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Mark Maraun is affiliated with the University of Göttingen in Germany. Their work spans multiple areas within the agricultural and biological sciences and environmental science, with a focus on ecological studies and soil biology.

Their primary fields of study include:

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Subfields contributing to their research portfolio include:

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Insect Science
  • Genetics

Mark Maraun's main topics of research cover:

  • Study of Mite Species
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Mark Maraun include:

  • Stefan Scheu
  • Ina Schaefer
  • Jing-Zhong Lu
  • Xue Pan
  • Zhijing Xie

Common publication venues in which Mark Maraun's work appears are:

  • Ecology and Evolution
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Experimental and Applied Acarology
  • Geoderma
  • Applied Soil Ecology

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Mark Maraun include:

  • New perspectives on soil animal trophic ecology through the lens of C and N stable isotope ratios of oribatid mites (2022), Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Feeding habits and multifunctional classification of soil-associated consumers from protists to vertebrates (2022), Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Tree islands enhance biodiversity and functioning in oil palm landscapes (2023), Nature
  • Diversity and functional structure of soil animal communities suggest soil animal food webs to be buffered against changes in forest land use (2021), Oecologia
  • Haplotype divergence supports long-term asexuality in the oribatid mite Oppiella nova (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

  • Trophic niche differentiation in soil microarthropods (Oribatida, Acari): evidence from stable isotope ratios (15N/14N)

    Katja Schneider;Sonja Migge;Roy A. Norton;Stefan Scheu

  • Feeding habits and multifunctional classification of soil‐associated consumers from protists to vertebrates

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  • The underestimated importance of belowground carbon input for forest soil animal food webs.

    Melanie M. Pollierer;Reinhard Langel;Christian Körner;Mark Maraun

  • The structure of oribatid mite communities (Acari, Oribatida): patterns, mechanisms and implications for future research

    Mark Maraun;Stefan Scheu

  • Adding to 'the enigma of soil animal diversity': fungal feeders and saprophagous soil invertebrates prefer similar food substrates

    Mark Maraun;Hermann Martens;Sonja Migge;Anne Theenhaus

  • Land-use choices follow profitability at the expense of ecological functions in Indonesian smallholder landscapes.

    Yann Clough;Yann Clough;Vijesh V. Krishna;Marife D. Corre;Kevin Darras

  • Compartmentalization of the soil animal food web as indicated by dual analysis of stable isotope ratios (15N/14N and 13C/12C)

    Melanie M. Pollierer;Reinhard Langel;Stefan Scheu;Mark Maraun

  • Divergent composition but similar function of soil food webs of individual plants: plant species and community effects

    T. M. Bezemer;M. T. Fountain;J. M. Barea;S. Christensen

  • Plant Diversity Surpasses Plant Functional Groups and Plant Productivity as Driver of Soil Biota in the Long Term

    Nico Eisenhauer;Alexandru Milcu;Alexander C. W. Sabais;Holger Bessler

  • Stable isotopes revisited: Their use and limits for oribatid mite trophic ecology

    M. Maraun;G. Erdmann;B.M. Fischer;M.M. Pollierer

  • General Relationships between Abiotic Soil Properties and Soil Biota across Spatial Scales and Different Land- Use Types

    Klaus Birkhofer;Ingo Schöning;Fabian Alt;Nadine Herold

  • Awesome or ordinary? Global diversity patterns of oribatid mites

    Mark Maraun;Heinrich Schatz;Stefan Scheu

  • Oribatid mite and collembolan diversity, density and community structure in a moder beech forest (Fagus sylvatica): effects of mechanical perturbations

    Mark Maraun;Jörg-Alfred Salamon;Katja Schneider;Matthias Schaefer

  • Reevolution of sexuality breaks Dollo's law

    Katja Domes;Roy A. Norton;Mark Maraun;Stefan Scheu

  • High genetic divergences indicate ancient separation of parthenogenetic lineages of the oribatid mite Platynothrus peltifer (Acari, Oribatida).

    M. Heethoff;K. Domes;M. Laumann;M. Maraun

  • Feeding preferences among dark pigmented fungal taxa (''Dematiacea'') indicate limited trophic niche differentiation of oribatid mites (Oribatida, Acari)

    Katja Schneider;Mark Maraun

  • Oribatid mite (Acari, Oribatida) feeding on ectomycorrhizal fungi.

    Katja Schneider;Carsten Renker;Mark Maraun

  • Middens of the earthworm Lumbricus terrestris (Lumbricidae): microhabitats for micro- and mesofauna in forest soil

    Mark Maraun;J. Alphei;M. Bonkowski;R. Buryn

  • Tropical Andean forests are highly susceptible to nutrient inputs--rapid effects of experimental N and P addition to an Ecuadorian montane forest.

    Jürgen Homeier;Dietrich Hertel;Tessa Camenzind;Nixon L. Cumbicus

  • Impact of tropical lowland rainforest conversion into rubber and oil palm plantations on soil microbial communities

    Valentyna Krashevska;Bernhard Klarner;Rahayu Widyastuti;Mark Maraun

  • Selection of microfungal food by six oribatid mite species (Oribatida, Acari) from two different becch forests

    Mark Maraun;S. Migge;M. Schaefer;S. Scheu

  • Trophic niche differentiation in soil microarthropods (Oribatida, Acari): evidence from stable isotope ratios ( 15 N/ 14 N)

    Katja Schneider;Sonja Migge;Roy A. Norton;Stefan Scheu

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Scheu
Stefan Scheu University of Göttingen
Roy A. Norton
Roy A. Norton SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Yves Roisin
Yves Roisin Université Libre de Bruxelles
Ulrich Brose
Ulrich Brose Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Liliane Ruess
Liliane Ruess Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Michael Bonkowski
Michael Bonkowski University of Cologne
Vincent Perrichot
Vincent Perrichot University of Rennes
Tanja Schwander
Tanja Schwander University of Lausanne
Andrea Polle
Andrea Polle University of Göttingen
Carsten Renker
Carsten Renker Natural History Museum Vienna

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