Volkmar Wolters

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that fire-induced shifts in soil food webs have significant short-term effects on forest soil C cycling, but that these effects vary across forest types and geographic locations.

TL;DR: The local population genetic structure of a widespread and highly mobile species as P. versicolor is strongly affected by the amount of suitable habitat in a landscape of large habitat proportion, which offers a powerful way for analysing effects on genetic diversity.

TL;DR: It is shown that speciation and extinction rates nearly simultaneously decreased in the environmentally dynamic phase after ecosystem formation and stabilized after deep-water conditions established in Lake Ohrid, resulting in a transition from a volatile assemblage of short-lived endemic species to a stable community of long-lived species.

TL;DR: During the months July, August, and September, body mass of adult males was significantly higher than that of juveniles, whereas in October the difference was no longer of statistical significance, it is suggested that the decrease in body mass observed in some adult males in September was related to their reproductive activity.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assessed the spatial distribution of the services carbon storage, sediment regulation, water yield, crop production, timber supply, and outdoor recreation in the counties Wetterau and Vogelsberg (Hesse, Germany).