Romero, OE, LeVay, LJ, McClymont, EL, Müller, J and Cowan, EA (2022) Orbital and suborbital‐scale variations of productivity and sea surface conditions in the Gulf of Alaska during the past 54,000 years: impact of iron fertilization by icebergs and meltwater. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 37(1). doi:10.1029/2021PA004385
Versteegh, GJM, Zonneveld, KAF, Hefter, J, Romero, OE, Fischer, G and Mollenhauer, G (2022) Performance of temperature and productivity proxies based on long-chain alkane-1, mid-chain diols at test: a 5-year sediment trap record from the Mauritanian upwelling. Biogeosciences, 19(5). 1587-1610. doi:10.5194/bg-19-1587-2022
Sánchez Montes, ML, Romero, OE, Cowan, EA, Müller, J, Moy, CM, Lloyd, JM and McClymont, EL (2022) Plio‐pleistocene ocean circulation changes in the Gulf of Alaska and its impacts on the Carbon and nitrogen cycles and the Cordilleran Ice Sheet Development. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 37(7). doi:10.1029/2021PA004341
Romero, OE, Ramondenc, S and Fischer, G (2021) A 2-decade (1988–2009) record of diatom fluxes in the Mauritanian coastal upwelling: impact of low-frequency forcing and a two-step shift in the species composition. Biogeosciences, 18(5). 1873-1891. doi:10.5194/bg-18-1873-2021
Fischer, G, Romero, OE, Karstensen, J, Baumann, KH, Moradi, N, Iversen, MH, Ruhland, G, Klann, M and Körtzinger, A (2021) Seasonal flux patterns and carbon transport from low-oxygen eddies at the Cape Verde Ocean Observatory: lessons learned from a time series sediment trap study (2009–2016). Biogeosciences, 18(24). 6479-6500. doi:10.5194/bg-18-6479-2021
Romero, OE, Baumann, KH, Zonneveld, KAF, Donner, B, Hefter, J, Hamady, B, Pospelova, V and Fischer, G (2020) Flux variability of phyto- and zooplankton communities in the Mauritanian coastal upwelling between 2003 and 2008. Biogeosciences, 17(1). 187-214. doi:10.5194/bg-17-187-2020
Fischer, G, Romero, OE, Toby, E, Iversen, MH, Donner, B, Mollenhauer, G, Nowald, N, Ruhland, G, Klann, M, Hamady, B and Wefer, G (2019) Changes in the dust‐influenced biological carbon pump in the Canary Current System: implications from a coastal and an offshore sediment trap record off Cape Blanc, Mauritania. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 33(8). 1100-1128. doi:10.1029/2019GB006194
Hepp, DA, Romero, OE, Mörz, T, de Pol-Holz, R and Hebbeln, D (2019) How a river submerges into the sea: a geological record of changing a fluvial to a marine paleoenvironment during early Holocene sea level rise. Journal of Quaternary Science, 34(7). 581-592. doi:10.1002/jqs.3147
Schmidt, C, Morard, R, Romero, OE and Kucera, M (2018) Diverse internal symbiont community in the endosymbiotic foraminifera Pararotalia calcariformata: implications for symbiont shuffling under thermal stress. Frontiers in Microbiology, 9. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2018.02018
Romero, OE and Fischer, G (2017) Shift in the species composition of the diatom community in the eutrophic Mauritanian coastal upwelling: Results from a multi-year sediment trap experiment (2003–2010). Progress in Oceanography, 159. 31-44. doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2017.09.010
Fischer, G, Karstensen, J, Romero, OE, Baumann, KH, Donner, B, Hefter, J, Mollenhauer, G, Iversen, MH, Fiedler, B, Monteiro, I and Körtzinger, A (2016) Bathypelagic particle flux signatures from a suboxic eddy in the oligotrophic tropical North Atlantic: production, sedimentation and preservation. Biogeosciences, 13(11). 3203-3223. doi:10.5194/bg-13-3203-2016
Fischer, G, Romero, OE, Merkel, U, Donner, B, Iversen, MH, Nowald, N, Ratmeyer, V, Ruhland, G, Klann, M and Wefer, G (2016) Deep ocean mass fluxes in the coastal upwelling off Mauritania from 1988 to 2012: variability on seasonal to decadal timescales. Biogeosciences, 13(10). 3071-3090. doi:10.5194/bg-13-3071-2016
