Publications - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Peer-reviewed publications

2024

CHEN, Y., WANG, M.-Q., PAN, X., LIANG, C., XIE, Z., SCHEU, S., MARAUN, M., CHEN, J. (2024) Season affects soil oribatid mite communities more than tree diversity in subtropical forests. Geoderma, in press

GONG, X., SUN, X., THAKUR, M.P., QIAO, Z., YAO, H., LIU, M., SCHEU, S., ZHU, Y.-G. (2024) Urbanization simplifies soil nematode communities and coincides with decreased ecosystem stability. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 190, 109297, https://doi.org/10.1016/J.soilbio.2023.109297

JUNGGEBAUER, A. (2024) Temporal variation of soil microarthropods in different forest types and regions of Central Europe. Oikos 2024, e10513. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.10513

JUNGGEBAUER, A., GERICKE, N.M., KRAKAU, L.K., BLUHM, S.A., MARAUN, M., POLLIERER, M.M., SCHEU, S. (2024) Effects of forest gap formation and deadwood enrichment on oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) vary between regions. Forest Ecology and Management 565, 122015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2024.122015

KARBSTEIN, K., KÖSTERS, L., HODAC, L., HOFMANN, M., HÖRANDL, E., TOMASELLO, S., WAGNER, N., EMERSON, B., ALBACH, D.C., SCHEU, S., BRADLER, S., DE VRIES, J., IRISARRI, I., LI, H., SOLTIS, P., MÄDER, P., WÄLDCHEN, J. (2024) Species delimitation 4.0: Integrative taxon-omics and artificial intelligence. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.11.002

LIU, Q., EISENHAUER, N., SCHEU, S., ANGST, G., BÜCKER, M., HUANG, Y., MEADOR, T.B., SCHÄDLER, M. (2024) Climate-dependent plant responses to earthworms in two land-use types. Oecologia, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-023-05493-9

LU, J.Z., BLUHM, C., FOLTRAN, E., RIVERA PEREZ, C.A., AMMER, C., CARUSO, T., GLATTHORN, J., LAMERSDORF, N., POLLE, A., SANDMANN, D., SCHAEFER, I., SCHULDT, A., MARK MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2024) Functional traits in soil-living oribatid mites unveil trophic reorganization in belowground communities by introduced tree species. Geoderma 448, 11694

LUX, J., XIE, Z., SUN, X., WU, D., SCHEU, S. (2024) Trophic niches of Collembola communities change with elevation, but also with body size and life form. Oecologia, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-023-05506-7

LUX, J., XIE, Z., SUN, X., WU, D., POLLIERER, M., SCHEU, S. (2024) Trophic positions of soil microarthropods in forests increase with elevation, but energy channels remain unchanged. Ecosphere15, e4747. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4747

MÖLLERKE, A., BRASSE, G., BELLO, J., MONTES VIDAL, D., DETTNER, K., ZETTEL, J., BERG, M.P., SCHEU, S., LEINAAS, H.P., SCHULZ, S. (2024) The unique epicuticular chemistry of Collembola – a cross-species analysis. iScience, in press

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., BALINT, M. (2024) Genomic evidence for the wide-spread presence of lignocellulases among soil invertebrates. Molecular Ecology, http://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17351

NOSKE, J.E., LU, J.-Z., SCHAEFER, I., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S., CHEN, T.-W. (2024) Niche dimensions in soil oribatid mite community assembly under native and introduced tree species. Ecology and Evolution 14, e11431. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1143

PENA, R., BLUHM, S.L., AMMERSCHUBERT, S., AGÜI-GONZALEZ, P., RIZZOLI, S.O., SCHEU, S., POLLE, A. (2024) Mycorrhizal C/N ratio determines plant-derived carbon and nitrogen allocation to symbiosis. Communications Biology 6, https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05591-7

POTAPOV, A., … (85 co-authors) … SCHEU, S. (2024) Global fine-resolution data on springtail abundance and community structure. Scientific Data 11, 22. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02784-0

