List of works by Volkmar Wolters

Agri-environmental schemes affect the trophic niche size and diet of common carabid species in agricultural landscapes

scientific article published on 16 September 2018

Assessing spider diversity on the forest floor: expert knowledge beats systematic design

article by Elvira Sereda et al published April 2014 in Journal of Arachnology

Attractiveness of wildflower mixtures for wild bees and hoverflies depends on some key plant species

scientific article published on 03 October 2017

Biodiversity at multiple trophic levels is needed for ecosystem multifunctionality

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Biodiversity of soil animals and its function

scientific article published in November 2001

Bioenergy and biodiversity: Intensified biomass extraction from hedges impairs habitat conditions for birds

scientific article

Blue-yellow dyschromatopsia in toluene-exposed workers

scientific article published on 25 January 2019

Body mass changes in male Daubenton's bats Myotis daubentonii (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) during the seasonal activity period

scholarly article published in 2004

Changes in land use and habitat availability affect the population genetic structure of Metrioptera roeselii (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae)

Compensatory mechanisms of litter decomposition under alternating moisture regimes in tropical rice fields

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Contrasting responses of above- and belowground diversity to multiple components of land-use intensity

scientific article published on 24 June 2021

Convergent evolution of specialized generalists: Implications for phylogenetic and functional diversity of carabid feeding groups

scientific article published on 11 October 2020

Deep drilling reveals massive shifts in evolutionary dynamics after formation of ancient ecosystem

scientific article published on 30 September 2020

Density-dependent and -independent effects on the joint use of space by predators and prey in terrestrial arthropod food-webs

scientific article published on 27 October 2011

Differential threshold effects of habitat fragmentation on gene flow in two widespread species of bush crickets.

scientific article published on 22 October 2010

Dynamics of mineral components in the forest floor of an acidic beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) forest

scientific article published on 08 May 2009

Earthworms offset straw-induced increase of greenhouse gas emission in upland rice production

scientific article published on 30 December 2019

Ecology. Food web ecology: playing Jenga and beyond

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Ecosystem services—current challenges and opportunities for ecological research

scientific article published in 2015

Effects of Residue Management on Decomposition in Irrigated Rice Fields Are Not Related to Changes in the Decomposer Community

scientific article published on 30 July 2015

Effects of predator specialization, host plant and climate on biological control of aphids by natural enemies: a meta-analysis

scientific article published on 30 January 2013

Enchytraeids simultaneously stimulate rice straw degradation and mitigate CO2 release in a paddy soil

scientific article published on 18 January 2019

Forest fire induces short-term shifts in soil food webs with consequences for carbon cycling

scientific article published on 11 December 2020

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General relationships between abiotic soil properties and soil biota across spatial scales and different land-use types

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Global data on earthworm abundance, biomass, diversity and corresponding environmental properties

Global distribution of earthworm diversity

scientific article published on 24 October 2019

Grassy margins along organically managed cereal fields foster trait diversity and taxonomic distinctness of arthropod communities

scientific article published on 24 August 2013

Habitat loss, trophic collapse, and the decline of ecosystem services

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Hotspots of Agricultural Ecosystem Services and Farmland Biodiversity Overlap with Areas at Risk of Land Abandonment in Japan

scientific article published in 2021

Hover flies are efficient pollinators of oilseed rape

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Influence of fragmentation and bioturbation on the decomposition of 14C-labelled beech leaf litter

scientific article published on 28 December 2002

Intensive agriculture reduces soil biodiversity across Europe

scientific article published on 17 November 2014

Interannual variation in land-use intensity enhances grassland multidiversity

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Intraspecific body size increases with habitat fragmentation in wild bee pollinators

scientific article published on 15 February 2016

Land use at different spatial scales alters the functional role of web-building spiders in arthropod food webs

scientific article published on 28 December 2015

Land-use effects on the functional distinctness of arthropod communities

scientific article published in 2015

Land-use intensification causes multitrophic homogenization of grassland communities

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Land-use type and intensity differentially filter traits in above- and below-ground arthropod communities

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Landscape structure as an indicator of biodiversity: matrix effects on species richness

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Land‐use intensity and biodiversity effects on infiltration capacity and hydraulic conductivity of grassland soils in southern Germany

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Locally rare species influence grassland ecosystem multifunctionality

scientific article published in May 2016

Long-term succession of oribatid mites after conversion of croplands to grasslands

scientific article published on 16 March 2006

Management intensity and vegetation complexity affect web-building spiders and their prey

scientific article

Mass-flowering crops increase richness of cavity-nesting bees and wasps in modern agro-ecosystems

scientific article published on 15 May 2013

Matrix quality and habitat configuration interactively determine functional connectivity in a widespread bush cricket at a small spatial scale

scientific article published in 2011

Microbial biomass phosphorus in soils of beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) forests

scientific article published on 27 October 2004

Much more than bees—Wildflower plantings support highly diverse flower-visitor communities from complex to structurally simple agricultural landscapes

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Partitioning wild bee and hoverfly contributions to plant-pollinator network structure in fragmented habitats

scientific article published on 04 January 2019

Regional Conditions and Land-Use Alter the Potential Contribution of Soil Arthropods to Ecosystem Services in Grasslands

scholarly article by Klaus Birkhofer et al published 19 January 2016 in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Regional Patterns of Ecosystem Services in Cultural Landscapes

scholarly article by Andrea Früh-Müller et al published 22 June 2016 in Land

Relationship among the species richness of different taxa

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Resource allocation in Tomocerus flavescens (Insecta, Collembola): a study with C-14-labelled food

scientific article published on 01 January 1985

Resource allocation of beech seedlings (Fagus sylvatica L.) -relationship to earthworm activity and soil conditions.

scientific article published in September 1991

Response of collembolan communities to land-use change and grassland succession

scientific article published on 07 November 2007

Restoration of Seminatural Grasslands: What is the Impact on Ants?

scientific article published on 21 November 2008

SPATIAL ASPECTS OF FOOD WEBS

Shifts in soil testate amoeba communities associated with forest diversification

scientific article published on 31 March 2015

Soil fauna modifies the recalcitrance-persistence relationship of soil carbon pools

scientific article published on 30 December 2005

Soil food web properties explain ecosystem services across European land use systems

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Soil-carbon preservation through habitat constraints and biological limitations on decomposer activity

scholarly article by Klemens Ekschmitt et al published February 2008 in Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science

Spatial correlation of agri-environmental measures with high levels of ecosystem services

scholarly article by Andrea Frueh-Mueller et al published January 2018 in Ecological Indicators

Spatial distribution of spiders and epedaphic Collembola in an environmentally heterogeneous forest floor habitat

scientific article published on 05 May 2012

Strategies used by soil biota to overcome soil organic matter stability — why is dead organic matter left over in the soil?

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Successional changes of Collembola and soil microbiota during forest rotation.

scientific article published on 26 July 2003

The Evolution of Ecological Diversity in Acidobacteria

scientific article published on 02 February 2022

The ant Lasius flavus alters the viable seed bank in pastures

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The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project

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The global relationship between climate, net primary production and the diet of spiders

scientific article published on 24 March 2011

The response of carabids to landscape simplification differs between trophic groups.

scientific article published on 14 October 2004

The use of agri-environmental measures to address environmental pressures in Germany: Spatial mismatches and options for improvement

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Trade-offs in arthropod conservation between productive and non-productive agri-environmental schemes along a landscape complexity gradient

scientific article published on 03 February 2017

Variability of higher trophic level stable isotope data in space and time--a case study in a marine ecosystem

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