The overall aim of this dissertation was to evaluate the relative roles of niche and neutral based processes like environmental filtering, niche partitioning, dispersal and biotic interactions as forces structuring soil oribatid mite communities on different scales. We used different methods and theoretical approaches to gain an extensive insight into an oribatid mite community in a dry grassland in Germany but also into published data sets of oribatid mite communities from different habitats. In chapter 2, we conducted a field study based on a small-scale spatially explicit sampling design along an environmental gradient of a hillside in a dry grassland in Brandenburg, Germany. In spring and autumn 2012, we took soil cores (10cm long, Ø 5c...
Constraint-based methods (CBMs) are promising tools for the analysis of metabolic networks, as they ...
Die vorliegende Forschungsarbeit fokussiert die Bodeneigenschaften und Bodenentwicklung in der Überg...
Chapter 1 – General Introduction One of the greatest challenges of ecological research is to pred...
The deposition of nitrogen has increased many-fold due to anthropogenic activities. Since forest eco...
Changes and development are fundamental principles in biocenoses and can affect a multitude of ecolo...
Global change phenomena, such as forest disturbance and land-use change significantly affect element...
Wald weist gegenüber anderen Landnutzungen meist die günstigeren Wasserrückhalteigenschaften auf. Di...
All animal and plant species must disperse in order to survive. Although this fact may seem trivial,...
Abstract Free-living nematodes inhabiting the sediments of the Breitenbach stream were investigated ...
Eidesstattliche Erklärung III Acknowledgments IV Contents V List of Figures VII List of Tables IX Li...
Groundwater is the main source for potable water and domestic use in numerous countries around the w...
Mikrobielle Gemeinschaften werden direkt und indirekt von einem komplexen System verschiedenster Int...
Biocrusts are communities of organisms such as lichens, bryophytes, and cyanobacteria that live on a...
Habitat variation is considered as an expression of biodiversity at landscape level in addition to g...
This thesis elucidates patterns and drivers of invertebrate herbivory, herbivore diversity, and comm...
Constraint-based methods (CBMs) are promising tools for the analysis of metabolic networks, as they ...
Die vorliegende Forschungsarbeit fokussiert die Bodeneigenschaften und Bodenentwicklung in der Überg...
Chapter 1 – General Introduction One of the greatest challenges of ecological research is to pred...
The deposition of nitrogen has increased many-fold due to anthropogenic activities. Since forest eco...
Changes and development are fundamental principles in biocenoses and can affect a multitude of ecolo...
Global change phenomena, such as forest disturbance and land-use change significantly affect element...
Wald weist gegenüber anderen Landnutzungen meist die günstigeren Wasserrückhalteigenschaften auf. Di...
All animal and plant species must disperse in order to survive. Although this fact may seem trivial,...
Abstract Free-living nematodes inhabiting the sediments of the Breitenbach stream were investigated ...
Eidesstattliche Erklärung III Acknowledgments IV Contents V List of Figures VII List of Tables IX Li...
Groundwater is the main source for potable water and domestic use in numerous countries around the w...
Mikrobielle Gemeinschaften werden direkt und indirekt von einem komplexen System verschiedenster Int...
Biocrusts are communities of organisms such as lichens, bryophytes, and cyanobacteria that live on a...
Habitat variation is considered as an expression of biodiversity at landscape level in addition to g...
This thesis elucidates patterns and drivers of invertebrate herbivory, herbivore diversity, and comm...
Constraint-based methods (CBMs) are promising tools for the analysis of metabolic networks, as they ...
Die vorliegende Forschungsarbeit fokussiert die Bodeneigenschaften und Bodenentwicklung in der Überg...
Chapter 1 – General Introduction One of the greatest challenges of ecological research is to pred...