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1998-2001
Engineer
A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Education
2001-2003
Institute of General Zoology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen.
Degree: Promotion (Biology)
1999 – 2001
Moscow State Lomonosov University
Degree: Promotion (Candidate in Geography).
1996-1998
Moscow State Lomonosov University
Degree: Master’s degree (biogeography).
1992-1996
Moscow State Lomonosov University
Degree: Bachelor (Biogeography).
Peer-reviewed
2024
Gabriel Salako,Andrey Zaitsev,BibianaBetancur-Corredor, David J. Russell (2024): Modelling and spatial prediction of earthworms ecological-categories distribution reveal their habitat and environmental preferences. Ecological Indicators, Vol. 169. pdf
D.J. Russell, E. Naudts, N.A. Soudzilovskaia, M.J.I. Briones, M. Çakır, E. Conti, J. Cortet, C. Fiera, D. Hackenberger Kutuzovic, M. Hedde, K. Hohberg, D. Indjic, P.H. Krogh, R. Lehmitz, S. Lesch, Z. Marjanovic, C. Mulder, L. Mumladze, M. Murvanidze, S. Rick, M. Roß-Nickoll, J. Schlaghamerský, O. Schmidt, O. Shelef, M. Suhadolc, M. Tsiafouli, A. Winding, A. Zaytsev, A. Potapov, (2024): Edaphobase 2.0: Advanced international data warehouse for collating and using soil biodiversity datasets, Applied Soil Ecology, Volume 204, 105710, ISSN 0929-1393, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2024.105710.
Andrey S. Zaitsev, Anastasia Yu. Gorbunova, Alexander I. Bastrakov, Maxim I. Degtyarev , Donghui Wud, Daniil I. Korobushkin, Ruslan A. Saifutdinov, Konstantin B. Gongalsky (2024): Taxon-specific ability of saprophagous soil macrofauna to reintegrat carbon from agricultural waste into soil. Pedobiologia – Journal of Soil Ecology, Vol. 104, 150958. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedobi.2024.150958
Neyret, M., Le Provost, G., Boesing, A.L. et al. (2022): A slow-fast trait continuum at the whole community level in relation to land-use intensification. Nat Commun 15, 1251. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45113-5
2022
Hedde M, Blight O, Briones M JI , Bonfanti J, Brauman A, Brondani M, Zaitsev AS, Capowiez Y (2022): A common framework for developing robust soil fauna classifications. Geoderma 426, 116073. DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2022.116073
Birkhofer K, Baulechner D, Diekotter T, Zaitsev A, Wolters V (2022) Fertilization Rapidly Alters the Feeding Activity of Grassland Soil Mesofauna Independent of Management History. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 10, 864470. DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2022.864470. Journal impact factor: 4.498.
Korobushkin DI, Saifutdinov RA, Zuev AG, Zaitsev AS (2022) Incorporation of marine organic matter by terrestrial detrital food webs: abiotic vs. biotic vectors. Catena 211, 106010. DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2021.106010. Journal impact factor: 6.367. SJR Q1
2021
Le Provost, G, Thiele, J, Westphal, C, Zaitsev, AS, Manning, P (2021) Contrasting responses of above- and belowground diversity to multiple components of land-use intensity. Nature Communications 12, 3918. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23931-1
John, K, Zaitsev, AS, Wolters, V (2021) Soil fauna groups respond differentially to changes in crop rotation cycles in rice production systems. Pedobiologia. 84, 150703. DOI: 10.1016/j.pedobi.2020.150703
Gongalsky, KB, Zaitsev, AS, Korobushkin, DI, Saifutdinov, RA, Butenko, KO, de Vries, FT, Ekschmitt, K, Degtyarev, MI, Gorbunova, AY, Kostina, NV, Rakhleeva, AA, Shakhab, SV, Yazrikova, TE, Wolters, V and Bardgett, RD (2021) Forest fire induces short-term shifts in soil food webs with consequences for carbon cycling. Ecology Letters, 24, 438-450. DOI: 10.1111/ele.13657
2020
Zaitsev AS, Ryabinin NA, Tarasov AI, Shakhab SV 2020. Potential anthropogenic influence on oribatid mite communities in ancient to modern settlements of the Russian Far East. International Journal of Acarology, 46, 322-326, DOI: 10.1080/01647954.2020.1801838
Gorbunova AYu, Korobushkin DI, Kostina NV, Degtyarev MI, Gongalsky KB, Zaitsev AS (2020) Level of soil moisture determines the ability of Eisenia fetida to re-incorporate carbon from decomposed rice straw into the soil. European Journal of Soil Biology. Vol. 99, 103209. DOI:10.1016/j.ejsobi.2020.103209
Saifutdinov RA, Sabirov RM, Zaitsev AS (2020) Springtail (Hexapoda: Collembola) functional group composition varies between different biotopes in Russian rice growing systems. European Journal of Soil Biology, Vol. 99, 103208. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejsobi.2020.103208
Goncharov AA, Gongalsky KB, Yazrikova TE, Kostina NV, Korobushkin DI, Makarov MI, Zaitsev AS (2020) Greenhouse gas-producing soil biological activity in burned and unburned forests along a transect in European Russia. Applied Soil Ecology. Vol. 148, Article 103491. DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2019.103491
John K, Janz B, Kiese R, Wassmann R, Zaitsev AS, Wolters V. (2020) Earthworms offset straw-induced increase of greenhouse gas emission in upland rice production. Science of Total Environment. 710, 136352. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.136352.
2019
John K, Degtyarev M, Gorbunova A, Korobushkin D, Knöss H, Wolters V, Zaitsev AS (2019) Enchytraeids simultaneously stimulate rice straw degradation and mitigate CO2 release in a paddy soil. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 131: 191-194. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2019.01.014
Guo Y, Gao M, Liu J, Zaitsev AS, Wu D (2019) Disentangling the drivers of ground-dwelling macro-arthropod metacommunity structure at two different spatial scales. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 130: 55-62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2018.12.002
2018
Zaitsev AS, Gorbunova AYu, Korobushkin DI, Degtyarev MI, Zhadova AN, Kostina NV, Gongalsky KB (2018) The earthworm species Eisenia fetida modulates greenhouse gas release and carbon stabilization after rice straw amendment to a paddy soil. European Journal of Soil Biology 89: 39-44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejsobi.2018.10.003
Saifutdinov RA, Gongalsky KB, Zaitsev AS (2018) Evidence of a trait-specific response to burning in springtails (Hexapoda: Collembola) in the boreal forests of European Russia. Geoderma 332: 173-179. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2017.07.021
2017
Gorbunova AYu, Korobushkin DI, Zaitsev AS, Gongalsky KB (2017) Forest fires increase variability of soil macrofauna communities along a macrogeographic gradient. European Journal of Soil Biology 80: 49-52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejsobi.2017.04.001
Birkhofer K, Gossner MM, Diekötter T, Drees C, Ferlian O, Maraun M, Scheu S, Weisser WW, Wolters V, Wurst S, Zaitsev AS, Smith HG (2017) Land-use type and intensity differentially filter traits in above- and below-ground arthropod communities. Journal of Animal Ecology 86: 511–520. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12641
Butenko KO, Gongalsky KB, Korobushkin DI, Ekschmitt K, Zaitsev AS (2017) Forest fires alter the trophic structure of soil nematode communities. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 109: 107-117 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2017.02.006
Hudson LN, Newbold T, Contu S, Hill SLL, Lysenko I, De Palma A, … Zaitsev AS, … Purvis A (2017) The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project. Ecology & Evolution 7: 162-188. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2579.
Korobushkin DI, Gorbunova AYu, Zaitsev AS, Gongalsky KB (2017) Trait-specific response of soil macrofauna to forest burning along a macrogeographic gradient. Applied Soil Ecology 112: 97–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2016.12.004
Holmstrup M, Damgaard C, Schmidt IK, Arndal MF, Beier C, Mikkelsen TN, Ambus P, Larsen KS, Pilegaard K, Michelsen A, Andresen LC, Haugwitz M, Bergmark L, Priemé A, Zaitsev AS, Georgieva S, Dam M, Vestergård M, Christensen S (2017) Long-term and realistic global change manipulations had low impact on diversity of soil biota in temperate heathland. Scientific Reports 7: Article 41388. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep41388
2016
Gongalsky KB, Zaitsev AS (2016) The Role of Spatial Heterogeneity of the Environment in Soil Fauna Recovery after Fires. Doklady Earth Sciences 471: 1265–1268. http://dx.doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X16120035.
Schmidt A, John K, Auge H, Brandl R, Horgan FG, Settele J, Zaitsev AS, Wolters V, Schadler M (2016) Compensatory mechanisms of litter decomposition under alternating moisture regimes in tropical rice fields. Applied Soil Ecology 107: 79-90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2016.05.014
Zaitsev AS, Gongalsky KB, Malmström A, Persson T, Bengtsson J (2016) Why are forest fires generally neglected in soil fauna research? A mini-review. Applied Soil Ecology 98: 261-271. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2015.10.012
2015
John K, Jauker F, Marxsen J, Zaitsev AS, Wolters V (2015) Earthworm bioturbation stabilizes carbon in non-flooded tropical paddy soil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 91: 127-132 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2015.08.033
Zaitsev AS, Gongalsky KB, Persson T, Bengtsson J (2014) Connectivity of litter islands remaining after a fire and unburnt forest determines the recovery of soil fauna. Applied Soil Ecology 83: 101-108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2014.01.007
Zaitsev AS, Chauvat M, Wolters V (2014). Spruce forest conversion to a mixed beech-coniferous stand modifies oribatid community structure. Applied Soil Ecology 76: 60-67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2013.12.009
Zaitsev AS, Gongalsky KB, Nakamori T, Kaneko N (2014) Ionizing radiation effects on soil biota: Application of lessons learned from Chernobyl accident for radioecological monitoring. Pedobiologia 57: 5-14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pedobi.2013.09.005
2013
Zaitsev AS, van Straalen NM, Berg MP (2013) Landscape age explains large spatial scale trends in oribatid mite diversity. Landscape Ecology 28:285-296. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10980-012-9834-0
2012
Gongalsky KB, Malmström A, Zaitsev AS, Shakhab SV, Bengtsson J, Persson T (2012) Do burned areas recover from inside? An experiment with soil fauna in a heterogeneous landscape. Applied Soil Ecology 59:73-86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2012.03.017
2011
Zaitsev AS, Gongalsky KB, Gorshkova IA, Krechetov PP, Koroleva TV (2011) Impact of rocket propellant (nonsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine) on soil fauna. Doklady Earth Sciences. 440: 1340-1342. http://dx.doi.org/0.1134/S1028334X11090248
Chauvat M, Zaytsev AS, Titsch D, Wolters V (2011) Changes in soil faunal assemblages during conversion from pure to mixed forest stands. Forest Ecology and Management 262: 317-324. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2011.03.037
2009
Chauvat M, Zaitsev AS, Gabriel E, Wolters V (2009) How do soil fauna and soil microbiota respond to beech forest growth? Current Zoology 55: 272-278. http://www.currentzoology.org/paperdetail.asp?id=11225
Siepel H, Zaitsev AS, Berg, M.P. 2009. Checklist of oribatid mites of the Netherlands (Acariformes, Oribatida). Nederlandse Faunistische Mededelingen 20: 83-111.
2008
Rjabinin NA., Zaitsev AS (2008) Viracochiella orientalis, a new species of oribatid mites (Acariformes, Oribatida) of the family Ceratozetidae from Sakhalin. Entomological Review 88: 874-877.
Salamon J-A, Zaitsev A, Gartner S, Wolters V (2008) Soil macrofaunal response to forest conversion from pure coniferous stands into semi-natural montane forests. Applied Soil Ecology 40: 491-498. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2008.07.004
2006
Wolters V, Bengtsson J, Zaitsev AS (2006) Relationship among the species richness of different taxa. Ecology 87: 1886 – 1895. https://doi.org/10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[1886:RATSRO]2.0.CO;2
Zaitsev AS, Wolters V (2006) Geographic determinants of oribatid mite communities structure and diversity across Europe: a longitudinal perspective. European Journal of Soil Biology 42:S358 – S361. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejsobi.2006.09.006
Zaitsev AS, Wolters V, Waldhardt R, Dauber J (2006) Long-term succession of oribatid mites after conversion of croplands to grasslands. Applied Soil Ecology 34: 230-239. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2006.01.005
Pokarzhevsky AD, Gongalsky KB, Zaitsev AS, Belyakova OI, Savin FA (2006) “Gaps” in the spatial distribution of earthworms in the meadow steppe. Doklady Academy of Sciences 408: 1-4. (in Russian).
2003
Zaitsev AS (2003) CD-ROM Review. Experimental and Applied Acarology 30: 317-318
Chauvat M, Zaitsev AS, Wolters V (2003) Successional changes of Collembola and soil microbiota during forest rotation. Oecologia 137: 269-276. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-003-1310-8
Pokarzhevskii AD, van Straalen NM, Zaboev DP, Zaitsev AS (2003) Microbial links and element flows in nested detrital food-webs. Pedobiologia 47: 213-224. http://dx.doi.org/10.1078/0031-4056-00185
2002
Zaitsev AS , Chauvat M, Pflug A, Wolters V (2002) Oribatid mite diversity and community dynamics in a spruce chronosequence. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 34: 1919-1927. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0038-0717(02)00208-0
2001
Zaitsev AS, Berg MP (2001) Oribatid mites in different forest types in the Netherlands (Acari: Oribatida). Nederlandse Faunistische Mededelingen 15: 79-101.
Zaitsev AS (2001) Geography of oribatid mite distribution in Russia. Vestnik MGU, serija 5, geographicheskaja 6: 34-37 (in Russian).
Van Straalen NM, Butovsky RO, Pokarzhevskii AD, Zaitsev AS, Verhoef SC (2001) Metal concentrations in soil and invertebrates in the vicinity of a metallurgical factory near Tula (Russia). Pedobiologia 45: 451-466. http://dx.doi.org/10.1078/0031-4056-00099
Zaitsev AS, van Straalen NM (2001) Species diversity and metal accumulation in oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) of forests affected by a metallurgical plant. Pedobiologia 45:466-475. http://dx.doi.org/10.1078/0031-4056-00100
2000
Pokarzhevskii AD, van Straalen NM, Filimonova ZhV., Zaitsev AS, Butovsky RO (2000) Trophical structure of the ecosystems and ecotoxicology of soil organisms. Russian Journal of Ecology 3:211-218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02762820
Filimonova ZV, Pokarzhevskii AD, Zaitsev AS, Krivolutsky DA, Verhoef CA (2000) Ecological mechanisms of soil biota tolerance to metal contamination. Doklady of Academy of Sciences 370: 571-573.
1999
Zaitsev AS, Miklayeva IM, Rumiantsev VYu (1999) New computer training database of geobotanical descriptions. Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Ser. 5. Geography. 6: 45-48 (in Russian).
1997
Zaitsev AS (1997) The communities of the oribatid mites (Acari:Oribatida) of the Zakopane environs . Ochrona Przyrody. 54: 131-140.
1996
Zaitsev AS (1996) The analysis of habitat of model species Nothrus palustris C.L.Koch, 1839. Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Ser. 5.Geography. 6: 39-45. (in Russian).
Additional contributions:
Zaitsev A.S. 2015. Chapter II. Diversity of Soil Organisms. Section: “Acari”. Global Soil Biodiversity Atlas. Orgiazzi A., Singh B., Wall D.H., Barrios E., Kandeler E., Moreira F.M.S., De Deyn G., Chotte J.L., Six J., Zhang J., Hedlund K., Ramirez K.S., Briones M.J.I., Dita M., Miko L., Johnson N., Fierer N., Kaneko N., Bohlen P., Lavelle P., Eggleton P., Lemanceau P., Bardgett R., Jeffery S., Scheu S., Behan Pelletier V., Van der Putten W., Montanarella L., Jones A. (Eds.). European Commission, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg. p. 49. LINK
Project Management
Prof. Dr. Anton Potapov
Head of department soil zoology Project Management
D.J. Russell, E. Naudts, N.A. Soudzilovskaia, M.J.I. Briones, M. Çakır, E. Conti, J. Cortet, C. Fiera, D. Hackenberger Kutuzovic, M. Hedde, K. Hohberg, D. Indjic, P.H. Krogh, R. Lehmitz, S. Lesch, Z. Marjanovic, C. Mulder, L. Mumladze, M. Murvanidze, S. Rick, M. Roß-Nickoll, J. Schlaghamerský, O. Schmidt, O. Shelef, M. Suhadolc, M. Tsiafouli, A. Winding, A. Zaytsev, A. Potapov (2024): Edaphobase 2.0: Advanced international data warehouse for collating and using soil biodiversity datasets, Applied Soil Ecology, Volume 204, 105710, ISSN 0929-1393, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2024.105710.