POTAPOV, A.M., 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. (2024) Rainforest transformation reallocates energy from green to brown food webs. Nature 627, 116–122, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07083-y

SHANGGUAN, H. Y., GEISEN, S., LI, Z. P., YAO, H. F., LI, G., BREED, M. F., SCHEU, S., SUN, X. (2024) Urban greenspaces shape soil protist communities in a location-specific manner. Environmental Research 240, 117485. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2023.117485

SUSANTI, W.I., KRASHEVSKA, V., WIDYASTUTI, R., STIEGLER, C., GUNAWAN, D., SCHEU, S., POTAPOV, A. (2024) Seasonal fluctuations of litter and soil Collembola and their drivers in rainforest and plantation systems. PeerJ 12:e17125. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17125

URFI DHIYA‘ULHAQ, N., DUPERRE, N., BUCHORI, D., SCHEU, S., DRESCHER, J. (2024) Four new species of Utivarachna Kishida, 1940 (Araneae: Trachelidae) from Sumatra. Zootaxa, https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5418.5.6

WENZEL, A., WESTPHAL, C., BALLAUFF, J., BERKELMANN, D., BRAMBACH, F., BUCHORI, D., CAMARRETTA, N., CORRE, M.D., DANIEL, R., DARRAS, K., ERASMI, S., FORMAGLIO, G., HÖLSCHER, D., IDDRIS, N.A.-M., IRAWAN, B., KNOHL, A., KOTOWSKA, M.M., KRASHEVSKA, V., KREFT, H., MULYANI, Y., MUßHOFF, O., PATERNO, G., POLLE, A., POTAPOV, A., RÖLL, A., SCHEU, S., SCHLUND, M., SCHNEIDER, D., SIBHATU, K.T., STIEGLER, C., SUNDAWATI, L., TJOA, A., TSCHARNTKE, T., VELDKAMP, E., WAITE, P.-A., WOLLNI, M., ZEMP, D.C., GRASS, I. (2024) Balancing economic and ecological functions in smallholder and industrial oil palm plantations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2307220121

WU, Y., XIE, Z., WU, D., SCHEU, S. (2024) Body size - abundance relationships in Collembola vary among forest habitats along an altitudinal gradient. Applied Soil Ecology, in press

XIAO, T., ZHANG, B., ZHAO, H., XIE, Z., ZHANG, Y., WU, D., CHEN, T.-W., SCHEU, S., SCHAEFER, I. (2024) Differential changes in body size and stoichiometry in cryptic species of the earthworm Eisenia nordenskioldi with elevation. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, in press

XIE, Z., LUX, J., WU, Y., SUN, X., CHEN, T.-W., ZHU, J., ZHANG, J., WU, D., SCHEU, S. (2024) Intraspecific variability and species turnover drive variations in Collembola body size along a temperate-boreal elevation gradient. Geoderma, in press

ZHANG, P., ZHOU, Z., LIU, W., WU, D., SCHEU, S. (2024) Detritivores maintain stoichiometric homeostasis, but alter body size and population density in response to altitude induced stoichiometric mismatches. Geoderma 446, 116897

ZHONG, L., LARSEN, T., SCHEU, S., POLLIERER, M. (2024) Root-derived resources fuel earthworms predominantly via bacterial and plant energy channels – Insights from bulk and compound-specific isotope analyses. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 191, 109324. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2024.109324

ZHOU, Z., LU, J-Z., WIDYASTUTI, R., SCHEU, S., POTAPOV, A., KRASHEVSKA, V. (2024) Plant roots are more strongly linked to microorganisms in leaf litter rather than in soil across tropical land-use systems. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 190, 109320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2024.109320 equal last author position.