Abrantes, FF, Cermeño, P, Lopes, C, Romero, OE, Matos, L, Van Iperen, J, Rufino, M and Magalhães, V (2016) Diatoms Si uptake capacity drives carbon export in coastal upwelling systems. Biogeosciences, 13(14). 4099-4109. doi:10.5194/bg-13-4099-2016
Romero, OE, Fischer, G, Karstensen, J and Cermeño, P (2016) Eddies as trigger for diatom productivity in the open-ocean Northeast Atlantic. Progress in Oceanography, 147. 38-48. doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2016.07.011
McKay, CL, Filipsson, HL, Romero, OE, Stuut, JBW and Björck, S (2016) The interplay between the surface and bottom water environment within the Benguela Upwelling System over the last 70 ka. Paleoceanography, 31(2). 266-285. doi:10.1002/2015PA002792
Cermeño, P, Falkowski, PG, Romero, OE, Schaller, MF and Vallina, SM (2015) Continental erosion and the Cenozoic rise of marine diatoms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(14). 4239-4244. doi:10.1073/pnas.1412883112
McKay, CL, Filipsson, HL, Romero, OE, Stuut, JB and Donner, B (2014) Pelagic–benthic coupling within an upwelling system of the subtropical northeast Atlantic over the last 35 ka BP. Quaternary Science Reviews, 106. 299-315. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.04.027
Gallego-Torres, D, Romero, OE, Martínez-Ruiz, F, Kim, JH, Donner, B and Ortega-Huertas, M (2014) Rapid bottom-water circulation changes during the last glacial cycle in the coastal low-latitude NE Atlantic. Quaternary Research, 81(2). 330-338. doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2013.11.004
Razik, S, Chiessi, CM, Romero, OE and von Dobeneck, T (2013) Interaction of the South American Monsoon System and the Southern Westerly Wind Belt during the last 14 kyr. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 374. 28-40. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.12.022
Channell, JET, Hodell, DA, Romero, OE, Hillaire-Marcel, C, de Vernal, A, Stoner, JS, Mazaud, A and Röhl, U (2012) A 750-kyr detrital-layer stratigraphy for the North Atlantic (IODP Sites U1302-U1303, Orphan Knoll, Labrador Sea). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 317-31. 218-230. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.11.029
Pälike, H, Lyle, MW, Nishi, H, Raffi, I, Ridgwell, A, Gamage, K, Klaus, A, Acton, GD, Anderson, L, Backman, J, Baldauf, JG, Beltran, C, Bohaty, SM, Bown, PR, Busch, WH, Channell, JET, Chun, COJ, Delaney, ML, Dewang, P, Dunkley Jones, T, Edgar, KM, Evans, HF, Fitch, P, Foster, GL, Gussone, N, Hasegawa, H, Hathorne, EC, Hayashi, H, Herrle, JO, Holbourn, AEL, Hovan, SA, Hyeong, K, Iijima, K, Ito, T, Kamikuri, SI, Kimoto, K, Kuroda, J, Leon-Rodriguez, L, Malinverno, A, Moore, TC, Murphy, B, Murphy, DP, Nakamur, H, Ogane, K, Ohneiser, C, Richter, C, Robinson, RS, Rohling, EJ, Romero, OE, Sawada, K, Scher, HD, Schneider, L, Sluijs, A, Takata, H, Tian, J, Tsujimoto, A, Wade, BS, Westerhold, T, Wilkens, RH, Williams, T, Wilson, PA, Yamamoto, Y, Yamamoto, S, Yamazaki, T and Zeebe, RE (2012) A Cenozoic record of the equatorial Pacific carbonate compensation depth. Nature, 488. 609-614. doi:10.1038/nature11360
Romero, OE, Mohtadi, M, Helmke, P and Hebbeln, D (2012) High interglacial diatom paleoproductivity in the westernmost Indo-Pacific Warm Pool during the past 130,000 years. Paleoceanography, 27. PA3209. doi:10.1029/2012PA002299
Kim, JH, Romero, OE, Lohmann, G, Donner, B, Laepple, T, Haam, E and Damste, JSS (2012) Pronounced subsurface coolling of North Atlantic waters off Northwest Africa during Dansgaard-Oeschger interstadials. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 339. 95-102. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2012.05.018
Romero, OE, Leduc, G, Vidal, L and Fischer, G (2011) Millennial variability and long-term changes of the diatom production in the eastern equatorial Pacific during the last glacial cycle. Paleoceanography, 26. PA2212. doi:10.1029/2010PA002099