Susanti W.I., Krashevska V., Widyastuti R., Stiegler C., Gunawan D., Scheu S., Potapov A.M.Seasonal fluctuations of litter and soil Collembola and their drivers in rainforest and plantation systems. PeerJ12:e17125 2024. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17125
Potapov, A., Drescher, J., Darras, K., Wenzel, A., Janotta, N., Nazarreta, R., Kasmiatun, Laurent, V., Mawan, A., Utari, E. H., Pollierer, M. M., Rembold, K., Widyastuti, R., Buchori, D., Hidayat, P., Turner, E., Grass, I., Westphal, C., Tscharntke, T., Scheu, S. Rainforest transformation reallocates energy from green to brown food webs. Nature2024. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07083-y
Potapov, A., Guerra, C., van den Hoogen, J., et al.. Globally invariant metabolism but density-diversity mismatch in springtails. Nature Communications 2023. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.07.475345
Zemp, D.C., Guerrero-Ramirez, N., Brambach, F., Darras, K., Grass, I., Potapov, A., et al. Tree islands enhance biodiversity and functioning in oil palm landscapes. Nature2023. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06086-5
Potapov, A., Beaulieu, F., Birkhofer, K., et al.. Feeding habits and multifunctional classification of belowground consumers from protists to vertebrates. Biological Reviews 2022. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12832
Potapov, A. Multifunctionality of belowground food webs: resource, size and spatial energy channels. Biological Reviews 2022. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12857
Potapov, A., et al. (33 more authors). Global monitoring of soil animal communities using a common methodology. Soil Organisms2022. https://doi.org/10.25674/so94iss1id178
Eisenhauer, N., Bender, S.F., Calderón‐Sanou, I., de Vries, F.T., Lembrechts, J.J., Thuiller, W., Wall, D.H., Zeiss, R., Bahram, M., Beugnon, R., Burton, V.J., Crowther, T.W., Delgado‐Baquerizo, M., Geisen, S., Kardol, P., Krashevska, V., Martínez‐Muñoz, C.A., Patoine, G., Seeber, J., Soudzilovskaia, N.A., Steinwandter, M., Sünnemann, M., Sun, X., van der Heijden, M.G.A., Guerra, C.A., Potapov, A. Frontiers in soil ecology—Insights from the World Biodiversity Forum 2022. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment2022. https://doi.org/10.1002/sae2.12031
Potapov, A., Brose, U., Scheu, S., Tiunov, A. Trophic position of consumers and size structure of food webs across aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. The American Naturalist2019. https://doi.org/10.1086/705811
Potapov, A.M., Semenina, E.E., Korotkevich, A.Yu., Kuznetsova, N.A., Tiunov, A.V. Connecting taxonomy and ecology: Trophic niches of collembolans as related to taxonomic identity and life forms. Soil Biology and Biochemistry2016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2016.07.002
since 2015 Part-time lectureship in the master programme “Biodiversity and Collection Management” at the Internationales Hochschulinstitut Zittau, Technische Universität Dresden
since 2009 Head of the Nematoda section within the Soil Zoology Division at the Senckenberg Museum
2009-2016 Part-time lectureship at the University Leipzig, Faculty of Biology II
2008-2009 Coordinator of the Interreg-project “adventure rainforest”, funded by the European Union, concept of a three-dimensional rainforest exhibition
2006-2008 Coordinator of the Interreg-project “The wolf in Neiße-Nysa-Nisa”, funded by the European Union. Drawing up and building an optionally multilingual, cross-border touring exhibition
2006 PhD at the University of Bielefeld / supervisor: Prof. Dr. Walter Traunspurger, chair of the department of Animal Ecology. Subject of the PhD-thesis: Nematodes in the soil food
2004-2007 Scientific Researcher within the project Successional Change and Biodiversity Conservation (SUBICON), funded by the BMBF
2004-2007 Coordinator of the Interreg-project “Beneath our feet – life in soil”, funded by the European Union. International presentation of the multilingual touring exhibition of the same name.
2002-2004 Creator of the international touring exhibition Beneath our feet life in soil and of the permanent exhibition Soil column. the project was funded by the DBU
2001 Scientific researcher at the SMNG within the project “Long-time influence of ecological farming on diseases, pests, pest plants and soil animals, funded by the Sächsische Landesanstalt für Landwirtschaft.
1998-2001 Scientific trainee at the State Museum of Natural History (SMNG), department of soil zoology. Starting a collection of free-living soil nematodes, and studying nematodes in post-mining sites (a project funded by the BMBF).
1998 Diploma thesis in Zoology at the Helmholtz Centre Munich/ Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, subject: Green manuring effects on arable land nematode communities.
1992-1998 Study of biology at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich
Ebner, M., Roth-Nebelsick, A., Bocherens, H., Gschwender, F., Baumeister, M., Ebner, N.M., Hohberg, K., Gan, H.Y., Schneider, C., Maggs-Kölling, G., Marais, E., Lehmitz, R. & Miranda, T. (2025): The fog harvesting Namib Desert dune grass Stipagrostis sabulicola promotes niche building by modifying substrate and atmosphere conditions. Journal of Arid Environments 227, ISSN 0140-1963, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2024.105312.
Bonfanti, J., Potapov, A. M., Angst, G., Ganault, P., Briones, M. J. I., Calderon-Sadou, I., Chen, T.-W., Conti, E., Degrune, F., Eisenhauer, N., Ferlian, O., Hackenberger, D., Hauer, A., Hedde, M., Hohberg, K., Krogh, P. H., Mulder, C., Perez-Roig, C., Russell, D., Shelef, O., Zhou, Z., Zuev, A., Berg, M. (2024). Linking effect traits of soil fauna to processes of organic matter transformation. Functional Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14720
Russell, D., Tebbe, C., Ashwood, F., Scheunemann, N. & Hohberg, K. (2024). Beeindruckendes Bodenleben. Natur und Landschaft, Schriften des BfN 99: 426-435, doi 10.19217/NuL2024-09-01.
D.J. Russell, E. Naudts, N.A. Soudzilovskaia, M.J.I. Briones, M. Çakır, E. Conti, J. Cortet, C. Fiera, D. Hackenberger Kutuzovic, M. Hedde, K. Hohberg, D. Indjic, P.H. Krogh, R. Lehmitz, S. Lesch, Z. Marjanovic, C. Mulder, L. Mumladze, M. Murvanidze, S. Rick, M. Roß-Nickoll, J. Schlaghamerský, O. Schmidt, O. Shelef, M. Suhadolc, M. Tsiafouli, A. Winding, A. Zaytsev, A. Potapov (2024): Edaphobase 2.0: Advanced international data warehouse for collating and using soil biodiversity datasets, Applied Soil Ecology, Volume 204, 105710, ISSN 0929-1393, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2024.105710.
Eisenhauer N, Ristok C, Guerra CA, Tebbe CC, Xylander WER, Babin D, Bartkowski B, Burkhard B, Filser J, Glante F, Hohberg K, Kleemann J, Kolb S, Lachmann C, Lehmitz R, Rillig MC, Römbke J, Rueß L, Scheu S, Scheunemann N, Steinhoff-Knopp B, Wellbrock N (2024) Bodenbiodiversität. – In Wirth, C.; Bruelheide, H.; Farwig, N.; Marx, J.; Settele; J.: Faktencheck Artenvielfalt – Assessment zum Erhalt der biologischen Vielfalt in Deutschland. München, oekom. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14512/9783987263361
Förster A, Hohberg K, Rasche F, Emmerling C. (2024) Nematode community structure suggests perennial grain cropping cultivation as a nature‐based solution for resilient agriculture. J Sustain Agric Environ.3:e12112. https://doi.org/10.1002/sae2.12112
Gan HY, Hohberg K, Schneider C, Ebner M, Marais E, Miranda T, Lehmitz R, Maggs-Kölling G, Bocherens H (2024) The hidden oases: unveiling trophic dynamics in Namib’s fog plant ecosystem. Scientific Reports 14:13334 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-61796-8
Guerra C, Eisenhauer N, Tebbe C, Xylander WER, Albert C, Babin D, Bartkowski B, Burkhard B, Filser J, Haase D, Hohberg K, Kleemann J, Kolb S, Lachmann C, Rillig MC, Römbke J, Ruess L, Scheu S, Scheunemann N, Steinhoff-Knopp B, Wellbrock N, Ristok C (2024). Foundations for a national assessment of soil biodiversity. J Sustain Agric Environ. 2024;3:e12116. https://doi.org/10.1002/sae2.12116.
Muelbaier H, Arthen F, Collins G, Hickler T, Hohberg K, Lehmitz R, Pauchet Y, Pfenninger M, Potapov A, Romahn J, Schaefer I, Scheu S, Schneider C, Ebersberger I, Bálint M (2024) Genomic evidence for the wide-spread presence of GH45 cellulases among soil invertebrates. Molecular Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17351
Collins G, Schneider C, Bostjancic LL, Burkhardt U, Christian A, Decker P, Ebersberger I, Hohberg K, Lecompte O, Merges D, Muelbaier H, Romahn J, Römbke J, Rutz C, Schmelz R, Schmidt A, Theissinger K, Veres R, Lehmitz R, Pfenniger M, Balint M (2023) The metainvert soil invertebrate genome resource provides insights into below-ground biodiversity and evolution. Communications biology 6: 1241, https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05621-4
Le Guillarme N, Hedde M, Potapov, AM, Martinez-Munoz CA, Berg MP, Briones MJI, Calderon-Sanou I, Degrune F, Hohberg K, Martinez-Almoyna C, Pey B, Russell D, Thuiller W (2023) The soil food web ontology: aligning trophic groups, processes, resources and dietary traits to support food-web research. Ecological Informatics 78, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2023.102360
Hohberg K, Gan HY, Miranda T, Schneider C, Maggs-Kölling G, Marais E, Lehmitz R, Bocherens H, Ebner M (2023). Nebelpflanzenoasen. Senckenberg – Natur Forschung Museum 153, 110-121
Escher, J., Hohberg, K., Decker, P., & Lehmitz, R. (2022). Ecology, genetics and distribution of Punctoribates zachvatkini, an oribatid mite so far overlooked in Germany. Experimental and Applied Acarology, 87(4), 289-307.
Schmidt, A., Schneider, C., Decker, P., Hohberg, K., Römbke, J., Lehmitz, R., & Bálint, M. (2022). Shotgun metagenomics of soil invertebrate communities reflects taxonomy, biomass, and reference genome properties. Ecology and Evolution, 12(6), e8991.
Decker P, Hohberg K, Küchler A, Lehmitz R, Schmidt A, Schneider C, Römbke J, Balint M (2021) Kleine Tiere – Big Data. Natur Forschung Museum 151: 78-81.
Bingemer, J., Pfeiffer, M., Hohberg, K. (2020) First 12 years of tardigrade succession in the young soils of a quickly evolving ecosystem. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 188: 887-899.
Van den Hoogen J, Geisen S, Wall D, Wardle DA, Traunspurger W, Wardle DA, de Goede RGM, Adams BJ, Ahmad W, Ferris H, Bardgett RD, Bonkowski M, Campos-Herrera R, Cares JE, Caruso T, de Brito CL, Chen X, Costa SR, Creamer R, Mauro da Cunha Castro J, Dam M, Djigal D, Escuer M, Griffiths BS, Gutiérrez C, Hohberg K, Kalinkina D, Kardol P, Kergunteuil A, Korthals G, …, Crowther TW (2020) A global database of soil nematode abundance and functional group composition. Scientific Data 7: 1-8, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0437-3
Bartel, S., Hohberg, K. (2019). Experimental investigations on the partner-finding behaviour of Isohypsibius dastychi (Isohypsibiidae: Tardigrada). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 188: 878-886.
Van den Hoogen J, Geisen S, Routh D, Ferris H, Traunspurger W, Wardle DA, de Goede RGM, Adams BJ, Ahmad W, Andriuzzi WS, Bardgett RD, Bonkowski M, Campos-Herrera R, Cares JE, Caruso T, de Brito CL, Chen X, Costa SR, Creamer R, Mauro da Cunha Castro J, Dam M, Djigal D, Escuer M, Griffiths BS, Gutiérrez C, Hohberg K, Kalinkina D, Kardol P, Kergunteuil A, Korthals G, …, Crowther TW (2019) Soil nematode abundance and functional group composition at a global scale. Nature 572, 194-198, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1418-6
Xylander, W.E.R., Ansorge, H., Balkenhol, B., Burkhardt, U., Christian, A., Damm, U., Düker, Ch., Gebauer, P., Hohberg, K., Hutchinson, J.M.C., Lehmitz, R., Otte, V., Reise, H., Ritz, C., Russell, D. J., Schlitt, B., Schulz, H.-J., Seifert, B., Tietz, O., Voigtländer, K., Wesche, K. (2019). Obituary Prof. Dr. Wolfram Dunger. – Soil Organisms 91(1): i-ii.
Hohberg, K., Traunspurger, W. (2018) Fadenwürmer – fade Würmer? Biologie in unserer Zeit 1/2018: 388-395.
Bingemer, J., Hohberg, K. (2017) An illustrated identification key to the eutardigrade species (Tardigrada, Eutardigrada) presently known from European soils. Soil Organisms 89: 127-149.
Schenk, J., Hohberg, K., Helder, J., Ristau, K., Traunspurger, W. (2017) The D3-D5 region of large subunit ribosomal DNA provides good resolution 3 of German limnic and terrestrial nematode communities. Nematology 19: 821-837.
Pilz, M., Hohberg, K., Pfanz, H., Wittmann, C., Xylander, W.E.R. (2017) Respiratory adaptations to a combination of oxygen deprivation and extreme carbon dioxide concentration in nematodes. Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology 239: 34-40.
Hohberg, K., Lang B. (2016) The feeding apparatus and taxonomic position of clawless Apodibius confusus Dastych, 1983 (Tardigrada: Isohypsibiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 178: 828-833.
Bingemer, J., Hohberg, K., Schill, R.O. (2016) First detailed observations on tardigrade mating behavior and some aspects of the life history of Isohypsibius dastychi Pilato, Bertolani & Binda 1982 (Tardigrada, Isohypsibiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 178: 856-862.
Hohberg, K., Sturhan, D. (2016) Pflanzenparasitäre, mykophage und entomophile Tylenchiden in Deutschland. Abstract. Journal für Kulturpflanzen, 68 (7), 213.
Balkenhol, B., Hohberg, K., Pfanz, H. (2016) Spiders in mofette fields—Survival of the toughest in natural carbon dioxide springs? Ecological Indicators 69: 749-757.
Geiger, M.F., Astrin, J.J., Borsch, T., Burkhardt, U., Grobe, P., Hand, R., Hausmann, A., Hohberg, K., Krogmann, L., Lutz, M., Monje, C., Misof, B., Morinière, J., Müller, K., Pietsch, S., Quandt, D., Rulik, B., Scholler, M., Traunspurger, W., Haszprunar, G., Wägele, W. (2016) How to tackle the molecular species inventory for an industrialized nation – lessons from the first phase of the German Barcode of Life initiative GBOL (2012-2015). Genome 59: 1-10.
Sturhan, D., Hohberg, K. (2016) Nematodes of the order Tylenchida in Germany – the non-phytoparasitic species. Soil Organisms 88: 19-41.
Hohberg, K., Schulz, H.-J., Balkenhol, B., Pilz, M., Thomalla, A., Russell, D.J., Pfanz, H. (2015) Soil faunal communities from mofette fields: Effects of high geogenic carbon dioxide concentration. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 88: 420-429.