2023

ANTUNES, A.C., GAUZENS, B., BROSE, U., POTAPOV, A.M., JOCHUM, M., SANTINI, L., EISENHAUER, E., FERLIAN, O., CESARZ, S., SCHEU, S., HIRT, M.R. (2023) Environmental drivers of local abundance-mass scaling in soil animal communities. Oikos 2023, e09735. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.09735

BANIN, L., RAINE, E.H., ROWLAND, L.M., CHAZDON, R.L., SMITH, S.W., RAHMAN, N.E.B., BUTLER, A., PHILIPSON, C., APPLEGATE, G.G., AXELSSON, E.P., BUDIHARTA, S., CHUA, S.C., CUTLER, M.E.J., ELLIOTT, S., GEMITA, E., GODOONG, E., GRAHAM, L.L.B., HAYWARD, R.M., HECTOR, A., ILSTEDT, U., JENSEN, J., KASINATHAN, S., KETTLE, C.J., LUSSETTI, D., MANOHAN, B., MAYCOCK, C., NGO, K.M., O'BRIEN, M.J., OSURI, A.M., REYNOLDS, G., SAUWAI, Y., SCHEU, S., SILALAHI, M., SLADE, E.M., SWINFIELD, T., WARDLE, D.A., WHEELER, C., YEONG, K.L., BURSLEM, D.F.R.P. (2023) The road to recovery: a synthesis of outcomes from ecosystem restoration in tropical and sub-tropical Asian forests. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 378, 20210090. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0090

ERMILOV, S.G., SANDMANN, D., SCHEU, S. (2023) New Otocepheidae (Acari, Oribatida) from Indonesia. International Journal of Acarology 49, 196-202. https://doi.org/10.1080/01647954.2023.2215257

ERMILOV, S.G., SANDMANN, D., SCHEU, S. (2023) New species of Pulchroppia (Acari, Oribatida, Oppiidae) from Indonesia. Acarologia 63, 725-734. https://doi.org/10.24349/8ve6-bfdz

ERMILOV, S.G., SANDMANN, D., SCHEU, S. (2023) New species of oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) with auriculate pteromorphs from Indonesia. Systematic and Applied Acarology 28, 1043–1055. https://doi.org/10.11158/saa.28.6.4

GAVÍN-CENTOL, M.P., SERRANO-CARNERO, D., MONTSERRAT, M., MEYER, S., SCHEU, S., KUNDEL, D., FLIESSBACH, A., TRUU, J., BIRKHOFER, K., SÁNCHEZ-MORENO, S., MOYA-LARAÑO, J. (2023) Severe drought and conventional farming affect detritivore feeding activity and its vertical distribution. Basic and Applied Ecology 69, 49-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2023.03.006

GLATTHORN, J., APPLEBY, S., BALKENHOL, N., KRIEGEL, P., LIKULUNGA, L.E., LU, J-Z., MATEVSKI, D., POLLE, A., RIEBL, H., RIVERA PÉREZ, C.A., SCHEU, S., SEINSCHE, A., SCHALL, P., SCHULDT, A., WINGENDER, S., AMMER, C. (2023) Species diversity of forest-floor biota in non-native Douglas fir stands is similar as in native stands. Ecosphere 14, e4609. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4609

GONG, X., SUN, X., THAKUR, M.P., QIAO, Z., YAO, H., LIU, M., SCHEU, S., ZHU, Y.-G. (2023) Climate and edaphic factors drive soil nematode diversity and community composition in urban ecosystems. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 180, 109010. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2023.109010

HEIMBURGER, B., KLEIN, A., ROTH, A., SCHEU, S., EISENHAUER, N., SCHAEFER, I. (2023) Population structure and genetic variance among local populations of a non-native earthworm species in Minnesota, USA. Biological Invasions 25, 2361-2375. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-023-03048-w

IDDRIS, N.A.-A., FORMAGLIO, G., PAUL, C., VON GROß, V., CHEN, G., ANGULO-RUBIANO, A., BERKELMANN, D., BRAMBACH, F., DARRAS, K.F.A., KRASHEVSKA, V., POTAPOV, A., WENZEL, A., IRAWAN, B., DAMRIS, M., DANIEL, R., GRASS, I., KREFT, H., SCHEU, S., TSCHARNTKE, T., VELDKAMP, E., CORRE M.D. (2023) Mechanical weeding enhances ecosystem multifunctionality and profit in industrial oil palm. Nature Sustainability 6, pages 683–695. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-023-01076-x

