J., Hutterer, R., Weinbrenner, M., Koch, M., Podsiadłowski, L., Kilpatrick, C.W.

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    A survey of small mammals in the Volta Region of Ghana with comments on zoogeography and conservation

    Zoosystema, 14, 43

  • 2021/01

    Monadjem, A., Richards, L.R., Decher, J., Hutterer, R., Mamba, M.L., Guyton, J., Naskrecki, P., Markotter, W., Wipfler, B., Kropff, A.S., Dalton, D.L.

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    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

    Peters, S., Feng, D., Feng, D., Troll, V., Troll, V., Pack, A., Pack, A., Andersson, U., Andersson, U., Tornos, F., Tornos, F., Lehmann, B., Lehmann, B., Rocco, T.D., Rocco, T.D.

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    A triple oxygen isotope search for evaporite-derived oxygen in magnetite apatite deposits

    Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 6, 53

  • 2020

  • 2020/12

    Burs, K., Wistuba, R., Schuchmann, Karl-L., Perazzi, P.R., Marques, M.I.

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    Response of mammals to ecotourism, cattle farming, and habitat structure in the northern and southern Brazilian Pantanal

    Mastozoología neotropical, 2, 27

  • 2020/10

    Kefelioğlu, H., Kryštufek, B., Selçuk, A.Y., Hutterer, R., Astrin, J.J.

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    Taxonomic revision of the Levant moles of Turkey (Mammalia: Talpidae)

    Bonn zoological Bulletin, 2, 69

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