Filipsson, HL, Romero, OE, Stuut, JB and Donner, B (2011) Relationshiips between primary productivity and bottom-water oxygenation off northwest Africa during the last deglaciation. Journal of Quaternary Science, 26(4). 448-456. doi:10.1002/jqs.1473
Fischer, G, Neuer, S, Davenport, B, Helmke, P, Schlitzer, R, Romero, OE, Ratmeyer, V, Donner, B, Freudenthal, T, Meggers, H and Wefer, G (2010) The Northwest African Margin. In: Liu, KK, Atkinson, L, Quiñones, R and Talaue-McManus, L (eds.) Carbon and Nutrient Fluxes in Continental Margins: A Global Synthesis. The IGBP Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 78-102.
Hodell, DA, Channell, JET, Curtis, JH, Romero, OE and Röhl, U (2008) Onset of 'Hudson Strait' Heinrich Events in the eastern North Atlantic at the end of the middle Pleistocene transition (~640 ka)? Paleoceanography, 23. PA4218. doi:10.1029/2008PA001591
Romero, OE, Kim, JH and Donner, B (2008) Submillennial-to-millennial variability of diatom production off Mauritania, NW Africa, during the last glacial cycle. Paleoceanography, 23. PA3218. doi:10.1029/2008PA001601
Mohtadi, M, Romero, OE, Kaiser, J and Hebbeln, D (2007) Cooling of the southern high latitudes during the Medieval Period and its effect on ENSO. Quaternary Science Reviews, 26(7-8). 1055-1066. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.12.008
Romero, OE and Schmieder, F (2006) Occurrence of thick Ethmodiscus oozes associated with a terminal Mid-Pleistocene Transition event in the oligotrophic subtropical South Atlantic. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 235(4). 321-329. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.10.026
Romero, OE, Kim, JH and Hebbeln, D (2006) Paleoproductivity evolution off central Chile from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Early Holocene. Quaternary Research, 65(3). 519-525. doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2005.07.003
Stuut, JB, Marchant, M, Kaiser, J, Lamy, F, Mohtadi, M, Romero, OE and Hebbeln, D (2006) The late Quaternary paleoenvironment of Chile as seen from marine archives. Geographica Helvetica, 61(2). 135-151. doi:10.5194/gh-61-135-2006
Helmke, P, Romero, OE and Fischer, G (2005) Northwest African upwelling and its effect on off-shore organic carbon export to the deep sea. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 19(4). GB4015. doi:10.1029/2004GB002265
Armand, LK, Crosta, X, Romero, OE and Pichon, JJ (2005) The biogeography of major diatom taxa in Southern Ocean sediments: 1. Ice related species. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 223(1-2). 93-126. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.02.015
Crosta, X, Romero, OE, Armand, LK and Pichon, JJ (2005) The biogeography of major diatom taxa in Southern Ocean sediments: 2. Open ocean related species. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 223(1-2). 66-92. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.03.028
Romero, OE, Armand, LK, Crosta, X and Pichon, JJ (2005) The biogeography of major diatom taxa in Southern Ocean sediments: 3. Subantarctic species. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 223(1-2). 49-65. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.03.027
Mohtadi, M, Romero, OE and Hebbeln, D (2004) Changing marine productivity off northern Chile during the last 19,000 years: A multivariable approach. Journal of Quaternary Science, 19(4). 347-360. doi:10.1002/jqs.832
Fischer, G, Wefer, G, Romero, OE, Dittert, N, Ratmeyer, V and Donner, B (2004) Transfer of particles into the deep Atlantic and the global ocean: Control of nutrient supply and ballast production. In: Wefer, G, Mulitza, S and Ratmeyer, V (eds.) The South Atlantic in the Late Quaternary: Reconstruction of Material Budgets and Current Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 21-46.
