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Hartmut Arndt is affiliated with the University of Cologne in Germany. Their research predominantly spans the fields of Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions in related subfields including Ecology, Molecular Biology, Oceanography, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's work focuses on key topics such as:

  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Plant and animal studies

Hartmut Arndt has been involved in numerous publications in frequent collaboration with co-authors including Frank Nitsche, Alexandra Schoenle, Manon Hohlfeld, Maria Sachs, and Anja Scherwaß. Their research outputs have been published extensively in journals such as:

  • European Journal of Protistology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Hartmut Arndt include:

  • Contrasting responses of above- and belowground diversity to multiple components of land-use intensity, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Protist diversity and function in the dark ocean - Challenging the paradigms of deep-sea ecology with special emphasis on foraminiferans and naked protists, 2020, European Journal of Protistology
  • Global comparison of bicosoecid Cafeteria-like flagellates from the deep ocean and surface waters, with reorganization of the family Cafeteriaceae, 2020, European Journal of Protistology
  • High and specific diversity of protists in the deep-sea basins dominated by diplonemids, kinetoplastids, ciliates and foraminiferans, 2021, Communications Biology
  • Ecological variables for deep-ocean monitoring must include microbiota and meiofauna for effective conservation, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution

Best Publications

  • Biodiversity at multiple trophic levels is needed for ecosystem multifunctionality

    Santiago Soliveres;Fons van der Plas;Peter Manning;Daniel Prati

  • Land-use intensification causes multitrophic homogenization of grassland communities

    Martin M. Gossner;Martin M. Gossner;Thomas M. Lewinsohn;Thomas M. Lewinsohn;Tiemo Kahl;Fabrice Grassein

  • Rotifers as predators on components of the microbial web (bacteria, heterotrophic flagellates, ciliates) — a review

    Hartmut Arndt

  • Bacterivory by heterotrophic flagellates: community structure and feeding strategies

    Jens Boenigk;Hartmut Arndt

  • Impact of Violacein-Producing Bacteria on Survival and Feeding of Bacterivorous Nanoflagellates

    Carsten Matz;Peter Deines;Jens Boenigk;Hartmut Arndt

  • Experimental demonstration of chaos in a microbial food web

    Lutz Becks;Frank M. Hilker;Horst Malchow;Klaus Jürgens

  • Comparison of pelagic food webs in lakes along a trophic gradient and with seasonal aspects: influence of resource and predation

    Brigitte Auer;Ulrich Elzer;Hartmut Arndt

  • Locally rare species influence grassland ecosystem multifunctionality

    Santiago Soliveres;Peter Manning;Daniel Prati;Martin M. Gossner

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

    Gaëtane Le Provost;Jan Thiele;Catrin Westphal;Caterina Penone

  • Novel cultured protists identify deep-branching environmental DNA clades of cercozoa: New Genera Tremula, Micrometopion, Minimassisteria, Nudifila, Peregrinia.

    Alexis T. Howe;David Bass;Josephine M. Scoble;Rhodri Lewis

  • Taxonomic composition and biomass of heterotrophic flagellates in relation to lake trophy and season

    Brigitte Auer;Hartmut Arndt

  • The food web perspective on aquatic biofilms

    Markus Weitere;Martina Erken;Nabil Majdi;Hartmut Arndt

  • Functional ecology of aquatic phagotrophic protists - Concepts, limitations, and perspectives.

    Thomas Weisse;Ruth Anderson;Hartmut Arndt;Albert Calbet

  • Large-scale patterns in biodiversity of microbial eukaryotes from the abyssal sea floor

    Frank Scheckenbach;Klaus Hausmann;Claudia Wylezich;Markus Weitere

  • Particle handling during interception feeding by four species of heterotrophic nanoflagellates.

    Jens Boenigk;Hartmut Arndt

  • A critical review of the importance of rhizopods (naked and testate amoebae) and actinopods (heliozoa) in lake plankton

    H. Arndt

  • Comparative studies on the feeding behavior of two heterotrophic nanoflagellates: the filter-feeding choanoflagellate Monosiga ovata and the raptorial-feeding kinetoplastid Rhynchomonas nasuta

    Jens Boenigk;Hartmut Arndt

  • Role of bacterial phenotypic traits in selective feeding of the heterotrophic nanoflagellate Spumella sp.

    Carsten Matz;Jens Boenigk;Hartmut Arndt;Klaus Jürgens

  • The Influence of Preculture Conditions and Food Quality on the Ingestion and Digestion Process of Three Species of Heterotrophic Nanoflagellates

    J. Boenigk;C. Matz;K. Jürgens;H. Arndt

  • Food concentration-dependent regulation of food selectivity of interception-feeding bacterivorous nanoflagellates

    Jens Boenigk;Carsten Matz;Klaus Jürgens;Hartmut Arndt

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus Weitere
Markus Weitere Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Klaus Jürgens
Klaus Jürgens Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Wolfgang W. Weisser
Wolfgang W. Weisser Technical University of Munich
Markus Fischer
Markus Fischer University of Bern
Tesfaye Wubet
Tesfaye Wubet Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Tim Diekötter
Tim Diekötter Kiel University
Till Kleinebecker
Till Kleinebecker University of Münster
Valentin H. Klaus
Valentin H. Klaus Ruhr University Bochum
Daniel Prati
Daniel Prati University of Bern

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