Pilz, M., Hohberg, K. (2015) Laboratory experiments on nematodes from natural CO2 springs reveal species-specific tolerance to extreme CO2 concentrations. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 88: 165-168.
Xylander, W.E.R., Lehmitz, R., Hohberg, K., Lang, B., Russell, D.J. (2015) Boden ein unterschätzter Lebensraum. Biologie in unserer Zeit 6/2015: 388-395.
Lehmitz, R., Hohberg, K., Voigtländer, K. (2015) Senckenberg erforscht, wie Boden entsteht – Görlitzer Langzeitstudien zur Entwicklung von Bodenlebensgemeinschaften. Senckenberg – Natur Forschung Museum 145: 84-89.
Hohberg, K., Lehmitz, R., Voigtländer, K. (2015) Wie ein Lebensraum entsteht – Bodentiere in der Bergbaufolge. The genesis of a habitat – Soil animals at post-mining sites. Senckenberg Jahresbericht 2013-2014 ISBN 978-3-929907-92-6: 36-42.
Dabert, M., Dastych, H., Hohberg, K., Dabert, J. (2014) Phylogenetic position of the enigmatic clawless eutardigrade genus Apodibius Dastych, 1983 (Tardigrada), based on 18S and 28S rRNA sequence data from its type species A. confusus. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 70: 70-75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2013.09.012
Russell, D.J., Hohberg, K., Potapov, M., Bruckner, A., Otte, V., Christian, A. (2014) Native terrestrial invertebrate fauna from the northern Antarctic Peninsula: new records, state of current knowledge and ecological preferences – Summary of a German federal study. Soil Organisms, 86(1): 1-58.
Mayer, G., Martin, C., Rüdiger, J., Kauschke, S., Stevenson, P.A., Poprawa, I., Hohberg, K., Schill, R.O., Pflüger, H.-J., Schlegel, M. (2013) Selective neuronal staining in tardigrades and onychophorans provides insights into the evolution of segmental ganglia in panarthropods. BMC Evolutionary Biology 13:230. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/13/230
Elmer, M., Gerwin, W., Schaaf, W., Zaplata, M.K., Hohberg, K., Nenov, R., Bens, O., Hüttl, R.F. (2013) Dynamics of initial ecosystem development at the artificial catchment Chicken Creek, Lusatia, Germany. Environmental Earth Sciences. DOI 10.1107/s12665-013-2330-2.
Russell, D.J., Hohberg, K., Otte, V., Christian, A., Potapov, M., Brückner, A., McInnes, S.J. (2013) The impact of human activities on soil organisms of the maritime Antarctic and the introduction of non-native species in Antarctica. Environmental Research of the Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Project No. (FKZ) 3709 85 157, Report No. (UBA-FB) 001739/E, ISSN 1862-4804, pp. 285. http://www.umweltbundesamt.de/uba-info-medien/4416.html
Lehmitz, R., Russell, D., Hohberg, K., Christian, A., Xylander, W.E.R. (2012) Active dispersal of oribatid mites into young soils. Applied Soil Ecology 55: 10-19.
Hohberg, K., Elmer, M., Russell, D.J., Christian, A., Schulz, H.-J., Lehmitz, R., Wanner, M. (2011) First five years of soil food-web development in ‘Chicken Creek’ catchment. Ecosystem development 3: 93-114. http://opus.kobv.de/btu/volltexte/2012/2373/
Elmer, M., Biemelt, D., Gerwin, W., Hohberg, K., Kleeberg, A., Lessmann, D., Schaaf, W., Schneider, A., Zaplata, M.K. & Hüttl, R.F. (2011): Conclusions. In: Elmer, M., Schaaf, W., Biemelt, D., Gerwin, W. & Hüttl, R.F. (eds.): The artificial catchment ‘Chicken Creek’ – initial ecosystem development 2005-2010. Ecosystem Development 3: 145-153. http://opus.kobv.de/btu/volltexte/2012/2373/
Russell, D.J., Schulz, H.-J., Hohberg, K., Pfanz, H. (2011) Occurrence of collembolan fauna in mofette fields (natural carbon-dioxide springs) of the Czech Republic. Soil organisms 83: 489-505.
Hohberg, K., Russell, D.J., Elmer, M. (2011) Mass occurrence of algal-feeding tardigrade Apodibius confusus, in the young soils of a post-mining site. J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Res. 49: 62-65.
Lehmitz, R., Russell, D, Hohberg, K., Christian, A., Xylander, W.E.R. (2011) Wind dispersal of oribatid mites as a mode of migration. Pedobiologia 54: 201-207.
Russell, D.J., Hohberg, K., Elmer, M. (2010) Primary colonisation of newly formed soils by actinedid mites. Soil organisms 82: 237-351.
Elmer, M., Hohberg, K., Russell, D., Christian, A., Schulz; H.-J. & Wanner, M. (2010): Succession of the soil faunal community during initial ecosystem development. In: Schaaf, W., Biemelt, D., Hüttl, R.F. (Eds.): Initial development of the artificial catchment ‘Chicken Creek’ – monitoring program and survey 2005-2008. Ecosystem Development 2: 97-118.
Hohberg, K. (2010) Stamm Bärtierchen (Tardigrada). In: Engelmann, W. E.; Lange, J. (Hrsg.): Zootierhaltung, Band 6: Wirbellose, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Harri Deutsch, Frankfurt am Main, 481-484.
Elmer, M., Wöllecke, J., Gebhardt, S., Böllmann, J., Hohberg, K., Wanner, M., Xylander, W.E.R. & Hüttl, R.F. (2010): Primärsukzession der Bodenorganismen. In: Hotes, S. & Wolters, V. (Hrsg.): Fokus Biodiversität – Wie Biodiversität in der Kulturlandschaft erhalten und nachhaltig genutzt werden kann. oekom verlag München.
Elmer, M., Rißmann, C., Wanner, M., Hohberg, K., Xylander, W.E.R. (2010) Die Bodenfauna in den Wäldern der Schlabendorfer Felder – natürliche Besiedlung und Wechselwirkungen mit der forstlichen Bewirtschaftung. Biologische Studien 39: 36-47.
Hohberg, K. & Traunspurger, W. (2009) Foraging theory and partial consumption in a tardigrade-nematode system. (doi: 10.1093/beheco/arp077) Behav. Ecol. 20: 884-890.
Jeschke, J.M.& Hohberg, K. (2008). Predicting and testing functional responses: an example from a tardigrade-nematode system. Bas. Appl. Ecol. 9, 145-151.
Elmer, M., Wanner, M., Hohberg, K., Hüttl, R.F. (2008) Diversität der Bodenfauna in der Bergbaufolgelandschaft. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 60, 113-118.
Dunger, W., Hohberg, K., Schulz, H.-J., Zimdars, B. (2008) Langzeit-Reaktionen der Bodenfauna auf den Einfluss umweltschonender Landbewirtschaftung der Flur Glaubitz (Sachsen) – geprüft am Beispiel der edaphischen Collembola. Ber. der Naturforsch. Ges. Oberlausitz 16, 81-98.
Hohberg, K. (2007) Nematoden – Entwicklung der Diversität in jungen Böden. Aktuelle Reihe der BTU Cottbus 2, 100-108
Wanner, M., Elmer, M., Bahrt, A., Balkenhol, B., Düker, C., Hohberg, K., Nährig, D., Hüttl, R.F., Xylander, W.E.R. (2007) Entwicklung der Biodiversität junger Böden der Niederlausitzer Bergbaufolgelandschaft. Aktuelle Reihe der BTU Cottbus 2, 75-78
Hohberg, K. (2007): Nematoden in jungen Böden. In Wöllecke, J., Anders, K., Durka, W., Elmer, M., Wanner, M. & G. Wiegleb (Hrsg): Landschaft im Wandel. Natürliche und anthropogene Besiedlung der Niederlausitzer Bergbaufolgelandschaft. Shaker Verlag, Aachen: 71 – 78
Wanner, M., Elmer, M., Bahrt, A., Balkenhol, B., Düker, C., Hohberg, K., Nährig, D., Hüttl, R.F. & W. E. R. Xylander (2007): Entwicklung der Biodiversität in jungen Böden der Niederlausitzer Bergbaufolgelandschaft. In Wöllecke, J., Anders, K., Durka, W., Elmer, M., Wanner, M. & G. Wiegleb (Hrsg): Landschaft im Wandel. Natürliche und anthropogene Besiedlung der Niederlausitzer Bergbaufolgelandschaft. Shaker Verlag, Aachen: 43 – 51
Hohberg, K. & W. Xylander (2007): Wölfe. Ausstellungsbegleiter. ISBN 978-3-9809854-3-7. Eigenverlag des Staatlichen Museums für Naturkunde Görlitz, 32 S. Erschienen in deutscher und polnischer Sprache.
Hohberg, K. (2006) Tardigrade species composition in young soils and some aspects on life history of Macrobiotus richtersiJ. Murray, 1911. Pedobiologia 50: 267-274.
Ansorge, P., Hohberg, K., Xylander, W. (2006) Bodentiere und die Frage nach dem „Wozu?“. Standbein Spielbein. Museumspädagogik aktuell 74: 36-38
Schellenberg, J. & Hohberg, K. (2006). Der Wolf am Nordrande der Sudeten. Przyroda Sudetów. Muzeum Przyrodnicze w Jeleniej Górze oraz Zachodniosudeckiego towarzystwa przyrodniczego, Wroclaw, Band 9, 207-210
Hohberg, K. & Traunspurger, W. (2005). Predator-prey interaction in soil food web: functional response, size-dependent foraging efficiency, and the influence of soil texture. Biol. Fertil. Soils. 41, 419-427
Hohberg, K. & Greven, H. (2005). Retention of embryonated eggs in parthenogenetic Macrobiotus richtersi J. Murray, 1911 (Eutardigrada). Zool. Anz. 243, 211 – 213.
Dunger, W., Schulz, H.-J., Zimdars, B., Hohberg, K. (2004). Changes in collembolan species composition in Eastern Germany mine sites over fifty years of primary succession. Pedobiologia 48, 503-517.
Hohberg, K. & Xylander, W. (2004). Unter unseren Füßen – Lebensraum Boden. ISBN 3-9809854-0-7. Eigenverlag des Staatlichen Museums für Naturkunde Görlitz, 40 S. Erschienen in deutscher, polnischer und tschechischer Sprache.
Hohberg, K. (2003). Soil nematode fauna of afforested mine sites: genera distribution, trophic structure and functional guilds. App. Soil Ecol. 22, 113 – 126.
Dunger, W., Wanner, M., Hauser, H., Hohberg, K., Schulz, H.-J., Schwalbe, T., Seifert, B., Vogel, J., Voigtländer, K., Zimdars, B., Zulka, K.P. (2001). Development of soil fauna at mine sites during 46 years after afforestation. Pedobiologia 45, 243-271.
Seidel (Hohberg), K. & Mommertz, S. (1999). Auswirkungen von Gründüngung auf die Nematodenfauna eines Ackerbodens. Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ökologie 29, 271-276.
since July 2013
Head of section Oribatida
Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz
Aug. 2012 – June 2013
Research assistant
Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz
in the project “Creation of the Red Lists 2020 – Preparatory Phase (FKZ 3511 861100)” of the Free University of Berlin for a test run Red Lists using the example of earthworms (Lumbricidae)
Jan. 2012 – June 2013
Research assistant
Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz
Scholarship of the Swiss foundation “Pro Acarologia Basiliensis” for the study of the “Oribatidensynusien in the nature reserve Dubringer Moor”
Jan. 2008 – Okt. 2012
Doctorand
Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz
July – Dez. 2007
Research assistant
University Oldenburg
in the joint project “Entomological investigation to combat bluetongue disease”
June 2006 – March 2007
Student assistant
Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB)
Alfred Wegener Institut (AWI) Potsdam
University Potsdam
Education
Okt. 2012
Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz
Degree: Doctorate (biology)
at the University of Leipzig; topic: The distribution routes of horn mites (Oribatida) and their immigration in raw soils
June – July 2010
Ohio State University
Soil Acarology Workshop, Acarology Summer Program
June 2006 – March 2007
Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB)
Degree: Diploma (Biology)
Topic: “Characterization of lake types of the North German Plain using aquatic coleoptera”.
Aug. – Okt. 2010
Elbe Brandenburg Biosphere Reserve
Work experience
Registration of the water beetles in the Rambower Moor
Sept. 2003 – Jan. 2004
University of Newcastle upon Tyne (Great Britain)
Semester abroad
Okt. 2001 – March 2007
University Potsdam
Degree: Diploma (biology)
Specialisation in ecology/nature conservation
2025
Ebner, M., Roth-Nebelsick, A., Bocherens, H., Gschwender, F., Baumeister, M., Ebner, N.M., Hohberg, K., Gan, H.Y., Schneider, C., Maggs-Kölling, G., Marais, E., Lehmitz, R. & Miranda, T. (2025): The fog harvesting Namib Desert dune grass Stipagrostis sabulicola promotes niche building by modifying substrate and atmosphere conditions. Journal of Arid Environments 227, ISSN 0140-1963, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2024.105312.
2024
D.J. Russell, E. Naudts, N.A. Soudzilovskaia, M.J.I. Briones, M. Çakır, E. Conti, J. Cortet, C. Fiera, D. Hackenberger Kutuzovic, M. Hedde, K. Hohberg, D. Indjic, P.H. Krogh, R. Lehmitz, S. Lesch, Z. Marjanovic, C. Mulder, L. Mumladze, M. Murvanidze, S. Rick, M. Roß-Nickoll, J. Schlaghamerský, O. Schmidt, O. Shelef, M. Suhadolc, M. Tsiafouli, A. Winding, A. Zaytsev, A. Potapov, (2024): Edaphobase 2.0: Advanced international data warehouse for collating and using soil biodiversity datasets, Applied Soil Ecology, Volume 204, 105710, ISSN 0929-1393, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2024.105710.
Eisenhauer N, Ristok C, Guerra CA, Tebbe CC, Xylander WER, Babin D, Bartkowski B, Burkhard B, Filser J, Glante F, Hohberg K, Kleemann J, Kolb S, Lachmann C, Lehmitz R, Rillig MC, Römbke J, Rueß L, Scheu S, Scheunemann N, Steinhoff-Knopp B, Wellbrock N (2024) Bodenbiodiversität. – In Wirth, C.; Bruelheide, H.; Farwig, N.; Marx, J.; Settele; J.: Faktencheck Artenvielfalt – Assessment zum Erhalt der biologischen Vielfalt in Deutschland. München, oekom. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14512/9783987263361
Gan HY, Hohberg K, Schneider C, Ebner M, Marais E, Miranda T, Lehmitz R, Maggs-Kölling G, Bocherens H (2024) The hidden oases: unveiling trophic dynamics in Namib’s fog plant ecosystem. Scientific Reports 14:13334 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-61796-8
Muelbaier H, Arthen F, Collins G, Hickler T, Hohberg K, Lehmitz R, Pauchet Y, Pfenninger M, Potapov A, Romahn J, Schaefer I, Scheu S, Schneider C, Ebersberger I, Bálint M (2024) Genomic evidence for the wide-spread presence of GH45 cellulases among soil invertebrates. Molecular Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17351
2023
Collins, G., Schneider, C., Boštjančić, L. L., Burkhardt, U., Christian, A., Decker, P., Ebersberger, I., Hohberg, K., Lecompte, O., Merges, D., Muelbaier, H., Romahn, J., Römbke, J., Rutz, C., Schmelz, R., Schmidt, A., Theissinger, K., Veres, R., Lehmitz, R., … Bálint, M. (2023). The MetaInvert soil invertebrate genome resource provides insights into below-ground biodiversity and evolution.
Communications Biology, 6(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05621-4
2022
Escher, J., Hohberg, K., Decker, P., & Lehmitz, R. (2022). Ecology, genetics and distribution of Punctoribates zachvatkini, an oribatid mite so far overlooked in Germany. Experimental and Applied Acarology, 87(4), 289-307.