Romero, OE and Hebbeln, D (2003) Biogenic silica and diatom thanatocoenosis in surface sediments below the Peru-Chile Current: controlling mechanisms and relationship with productivity of surface waters. Marine Micropaleontology, 48(1-2). 71-90. doi:10.1016/S0377-8398(02)00161-5
Romero, OE, Mollenhauer, G, Schneider, RR and Wefer, G (2003) Oscillations of the siliceous imprint in the central Benguela Upwelling System from MIS3 through the early Holocene: the influence of the Southern Ocean. Journal of Quaternary Science, 18(8). 733-743. doi:10.1002/jqs.789
Romero, OE, Dupont, LM, Wyputta, U, Jahns, S and Wefer, G (2003) Temporal variability of fluxes of eolian-transported freshwater diatoms, phytoliths, and pollen grains off Cape Blanc as reflection of land-atmosphere-ocean interactions in northwest Africa. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 108(C5). 3153. doi:10.1029/2000JC000375
Romero, OE, Lange, CB and Wefer, G (2002) Interannual variability (1988-1991) of siliceous phytoplankton fluxes off NW Africa. Journal of Plankton Research, 24(10). 1035-1046. doi:10.1093/plankt/24.10.1035
Romero, OE and Hensen, C (2002) Oceanographic control of biogenic opal and diatoms in surface sediments of the South Western Atlantic. Marine Geology, 186(3-4). 263-280. doi:10.1016/S0025-3227(02)00210-4
Romero, OE, Boeckel, B, Donner, B, Lavik, G, Fischer, G and Wefer, G (2002) Seasonal productivity dynamics in the pelagic central Benguela System inferred from the flux of carbonate and silicate organisms. Journal of Marine Systems, 37(4). 259-278. doi:10.1016/S0924-7963(02)00189-6
Hebbeln, D, Arntz, WE, Böning, P, Bohlmann, H, Contardo, X, Dezileau, L, Ferdelman, TG, Figueroa, S, Fleming, J, Gallardo, VA, Gerdes, D, Giglio, S, Gonzales, P, Gonzáles, R, Gutièrrez, D, Hayn, C, Kallmeyer, J, Klockgether, G, Lambers, K, Lamy, F, Langer, J, Lavik, G, Löbner, H, Marchant, M, Meyer-Schack, B, Mohtadi, M, Montiel, A, Niggemann, J, Quiroga, E, Romero, OE, Rondanelli, M, Scheurle, C, Schewe, F, Schneider, RR, Schubert, CJ, Sellanes, J, Serrano, W, Stregel, S, Teixidó, N, Toffin, L, Treude, T, Villa, R, Villagrán, C, Walpersdorf, E, Wintersteller, P and Wulf, J (2001) PUCK: Report and preliminary results of R/V Sonne Cruise SO156, Valparaiso (Chile) - Talcahuano (Chile). March 29 - May 14, 2001. Berichte aus dem Fachbereich Geowissenschaften der Universität Bremen, 182. Department of Geosciences, Bremen University. urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-ep000103106
Romero, OE, Hebbeln, D and Wefer, G (2001) Temporal and spatial variability in export production in the SE Pacific Ocean: evidence from siliceous plankton fluxes and surface sediment assemblages. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 48(12). 2673-2697. doi:10.1016/S0967-0637(01)00037-1
Romero, OE (1998) Marine planktonic diatoms from the tropical and equatorial Atlantic: temporal flux patterns and the sediment record. Berichte aus dem Fachbereich Geowissenschaften der Universität Bremen, 122. Department of Geosciences, Bremen University. urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-ep000102411