JÜDS, M., HEIDEMANN, K., EITZINGER, B., SCHEU, S. (2023) Testing the effectiveness of different wash protocols to remove body surface contaminants in invertebrate food web studies. PeerJ 11, e16018. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16018

KASMIATUN, HARTKE, T.R., BUCHORI, D., HIDAYAT, P., SIDDIKAH, F., AMRULLOH, R., HIOLA, M.S., NAJMI, L., NOERDJITO, W.A., SCHEU, S., DRESCHER, J. (2023) Rainforest conversion to smallholder cash crops leads to varying declines of beetles (Coleoptera) on Sumatra. Biotropica 55, 119-131. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13165

LI, Z.-P., GEISEN, S., SHANGGUAN, H.-J., TIUNOV, A.V., SCHEU, S., ZHU, Y.-G., SUN, X. (2023) Land use decouples parasite-metazoan host biodiversity associations in soils across subtropical and temperate zones in China. Global Ecology and Biogeography 32, 2164–2176. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13758

MARAUN, M., THOMAS, T., FAST, E., TREIBERT, N., CARUSO, T., SCHAEFER, I., LU, J.-Z., SCHEU, S. (2023) New perspectives on soil animal trophic ecology through the lenses of stable isotopes (¹⁵N, ¹³C) of oribatid mites. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 177, 108890. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2022.108890

MONTOYA-SÁNCHEZA, V., KREFT, H., ARIMOND, I., BALLAUFF, J., BERKELMANN, D., BRAMBACH, F., DANIEL, R., GRASS, I., HINES, J., HÖLSCHER, D., IRAWAN, B., KRAUSE, A., POLLE, A., POTAPOV, A., SACHSENMAIER, L., SCHEU, S., SUNDAWATIO, L., TSCHARNTKE, T., ZEMP, D.C., GUERRERO-RAMÍREZ, N.R. (2023) Landscape heterogeneity and soil biota are central to multi-taxa diversity for landscape restoration. Communications Earth and Environment 4, 209. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00875-6

PAN, X., XIE, Z., SUN, X., WU, D., SCHEU, S., MARAUN, M. (2023) Changes in oribatid mite community structure along two altitudinal gradients in Asia and Europe as related to environmental factors. Applied Soil Ecology 189, 104912. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2023.104912

PAN, X., XIE, Z., ZHENG, Z., SUN, X., LIU, D., WU, D., SCHEU, S., MARAUN, M. (2023) Variations in trophic niches of soil microarthropods with elevation in two distant mountain regions in Eurasia as indicated by stable isotopes (¹⁵N, ¹³C). Soil Biology and Biochemistry 185, 109162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2023.109162

POLLIERER, M., DRESCHER, J., POTAPOV, A., KASMIATUN, MAWAN, A., MUTIARI, M., NAZARRETA, R., HIDAYAT, P., BUCHORI, D., SCHEU, S. (2023) Rainforest conversion to plantations fundamentally alters energy fluxes and functions in canopy arthropod food webs. Ecology Letters 26, 1663-1675. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14276

POTAPOV, A., … (85 co-authors) … SCHEU, S. (2023) Globally invariant metabolism but density-diversity mismatch in springtails. Nature Communications 14, 674. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36216-6

RINKE, M., LOHMUS, K., PIECK, D., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2023) Channelling of basal resources and use of allochthonous marine carbon by soil arthropods of the Wadden Sea salt marsh. Marine Ecology Progress Series 706, 57-71. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps14245

SCHULZ, G., CAMENZIND, T., SANCHEZ-GALINDO, L.M., SCHNEIDER, D., SCHEU, S., KRASHEVSKA, V. (2023) Response of protists to nitrogen addition, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi manipulation, and mesofauna reduction in a tropical montane rainforest in southern Ecuador. Eukaryotic Microbiology 70, e12996. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeu.12996

