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  1. Lake–Groundwater Biogeochemical Interactions in a River‐Delimited System: The Groundwater and Lakes Urban Observatory (GLUO)

    Article • International Review of Hydrobiology, October 2025, Wiley

    Olaf Büttner

  2. Nutrient loading and stream order shape benthic and pelagic spring algal biomass in a large, temperate river basin (Elbe River)

    Article • Journal of Environmental Management, May 2025, Elsevier

    Olaf Büttner

  3. Seamless forward assessment of toxic risks in river networks for mixtures of chemicals originating from wastewater treatment plant effluents

    Article • March 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Olaf Büttner

  4. How anthropogenic modification of riverscapes reduce the resilience of floodplain waters to drought

    Article • January 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Olaf Büttner

  5. Microplastic transport in European river networks

    Article • January 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Olaf Büttner

  6. Mapping chemical footprints of organic micropollutants in European streams

    Article • Environment International, January 2024, Elsevier

    Eric Carmona, Olaf Büttner

  7. Improving global water quality information by combining in-situ data, remote sensing and modeling

    Article • May 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Olaf Büttner

  8. An Analytical Framework for Determining the Ecological Risks of Wastewater Discharges in River Networks Under Climate Change

    Article • Earth s Future, October 2022, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Olaf Büttner

  9. QUADICA: water QUAlity, DIscharge and Catchment Attributes for large-sample studies in Germany

    Article • Earth System Science Data, August 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Olaf Büttner

  10. Drivers of multi-decadal nitrate regime shifts in a large European catchment

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, June 2022, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Olaf Büttner

  11. Why wastewater treatment fails to protect stream ecosystems in Europe

    Article • Water Research, June 2022, Elsevier

    Olaf Büttner

  12. Drivers of multi-decadal in-stream nitrate regime shifts in a large European catchment

    Article • March 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Olaf Büttner

  13. QUADICA: A large-sample data set of water quality, discharge and catchment attributes for Germany

    Article • March 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Olaf Büttner

  14. Water quality, discharge and catchment attributes for large-sample studies in Germany – QUADICA

    Article • March 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Olaf Büttner

  15. Iron Exports From Catchments Are Constrained by Redox Status and Topography

    Article • Global Biogeochemical Cycles, January 2022, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Olaf Büttner

  16. Anthropogenic Transformation Disconnects a Lowland River From Contemporary Carbon Stores in Its Catchment

    Article • Ecosystems, August 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Olaf Büttner

  17. Emergent spatial patterns of competing benthic and pelagic algae in a river network: A parsimonious basin-scale modeling analysis

    Article • Water Research, April 2021, Elsevier

    Olaf Büttner

  18. Risk Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Urban Discharge Fraction and Eutrophication in Large European River Networks

    Article • March 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Olaf Büttner

  19. Ecological status of river networks: stream order-dependent impacts of agricultural and urban pressures across ecoregions

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, October 2020, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Olaf Büttner

  20. Microplastic particle emission from wastewater treatment plant effluents into river networks in Germany: Loads, spatial patterns of concentrations and potential toxicity

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, October 2020, Elsevier

    Olaf Büttner

  21. Assessing the impact of climate change on water quality and quantity in the Elbe catchment using an open-data driven approach

    Article • March 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Olaf Büttner

  22. DE-WWTP - data collection of wastewater treatment plants of Germany (status 2015, metadata)

    Article • February 2020, Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI)

    Olaf Büttner

  23. Spatial patterns of water quality impairments from point source nutrient loads in Germany's largest national River Basin (Weser River)

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, December 2019, Elsevier

    Olaf Büttner

  24. Spatial Organization of Human Population and Wastewater Treatment Plants in Urbanized River Basins

    Article • Water Resources Research, July 2019, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Olaf Büttner

  25. Autotrophic nitrate uptake in river networks: A modeling approach using continuous high-frequency data

    Article • Water Research, June 2019, Elsevier

    Olaf Büttner

  26. Effects of stream nitrate data frequency on watershed model performance and prediction uncertainty

    Article • Journal of Hydrology, February 2019, Elsevier

    Olaf Büttner

  27. Spatio-temporal controls of dissolved organic carbon stream water concentrations

    Article • Journal of Hydrology, November 2018, Elsevier

    Olaf Büttner

  28. Metadata describing the Kharaa Yeröö River Basin Water Quality Database

    Article • Freshwater Metadata Journal, September 2018, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences BOKU Vienna

    Olaf Büttner

  29. Migration and movement profiles of a potadromous fish (Brachymystax lenok Pallas 1773) in a highly connected river system (Mongolia)

    Article • Ecology Of Freshwater Fish, December 2017, Wiley

    Olaf Büttner

  30. Does iron reduction control the release of dissolved organic carbon and phosphate at catchment scales? Need for a joint research effort

    Article • Global Change Biology, July 2017, Wiley

    Olaf Büttner

  31. Unexpected release of phosphate and organic carbon to streams linked to declining nitrogen depositions

    Article • Global Change Biology, September 2016, Wiley

    Olaf Büttner

  32. Seasonal home range shifts of the Siberian taimen (Hucho taimenPallas 1773): Evidence from passive acoustic telemetry in the Onon River and Balj tributary (Amur River basin, Mongolia)

    Article • International Review of Hydrobiology, September 2016, Wiley

    Olaf Büttner

  33. Regional patterns of heavy metal exposure and contamination in the fish fauna of the Kharaa River basin (Mongolia)

    Article • Regional Environmental Change, May 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Olaf Büttner

