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Walter Traunspurger

Walter Traunspurger

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
58
Citations
11355
World Ranking
2585
National Ranking
141

Walter Traunspurger publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Walter Traunspurger sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 283 publications — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Walter Traunspurger D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Walter Traunspurger sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Walter Traunspurger is affiliated with Bielefeld University in Germany. Their research primarily lies within the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant focus on Ecology, Oceanography, Plant Science, Pollution, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics as subfields.

The scientist has contributed extensively to a range of topics, including:

  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Nematode management and characterization studies
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Parasite Biology and Host Interactions

Traunspurger has frequently published in multiple scientific venues. Notably, these include:

  • Ecological Indicators
  • Hydrobiologia
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Aquatic Ecology
  • Nematology

Their recent published papers demonstrate a focus on nematodes and aquatic ecology:

  • "Surface-Related Toxicity of Polystyrene Beads to Nematodes and the Role of Food Availability" (2020) published in Environmental Science & Technology
  • "A global database of soil nematode abundance and functional group composition" (2020) published in Scientific Data
  • "Species-specific effects of long-term microplastic exposure on the population growth of nematodes, with a focus on microplastic ingestion" (2020) published in Ecological Indicators
  • "Comparison of morphological, DNA barcoding, and metabarcoding characterizations of freshwater nematode communities" (2020) published in Ecology and Evolution
  • "The ability to get everywhere: dispersal modes of free-living, aquatic nematodes" (2020) published in Hydrobiologia

Key frequent co-authors that appear in Traunspurger's collaborations are:

  • Sebastian Höss
  • Nabil Majdi
  • Hendrik Fueser
  • Christoph Ptatscheck
  • Birgit Gansfort

This body of work contributes empirical data and insights on nematode ecology and the impact of environmental factors such as microplastics, as well as biodiversity assessments using molecular techniques. The integration of traditional morphological methods with DNA-based approaches illustrates a multidisciplinary methodology in freshwater community ecology.

Best Publications

  • Soil nematode abundance and functional group composition at a global scale

    Johan van den Hoogen;Stefan Geisen;Devin Routh;Howard Ferris

  • Effects of dissolved organic matter (DOM) on the bioconcentration of organic chemicals in aquatic organisms--a review.

    Markus Haitzer;Sebastian Höss;Sebastian Höss;Walter Traunspurger;Christian Steinberg

  • The role of micro‐organisms in the ecological connectivity of running waters

    Martin Pusch;Douglas Fiebig;Ingrid Brettar;Heinrich Eisenmann

  • Impacts of Micro- and Nano-Sized Plastic Particles on Benthic Invertebrates: A Literature Review and Gap Analysis

    Arne Haegerbaeumer;Marie-Theres Mueller;Hendrik Fueser;Walter Traunspurger

  • Ecotoxicological assessment of aquatic sediments with Caenorhabditis elegans (nematoda) — a method for testing liquid medium and whole‐sediment samples

    Walter Traunspurger;Markus Haitzer;Sebastian Höss;Stefanie Beier

  • The effects of nematodes on bacterial activity and abundance in a freshwater sediment

    Walter Traunspurger;Matthias Bergtold;Willem Goedkoop

  • Environmental risk assessment of ivermectin: A case study

    Markus Liebig;Álvaro Alonso Fernandez;Elke Blübaum-Gronau;Alistair Boxall

  • The biology and ecology of lotic nematodes

    Walter Traunspurger

  • Toxicity analysis of freshwater and marine sediments with meio- and macrobenthic organisms: a review

    Walter Traunspurger;Carlos Drews

  • The food web perspective on aquatic biofilms

    Markus Weitere;Martina Erken;Nabil Majdi;Hartmut Arndt

  • Free-Living Nematodes in the Freshwater Food Web: A Review

    Nabil Majdi;Walter Traunspurger

  • Life cycle and population growth rate of Caenorhabditis elegans studied by a new method

    Daniel Muschiol;Fabian Schroeder;Walter Traunspurger

  • Nematode species at risk--a metric to assess pollution in soft sediments of freshwaters.

    S. Höss;E. Claus;P. von der Ohe;M. Brinke

  • Ecotox-evaluation strategy for soil bioremediation exemplified for a PAH-contaminated site

    Kerstin Hund;Walter Traunspurger

  • Nematode communities in contaminated river sediments.

    Peter Heininger;Sebastian Höss;Evelyn Claus;Jürgen Pelzer

  • Bathymetric, seasonal and vertical distribution of feeding-types of nematodes in an oligotrophic lake

    Walter Traunspurger

  • Ingestion of microplastics by nematodes depends on feeding strategy and buccal cavity size

    Hendrik Fueser;Marie-Theres Mueller;Linette Weiss;Sebastian Höss

  • Predator–prey interaction in soil food web: functional response, size-dependent foraging efficiency, and the influence of soil texture

    Karin Hohberg;Walter Traunspurger

  • Surface-Related Toxicity of Polystyrene Beads to Nematodes and the Role of Food Availability

    Marie-Theres Mueller;Hendrik Fueser;Lam Ngoc Trac;Philipp Mayer

  • Refractory dissolved organic matter can influence the reproduction of Caenorhabditis elegans (Nematoda)

    Sebastian Höss;Matthias Bergtold;Markus Haitzer;Walter Traunspurger

  • Effects of humic substances on the bioconcentration of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: Correlations with spectroscopic and chemical properties of humic substances

    Markus Haitzer;Markus Haitzer;Gudrun Abbt-Braun;Walter Traunspurger;Christian E.W. Steinberg

  • A global database of soil nematode abundance and functional group composition

    Johan van den Hoogen;Stefan Geisen;Diana H. Wall;David A. Wardle

  • Relationship between concentration of dissolved organic matter (DOM) and the effect of DOM on the bioconcentration of benzo[a]pyrene

    Markus Haitzer;Markus Haitzer;Sebastian Höss;Sebastian Höss;Walter Traunspurger;Christian Steinberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Sebastian Höss
Sebastian Höss Institute for Biodiversity
Poul Løgstrup Bjerg
Poul Løgstrup Bjerg Technical University of Denmark
Tom Moens
Tom Moens Ghent University
Thomas A. Ternes
Thomas A. Ternes Federal Institute of Hydrology
Stefan Scheu
Stefan Scheu University of Göttingen
Stefan Geisen
Stefan Geisen Wageningen University & Research
Karl-Otto Rothhaupt
Karl-Otto Rothhaupt University of Konstanz
Willem Goedkoop
Willem Goedkoop Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Kathrin Fenner
Kathrin Fenner Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Frederic Lynen
Frederic Lynen Ghent University

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