SHANGGUAN, H.Y., GEISEN, S., LI, Z.-P., YAO, H.-F., LI, G., BREED, M.F., SCHEU, S., SUN X. (2024) Urban greenspaces shape soil protist communities in a location-specific manner. Environmental Research 240, 117485. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2023.117485

SUN, X., LIDDICOAT, C., TIUNOV, A., WANG, B., ZHANG, Y., LU, C., LI, Z., SCHEU, S., BREED, M., GEISEN, S., ZHU, Y.-G. (2023) Harnessing soil biodiversity to promote human health in cities. Urban Sustainability 3, 5. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-023-00086-0

VAN DER PLAS, F., SCHRÖDER-GEORGI, T., WEIGELT, A., … SCHEU, S., … WIRTH, C. (2023) Reply to: Plant traits alone are good predictors of ecosystem properties when used carefully. Nature Ecology and Evolution 7, 335-336. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01957-y

WANG, B., ZHANG, S., QIAO, Z., YAN, Q., SCHEU, S., SUN, X. (2023) Small urban fragments maintain complex food webs of litter-dwelling arthropods in a subtropical city in China. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 185, 109150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2023.109150

WANG, P., ERKTAN, A., FU, L., PAN, Y., SUN, X., CAO, W., TANG, L., SCHEU, S., WANG, Z. (2023) Regulation of agronomic traits of bean by soil decomposer animals depends on cropping system and genotype. Plant and Soil 2023, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-023-05909-8

WARNKE, L., HERTEL, D., SCHEU, S., MARAUN, M. (2023) Opening up new niche dimensions: the stoichiometry of soil microarthropods in European beech and Norway spruce forests. Ecology and Evolution 13, e10122. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10122

WILDERMUTH, B., FARDIANSAH, R., MATEVSKI, D., LU, J.Z., KRIEGEL, P., SCHEU, S., SCHULDT, A. (2023) Conifers and non-native tree species shift trophic niches of generalist arthropod predators in Central European beech forests. BMC Ecology and Evolution 23, 3. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-023-02105-1

WILDERMUTH, B., DÖNGES, C., MATEVSKI, D., PENANHOAT, A., SEIFERT, C.L., SEIDEL, D., SCHEU, S., SCHULDT, A. (2023) Tree species identity, canopy structure and prey availability differentially affect canopy spider diversity and trophic composition. Oecologia 203, 37-51. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-023-05447-1

WU, Y., HAO, C., CHEN, T.W., XIE, Z., ZHANG, Y., GUAN, P., WU, D., SCHEU, S. (2023) Environmental distances are more important than geographic distances for predicting earthworm gut bacterial community composition. European Journal of Soil Biology 118, 103520. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejsobi.2023.103520

WU, Y., XIE, Z., WAN, Z., JI, Q.Q., YANG, J., CHEN, T.-W., WU, D., SCHEU, S. (2023) Elevational changes in canopy Collembola community composition are primarily driven by species turnover. Biodiversity and Conservation 32, 4853-4872. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-023-02734-4

YANG, J., TIAN, K., LU, J-Z., KONG, X., LIA, Q., YE, R., ZENG, X., CAO, T., HU, H., JI, Y., TIAN, X., SCHEU, S. (2023) Earthworms increase forest litter mass loss irrespective of deposited compounds – A field manipulation experiment in subtropical forests. Ecology and Evolution 13, e10047. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10047

YANG, J., LU, J., YANG, Y., TIAN, K., KONG, X., TIAN, X., SCHEU, S. (2023) Earthworms neutralize the influence of components of particulate pollutants on soil extracellular enzymatic functions in subtropical forests. PeerJ Life and Environment 11, e15720. http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15720

