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Liliane Ruess is affiliated with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Germany and has contributed extensively to research in agricultural and biological sciences and environmental science. Their work spans various subfields, including plant science, ecology, soil science, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and insect science.

Their research topics cover a wide range of areas, with a particular focus on nematode management and characterization studies, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, isotope analysis in ecology, legume nitrogen fixing symbiosis, microbial community ecology and physiology, insect-plant interactions and control, and parasite biology and host interactions.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Liliane Ruess include Martin Ewald, Christin Hemmerling, Ralph Menzel, Sven Marhan, and Diana Rueda-Ramírez.

Ruess has published in several scientific venues, with multiple contributions to Applied Soil Ecology, Pedobiologia, SSRN Electronic Journal, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Liliane Ruess include:

  • Microplastics Effects on Reproduction and Body Length of the Soil-Dwelling Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, 2020, Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • Stable isotopes of fatty acids: current and future perspectives for advancing trophic ecology, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Independent effects of warming and altered precipitation pattern on nematode community structure in an arable field, 2021, Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
  • Influence of management intensity and environmental conditions on microbiota in biological soil crust and crust-free soil habitats of temperate forests, 2020, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Nematode grazing increases the allocation of plant-derived carbon to soil bacteria and saprophytic fungi, and activates bacterial species of the rhizosphere, 2021, Pedobiologia

Best Publications

  • CONSUMER–RESOURCE BODY-SIZE RELATIONSHIPS IN NATURAL FOOD WEBS

    Ulrich Brose;Tomas Jonsson;Eric L. Berlow;Eric L. Berlow;Philip Warren

  • The fat that matters: Soil food web analysis using fatty acids and their carbon stable isotope signature

    Liliane Ruess;Paul M. Chamberlain

  • Feeding guilds in Collembola based on nitrogen stable isotope ratios

    Masoumeh Chahartaghi;Reinhard Langel;Stefan Scheu;Liliane Ruess

  • Collembola switch diet in presence of plant roots thereby functioning as herbivores.

    Kerstin Endlweber;Liliane Ruess;Stefan Scheu

  • Glyphosate herbicide affects belowground interactions between earthworms and symbiotic mycorrhizal fungi in a model ecosystem

    Johann G. Zaller;Florian Heigl;Liliane Ruess;Andrea Grabmaier

  • Chapter Three – Empirically Characterising Trophic Networks: What Emerging DNA-Based Methods, Stable Isotope and Fatty Acid Analyses Can Offer

    Michael Traugott;Stefaniya Kamenova;Liliane Ruess;Julia Seeber

  • Fatty acids of fungi and nematodes—possible biomarkers in the soil food chain?

    Liliane Ruess;Max M. Häggblom;Erick J. Garcı́a Zapata;John Dighton

  • Temporal variation in surface and subsoil abundance and function of the soil microbial community in an arable soil

    Susanne Kramer;Sven Marhan;Heike Haslwimmer;Liliane Ruess

  • Simulated climate change affecting microorganisms, nematode density and biodiversity in subarctic soils

    Liliane Ruess;Anders Michelsen;Inger K. Schmidt;Sven Jonasson

  • Nitrogen isotope ratios and fatty acid composition as indicators of animal diets in belowground systems.

    Liliane Ruess;Max M. Häggblom;Reinhard Langel;Stefan Scheu

  • Interactions Between Microorganisms and Soil Micro- and Mesofauna

    Stefan Scheu;Liliane Ruess;Michael Bonkowski

  • Specialisation and diversity of multiple trophic groups are promoted by different forest features

    Caterina Penone;Eric Allan;Santiago Soliveres;María R Felipe‐Lucia

  • Effects of food quality, starvation and life stage on stable isotope fractionation in Collembola

    Dominique Haubert;Reinhard Langel;Stefan Scheu;Liliane Ruess

  • Studies On the Nematode Fauna of an Acid Forest Soil: Spatial Distribution and Extraction

    Liliane Ruess

  • Tree species diversity versus tree species identity: Driving forces in structuring forest food webs as indicated by soil nematodes

    Simone Cesarz;Simone Cesarz;Liliane Ruess;Mascha Jacob;Andreas Jacob

  • BODY SIZES OF CONSUMERS AND THEIR RESOURCES

    Ulrich Brose;Lara Cushing;Eric L. Berlow;Tomas Jonsson

  • Nematode functional guilds, not trophic groups, reflect shifts in soil food webs and processes in response to interacting global change factors

    Simone Cesarz;Simone Cesarz;Peter B. Reich;Peter B. Reich;Stefan Scheu;Liliane Ruess

  • Molecular detection of nematode predation and scavenging in oribatid mites: Laboratory and field experiments

    Kerstin Heidemann;Stefan Scheu;Liliane Ruess;Mark Maraun

  • Carbon stable isotope fractionation and trophic transfer of fatty acids in fungal based soil food chains

    Liliane Ruess;Alexei Tiunov;Dominique Haubert;Hans H. Richnow

  • APPLICATION OF LIPID ANALYSIS TO UNDERSTAND TROPHIC INTERACTIONS IN SOIL

    Liliane Ruess;Kirsten Schütz;Dominique Haubert;Max M. Häggblom

  • Food preferences of a fungal-feeding Aphelenchoides species.

    Liliane Ruess;Erick J. Garcia Zapata;John Dighton

  • Carbon flow into microbial and fungal biomass as a basis for the belowground food web of agroecosystems

    Susanne Kramer;Sven Marhan;Liliane Ruess;Wolfgang Armbruster

  • Use of the signature Fatty Acid 16:1ω5 as a tool to determine the distribution of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in soil.

    Christopher Ngosong;Christopher Ngosong;Elke Gabriel;Elke Gabriel;Liliane Ruess

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Scheu
Stefan Scheu University of Göttingen
Ellen Kandeler
Ellen Kandeler University of Hohenheim
François Buscot
François Buscot Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Sven Marhan
Sven Marhan University of Hohenheim
Max M. Häggblom
Max M. Häggblom Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Michael Bonkowski
Michael Bonkowski University of Cologne
Sven Jonasson
Sven Jonasson University of Copenhagen
Inger Kappel Schmidt
Inger Kappel Schmidt University of Copenhagen
Anders Michelsen
Anders Michelsen University of Copenhagen
Thorsten E. E. Grams
Thorsten E. E. Grams Technical University of Munich

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