Schmidt, A., Schneider, C., Decker, P., Hohberg, K., Römbke, J., Lehmitz, R., & Bálint, M. (2022). Shotgun metagenomics of soil invertebrate communities reflects taxonomy, biomass, and reference genome properties. Ecology and Evolution, 12(6), e8991.
2020
Lehmitz, R., Haase, H., Otte, V. & Russell, D. (2020): Bioindication in peatlands by means of muti-taxa indicators (Oribatida, Aaraneae, Carabidae, Vegetation). Ecological Indicators 109, doi 10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.105837
2019
Graefe, U., Römbke, J. & Lehmitz, R. (2019): Die Waldbindung der Regenwürmer (Lumbricidae) Deutschlands. S.17-25. In: Dorow, W.H.O:, Blick S.U.P. & Schneider, A. (eds): Waldbindung ausgewählter Tiergruppen Deutschlands. Lumbricidae, Araneae, Opiliones, Pseudoscorpiones, Heteroptera, Coleoptera, Aculeata, Macrolepidoptera, Aves. BfN-Skripten 544. Bundesamt für Naturschutz, Bonn-Bad Godesberg. 388 S.
Schuppenhauer, M.M., Lehmitz, R. & Xylander, W.E.R. (2019) Slow-moving soil organisms on a water highway: aquatic dispersal and survival potential of Oribatida and Collembola in running water. Movement Ecology. 7(1):20
Maraun, M., Caruso, T., Hense, J., Lehmitz, R., Mumladze, L., Murvanidze, M., Nae, I, Schulz, J., Seniczak, A. & Scheu, S. (2019). Parthenogenetic vs. sexual reproduction in oribatid mite communities. Ecology and Evolution:1-9
2018
Balkenhol, B., Haase, H., Gebauer, P. & Lehmitz, R. (2018): Steeplebushes conquer the countryside – Influence of invasive plant species on spider communities (Araneae) in former wet meadows. Biodiversity and Conservation 27 (9): 2257-2274
2017
Schuppenhauer, M. M. & Lehmitz, R. (2017): Floating Islands: A method to detect aquatic dispersal and colonisation potential of soil microarthropods. – Soil Organisms 89 (2): 119–126
Lehmitz, R. & Decker, P. (2017): The nuclear 28S gene fragment D3 as species marker in oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from German peatlands. Experimental and Applied Acarology 71(3), 259–276, doi 10.1007/s10493-017-0126-x
2016
Krause, A., Pachl, P., Schulz, G., Lehmitz, R., Senizcak, A., Schaefer, I., Scheu, S. & Maraun, M. (2016): Convergent evolution of aquatic life by sexual and parthenogenetic oribatid mites. Experimental and Applied Acarology, doi 10.1007/s10493-016-0089-3
Lehmitz, R., Römbke, J., Graefe, U., Beylich, A. & Krück, S. (2013): Rote Liste und Gesamtartenliste der Regenwürmer (Lumbricidae et Criodrilidae) Deutschlands. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt, 70 (4) Wirbellose Tiere (Teil 2), 565-590.
Lehmitz, R. & Maraun, M. (2016): Small-scale spatial heterogeneity of stable isotope signatures (δ15N, δ13C) in Sphagnum sp. transfers to all trophic leverl in oribatid mites. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 100: 242-251.
2015
Xylander, W.E.R., Lehmitz, R., Hohberg, K., Lang, B., Russell, D.J. (2015) Boden ein unterschätzter Lebensraum. Biologie in unserer Zeit 6/2015: 388-395.
Lehmitz, R., Hohberg, K., Voigtländer, K. (2015) Senckenberg erforscht, wie Boden entsteht – Görlitzer Langzeitstudien zur Entwicklung von Bodenlebensgemeinschaften. Senckenberg – Natur Forschung Museum 145: 84-89.
Xylander, W.E.R., Lehmitz, R. & Lang, B. (2015): Unsere Böden – Unbeachtet, unverzichtbar und voller Leben. Senckenberg – Natur Forschung Museum 145: 74-77.
Hohberg, K., Lehmitz, R., Voigtländer, K. (2015) Wie ein Lebensraum entsteht – Bodentiere in der Bergbaufolge. The genesis of a habitat – Soil animals at post-mining sites. Senckenberg Jahresbericht 2013-2014 ISBN 978-3-929907-92-6: 36-42.
2014
Lehmitz, R. (2014): The oribatid mite community of a German peatland in 1987 and 2012 – effects of anthropogenic desiccation and afforestation. Soil Organisms 86 (2), 131-145.
Lehmitz, R., Römbke, J., Jänsch, S., Krück, S., Beylich, A. & U. Graefe (2014): Checklist of earthworms (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae) from Germany. Zootaxa 3866, 2: 221-245
2012
Lehmitz, R. (2012): Die Verbreitungswege von Hornmilben (Oribatida) und ihre Einwanderung in Rohböden. – Dissertation, Universität Leipzig, Fakultät der Biowissenschaften, pp. 99.
Lehmitz, R (2012): Milben – vom Winde verweht. – Natur • Forschung • Museum 142, 3/4: 130-131
Lehmitz, R, Russell, D., Hohberg, K., Christian, A. & W.E.R. Xylander (2012): Active dispersal of oribatid mites into young soils. – Applied Soil Ecology 55: 10-19
2011
Hohberg, K., Elmer, M., Russell, D., Christian, A., Schulz, H.-J., Lehmitz, R., R. & M. Wanner (2011): First five years of soil food-web development in ‘Chicken Creek’ catchment. In: Elmer, M., Schaaf, W., Biemelt, D., Gerwin, W. & R.F. Hüttl (Eds.), The artificial catchment ‘Chicken Creek’ – initial ecosystem development 2005-2010. – Ecosystem Development 3: 93-114
Lehmitz, R., Russell, D. J., Hohberg, K., Christian, A., Xylander, W.E.R. (2011): Wind dispersal of oribatid mites as a mode of migration. – Pedobiologia 54: 201–207
2010
Lehmitz, R. (2010): Typisierung von Seen Norddeutschlands anhand aquatischer Coleoptera.- VDM-Verlag, ISBN 3639290593, pp. 116.
2009
Lehmitz, R. (2009): Aerial migration of oribatid mites.- 10th Central European Workshop on Soil Zoology, Ceské Budejovice, Abstract book, p. 48.
2008
Lehmitz, R., Christian, A. & W.E.R. Xylander (2008): Detection of migration mechanisms of oribatid mites.- EURECO-GFOE 2008, Proceedings, Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ökologie 38: 449.
Ebner, M., Roth-Nebelsick, A., Bocherens, H., Gschwender, F., Baumeister, M., Ebner, N.M., Hohberg, K., Gan, H.Y., Schneider, C., Maggs-Kölling, G., Marais, E., Lehmitz, R. & Miranda, T. (2025): The fog harvesting Namib Desert dune grass Stipagrostis sabulicola promotes niche building by modifying substrate and atmosphere conditions. Journal of Arid Environments 227, ISSN 0140-1963, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2024.105312.
2024
Gan HY, Hohberg K, Schneider C, Ebner M, Marais E, Miranda T, Lehmitz R, Maggs-Kölling G, Bocherens H (2024) The hidden oases: unveiling trophic dynamics in Namib’s fog plant ecosystem. Scientific Reports 14:13334 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-61796-8
Muelbaier H, Arthen F, Collins G, Hickler T, Hohberg K, Lehmitz R, Pauchet Y, Pfenninger M, Potapov A, Romahn J, Schaefer I, Scheu S, Schneider C, Ebersberger I, Bálint M (2024) Genomic evidence for the wide-spread presence of GH45 cellulases among soil invertebrates. Molecular Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17351
2023
Collins, G., Schneider, C., Boštjančić, L. L., Burkhardt, U., Christian, A., Decker, P., Ebersberger, I., Hohberg, K., Lecompte, O., Merges, D., Muelbaier, H., Romahn, J., Römbke, J., Rutz, C., Schmelz, R., Schmidt, A., Theissinger, K., Veres, R., Lehmitz, R., … Bálint, M. (2023). The MetaInvert soil invertebrate genome resource provides insights into below-ground biodiversity and evolution.
Communications Biology, 6(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05621-4
2021
Schneider, C., Woehle, C., Greve, C., D’Haese, C. A., Wolf, M., Hiller, M., Janke, A., Bálint, M., Huettel, B. (2021): Two high-quality de novo genomes from single ethanol-preserved specimens of tiny metazoans (Collembola). GigaScience (in press).
2018
Schneider, C., Zhon, S,. & D’Haese, C.A. (2018): Account of a neglected springtail widely distributed in the intertropical one (Neelipleona, Neelidae). International Journal of Tropical Insect Science 1-24.
2017
Schneider, C. & Deharveng, L. (2017): First record of the genus Spinaethorax Papáč & Palacios-Vargas (Collembola, Neelipleona, Neelidae) in Asia, with a new species from a Vietnamese cave. European Journal of Taxonomy 363.
Schneider, C. (2017): Morphological review of the order Neelipleona (Collembola) through the redescription of the type species of Acanthoneelidus, Neelides and Neelus. Zootaxa 4308, 1–94.
2016
Schneider, C. & Deharveng, L. (2016): Two new Megalothorax species of the minimus group (Collembola, Neelidae). ZooKeys, 554, 37–68.
2014
Shrubovych, J., Schneider, C. & D’Haese, C.A. (2014): Revision of the Genus Andinentulus (Protura: Acerentomidae: Berberentulinae), With a Key to South American Acerentomidae Species. Entomological Society of America, 107, 567–574.
Shrubovych, J., Schneider, C. & D’Haese, C.A. (2014): Two new species of Acerentulus Berlese, 1908 (Protura: Acerentomata: Acerentomidae) with their barcode sequences and a key to the cunhai group. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 50, 129–140.
2013
Schneider, C. & D’Haese, C.A. (2013): Morphological and molecular insights on Megalothorax. The largest Neelipleona genus revisited (Collembola). Invertebrates Systematics, 27, 317–364.
2012
Shrubovych, J., Schneider, C. & D’Haese, C.A. (2012): Description of a new species of Acerentulus Berlese, 1908 (Protura: Acerentomata: Acerentomidae) with its barcode sequence and a key to the confinis group. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (N.S.) 48, 1–7.
2011
Schneider, C., Cruaud, C. & D’Haese, C.A. (2011): Unexpected diversity in Neelipleona revealed by molecular phylogeny approach (Hexapoda, Collembola). Soil Organisms, 83, 383–398.
since 2018
PostDoc (research assistant)
Senckenberg Museum for Natural History Görlitz
Department of Soil Zoology, Section Mesofauna
Within MediAN Projekt
2015 – 2018
PostDoc (research assistant)
Georg-August-University Göttingen, Institute for Anthropology and Zoology, Department of Animal Ecology
2009 – 2015
PhD student
Georg-August-University Göttingen, Institute for Anthropology and Zoology, Department of Animal Ecology
2008 – 2008
Research trainee
Technical University Darmstadt, Institute of Zoology
2007 – 2009
Student assistant
Technical University Darmstadt, Institute of Zoology
Education
2010 – 2015
Georg-August-University Göttingen
Doctoral candidate in the study programme Biodiversity and Ecology
Degree: Dissertation (Dr. rer. nat.)
Title of dissertation: “Carbon flow in belowground food webs assessed by isotope tracers”.
2003 – 2009
Darmstadt University of Technology
Study of Biology
Main subjects: ecology, zoology, animal physiology
Degree: Diploma (Dipl. biol.)
Title of diploma thesis: “Variations in leaf litter food webs between biomes”.
2024
Russell, D., Tebbe, C., Ashwood, F., Scheunemann, N. & Hohberg, K. (2024). Beeindruckendes Bodenleben. Natur und Landschaft, Schriften des BfN 99: 426-435, doi 10.19217/NuL2024-09-01.
Eisenhauer N, Ristok C, Guerra CA, Tebbe CC, Xylander WER, Babin D, Bartkowski B, Burkhard B, Filser J, Glante F, Hohberg K, Kleemann J, Kolb S, Lachmann C, Lehmitz R, Rillig MC, Römbke J, Rueß L, Scheu S, Scheunemann N, Steinhoff-Knopp B, Wellbrock N (2024) Bodenbiodiversität. – In Wirth, C.; Bruelheide, H.; Farwig, N.; Marx, J.; Settele; J.: Faktencheck Artenvielfalt – Assessment zum Erhalt der biologischen Vielfalt in Deutschland. München, oekom. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14512/9783987263361
Guerra, C., Eisenhauer, N., Tebbe, C., Xylander, W., Albert, C., … Scheunemann, N., … & Ristok, C. (2024). Foundations for a national assessment of soil biodiversity. J Sustain Agric Environ 3:e12116
Russell, D., Tebbe, C., Ashwood, F., Scheunemann, N. & Hohberg, K. (2024). Beeindruckendes Bodenleben. Natur und Landschaft 99, 426-435
Eisenhauer, N.; Ristok, C.; Guerra, C.A.; Tebbe, C.C.;- … Scheunemann, N.; … & Wellbrock, N. (2024). Bodenbiodiversität. – In Wirth, C.; Bruelheide, H.; Farwig, N.; Marx, J.; Settele; J. (2024): Faktencheck Artenvielfalt – Assessment zum Erhalt der biologischen Vielfalt in Deutschland. München, oekom.
Leibniz Research Network Biodiversity: Thonicke, K., Rahner, E., Arneth, A., Bonn, A., …, Scheunemann, N., … & Wesche, K. (2024). 10 Must Knows from Biodiversity Science 2024.
Potapov, A. M., Chen, T. W., Striuchkova, A. V., Alatalo, J. M., Alexandre, D., Arbea, J., …, Scheunemann, N., … & Scheu, S. (2024). Global fine-resolution data on springtail abundance and community structure. Scientific data, 11(1), 22.
2023
Scheunemann, N., & Russell, D. J. (). Hydrological regime and forest development have indirect effects on soil fauna feeding activity in Central European hardwood floodplain forests. Nature Conservation, 53, 257-278.
Potapov, A. M., Guerra, C. A., Van den Hoogen, J., Babenko, A., Bellini, B. C., Berg, M. P., … Scheunemann, N., … & Scheu, S. (2023). Globally invariant metabolism but density-diversity mismatch in springtails. Nature Communications, 14(1), 674.
2021
Doblas-Miranda E (2021) Soil Ecosystems Change With Time. Frontiers for Young Minds 9:543498. Translation into German.
2020
Potapov A (2020) Springtails—Worldwide Jumpers. Frontiers for Young Minds 8:545370. Translation into German.
Li, Z., Scheunemann, N., Potapov, A. M., Shi, L., Pausch, J., Scheu, S., & Pollierer, M. M. (2020). Incorporation of root-derived carbon into soil microarthropods varies between cropping systems. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 56, 839-851.
2019
Li, Z., Scheunemann, N., Potapov, A. M., Shi, L., Pausch, J., Scheu, S., Pollierer, M. (accepted). The role of root-derived carbon for Collembola nutrition depends on plant type, functional group and species identity.
2018
Pausch, J., Hünninghaus, M., Kramer, S., Scharroba, A., Scheunemann, N., Butenschoen, O., Marhan, S., Bonkowski, M., Kandeler, E., Scheu, S., Kuzyakov, Y., Ruess, L., (2018). Carbon budgets of top- and subsoil food webs in an arable system. Pedobiologia – Journal of Soil Ecology 69, 29-33
2016
Müller, K., Kramer, S., Haslwimmer, H., Marhan, S., Scheunemann, N., Butenschoen, O., Scheu, S., Kandeler, E. (2016). Carbon transfer from maize roots and litter into bacteria and fungi depends on soil depth and time. – Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 93: 79–89.
Pausch, J., Kramer, S., Scharroba, A., Scheunemann, N., Butenschoen, O., Kandeler, E., Marhan, S., Riederer, M., Scheu, S., Kuzyakov, Y., Ruess, L. (2016). Small but active – pool size does not matter for carbon incorporation in belowground food webs. – Functional Ecology, 30: 479–489.