ZEMP, D., GUERRERO-RAMIREZ, N.R., BRAMBACH, F., DARRAS, K., GRASS, I., POTAPOV, A., RÖLL, A., ARIMOND, I., BALLAUFF, J., HERMANN, B., BERKELMANN, D., BIAGIONI, S., BUCHORI, D., CRAVEN, D., DANIEL, R., GAILING, O., ELLSÄSSER, F., FARDIANSAH, R., HENNINGS, N., IRAWAN, B., KHOKTHONG, W., KRASHEVSKA, V., KRAUSE, A., KÜCKES, J., LI, K., LORENZ, H., MARAUN, M., MERK, M., MOURA, C.C.D.M., MULYANI, Y., PEBRIANTI, G.P.H., POLLE, A., PRAMESWARI, D.A., SACHSENMAIER, L., SCHEU, S., SCHNEIDER, D., FITTA, S., SETYANINGSIH, C., SUNDAWATI, L., TSCHARNTKE, T., WOLLNI, M., HÖLSCHER, D., KREFT, H. (2023) Tree islands enhance biodiversity and functioning in oil palm landscapes. Nature 618, 316-321. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06086-5

ZHANG, Y., ZHANG, A., SCHEU, S., BHUSAL, D.R., LUO, R., QIANG, W., WANG, M., PAN, X. (2023) Phosphorus addition increases the total abundance and favours microbivorous Collembola in subalpine plantation forest. Applied Soil Ecology 189, 104948. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2023.104948

ZHOU, Z., LU, J.-Z., PREISER, J., WIDYASTUTI, R., SCHEU, S., POTAPOV, A. (2023) Plant roots fuel tropical soil animal communities. Ecology Letters 26, 742–753. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14191

2022

ANGST, G., FROUZ, J., VAN GROENIGEN, J.-W., SCHEU, S., KÖGEL-KNABNER, I., EISENHAUER, N. (2022) Earthworms as catalysts in the formation and stabilization of soil microbial necromass. Global Change Biology 28, 4775-4782. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16208

AZHAR, A., HARTKE, T., BÖTTGES, L., LANG, T., LARASATI, A., NOVIANTI, N., TAWAKKAL, I., HIDAYAT, P., BUCHORI, D., SCHEU, S., DRESCHER, J. (2022) Rainforest conversion to cash crops reduces abundance, biomass and species richness of parasitoid wasps in Sumatra, Indonesia. Agricultural and Forest Entomology 24, 506–515. https://doi.org/10.1111/afe.12512

BAUER, B., BERTI, E., RYSER, R., GAUZENS, B., HIRT, M.R., ROSENBAUM, B., DIGEL, C., OTT, D., SCHEU, S., BROSE, U. (2022) Biotic filtering by species’ interactions constrains food‐web variability across spatial and abiotic gradients. Ecology Letters 25, 1225-1236. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13995

CABALLERO, A., POTAPOV, A., RUEDA-RAMÍREZ, D., SCHEU, S. (2022) Five new records of soil scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) for Indonesia. Soil Organisms 94, 85-98. https://doi.org/10.25674/so94iss2id183

HANISCH, J., ENGELL, I., LINSLER, D., SCHEU, S., POTTHOFF, M. (2022) The role of Collembola for litter decomposition under minimum and conventional tillage. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 185, 529-538. https://doi.org/10.1002/jpln.202200077

HEIMBURGER, B., BRANDT, A., SCHARDT, L., SCHEU, S., HARTKE, T.R. (2022) Rapid radiation of the Australian Amitermes group during Late Miocene and Pliocene climate change. Ecography. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05944

HEIMBURGER, B., SOTO MAURER, S., SCHARDT, L., SCHEU, S., HARTKE, T.R. (2022) Historical and future climate change fosters expansion of Australian harvester termites, Drepanotermes. Evolution 76, 2145-2161. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14573

