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Volkmar Wolters

Volkmar Wolters

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
75
Citations
22846
World Ranking
1055
National Ranking
71

Overview

Volkmar Wolters is affiliated with the University of Giessen in Germany and has made contributions primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, and Soil Science.

The scientist's recent publications highlight diverse ecological and environmental topics. Notable papers include:

  • Contrasting responses of above- and belowground diversity to multiple components of land-use intensity (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Deep drilling reveals massive shifts in evolutionary dynamics after formation of ancient ecosystem (2020, Science Advances)
  • Forest fire induces short-term shifts in soil food webs with consequences for carbon cycling (2020, Ecology Letters)
  • The Evolution of Ecological Diversity in Acidobacteria (2022, Frontiers in Microbiology)
  • Hotspots of Agricultural Ecosystem Services and Farmland Biodiversity Overlap with Areas at Risk of Land Abandonment in Japan (2021, Land)

Their work addresses several main topics, including Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies.

Frequent collaborators in Volkmar Wolters' publications include:

  • Andrey S. Zaitsev
  • Dennis Baulechner
  • Klaus Birkhofer
  • Katharina John
  • Markus Fischer

The scientist's research has been published repeatedly in venues such as Nature Communications and Ecology and Evolution, with additional publications in Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung, Science Advances, and Ecology Letters.

Best Publications

  • Soil function in a changing world: the role of invertebrate ecosystem engineers

    P. Lavelle;D. Bignell;M. Lepage;V. Wolters

  • Intensive agriculture reduces soil biodiversity across Europe

    Maria A. Tsiafouli;Elisa Thébault;Stefanos P. Sgardelis;Peter C. de Ruiter

  • Interactions between Aboveground and Belowground Biodiversity in Terrestrial Ecosystems: Patterns, Mechanisms, and Feedbacks

    David U. Hooper;David E. Bignell;Valerie K. Brown;Lijbert Brussard

  • Biodiversity at multiple trophic levels is needed for ecosystem multifunctionality

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

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

    Franciska T. de Vries;Franciska T. de Vries;Elisa Thébault;Elisa Thébault;Mira Liiri;Klaus Birkhofer

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

    Andrew P. Dobson;David Lodge;Jackie Alder;Graeme S. Cumming

  • 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

  • Global decomposition experiment shows soil animal impacts on decomposition are climate-dependent

    Diana H. Wall;Mark A. Bradford;Mark G. St. John;John A. Trofymow

  • Invertebrate control of soil organic matter stability

    V. Wolters

  • Global distribution of earthworm diversity

    Helen R P Phillips;Carlos A Guerra;Marie L C Bartz;Maria J I Briones

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

    Jens Dauber;Michaela Hirsch;Dietmar Simmering;Rainer Waldhardt

  • Interannual variation in land-use intensity enhances grassland multidiversity.

    Eric Allan;Oliver Bossdorf;Oliver Bossdorf;Carsten F. Dormann;Daniel Prati

  • Pollinator dispersal in an agricultural matrix: opposing responses of wild bees and hoverflies to landscape structure and distance from main habitat

    Frank Jauker;Tim Diekötter;Franziska Schwarzbach;Volkmar Wolters

  • Landscape context of organic and conventional farms: influences on carabid beetle diversity

    Tobias Purtauf;Indra Roschewitz;Jens Dauber;Carsten Thies

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

    Klemens Ekschmitt;Manqiang Liu;Silke Vetter;Oliver Fox

  • Biodiversity of soil animals and its function

    Volkmar Wolters

  • Relationship among the species richness of different taxa.

    Volkmar Wolters;Janne Bengtsson;Andrei S. Zaitsev

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

    Lawrence N. Hudson;Tim Newbold;Tim Newbold;Sara Contu;Samantha L.L. Hill;Samantha L.L. Hill

  • Effects of Global Changes on Above- and Belowground Biodiversity in Terrestrial Ecosystems: Implications for Ecosystem Functioning

    V. Wolters;W.L. Silver;D.E. Bignell;D.C. Coleman

  • Hover flies are efficient pollinators of oilseed rape.

    Frank Jauker;Volkmar Wolters

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim Diekötter
Tim Diekötter Kiel University
Klaus Birkhofer
Klaus Birkhofer Brandenburg University of Technology
Jens Dauber
Jens Dauber University of Giessen
Klemens Ekschmitt
Klemens Ekschmitt University of Giessen
Wolfgang W. Weisser
Wolfgang W. Weisser Technical University of Munich
Matthieu Chauvat
Matthieu Chauvat University of Rouen
Claudia Pahl-Wostl
Claudia Pahl-Wostl Osnabrück University
Rainer Georg Joergensen
Rainer Georg Joergensen University of Kassel
Diana H. Wall
Diana H. Wall Colorado State University

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