Scheunemann, N., Pausch, J., Digel, C., Kramer, S., Scharroba, A., Kuzyakov, Y., Kandeler, E., Ruess, L., Butenschoen, O., Scheu, S. (2016). Incorporation of root C and fertilizer N into the food web of an arable field: Variations with functional group and energy channel. – Food Webs, 9: 39–45.
2015
Scheunemann, N., Digel, C., Scheu, S., & Butenschoen, O. (2015). Roots rather than shoot residues drive soil arthropod communities of arable fields. – Oecologia, 179(4): 1135–1145.
Scheunemann, N., Maraun, M., Scheu, S., & Butenschoen, O. (2015). The role of shoot residues vs. crop species for soil arthropod diversity and abundance of arable systems. – Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 81: 81–88.
2012
Kramer, S., Marhan, S., Ruess, L., Armbruster, W., Butenschoen, O., Haslwimmer, H., Kuzyakov, Y., Pausch, J., Scheunemann, N., Schoene, J., Schmalwasser, A., Totsche, K. U., Walker, F., Scheu, S., Kandeler, E. (2012). Carbon flow into microbial and fungal biomass as a basis for the belowground food web of agroecosystems. – Pedobiologia, 55(2): 111–119.
2010
Scheunemann, N., Scheu, S., & Butenschoen, O. (2010). Incorporation of decade old soil carbon into the soil animal food web of an arable system. – Applied Soil Ecology 46(1): 59–63.
Stephan Lesch
Software Developer, Head of Biodiversity Informatics Görlitz Project Management
García Brizuela, J., Scharfenberg, C., Scheuner, C., Hoedt, F., König, P., Kranz, A., Leidel, A., Martini, D., Schneider, G., Schneider, J., Singson, L., von Waldow, H., Wehrmeyer, N., Usadel, B., Lesch, S., Specka, X., Lange, M. & Arend, D. (2024). A roadmap for a middleware as a federation service for integrative data retrieval of agricultural data. Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics, 20240027. https://doi.org/10.1515/jib-2024-0027
D.J. Russell, E. Naudts, N.A. Soudzilovskaia, M.J.I. Briones, M. Çakır, E. Conti, J. Cortet, C. Fiera, D. Hackenberger Kutuzovic, M. Hedde, K. Hohberg, D. Indjic, P.H. Krogh, R. Lehmitz, S. Lesch, Z. Marjanovic, C. Mulder, L. Mumladze, M. Murvanidze, S. Rick, M. Roß-Nickoll, J. Schlaghamerský, O. Schmidt, O. Shelef, M. Suhadolc, M. Tsiafouli, A. Winding, A. Zaytsev, A. Potapov, Edaphobase 2.0: Advanced international data warehouse for collating and using soil biodiversity datasets, Applied Soil Ecology, Volume 204, 2024, 105710, ISSN 0929-1393, https://doi.org/10.1016
Hausen, J. and Scholz-Starke, B. and Burkhardt, U. and Lesch, S. and Rick, S. and Russell, D. J. and Roß-Nickoll, M. and Ottermanns, R. (2017) EdaphoStat: interactive ecological analysis of soil organism occurrences and preferences from the Edaphobase data warehouse. Database, 2017. pp. 1-6.
Burkhardt, U. and Russell, D. J. and Höfer, H. and Lesch, S. and Rick, S. and Römbke, J. and Xylander, W.E.R. (2014) Edaphobase – The Online Soil-Zoological Data Warehouse. 9th International Seminar of Apterygota, Abstract Book. p. 31.
Burkhardt, U. and Russell, D. J. and Decker, P. and Döhler, M. and Höfer, H. and Lesch, S. and Rick, S. and Römbke, J. and Trog, C. and Vorwald, J. and Wurst, E. and Xylander, W.E.R. (2014) The Edaphobase Project of GBIF-Germany – A new online soil-zoological data warehouse. Applied Soil Ecology, 83. pp. 3-12. ISSN 0929-1393
Russell, D. J. and Vorwald, J. and Burkhardt, U. and Christian, A. and Decker, P. and Döhler, M. and Franzke, A. and Höfer, H. and Hohberg, K. and Horak, K. and Jänsch, S. and Lesch, S. and Rick, S. and Römbke, J. and Schmelz, R. and Schulz, H.-J. and Stierhof, T. and Trog, C. and Voigtländer, K. and Wurst, E. and Xylander, W.E.R. (2012) Edaphobase – a new data warehouse for soil organisms. Book of Abstracts – Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ökologie, 42. p. 282.
Software
Stephan Lesch
Software Developer, Head of Biodiversity Informatics Görlitz Software Developer
García Brizuela, J., Scharfenberg, C., Scheuner, C., Hoedt, F., König, P., Kranz, A., Leidel, A., Martini, D., Schneider, G., Schneider, J., Singson, L., von Waldow, H., Wehrmeyer, N., Usadel, B., Lesch, S., Specka, X., Lange, M. & Arend, D. (2024). A roadmap for a middleware as a federation service for integrative data retrieval of agricultural data. Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics, 20240027. https://doi.org/10.1515/jib-2024-0027
D.J. Russell, E. Naudts, N.A. Soudzilovskaia, M.J.I. Briones, M. Çakır, E. Conti, J. Cortet, C. Fiera, D. Hackenberger Kutuzovic, M. Hedde, K. Hohberg, D. Indjic, P.H. Krogh, R. Lehmitz, S. Lesch, Z. Marjanovic, C. Mulder, L. Mumladze, M. Murvanidze, S. Rick, M. Roß-Nickoll, J. Schlaghamerský, O. Schmidt, O. Shelef, M. Suhadolc, M. Tsiafouli, A. Winding, A. Zaytsev, A. Potapov, Edaphobase 2.0: Advanced international data warehouse for collating and using soil biodiversity datasets, Applied Soil Ecology, Volume 204, 2024, 105710, ISSN 0929-1393, https://doi.org/10.1016
Hausen, J. and Scholz-Starke, B. and Burkhardt, U. and Lesch, S. and Rick, S. and Russell, D. J. and Roß-Nickoll, M. and Ottermanns, R. (2017) EdaphoStat: interactive ecological analysis of soil organism occurrences and preferences from the Edaphobase data warehouse. Database, 2017. pp. 1-6.
Burkhardt, U. and Russell, D. J. and Höfer, H. and Lesch, S. and Rick, S. and Römbke, J. and Xylander, W.E.R. (2014) Edaphobase – The Online Soil-Zoological Data Warehouse. 9th International Seminar of Apterygota, Abstract Book. p. 31.
Burkhardt, U. and Russell, D. J. and Decker, P. and Döhler, M. and Höfer, H. and Lesch, S. and Rick, S. and Römbke, J. and Trog, C. and Vorwald, J. and Wurst, E. and Xylander, W.E.R. (2014) The Edaphobase Project of GBIF-Germany – A new online soil-zoological data warehouse. Applied Soil Ecology, 83. pp. 3-12. ISSN 0929-1393
Russell, D. J. and Vorwald, J. and Burkhardt, U. and Christian, A. and Decker, P. and Döhler, M. and Franzke, A. and Höfer, H. and Hohberg, K. and Horak, K. and Jänsch, S. and Lesch, S. and Rick, S. and Römbke, J. and Schmelz, R. and Schulz, H.-J. and Stierhof, T. and Trog, C. and Voigtländer, K. and Wurst, E. and Xylander, W.E.R. (2012) Edaphobase – a new data warehouse for soil organisms. Book of Abstracts – Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ökologie, 42. p. 282.
D.J. Russell, E. Naudts, N.A. Soudzilovskaia, M.J.I. Briones, M. Çakır, E. Conti, J. Cortet, C. Fiera, D. Hackenberger Kutuzovic, M. Hedde, K. Hohberg, D. Indjic, P.H. Krogh, R. Lehmitz, S. Lesch, Z. Marjanovic, C. Mulder, L. Mumladze, M. Murvanidze, S. Rick, M. Roß-Nickoll, J. Schlaghamerský, O. Schmidt, O. Shelef, M. Suhadolc, M. Tsiafouli, A. Winding, A. Zaytsev, A. Potapov, (2024): Edaphobase 2.0: Advanced international data warehouse for collating and using soil biodiversity datasets, Applied Soil Ecology, Volume 204, 105710, ISSN 0929-1393, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2024.105710.
Hausen, J. and Scholz-Starke, B. and Burkhardt, U. and Lesch, S. and Rick, S. and Russell, D. J. and Roß-Nickoll, M. and Ottermanns, R. (2017) EdaphoStat: interactive ecological analysis of soil organism occurrences and preferences from the Edaphobase data warehouse. Database, 2017. pp. 1-6.
Burkhardt, U. and Russell, D. J. and Höfer, H. and Lesch, S. and Rick, S.and Römbke, J. and Xylander, W.E.R. (2014) Edaphobase – The Online Soil-Zoological Data Warehouse. 9th International Seminar of Apterygota, Abstract Book. p. 31.
Burkhardt, U. and Russell, D. J. and Decker, P. and Döhler, M. and Höfer, H. and Lesch, S. and Rick, S. and Römbke, J. and Trog, C. and Vorwald, J. and Wurst, E. and Xylander, W.E.R. (2014) The Edaphobase Project of GBIF-Germany – A new online soil-zoological data warehouse.Applied Soil Ecology, 83. pp. 3-12. ISSN 0929-1393
Russell, D. J. and Vorwald, J. and Burkhardt, U. and Christian, A. and Decker, P. and Döhler, M. and Franzke, A. and Höfer, H. and Hohberg, K. and Horak, K. and Jänsch, S. and Lesch, S. and Rick, S. and Römbke, J. and Schmelz, R. and Schulz, H.-J. and Stierhof, T. and Trog, C. and Voigtländer, K. and Wurst, E. and Xylander, W.E.R. (2012) Edaphobase – a new data warehouse for soil organisms. Book of Abstracts – Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ökologie, 42. p. 282.
since July 2013
Head of section Oribatida
Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz
Aug. 2012 – June 2013
Research assistant
Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz
in the project “Creation of the Red Lists 2020 – Preparatory Phase (FKZ 3511 861100)” of the Free University of Berlin for a test run Red Lists using the example of earthworms (Lumbricidae)
Jan. 2012 – June 2013
Research assistant
Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz
Scholarship of the Swiss foundation “Pro Acarologia Basiliensis” for the study of the “Oribatidensynusien in the nature reserve Dubringer Moor”
Jan. 2008 – Okt. 2012
Doctorand
Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz
July – Dez. 2007
Research assistant
University Oldenburg
in the joint project “Entomological investigation to combat bluetongue disease”
June 2006 – March 2007
Student assistant
Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB)
Alfred Wegener Institut (AWI) Potsdam
University Potsdam
Education
Okt. 2012
Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz
Degree: Doctorate (biology)
at the University of Leipzig; topic: The distribution routes of horn mites (Oribatida) and their immigration in raw soils
June – July 2010
Ohio State University
Soil Acarology Workshop, Acarology Summer Program
June 2006 – March 2007
Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB)
Degree: Diploma (Biology)
Topic: “Characterization of lake types of the North German Plain using aquatic coleoptera”.
Aug. – Okt. 2010
Elbe Brandenburg Biosphere Reserve
Work experience
Registration of the water beetles in the Rambower Moor
Sept. 2003 – Jan. 2004
University of Newcastle upon Tyne (Great Britain)
Semester abroad
Okt. 2001 – March 2007
University Potsdam
Degree: Diploma (biology)
Specialisation in ecology/nature conservation
2025
Ebner, M., Roth-Nebelsick, A., Bocherens, H., Gschwender, F., Baumeister, M., Ebner, N.M., Hohberg, K., Gan, H.Y., Schneider, C., Maggs-Kölling, G., Marais, E., Lehmitz, R. & Miranda, T. (2025): The fog harvesting Namib Desert dune grass Stipagrostis sabulicola promotes niche building by modifying substrate and atmosphere conditions. Journal of Arid Environments 227, ISSN 0140-1963, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2024.105312.
2024
D.J. Russell, E. Naudts, N.A. Soudzilovskaia, M.J.I. Briones, M. Çakır, E. Conti, J. Cortet, C. Fiera, D. Hackenberger Kutuzovic, M. Hedde, K. Hohberg, D. Indjic, P.H. Krogh, R. Lehmitz, S. Lesch, Z. Marjanovic, C. Mulder, L. Mumladze, M. Murvanidze, S. Rick, M. Roß-Nickoll, J. Schlaghamerský, O. Schmidt, O. Shelef, M. Suhadolc, M. Tsiafouli, A. Winding, A. Zaytsev, A. Potapov, (2024): Edaphobase 2.0: Advanced international data warehouse for collating and using soil biodiversity datasets, Applied Soil Ecology, Volume 204, 105710, ISSN 0929-1393, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2024.105710.
Eisenhauer N, Ristok C, Guerra CA, Tebbe CC, Xylander WER, Babin D, Bartkowski B, Burkhard B, Filser J, Glante F, Hohberg K, Kleemann J, Kolb S, Lachmann C, Lehmitz R, Rillig MC, Römbke J, Rueß L, Scheu S, Scheunemann N, Steinhoff-Knopp B, Wellbrock N (2024) Bodenbiodiversität. – In Wirth, C.; Bruelheide, H.; Farwig, N.; Marx, J.; Settele; J.: Faktencheck Artenvielfalt – Assessment zum Erhalt der biologischen Vielfalt in Deutschland. München, oekom. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14512/9783987263361
Gan HY, Hohberg K, Schneider C, Ebner M, Marais E, Miranda T, Lehmitz R, Maggs-Kölling G, Bocherens H (2024) The hidden oases: unveiling trophic dynamics in Namib’s fog plant ecosystem. Scientific Reports 14:13334 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-61796-8
Muelbaier H, Arthen F, Collins G, Hickler T, Hohberg K, Lehmitz R, Pauchet Y, Pfenninger M, Potapov A, Romahn J, Schaefer I, Scheu S, Schneider C, Ebersberger I, Bálint M (2024) Genomic evidence for the wide-spread presence of GH45 cellulases among soil invertebrates. Molecular Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17351
2023
Collins, G., Schneider, C., Boštjančić, L. L., Burkhardt, U., Christian, A., Decker, P., Ebersberger, I., Hohberg, K., Lecompte, O., Merges, D., Muelbaier, H., Romahn, J., Römbke, J., Rutz, C., Schmelz, R., Schmidt, A., Theissinger, K., Veres, R., Lehmitz, R., … Bálint, M. (2023). The MetaInvert soil invertebrate genome resource provides insights into below-ground biodiversity and evolution.
Communications Biology, 6(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05621-4
2022
Escher, J., Hohberg, K., Decker, P., & Lehmitz, R. (2022). Ecology, genetics and distribution of Punctoribates zachvatkini, an oribatid mite so far overlooked in Germany. Experimental and Applied Acarology, 87(4), 289-307.
Schmidt, A., Schneider, C., Decker, P., Hohberg, K., Römbke, J., Lehmitz, R., & Bálint, M. (2022). Shotgun metagenomics of soil invertebrate communities reflects taxonomy, biomass, and reference genome properties. Ecology and Evolution, 12(6), e8991.
2020
Lehmitz, R., Haase, H., Otte, V. & Russell, D. (2020): Bioindication in peatlands by means of muti-taxa indicators (Oribatida, Aaraneae, Carabidae, Vegetation). Ecological Indicators 109, doi 10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.105837
2019
Graefe, U., Römbke, J. & Lehmitz, R. (2019): Die Waldbindung der Regenwürmer (Lumbricidae) Deutschlands. S.17-25. In: Dorow, W.H.O:, Blick S.U.P. & Schneider, A. (eds): Waldbindung ausgewählter Tiergruppen Deutschlands. Lumbricidae, Araneae, Opiliones, Pseudoscorpiones, Heteroptera, Coleoptera, Aculeata, Macrolepidoptera, Aves. BfN-Skripten 544. Bundesamt für Naturschutz, Bonn-Bad Godesberg. 388 S.