KLIMES, P., DRESCHER, J., BUCHORI, D., HIDAYAT, P., NAZARRETA, R., POTOCKY, P., RIMANDAI, M., SCHEU, S., MATOS-MARAVI, P. (2022) Uncovering cryptic diversity in the enigmatic ant genus Overbeckia and insights into the phylogeny of Camponotini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae). Invertebrate Systematics 36, 557-579. https://doi.org/10.1071/IS21067

KLUSMANN, C., CESARZ, S., CIOBANU, M., FERLIAN, O., JOCHUM, M., SCHÄDLER, M., SCHEU, S., SÜNNEMANN, M., WALL, D.H., EISENHAUER, N. (2022) Climate-change effects on the sex ratio of free-living soil nematodes – perspective and prospect. Soil Organisms 94, 15-28. https://doi.org/10.25674/so94iss1id174

KRASHEVSKA, V., STIEGLER, C., JUNE, T., WIDYASTUTI, R., KNOHL, A., SCHEU, S., POTAPOV, A. (2022) Land-use change shifts and magnifies seasonal variations of the decomposer system in lowland tropical landscapes. Ecology and Evolution 12:e9020. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9020

LI, Z., BLUHM, S., SCHEU, S., POLLIERER, M.M. (2022) Amino acid isotopes in functional assemblages of Collembola reveal the influence of vertical resource heterogeneity and root energy supply on trophic interactions in soil food webs. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 174, 108815. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2022.108815

LU, J.-Z., CORDES, H.-P., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2022) High consistency of trophic niches in generalist arthropod species (Oribatida, Acari) across soil depth and forest type. Ecology and Evolution 12, e9572. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.957

LUX, J., XIE, Z., SUN, X., WU, D., SCHEU, S. (2022) Changes in microbial community structure and functioning with elevation are linked to local soil characteristics as well as climatic variables. Ecology and Evolution 12, e9632. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.963

MARAUN, M., BISCHOF, P.S.P., KLEMP, F.L., POLLACK, J., RAAB, L., SCHMERBACH, J., SCHAEFER, I., SCHEU, S., CARUSO, T. (2022) ‘Jack-of-all-trades’ is parthenogenetic. Ecology and Evolution 12:e9036. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9036

MAWAN, A., HARTKE, T.R., DEHARVENG, L., ZHANG, F., BUCHORI, D., SCHEU, S., DRESCHER, J. (2022) Response of arboreal Collembola communities to the conversion of lowland rainforest into rubber and oil palm plantations. BMC Ecology and Evolution 22, 144. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-022-02095-6

MEYER, S., KUNDEL, D., BIRKHOFER, K., FLIESSBACH, A., SCHEU, S. (2022) Trophic niche but not abundance of Collembola and Oribatida changes with drought and farming system. PeerJ Life and Environment 10, e12777. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12777

POTAPOV, A.M., BEAULIEU, F., BIRKHOFER, K., BLUHM, S.L., BRYNDOVA, M., DEGTYAREV, M.I., DEVETTER, M., GONCHAROV, A.A., GONGALSKY, K.B., KLARNER, B., KOROBUSHKIN, D.I., LIEBKE, D.F., MARAUN, M., MC DONNELL, R.J., POLLIERER, M.M., SCHAEFER, I., SHRUBOVYCH, J., SEMENYUK, I.I., SENDRA, A., TUMA, J., VASSILIEVA, A.B., CHEN, T.-W., GEISEN, S., SCHMIDT, O., TIUNOV, A.V., SCHEU, S. (2022) Feeding habits and multifunctional classification of soil-associated consumers from protists to vertebrates. Biological Reviews 97, 1057-1117. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12832

POTAPOV, A.M., SUN, X., BRIONES, M.J.I., BROWN, G.G., CAMERON, E.K., CORTET, J., EISENHAUER, N., FUJII, S., GEISEN, S., GONGALSKY, K.B., GUERRA, C., HANDA, I.T., JANION-SCHEEPERS, C., LINDO, Z., MATHIEU, J., MURVANIDZE, M., NIELSEN, U.N., SCHEU, S., SCHMIDT, O., SCHNEIDER, C., SEEBER, J., TUMA, J., TIUNOV, A.V., ZAITSEV, A.S., WALL, D.H. (2022) Global monitoring of soil animal communities using a common methodology. Soil Organisms 94, 55-68. https://doi.org/10.25674/so94iss1id178

