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Volkmar Wolters
Researcher at University of Giessen
Publications - 219
Citations - 15144
Volkmar Wolters is an academic researcher from University of Giessen. The author has contributed to research in topics: Species richness & Biodiversity. The author has an hindex of 60, co-authored 214 publications receiving 13078 citations. Previous affiliations of Volkmar Wolters include Humboldt University of Berlin.
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Soil function in a changing world: the role of invertebrate ecosystem engineers
Patrick Lavelle,David E. Bignell,Michel Lepage,Volkmar Wolters,Pierre-Armand Roger,Philip Ineson,O.W. Heal,S. Dhillion +7 more
TL;DR: Cette revue place au centre des interactions entre les plantes, les animaux et les microorganismes du sol, les invertebres abondants et de grande taille qui ingerent des particules organiques and minerales produisant ainsi des structures durables.
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Interactions between Aboveground and Belowground Biodiversity in Terrestrial Ecosystems: Patterns, Mechanisms, and Feedbacks
David U. Hooper,David E. Bignell,Valerie K. Brown,Lijbert Brussard,J. Mark Dangerfield,Diana H. Wall,David A. Wardle,David C. Coleman,Ken E. Giller,Patrick Lavelle,Wim H. van der Putten,Peter C. de Ruiter,Josef Rusek,Whendee L. Silver,James M. Tiedje,Volkmar Wolters +15 more
TL;DR: For example, the authors of the paper as discussed by the authors presented the results of a study at the Netherlands Institute of Terrestrial Ecology (ZG Heteren) and the University of Utrecht (UTHeteren).
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Intensive agriculture reduces soil biodiversity across Europe
Maria A. Tsiafouli,Elisa Thébault,Stefanos P. Sgardelis,Peter C. de Ruiter,Wim H. van der Putten,Klaus Birkhofer,Lia Hemerik,Franciska T. de Vries,Richard D. Bardgett,Mark Brady,Lisa Bjørnlund,Helene Bracht Jørgensen,Soren Christensen,Tina D’ Hertefeldt,Stefan Hotes,Stefan Hotes,W. H. Gera Hol,Jan Frouz,Mira Liiri,Simon R. Mortimer,Heikki Setälä,Joseph Tzanopoulos,Karoline Uteseny,Václav Pižl,Josef Stary,Volkmar Wolters,Katarina Hedlund +26 more
TL;DR: Intensive agriculture reduces soil biodiversity, making soil food webs less diverse and composed of smaller bodied organisms, and how changes in soil biodiversity due to land-use intensification may threaten the functioning of soil in agricultural production systems is discussed.
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Habitat loss, trophic collapse, and the decline of ecosystem services.
Andrew P. Dobson,David M. Lodge,Jackie Alder,Graeme S. Cumming,Juan E. Keymer,Jacquie McGlade,H. A. Mooney,James A. Rusak,Osvaldo E. Sala,Volkmar Wolters,Diana H. Wall,Rachel Winfree,Marguerite A. Xenopoulos +12 more
TL;DR: A new approach to assessing the implications of habitat loss for loss of ecosystem services by examining how the provision of different ecosystem services is dominated by species from different trophic levels is described and a mathematical model is developed that illustrates how declines in habitat quality and quantity lead to sequential losses oftrophic diversity.
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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,Maria A. Tsiafouli,Lisa Bjørnlund,Helene Bracht Jørgensen,Mark Brady,Soren Christensen,Peter C. de Ruiter,Tina D'Hertefeldt,Jan Frouz,Katarina Hedlund,Lia Hemerik,W. H. Gera Hol,Stefan Hotes,Stefan Hotes,Simon R. Mortimer,Heikki Setälä,Stefanos P. Sgardelis,Karoline Uteseny,Wim H. van der Putten,Volkmar Wolters,Richard D. Bardgett,Richard D. Bardgett +26 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors quantified, across four countries of contrasting climatic and soil conditions in Europe, how differences in soil food web composition resulting from land use systems (intensive wheat rotation, extensive rotation, and permanent grassland) influence the functioning of soils and the ecosystem services that they deliver.