Schuppenhauer, M.M., Lehmitz, R. & Xylander, W.E.R. (2019) Slow-moving soil organisms on a water highway: aquatic dispersal and survival potential of Oribatida and Collembola in running water. Movement Ecology. 7(1):20
Maraun, M., Caruso, T., Hense, J., Lehmitz, R., Mumladze, L., Murvanidze, M., Nae, I, Schulz, J., Seniczak, A. & Scheu, S. (2019). Parthenogenetic vs. sexual reproduction in oribatid mite communities. Ecology and Evolution:1-9
2018
Balkenhol, B., Haase, H., Gebauer, P. & Lehmitz, R. (2018): Steeplebushes conquer the countryside – Influence of invasive plant species on spider communities (Araneae) in former wet meadows. Biodiversity and Conservation 27 (9): 2257-2274
2017
Schuppenhauer, M. M. & Lehmitz, R. (2017): Floating Islands: A method to detect aquatic dispersal and colonisation potential of soil microarthropods. – Soil Organisms 89 (2): 119–126
Lehmitz, R. & Decker, P. (2017): The nuclear 28S gene fragment D3 as species marker in oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from German peatlands. Experimental and Applied Acarology 71(3), 259–276, doi 10.1007/s10493-017-0126-x
2016
Krause, A., Pachl, P., Schulz, G., Lehmitz, R., Senizcak, A., Schaefer, I., Scheu, S. & Maraun, M. (2016): Convergent evolution of aquatic life by sexual and parthenogenetic oribatid mites. Experimental and Applied Acarology, doi 10.1007/s10493-016-0089-3
Lehmitz, R., Römbke, J., Graefe, U., Beylich, A. & Krück, S. (2013): Rote Liste und Gesamtartenliste der Regenwürmer (Lumbricidae et Criodrilidae) Deutschlands. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt, 70 (4) Wirbellose Tiere (Teil 2), 565-590.
Lehmitz, R. & Maraun, M. (2016): Small-scale spatial heterogeneity of stable isotope signatures (δ15N, δ13C) in Sphagnum sp. transfers to all trophic leverl in oribatid mites. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 100: 242-251.
2015
Xylander, W.E.R., Lehmitz, R., Hohberg, K., Lang, B., Russell, D.J. (2015) Boden ein unterschätzter Lebensraum. Biologie in unserer Zeit 6/2015: 388-395.
Lehmitz, R., Hohberg, K., Voigtländer, K. (2015) Senckenberg erforscht, wie Boden entsteht – Görlitzer Langzeitstudien zur Entwicklung von Bodenlebensgemeinschaften. Senckenberg – Natur Forschung Museum 145: 84-89.
Xylander, W.E.R., Lehmitz, R. & Lang, B. (2015): Unsere Böden – Unbeachtet, unverzichtbar und voller Leben. Senckenberg – Natur Forschung Museum 145: 74-77.
Hohberg, K., Lehmitz, R., Voigtländer, K. (2015) Wie ein Lebensraum entsteht – Bodentiere in der Bergbaufolge. The genesis of a habitat – Soil animals at post-mining sites. Senckenberg Jahresbericht 2013-2014 ISBN 978-3-929907-92-6: 36-42.
2014
Lehmitz, R. (2014): The oribatid mite community of a German peatland in 1987 and 2012 – effects of anthropogenic desiccation and afforestation. Soil Organisms 86 (2), 131-145.
Lehmitz, R., Römbke, J., Jänsch, S., Krück, S., Beylich, A. & U. Graefe (2014): Checklist of earthworms (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae) from Germany. Zootaxa 3866, 2: 221-245
2012
Lehmitz, R. (2012): Die Verbreitungswege von Hornmilben (Oribatida) und ihre Einwanderung in Rohböden. – Dissertation, Universität Leipzig, Fakultät der Biowissenschaften, pp. 99.
Lehmitz, R (2012): Milben – vom Winde verweht. – Natur • Forschung • Museum 142, 3/4: 130-131
Lehmitz, R, Russell, D., Hohberg, K., Christian, A. & W.E.R. Xylander (2012): Active dispersal of oribatid mites into young soils. – Applied Soil Ecology 55: 10-19
2011
Hohberg, K., Elmer, M., Russell, D., Christian, A., Schulz, H.-J., Lehmitz, R., R. & M. Wanner (2011): First five years of soil food-web development in ‘Chicken Creek’ catchment. In: Elmer, M., Schaaf, W., Biemelt, D., Gerwin, W. & R.F. Hüttl (Eds.), The artificial catchment ‘Chicken Creek’ – initial ecosystem development 2005-2010. – Ecosystem Development 3: 93-114
Lehmitz, R., Russell, D. J., Hohberg, K., Christian, A., Xylander, W.E.R. (2011): Wind dispersal of oribatid mites as a mode of migration. – Pedobiologia 54: 201–207
2010
Lehmitz, R. (2010): Typisierung von Seen Norddeutschlands anhand aquatischer Coleoptera.- VDM-Verlag, ISBN 3639290593, pp. 116.
2009
Lehmitz, R. (2009): Aerial migration of oribatid mites.- 10th Central European Workshop on Soil Zoology, Ceské Budejovice, Abstract book, p. 48.
2008
Lehmitz, R., Christian, A. & W.E.R. Xylander (2008): Detection of migration mechanisms of oribatid mites.- EURECO-GFOE 2008, Proceedings, Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ökologie 38: 449.
since 2009
Scientific head of the department of soil zoology and
Head of the Mesofauna Section
Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz
since 2008
Teaching activity
International University Institute Zittau
in the Master’s programme of the Institute for Environmental Biotechnology
2005 – 2008
Chief Curator of the Department of Soil Zoology
State Museum of Natural History Görlitz
since 2001
Curator of the Mesofauna Section
State (from 1/2009: Senckenberg) Museum of Natural History Görlitz
2000 – 2001
Research assistant
Zoological Institute and Museum, University of Greifswald
Project management and processing of Collembola and Actinedida in the BMBF project:
“Future-oriented forest management” project
1997 – 2001
Lektor
Julius Springer Verlag, Heidelberg
For Cell and Tissue Research, Experimental Brain Research, Biology and Fertility of Soils
1994 – 1995
Teaching activity
University of Maryland – European Division
(Biology / Ecology)
1991 – 1992
Research assistant
Zoological Institute, University of Heidelberg
Investigation of the effects of chronic heavy metal pollution on Collembola communities and decomposition processes of natural beech forests
1990 – 1993
Freelancer
WWF Floodplain Institute, Rastatt
Effects of various forestry and renaturation methods on soil-ecological parameters
Education
1994 – 1998
University of Heidelberg
Degree: Dissertation (Biology)
1984 – 1993
University of Heidelberg
Degree: Diploma Biology
1983 – 1984
University of Maryland (Heidelberg, BRD)
Degree: Associate in Arts
1980 – 1982
Language courses in Europe
1977- 1979
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (U.S.A.)
Training courses
2006
Academy for Public Administration of the Free State of Saxony
Moderation and meeting technology
2006
Academy for Public Administration of the Free State of Saxony
Communication and conversation management
1994
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Acarology Summer Program
Course: Soil Acarology; Drs. Kethley, Johnston, Norton
1993
Osnabrück
Summer Academy for Systematic Zoology
Course: Collembola (Arthropleona); Prof. Dr. W. Dunger
2024
Bonfanti, J., Potapov, A. M., Angst, G., Ganault, P., Briones, M. J. I., Calderon-Sadou, I., Chen, T.-W., Conti, E., Degrune, F., Eisenhauer, N., Ferlian, O., Hackenberger, D., Hauer, A., Hedde, M., Hohberg, K., Krogh, P. H., Mulder, C., Perez-Roig, C., Russell, D., Shelef, O., Zhou, Z., Zuev, A., Berg, M. (2024). Linking effect traits of soil fauna to processes of organic matter transformation. Functional Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14720
Gabriel Salako, Andrey Zaitsev,BibianaBetancur-Corredor, David J. Russell (2024): Modelling and spatial prediction of earthworms ecological-categories distribution reveal their habitat and environmental preferences. Ecological Indicators, Vol. 169. pdf
Kotschik, P., Brooks, B., Felix da Graca Silva, V., Grenni, P., Luz, T., Menke, U., Renaud, M., Princz, J., Rijk, I., Russell, D.J., van Gestel, K., Vieira, D., Pieper, S. (in prep.) Soil protection & risk assessment for chemicals: Where do we stand and what do we need? Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management
Aldana-Martín J.F., Russell, D.J., Martínez-Muñoz C.A., Driller, C., Navas-Delgado, I. (submitted): Advancing soil biology research: empowering European databases with ontological frameworks for enhanced data integration. Ecological Informatics
Salako, G., Zaitsev, A., Bentacur-Corredor, B., Russell, D.J. (in press): Modelling and spatial prediction of earthworms ecological-groups distribution reveal their habitat and environmental preferences. Ecological indicators
Russell, D.J. (submitted): Quality review enhances the benefits of data publication for soil biodiversity conservation. Applied Soil Ecology
Bonfanti, J., Potapov, A., Angst, G., Ganault, P., Briones, M., Calderon-Sadou, I., Chen, T.-W., Conti, E., Degrune, F., Eisenhauer, N., Ferlian, O., Hackenberger, D., Hauer, A., Hedde, M., Hohberg, K., Krogh, P., Mulder, C., Roig, C., Russell, D., Shelef, O., Zhou, Z., Zuev, A., Berg, M. (in press): Linking effect traits of soil fauna to processes of organic matter transformation. Functional Ecology
Betancur Corredor, B., Zaytsev, A., Russell, D. (submitted): Intensified land uses lead to lower taxonomic richness of nematodes, sprintails, and mites in a global meta-analysis. Geoderma. Preprint: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4793957/v1
Betancur Corredor, B., Zaytsev, A., Russell, D. (in press): Concurrent adoption of multiple less intensive practices is essential for effectively preserving earthworm diversity in agroecosystems: a global meta-analysis. Scientific Reports. Preprint: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4544851/v1
Russell, D.J., Naudts, E., Soudzilovskaia, N.A., Briones, M.J.I., Çakır, M., Conti, E., Cortet, J., Fiera, C., Hackenberger Kutuzovic, D., Hedde, M., Hohberg, K., Indjic, D., Krogh, P.H., Lehmitz, R., Lesch, S., Marjanovic, Z., Mulder, C., Mumladze, L., Murvanidze, M., Rick, S., Roß-Nickoll, M., Schlaghamerský, J., Schmidt, O., Shelef, O., Suhadolc, M., Tsiafouli, M., Winding, A., Zaitsev, A., Potapov, A. (2024): Edaphobase 2.0: advanced international data warehouse for collating and using soil biodiversity datasets. Applied Soil Ecology 204. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4820719
Ballasus, H., Beylich, A., Bluhm, C. Buscot, F., Cordsen, E. Eisenhauer, N., Fröhlich, J. Glante, F., Grüneberg, E., Hommel, B., Höper, H., Jacob, F., Lachmann, C., Nabel, M., Pieper, S., Puhlmann, H., Römbke, J., Roß-Nickol, M., Russell, D.J., Scheu, S. Tebbe, C.C., Toschki, A., Walter, R. Weiß, L. (2024): Wege zu einem bundesweiten harmonisierten Monitoring: Verbesserung der Erfassung der Bodenbiodiversität und ihrer Funktionen. Natur und Landschaft 09/10: 452-458
Russell, D.J., Tebbe, C.C., Ashwood, F., Scheunemann, N., Hohberg. K. (2024): Beeindruckendes Bodenleben. Natur und Landschaft 09/10: 426-458
Betancur Corredor, B., Zaytsev, A., Russell, D. (2024): A meta-analysis of the impact of land use intensification on selected soil fauna in global agroecosystems – Methods. Open Science Framework: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/S96GY
Farfan, M.A., Guerra, C.A., Hedlund, K., Ingimarsdóttir, M., Barrios, E., Cox, N., Dahlberg, A., Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Eisenhauer, N., Lundesjö, M., Orgiazz,i A., Parnell, J.J., Potapov, A., Ramirez, K.S., Raschmanová, N., Russell, D., Wall, D.H., Zaytsev, A. (2024): Preliminary assessment of the knowledge gaps to improve nature conservation of soil biodiversity. Soils for Europe 1: e118853. https://doi.org/10.3897/soils4europe.e118853
Ganault, P., Ristok, C., Phillips, H. R., Hedde, M., Capowiez, Y., Bottinelli, N., Decaëns, T., Marchan, D., Gerard, S., Mathieu, J., Potapov, A., Cameron, E. K., Brown, G., Bartz, M., Zeiss, R., Zi, Y., Tsiafouli, M., Russell, D. J., Guerra, C., Eisenhauer, N. (2024): Soil BON Earthworm – A global initiative on earthworm distribution, traits, and spatiotemporal diversity patterns. Soil Organisms 96(1): 47-60. https://doi.org/10.25674/362
Vogel, H.J., Amelung, W., Baum, C., Bonkowski, M., Blagodatsky, S., Grosh, R., Herbst, M., Kiese, R., Koch, S., Kuhwald, M., König, S., Leinweber, P., Lennartz, B., Müller, C.W., Pagel, H., Rillig, M.C., Rüschhoff, J., Russell, D., Schnepf, A., Schulz, S., Siebers, N., Vetterlein, D., Wachendorf, C., Weller, U., Wollschläger, U. (2024): How to adequately represent biological processes in modeling multifunctionality of arable soils. Biology and Fertility of Soils 60: 263-306 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00374-024-01802-3
Potapov, A.M., Chen, TW., Striuchkova, A.V., Alato, J.M., Alexandre, D. … Russell, D.J. et al. (2024): Global fine-resolution data on springtail abundance and community structure. Scientific Data 11: 22. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02784-x
2023
Le Guillarme, N., Hedde, M., Potapov, A.M., Martínez-Muñoz, C.A., Berg, M.B., Briones, M.J.I., Calderón-Sanou, I., Degrune, F., Hohberg, K., Martinez-Almoyna, C., Pey, B., Russell, D.J., Thuiller, W. (2023): The soil food web ontology: Aligning trophic groups, processes, resources, and dietary traits to support food-web research. Ecological Informatics 102360, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2023.102360
Scheuemann, N., Russell, D. J. (2023): Hydrological regime and forest development have indirect effects on soil fauna feeding activity in Central European hardwood floodplain forests. Nature Conservation 53: 257-278 https://doi.org/10.3897/natureconservation.53.106260
Roeder, M., Binder, F., Reif, A., Unseld, R., Dichtl, T., Schneider, E., Mailänder, S., Stöger, W., Russell, D., Egger G. (2023): Auwaldbewirtschaftung in unsicheren Zeiten – die Suche nach Baumarten für den Auwald der Zukunft. Auenmagazin 23: 43-50
Lang, B., Betancur-Corredor, B., Russell, D.J. (2023): Soil mineral nitrogen content is increased by soil mesofauna and nematodes – a meta-analysis. Soil Organisms 95(2): 117-128 https://doi.org/10.25674/so95iss2id310
Salako, G., Russell, D.J., Stucke, A., Eberhardt, E. (2023): Assessment of multiple model algorithms to predict earthworm geographic distribution range and biodiversity in Germany: implications for soil‑monitoring and species‑conservation needs. Biodiversity and Conservation 32: 2365–2394 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-023-02608-9