  34. Multi-site identification of a distributed hydrological nitrogen model using Bayesian uncertainty analysis

    Article • Journal of Hydrology, October 2015, Elsevier

    Olaf Büttner

  35. Relationship between the elemental composition of stream biofilms and water chemistry—a catchment approach

    Article • Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, June 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Olaf Büttner

  36. Ecological response of two hydro‐morphological similar pre‐dams to contrasting land‐use in the Rappbode reservoir system (Germany)

    Article • International Review of Hydrobiology, October 2014, Wiley

    Olaf Büttner

  37. MeCa, a toolbox for the calculation of metabolism in heterogeneous streams

    Article • Methods in Ecology and Evolution, July 2014, Wiley

    Olaf Büttner

  38. A method for automated, daily, temperature-based vertical streambed water-fluxes

    Article • Fundamental and Applied Limnology / Archiv für Hydrobiologie, June 2014, Schweizerbart

    Olaf Büttner

  39. A new semi-quantitative tracer approach for the validation of a two-dimensional sediment transport model

    Article • Journal of Great Lakes Research, January 2014, Elsevier

    Olaf Büttner

  40. Linkage between the temporal and spatial variability of dissolved organic matter and whole-stream metabolism

    Article • Biogeosciences, August 2013, Copernicus GmbH

    Olaf Büttner

  41. The age of terrestrial carbon export and rainfall intensity in a temperate river headwater system

    Article • Biodegradation, August 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Olaf Büttner

  42. Biogeochemical patterns in a river network along a land use gradient

    Article • Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, June 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Olaf Büttner

  43. Reservoirs as sentinels of catchments: the Rappbode Reservoir Observatory (Harz Mountains, Germany)

    Article • Environmental Earth Sciences, April 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Olaf Büttner

  44. Uncertainties in dissolved organic carbon load estimation in a small stream

    Article • Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics, January 2013, De Gruyter

    Olaf Büttner

  45. Linkage between the temporal and spatial variability of dissolved organic matter and whole stream metabolism

    Article • December 2012, Copernicus GmbH

    Olaf Büttner

  46. Spatial variability of metal pollution in groyne fields of the Middle Elbe – Implications for sediment monitoring

    Article • Environmental Pollution, August 2012, Elsevier

    Olaf Büttner

  47. Variations of DOM Quality in Inflows of a Drinking Water Reservoir: Linking of van Krevelen Diagrams with EEMF Spectra by Rank Correlation

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, May 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Olaf Büttner

  48. Non-cooperative behaviour of bacteria prevents efficient phosphorus utilization of planktonic communities

    Article • Journal of Plankton Research, December 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Olaf Büttner

  49. Assessment of Water Quality in the Elbe River at Low Water Conditions Based on Factor Analysis

    Article • CLEAN - Soil Air Water, April 2011, Wiley

    Olaf Büttner

  50. Local variability of sedimentation rate in Lake Arendsee, Germany

    Article • Limnologica, May 2010, Elsevier

    Olaf Büttner

  51. A Dynamic Model to Simulate Spills of Fuel and Diesel Oil in the Terrestrial Environment during Extreme Fluvial Floods

    Article • CLEAN - Soil Air Water, September 2009, Wiley

    Olaf Büttner

  52. A Dynamic Model to Simulate Arsenic, Lead, and Mercury Contamination in the Terrestrial Environment During Extreme Floods of Rivers

    Article • CLEAN - Soil Air Water, March 2009, Wiley

    Olaf Büttner

  53. A pilot-scale field experiment for the microbial neutralization of a holomictic acidic pit lake

    Article • Journal of Geochemical Exploration, February 2009, Elsevier

    Olaf Büttner

  54. Phosphorus input by nordic geese to the eutrophic Lake Arendsee, Germany

    Article • Fundamental and Applied Limnology / Archiv für Hydrobiologie, July 2008, Schweizerbart

    Olaf Büttner

  55. Spatial and temporal variability of sediment deposition on artificial-lawn traps in a floodplain of the River Elbe

    Article • Environmental Pollution, August 2007, Elsevier

    Olaf Büttner

  56. The importance of water-level fluctuation for the conservation of shallow water benthic macroinvertebrates: an example in the Andean zone of Chile

    Article • Biodiversity and Conservation, March 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Olaf Büttner

  57. Modeling Arsenic and Oil Contamination After High Water Events in the Town and Floodplain of Bitterfeld (Germany)

    Article • January 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Olaf Büttner

  58. Routine analysis of sediment pore water of high ionic strength

    Article • Acta hydrochimica et hydrobiologica, December 2006, Wiley

    Olaf Büttner

  59. Numerical modelling of floodplain hydraulics and suspended sediment transport and deposition at the event scale in the middle river Elbe, Germany

    Article • Acta hydrochimica et hydrobiologica, June 2006, Wiley

    Olaf Büttner

  60. Entwicklung eines Schadstoffausbreitungsmodells zur stoffbezogenen Risikoanalyse und-bewertung extremer Hochwasserereignisse am Beispiel des Landkreises und der Stadt Bitterfeld

    Article • Umweltwissenschaften und Schadstoff-Forschung, April 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Olaf Büttner

  61. Geostatistical Analysis of Surface Sediments in an Acidic Mining Lake

    Article • Water Air & Soil Pollution, December 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Olaf Büttner