Volkmar Wolters

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of the nematofauna on the microbiology and soil nitrogen status was studied in 6 major European grassland types (Northern tundra (Abisko, Sweden), Atlantic heath (Otterburn, UK), wet grassland (Wageningen, Netherlands), semi-natural temperate grassland, Linden, Germany, East European steppe (Pusztaszer, Hungary) and Mediterranean garigue (Mt. Vermion, Greece).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed collembolan communities at grassland sites of different age that had been gradually converted over a period of 50 years to manage arable land to managed grassland and found that collembolan assemblages changed only little during grassland maturation.

TL;DR: The fact that rare and specialised pollinator species were mostly absent, however, substantiates that within 2 years of establishment, flowering resources are not the sole limiting factor in modern agricultural landscapes.

TL;DR: A change from ground nesting species that predominantly forage above-ground to the increasing abundance of the hypogaeic Lasius flavus foraging mainly below-ground marks an alteration of the functional structure of the ant community.

TL;DR: The potential impacts of changes in precipitation patterns associated with global climate change on the relationship between soil community diversity and litter decomposition were investigated in this article, where two decomposer communities in litterbags (1000 and 45 mum mesh size) containing spruce litter were subjected to two irrigation treatments: constant and fluctuating (drying/rewetting) moisture conditions.