Potapov, A.M., Guerra, C.A., van den Hoogen, J., Babenko, A., Bellini, B.C., Berg, M.P., Chown, S.L., Deharveng, L., Kovac, L., Kuznetsova, N.A., Ponge, J.-F., Potapov, M.B., Russell, D.J., Alexander, D., et al. (2023): Globally invariant metabolism but density-diversity mismatch in springtails. Nature communications 14: 374, 13 pp., https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36216-6
2022
Betancur-Corredor, B., Lang, B., Russell, D.J. (2022): Reducing tillage intensity benefits the soil micro- and mesofauna in a global meta-analysis. European Journal of Soil Science 73:e13321. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.13321
Betancur-Corredor, B., Lang, B., Russell, D.J. (2022): Organic nitrogen fertilization benefits selected soil fauna in global agroecosystems. Biology and Fertility of Soils
Tsiafouli, M.A., Cortet, J., Russell, D. (2022). A call for collaboration to create the European Atlas of Soil Fauna. Soil Organisms 94(3): 175-181
Lang, B., Russell, D. J. (2022): Excretion of nitrogenous waste by soil fauna and assessment of the contribution to soil nitrogen pools. Soil Organism, 94 (2): 69 -83
2021
Phillips, H.R.P., Bach, E.M., Bartz, M.L.C, Bennett, J.M., Beugnon, R., Briones, M.J.I., Brown, G.G., Ferlian, O., Gongalsky, K.B., Guerra, C.A. König-Ries, B.-, Krebs, J.J., Orgiazzi, A., Ramirez, K.S., Russell, D.J., et al. … (110 further Authors), Eisenhauer, N. (2021): Global data on earthworm abundance, biomass, diversity and corresponding environmental properties. Scientific Data 8:136 https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13399118
Toschki, A., Burkhardt, U. Haase, H., Höfer, H., Jänsch, S., Oellers, J., Römbke, J., Roß-Nickoll, M., Salamon, J.A., Schmelz, R., Scholz-Starke, B., Russell, D.J. (2021): Die Edaphobase-Länderstudien Synökologische Untersuchungen von Bodenorganismen in einem Biotop- und Standortgradienten in Deutschland 2014–2018. Peckiana 14 367 S, SMNG Görlitz
Gotelli, N. J., Booher, D. B., Urban, M. C., Ulrich, W., Suarez, A. V., Skelly, D. J., Russell, D. J., Rowe, R. J., Rothendler, M., Rios, N., Rehan, S. M., Ni, G., Moreau, C. S., Magurran, A. E., Jones, F. A. M., Graves, G. R., Fiera, C., Burkhardt, U., Primack, R. B. (2021): Estimating species relative abundances from museum records. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 00: 1– 13. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13705
2020
Potapov, A., Bellini, B.C., Chown, S.L., Deharveng, L., Janssens, F., Kováč, L., Kuznetsova, N., Ponge, J.-F., Potapov, M., Querner, P., Russell, D., Sun, X., Zhang, F., Berg, M.B. (2020): Towards a global synthesis of Collembola knowledge – challenges and potential solutions. Soil Organisms 92: 161–188
Russell, D.J., Heynen, S. (2020) Die komplexe Biodiversität des Bodens und ihre funktionelle Bedeutung. Bodenschutz 3: 96-99
Lang, B., Russell, D.J. (2020): Effects of earthworms on bulk density: A meta-analysis. European Journal of Soil Science 71(1): 80-83, doi.org/10.1111/ejss.12846
Lehmitz, R., Haase, H., Otte, V., Russell, D. (2020): Bioindication in peatlands by means of multi-taxa indicators (Oribatida, Araneae, Carabidae, Vegetation). Biological indicators 109: 105837
Phillips H.R.P, Guerra, C.A., Bartz, M.L.C., Briones, M.J.I., Brown, G., Crowther, T.W., Ferlian, O., Gongalsky, K.B., Hoogan, J., van der, Krebs, J., Orgiazzi, A., Routh, D., Schwarz, B., Bach, E.M., Bennett, J., Brose, U., Decaëns, T., König-Ries, B., Loreau, M., Mathieu, J., Mulder, C., van der Putten, W.H., Ramirez, K.S., Rillig, M.C., Russell, D., Rutgers, M., Thakur, M.P., De Vries, F.T., Wall, D.H., Wardle, D., …, Cameron, E., Eisenhauer, N. (2019): Global distribution of earthworm diversity. Science 366: 480-485 DOI: 10.1126/science.aax4851
Thakur, M.P., Phillips, H.R.P., Brose, U., De Vries, F.T., Lavelle, P., Loreau, M., Mathieu, J., Mulder, C., Van der Putten, W.H., Rillig, M., Wardle, D.A., Bach, E., Bartz, M., Bennett, J.M., Briones, M.J.I., Brown, G., Decaëns, T., Eisenhauer, N., Ferlian, O., Guerra, C.,A., König-Ries, B., Orgiazzi, A., Ramirez, K.S., Russell, D.J., Rutgers, M., Wall, D.H., Cameron, E.K. (2019): Toward an integrative understanding of soil biodiversity. Biological Reviews doi: 10.1111/brv.12567
Lang, B., Russell, D.J. (2019): Effects of earthworms on bulk density: A meta-analysis. European Journal of Soil Science, 2019:1–4, doi.org/10.1111/ejss.12846
Russell. D.J., Gergocs, V. (2019): Forest-management types similarly influence soil collembolan communities throughout regions in Germany – A data bank analysis. Forest Ecology and Management 434: 49–62
Vogel, H.-J., Wollschläger, U., Helming, K., Heinrich, U., Willms, M., Wiesmeier, M., Russell, D., Franko, U. (2019): Assessment of Soil Functions Affected by Soil Management. In: Schröter, M., Bonn, A., Klotz, S., Seppelt, R., Baessle, C. (eds) Atlas of Ecosystem Services – Drivers, Risks, and Societal Responses. Springer, Heidelberg, pp. 77-82
Römbke, J., Bandow, C., Gerlach, A., Jaeschke, B., Schmelz, R.M., Natal-da-Luz, T. Sousa, J.P., Russell, D.J. (2018): Data on the Lumbricidae and Enchytraeidae from six forest sites in Germany and Portugal. Opusc. Zool. Budapest, 48(Supplementum 2): 73–81
Vogel, H-J., Bartke, S., Daedlow, K., Helming, K., Kögel-Knabner, I., Lang, B., Rabot, E., Russell, D.J., Stößel, B., Weller, Ul. Wiesmeier, M., Wollschläger, U. (2018): A systemic approach for modeling soil functions. Soil 4: 83-92 doi.org/10.5194/soil-4-83-2018
Russell, D.J., (2017): Entwicklung der Collembolen im Boden der Hochwasserschutzpolder Altenheim nach Einführung der ökologischen Flutung. In: Schneider, E., Werling, M., Stammel, B., Januschke, K., Ledesma-Krist, G., Scholz, M. Hering, D., Gelhaus, M., Dister, E. Egger, G. (Hrsg.) Biodiversität der Flussauen Deutschlands. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt Heft 163, Bundesamt für Naturschutz (BfN), Bonn. S. 253-264
Hausen, J., Scholz-Starke, B., Burkhardt, U., Lesch, S., Rick, R., Russell, D., Roß-Nickoll, M., Ottermanns, R. (2017): Edaphostat: interactive ecological analysis of soil organism occurrences and preferences from the Edaphobase data warehouse. Database 2017: 1-6, doi:10.1093/database/bax080
Bowler, D.E., Hof, C., Haase, P., Kröncke, I., Schweiger, O., Adrian, R., Baert, L., Bauer, H.-G., Theo Blick, T., Brooker, R.W., Dekoninck, W., Sami Domisch, S., Eckmann, R., Hendrickx, F., Hickler, T., Stefan Klotz, S., Alexandra Kraberg, A., Ingolf Kühn, I., Matesanz, S., Meschede, A., Neumann, H., O’Hara, R., Russell, D.J., Sell, A.F., Sonnewald, M., Stoll, S., Sundermann, A., Oliver Tackenberg, O., Türkay, M., Valladares, F., van Herk, K., van Klink, R., Vermeulen, R., Voigtländer, K., Wagner, R., Welk, E., Wiemers, M., Wiltshire, K.H., Böhning-Gaese, K. (2017): Cross-realm assessment of climate change impacts on species’ abundance trends. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1, 0067
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-016-0067
Xylander, W.E.R., Lehmitz, R., Hohber, K., Lang, B., Russell, D.J. (2015): Boden – ein unterschätzer Lebensraum. Biologie in unserer Zeit 45: 388–395
Ramirez, K., Döring, M., Eisenhauer, N., Gardi, C., Ladau, J., Leff, J.W., Lentendu, G., Lindo, Z., Rillig, M.C., Russell, D.J., Scheu, S., St. John, M.G., de Vries, F.T., Wubet, T., van der Putten, W.H., Wall, D.H. (2015): Toward a global platform for linking soil biodiversity data. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 3: 91
doi 10.3389/fevo.2015.00091
Hohberg, K., Schulz, H.-J., Balkenhol, B., Pilz, M., Thomalla, A., Russell, D.J., Pfanz, H. (2015): Soil faunal communities from mofette fields: Effects of high geogenic carbon dioxide concentration. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 88: 420–429
Bowler, D.E., Haase, P., Kröncke, I., Tackenberg, O., Bauer, H.G., Brendel, C., Brooker, R.W., Gerisch, M., Henle, K., Hickler, T., Hof, C., Klotz, S., Kühn, I., Matesanz, S., O‘Hara, R., Russell, D.J., Schweiger, O., Valladares, F., Welk, E., Wiemers, M., Böhning-Gaese, K. (2015): A cross-taxon analysis of the impact of climate change on abundance trends in central Europe. Biological Conservation 187: 41–50
Russell, D.J., Hohberg, K., Potapov, M., Bruckner, A., Otte, V., Christian, A. (2014): Native terrestrial invertebrate fauna from the northern Antarctic Peninsula: new records, state of current knowledge and ecological preferences. Soil Organisms 86: 1–58
Burkhardt, U., Russell, D.J., Buryn, R., Decker, P., Döhler, M., Höfer, H., Lesch, S., Rick, S.Römbke, J., Trog, C., Vorwald, J., Wurst, E. & Xylander, W.E.R.(2014): The Edaphobase Project of GBIF-Germany – A new online soil-zoological data warehouse. Applied Soil Ecology 83: 3–12 ISSN 0929-1393
Gerlach, A., Russell, D.J., Jaeschke, B., Römbke, J.(2014): Feeding preferences of native terrestrial isopod species (Oniscoidea, Isopoda) for native and introduced leaf litter. – Applied soil Ecology 83: 95–100 ISSN 0929-1393
Römbke, J. Burkhardt, U., Höfer, H., Horak, F., Jänsch, S., Roß-Nickoll, M., Russell, D.J, Schmitt, H., Toschki, A. (2013): Die Bodenbiodiversität als Instrument zur Beurteilung des Bodenzustands: Theoretischer Hintergrund, Konzeptionelle Überlegungen und Empfehlungen. In: Blume, H.-P. (ed.) Handbuch des Bodenschutzes. 8. Ecomed, Hamburg ISSN 1432-170X
Jänsch, S., Steffens, L., Höfer, H., Horak, F., Roß-Nickoll, M., Russell, D.J., Toschki, A., Römbke, J. (2013): State of knowledge of earthworm communities in German soils as a basis for biological soil quality assessment. –Soil Organisms 85 (2): 123–146
Ruf, A., Beylich, A., Blick, T., Büchs, W., Glante, F., Höss, S., Roß-Nickoll, M., Rueß, L., Russell, D.J., Römbke, J., Seitz, H., Theißen, B., Toschki, A., Weimann, C., Züghart, W. (2013): Soil organisms as an essential element of a monitoring plan to identify the effects of GMO cultivation. Requirements – Methodology – Standardisation. – BioRisk 8: 73–87
Römbke, J., Jänsch, S., Höfer, H., Horak, F., Roß-Nickoll, M., Russell, D.J. & Toschki, A. (2013): State of knowledge of enchytraeid communities in German soils as a basis for biological soil quality assessment. – Soil Organisms 85 (2): 123–146
www.soil-organisms.org
Römbke, J., Burkhardt, U., Höfer, H. Horak, F., Jänsch, S., Roß-Nickoll, M., Russell, D.J., Schmitt, H, Toschki, A. (2013): Die Beurteilung der Boden-Biodiversität: Ergebnisse eines UBA-Vorhabens. – Bodenschutz 3 (13): 100–105
Russell, D.J., Hohberg, K., Otte, V., Christian, A., Potapov, M., Brückner, A., McInnes, S.J. (2013): The Impact of Human Activities on Soil Organisms of the Maritime Antarctic and the Introduction of Non-Native Species in Antarctica. UBA Texte Nr. 22/2013, Federal Environment Agency, Dessau, 232 pp. + XXXVIII www.uba.de
Russell, D.J., Hohberg, K., Otte, V., Christian, A., Potapov, M., Brückner, A., McInnes, S.J. (2013): Der Einfluss menschlicher Aktivitäten auf Bodenorganismen der maritimen Antarktis und die Einschleppung von fremden Arten in die Antarktis. UBA Texte Nr. 21/2013, Umweltbundesamt, Dessau, 243 S. + XXXVIII www.uba.de
2012
Hüttl, R.F., Russell, D.J., Sticht, Ch., Schrader, St., Weigel, H.-J., Bens, O., Lorenz, K., Schneider, B.U. (2012): Auswirkungen auf Bodenökosysteme In: Mosbrugger, V., Brasseur, G.P., Schaller, M., Stribrny B. (Eds) Klimawandel und Biodiversität: Folgen für Deutschland. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt. S. 128–163
Gerlach, A., Russell, D.J., Römbke, J., Brüggemann, W. (2012): Consumption of introduced oak litter by native decomposers (Glomeridae, Diplopoda). – Soil Biology & Biochemistry 44: 26–30
Lehmitz, R., Russell, D. J., Hohberg, K., Christian, A., Xylander W.E.R. (2012): Active dispersal of oribatid mites into young soils. – Applied Soil Ecology 55: 10–19.
Greenslade, P., Potapov, M., Russell, D.J., Convey, P. (2012): Lessons from history – Global Collembola (Springtails) on Deception Island. Journal of Insect Science 12: 1–16 www.insectscience.org
Hohberg, K., Elmer, M., Russell, D.J., Christian, A., Schulz, H.J., Lehmitz, R., Wanner, M. (2012): First five years of soil food-web development in the ‘Chicken Creek’ catchment. In: Elmer, M., Schaaf, W., Biemelt, D., Gerwin, W. & Hüttl, R.F. (eds.) The artificial catchment ‘Chicken Creek’ – initial ecosystem development 2005-2010. Ecosystem Development 3: 93–114
Römbke, J., Jänsch, S., Roß-Nickoll, M., Toschki, A., Höfer, H., Horak, F., Russell, D.J., Burkhardt, U., Schmitt, H. (2012): Erfassung und Analyse des Bodenzustands im Hinblick auf die Umsetzung und Weiterentwicklung der Nationalen Biodiversitätsstrategie. Texte des Umweltbundesamtes 33/2012, Dessau. 386 pp. www.uba.de
Hohberg, K., Russell, D.J., Elmer, M (2011): Mass occurrence of algal-feeding tardigrade Apodibius confusus, in the young soils of a post-mining site. – Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 49: 62–65
Lehmitz, R., Russell, D.J., Hohberg, K., Christian, A., Xylander, W.E.R. (2011): Wind dispersal of oribatid mites as a mode of migration. – Pedobiologia 54: 201–207
Römbke, T., Römbke, J., Russell, D.J. (2011): Effects of temperature increases on the feeding activity of two species of isopods (Porcellio scaber, Porcellionides pruinosus) in laboratory tests. – Soil Organisms 83 (2): 210–220
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Russell, D.J., Schulz, H.-J., Hohberg, K., Pfanz, H. (2011): Occurrence of collembolan fauna in mofette fields (natural carbondioxide springs) of the Czech Republic. – Soil Organisms 83 (3): 489–505 www.soil-organisms.org
2010
Russell, D.J., Hohberg, K., Elmer, M. (2010): Primary colonisation of newly formed soils by actinedid mites. – Soil Organisms 82(2): 237–251 www.soil-organisms.org
Elmer, M., Hohberg, K., Russell, D.J., Christian, A., Schulz, H.-J., Wanner, M. (2010): Succession of the soil faunal community during initial ecosystem development. In: Schaaf, W., Biemelt, D., Hüttl, R.F. (Eds.): Initial development of the artificial catchment ‘Chicken Creek’ – monitoring program and survey 2005-2008. – Ecosystem Development 2: 97–118.
2009 – 2000
Russell, D.J. & Alberti, G. (2009): Actinedid mite community diversity in a succession gradient in continental sand-dune habitats of central Europe. In: Sabelis, M.W. & Bruin, J. (eds.) Trends in Acarology. Springer, Dordrecht S. 135–142
Theißen, B., Russell D.J. (2009): Zur Bedeutung von Collembolen im GVO Monitoring. – Gefahrstoffe Reinhaltung der Luft 10: 391–394
Moll, S., Brunk, I., Russell, D.J. (2009): Entwicklung von Carabidengemeinschaften auf unterschiedlich sedimentierten Substrat nach der Flut 2002 am Fluss Mulde (Sachsen). – Entomologie Heute 21: 87–100
Russell, D.J. (2008): Metacommunity responses of soil Collembola to inundation intensity in the Upper Rhine Valley. – In: G. Broll, S. Kaluz, Russell, D.J., W.E.R. Xylander (eds.): Floodplains: Hydology, Soils, Fauna and their Interactions. Peckiana 5: 127–143
Rahtkens, K., Russell, D.J. (2008): Regionale Veränderungen der Collembolenfauna infolge des Klimawandels – Ergebnisse einer 20jährigen Untersuchung an Dauerbeobachtungsflächen in Baden-Württemberg. – Marktredwitzer Bodenschutztage 5: 199–204
Russell, D. J. (2007): Bodenbiologisches Monitoring: Verifizierung des Probenahmeschemas für Monitoringprogramme und Etablierung von Erwartungswerten für die Bodenbiodiversität in Auwaldhabitaten. – FZKA BWPLUS: Bericht als pdf; 98 S.
Schöps, F.-R. & Russell, D.J. (2004): Ein modifiziertes Friedman-Test (nicht-parametrische ANOVA) für quantitativen Auswertungen von Bodenmesofauna-Daten. – Mitt. AG Bodenmesofauna 20: 31–35
Russell, D.J. & Köhler, H. (2004): 20 Jahre AG Mesofauna: Entstehung und Geschichte. – Mitt. AG Bodenmesofauna 20: 5–7
Russell, D.J., Schulz, M.M., OConnor, B. (2004): Mass occurrence of astimatid mites on human remains. – Abh. Ber. Naturkundemus. Görlitz 76 (1): 51–56
Russell, D.J., Hauth, A., Fox, O. (2004): Collembolan community reactions to inundation in floodplains of the upper Rhine Valley. – Pedobiologia 48 (5-6): 527–536
Russell, D.J. (2004): Feststellung und Modellierung der kurzfristigen Jahresdynamik und kleinräumigen Verteilungsheterogenität von endogäischen Insekten auf Boden-Dauerbeobachtungsflächen in Baden-Wüttermberg. Erhöhung der Aussagekraft des Monitoringprogramms in Rheinauen. – FZKA BWPLUS Bericht als pdf
Müller-Motzfeld, G., Alberti, G., Ringel, H., Hampel, J., Kreibich, E., Loch, R., Mathiak, G., Russell, D.J., Wegener, A., Wachlin, V. (2004): Bodenbiologische und ökofaunistische Untersuchungen zur Beurteilung des Waldumbaus im Nordostdeutschen Tiefland. – Beitr. Forstwirtsch. U. Landsch. Ökol. 38 (2): 95–101
Russell, D.J., Alberti, G. (2002): Reaktionen der Collembolenfauna beim Umbau von Kiefer-Reinbeständen in Kiefer/Buche-Mischbestände im Nordostdeutschen Tiefland (Abstract). – Verh. Gesell Ökol. 32: 210
Russell, D.J., Kreibich, E., Alberti, G. (2002): Zersetzer-Aktivität der Mesofauna beim Umbau von Kiefer-Reinbeständen in Kiefer/Buche-Mischbestände im Nordostdeutschen Tiefland (Abstract). – Verh. Gesell Ökol. 32: 207
Russell, D.J. (2002): Endogäische Mikroarthropoden als Reaktionsindikatoren für die Bewertung von Pflegemaßnahmen in geschützten Sandfluren. – Natur und Landschaftsplanung 34: 74–81
Russell, D.J., Schick, H., Nährig, D. (2002): Reactions of soil Collembolan communities (= Springtails, Insecta) to inundation in floodplain ecosystems of the Upper Rhine Valley. – In: Broll, G., Merbach, W., Pfeiffer, E.-M. (eds.) Soil ecological processes in wetlands of Germany. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York, S. 35–70
Rahtkens, K., Russell, D.J. (2001): Springschwänze als Indikatoren von Auenrenaturierungsmaßnhamen? – Mitteil. Dtsche. Bodenk. Gesell. 96 (1): 367–368
Russell, D.J. (2000): Psammobiontic Actinedida in southwest Germany and new findings from coastal dunes in Denmark and Norway. – Abh. Ber. Naturkundemus. Görlitz 72: 135–141
1999 – 1993
Russell, D.J., Alberti, G. (1998): Effects of long-term, geogenic heavy-metal contamination on soil organic matter and microarthropod communities, in particular Collembola. – Appl. Soil Ecol.. 9: 483–488
Russell, D.J. (1997): Zur Actinedidenfauna der Sandhausener Dünen bei Heidelberg. – Mitteil. AG Bodenmesofauna 13: 38–47
Russell, D.J. (1996): Charakterisierung der Probegebiete. Schwermetallbelastung und Bodenuntersuchungen. In: Alberti, G., Hauk, B., Köhler, H.-R., Storch, V. (Hrsg.) Dekomposition. Qualitative und quantitative Aspekte und deren Beeinflussung durch geogene und anthropogene Belastungsfaktoren. S. 14–37
Russell, D.J. (1996): Die Collembolenfauna in Auenwäldern der Oberrheinebene – ein Beitrag zu Renaturierungsvorhaben (Collembola). – Verh. Intern. Symp. Entomofaun. Mitteleur., SIEEC 14: 397–406
Russell, D.J., Zeller, U., Kratzmann, M., Alberti, G. (1996): The mite fauna of continental sand dunes in the upper Rhine Valley. – Proc. Intern. Congr. Acarol. 9 (1): 75–80
Rohde, U., Breunig, T., Büche, B., Krüss, A., Leist, N., Russell, D.J., Voigt, K. (1994): Schutz- und Pflegemaßnahmen in den Naturschutzgebieten „Pferdstrieb“ und „Pflege Schönau-Galgenbuckel“. – Beih. Veröff. Naturschutz Landschaftspflege Bad.-Württ. 80: 353–370
Russell, D.J., Dastych, H., Zeller, U., Kratzmann, M., Alberti, G. (1994): Zur Mesofauna des Bodens der Sandhausener Dünen. – Beih. Veröff. Naturschutz Landschaftspflege Bad.-Württ. 80: 325–348
Kratzmann, M., Russell, D.J., Ludwig, M., Petersen, U., Wein, C., Storch, V., Alberti, G. (1993): Untersuchungen zur Bodenarthropodenfauna zweier Buchenwaldstandorte im Einflußbereich geogener Schwermetalle. – Verh. Gesell. Ökol. 22: 413–417
Berichte
2010 – 2000
Russell, D. J. (2008): Determination und Analyse der Collembola (= Springschwänze, Insecta i.w.S.) aus 10 Bodendauerbeobachtungsflächen bei Forst, Kehl, Wilhelmsfeld und Baltmannsweiler. – Endbericht an den LUBW Karlsruhe, 25 S.
Christian, A., K. Hohberg, D. J.Russell, H.-J. Schulz, W. Xylander (2008): Strukturen und Prozesse der initialen Ökosystementwicklung in einem künstlichen Wassereinzugsgebiet : Bodenzoologisches Monitoring der endogäischen Bodenfauna der Kippsubstrate am Standort Hühnerwasser. – Zwischenbericht für das SFB Transregio, Univ. Cottbus, 34 S.
Russell, D. J. (2007): Effects of genetically modified plants on soils and soil organisms. – Unveröffentlichter Bericht an den VDI Richtlinienausschuss „GVO Monitoring; Wirkung auf Bodenorganismen“ 11 S.
Russell, D. J. (2007): Determination und Analyse der Collembola (= Springschwänze, Insecta i.w.S.) aus Bodendauerbeobachtungsflächen bei Forst und Kehl. – Endbericht an den LUBW Karlsruhe, 15 S.
Russell, D. J. & Balkenhol, B. (2007): Analyse und Bewertung der 20-jährigen Collembolendaten aus Wald Dauerbeobachtungsflächen des ökologischen Wirkungskatasters Baden-Württembergs. Bioindikation von Bodenversauerung und Klimawandel. – Endbericht an den LUBW Karlsruhe, 105 S.
Russell, D. J. (2006): Bodenbiologisches Monitoring: Verifizierung des Probenahmeschemas für Monitoringprogramme. II. Verifikation. – FZKA BWPLUS 109; 13. S.
Russell, D. J. (2005): Bodenbiologisches Monitoring: Verifizierung des Probenahmeschemas für Monitoringprogramme. I. Standortsbeschreibung und Vorgehen. – FZKA BWPLUS 108; 13 S.
Russell, D. J., A. Griegel (2004): Feststellung und Modellierung kleinräumigen Verteilungsheterogenität von endogäischen Insekten für Monitoringerhebungen auf Boden-Dauerbeobachtungsflächen in Baden-Wüttermberg. II. Zeitliche Dynamik. – FZKA BWPLUS 107
Russell, D. J., K. Voigtländer (2003): Stratum Bodenoberfläche. Myriapoda: Tausendfüßer. – In: Alberti, G., G. Müller Motzfeld (eds.) Bodenbiologische und ökofaunistische Untersuchungen zur Abschätzung von Wirkungen des Waldumbaus im Norddeutschen Tiefland. Endbericht an dem BMFT, S. 442-467
Russell, D. J. (2003): Stratum Boden. Collembola: Springschwänze. – In: Alberti, G. & G. Müller-Motzfeld (eds.) Bodenbiologische und ökofaunistische Untersuchungen zur Abschätzung von Wirkungen des Waldumbaus im Norddeutschen Tiefland. Endbericht an dem BMFT, S. 197-248
Russell, D. J. (2003): Stratum Boden. Zersetzeraktivität: Köderstreifen-Test. – In: Alberti, G., G. Müller-Motzfeld (eds.) Bodenbiologische und ökofaunistische Untersuchungen zur Abschätzung von Wirkungen des Waldumbaus im Norddeutschen Tiefland. Endbericht an dem BMFT, S. 75-97
Russell, D. J., H. Blume (2003): Feststellung und Modellierung kleinräumigen Veteilungsheterogenität von endogäischen Insekten für Monitoringerhebungen auf Boden-Dauerbeobachtungsflächen in Baden-Wüttermberg. I. Horizontalverbreitung und Probenahme. – FZKA BWPLUS 106
Russell, D. J., W. Xylander (2003): Feststellung der bodenbiologischen Auswirkung der Flutkatastrophe vom August 2002. – Unveröffentlichter Bericht an das Landesamt für Umwelt und Geologie, Freiberg (Sachsen)
Russell, D. J., K. Voigtländer (2002): Ergebnisse der Untersuchungen der epigäischen Bodenfauna (Myriapoda) im Müritz NP. – In: Alberti, G., G. Müller-Motzfeld (eds.) Bodenbiologische und ökofaunistische Untersuchungen zur Abschätzung von Wirkungen des Waldumbaus im Norddeutschen Tiefland. Zwischenbericht an dem BMFT.
Russell, D. J. (2002): Ergebnisse der Untersuchungen über Bodenmikroarthropoden aus dem Müritz NP und aus dem Raum Eberswalde. 2. Springschwänze (Collembola). – In: Alberti, G., G. Müller-Motzfeld (eds.) Bodenbiologische und ökofaunistische Untersuchungen zur Abschätzung von Wirkungen des Waldumbaus im Norddeutschen Tiefland. Zwischenbericht an dem BMFT.
Russell, D. J. (2002): Fraßaktivität in Waldböden des Müritz-Nationalparks und um Eberswalde (Köderstreifentest nach v. Törne). – In: Alberti, G., G. Müller-Motzfeld (eds.) Bodenbiologische und ökofaunistische Untersuchungen zur Abschätzung von Wirkungen des Waldumbaus im Norddeutschen Tiefland. Zwischenbericht an dem BMFT.
Russell, D. J. (2002): „Mikroarthropoden“ – In: GefaÖ. Untersuchungen über die Auswirkungen von Retentionsflutungen am Beispiel der Polder Altenheim. Endbericht: Bodenbiologische Untersuchungen, 2001. Unveröffentlichter Bericht an die Landesanstalt für Umweltschutz, Karlsruhe (Baden-Württemberg)
Russell, D. J., A. Hauth (2002): Feststellung und Modellierung der kurzfristigen Jahresdynamik und kleinräumigen Variabilität von endogäischen Insekten für Monitoringerhebungen auf Boden-Dauerbeobachtungsflächen in Baden Wüttermberg. – FZKA BWPLUS 105
Russell, D. J. (2001): Miniködertest nach Von Törne. In. Alberti, G. (ed.) Zoologische Untersuchungen der Folgen von Windwürfen im Nationalpark Vorpommerische Boddenlandschaft am Beispiel der Abt. 174c. – Zwischenbericht am Landesamt für Forsten und Großschutzgebiete Mecklenburg- Vorpommern.
Russell, D. J. (2001): „Mikroarthropoden“ In: GefaÖ. Untersuchungen über die Auswirkungen von Retentionsflutungen am Beispiel der Polder Altenheim. Bodenbiologische Untersuchungen, 2000. – Unveröffentlichter Bericht an die Landesanstalt für Umweltschutz, Karlsruhe (Baden-Württemberg)
Russell, D. J. (2000): „Mesofauna.“ In: GefaÖ. Untersuchungen über die Auswirkungen von Retentionsflutungen am Beispiel der Polder Altenheim. Bodenbiologische Untersuchungen, 1999. – Unveröffentlichter Bericht an die Landesanstalt für Umweltschutz, Karlsruhe (Baden-Württemberg)
1999 – 1993
Russell, D. J., K. Schubert (1999): Mikroarthropoden. In: GefaÖ. Bodenzoologische Untersuchungen auf einer mit Thiodan behandelten Fläche. – Unveröffentlichter Bericht an die Fa. AgrEvo (Höchst) GmbH, Frankfurt
Russell, D. J. (1997): „Mesofauna.“ In: GefaÖ. Untersuchungen über die Auswirkungen ökologischer Flutungen am Beispiel der Polder Altenheim. Bodenbiologische Untersuchungen, Abschlußbericht. – Unveröffentlichter Bericht an die Landesanstalt für Umweltschutz, Karlsruhe (Baden-Württemberg)
Russell, D. J. (1996): Die Mikroarthropoden der Sandhausener Dünen. Bodenzoologische Bioindikation zur Pflegemaßnahmen der Naturschutzgebieten „Pferdstrieb“ und „Pflege Schönau“. – Unveröffentlichter Bericht an die Bezirksstelle für Naturschutz und Landschaftspflege, Karlsruhe (Baden-Württemberg)
Russell, D. J. (1996): „Mesofauna.“ In: GefaÖ. Untersuchungen über die Auswirkungen ökologischer Flutungen am Beispiel der Polder Altenheim. Bodenbiologische Untersuchungen, 1995. – Unveröffentlichter Bericht an die Landesanstalt für Umweltschutz, Karlsruhe (Baden-Württemberg)
G. Alberti, B. Hauk, U. Kammerer, H.-R. Köhler, M. Kratzmann, M. Ludwig, U. Petersen, D. J. Russell, M. Scheurig, V. Storch, B. Ullrich, C. Wein, J.E. Wolf (1994): Dekomposition: qualitative und quantitative Aspekte und deren Beeinflussung durch geogene und anthropogene Belastungsfaktoren. – Unveröffentlichter Bericht am Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Projekt Wasser Abfall Boden, 641 S.
Kratzmann, M., D. J. Russell (1993): Tierökologisch-faunistische Begleituntersuchungen. Mesofauna des Bodens. In: WWF-Aueninstitute. Erprobungs- und Entwicklungsvorhaben auf dem Gebiet des Naturschutzes. „Naturnahe Auenwälder am Oberrhein.“ Möglichkeiten der Renaturierung und naturnahen Bewirtschaftung. – Unveröffentlichter Bericht an das Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit, Bonn
In memory of our dear friends and Edaphobase colleagues:
Dr. Eva Engemaier (✝)
Dr. Jonas Hausen (✝)
We are happy and grateful for the chance to have walked a part of your way together with you.