QIAO, Z., WANG, B., YAO, H., LI, Z., SCHEU, S., ZHU, Y.-G., SUN, X. (2022) Urbanization and greenspace type as determinants of species and functional composition of collembolan communities. Geoderma 428, 116175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2022.116175

RAMOS, D., HARTKE, T.R., BUCHORI, D., DUPÉRRÉ, N., HIDAYAT, P., LIA, M., HARMS, D., SCHEU, S., DRESCHER, J. (2022) Rainforest conversion to rubber and oil palm reduces abundance, biomass and diversity of canopy spiders. PeerJ Life and Environment 10, e13898. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13898

RINKE, M., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2022) Spatial and temporal variations in salt marsh microorganisms of the Wadden Sea. Ecology and Evolution 12, e8767. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8767

RINKE, M., BENDISCH, P., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2022) Trophic structure and origin of resources of soil macrofauna in the salt marsh of the Wadden Sea: a stable isotope (¹⁵N, ¹³C) study. BMC Ecology and Evolution 22, 85. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-022-02039-0

SANCHEZ-GALINDO, L.M., SANDMANN, D., MARIUAN, F., LAUERMANN, T., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2022) Differences in leaf and root litter decomposition in tropical montane rainforests are mediated by soil microorganisms not by decomposer microarthropods. PeerJ Life and Environment 10, e14264. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14264

WANG, Z.-Y., LU, J.-Z., ERKTAN, A., FU, L.-B., CHEN, H., YIN, M., CAO, W.-D., SCHEU, S. (2022) Crop productivity, resource allocation and nitrogen concentration as affected by soil decomposers, mixed cropping and crop genotype. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 175, 108855. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2022.108855

XIE, Z., CHANG, L., SCHEU, S., SUN, X. (2022) Taxonomic and functional diversity of Collembola in litter and soil along an altitudinal gradient at Changbai Mountain, China. Acta Ecologica Sinica 12, e8559. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8559 (in Chinese)

XIE, Z., SUN, X., LUX, J., CHENG, T.-W., POTAPOV, M., WU, D., SCHEU, S. (2022) Drivers of Collembola assemblages along an altitudinal gradient in northeast China. Ecology and Evolution 12, e8559. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8559

XIE, Z., CHENG, T.-W., POTAPOV, M., ZHANG, F., WU, D., SCHEU, S., SUN, X. (2022) Ecological and evolutionary processes shape belowground springtail communities along an elevational gradient. Journal of Biogeography 49, 469–482. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14317

YIN, H., SU, Y., LIU, S., LI, X., LI, X., FAN, C., GUAN, P., XIE, Z., WANG, S., SCHEU, S., KRASHEVSKA, V. (2022) Consistent response of nematode communities to management of coniferous plantations. Forest Ecosystems 9, 100045. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fecs.2022.100045

ZHANG, B., CHEN, H., DENG, M., LI, X., CHEN, T., LIU, L., SCHEU, S., WANG, S. (2022) Multidimensional stoichiometric mismatch explains differences in detritivore biomass across three forest types. Journal of Animal Ecology 92, 454-465. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13859

ZHOU, Z., KRASHEVSKA, V., WIDYASTUTI, R., SCHEU, S., POTAPOV, A. (2022) Tropical land use alters functional diversity of soil food webs and leads to monopolization of the detrital energy channel. eLife, 11, e75428. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.75428

2021

BAUER, B., KLEYER, M., ALBACH, D.C., BLASIUS, B., BROSE, B., FERREIRA-ARRUDA, T., FEUDEL, U., GERLACH, G., HOF, C., KREFT, H., KUCZYNSKI, L., LOHMUS, K., MOORTHI, S., SCHERBER, C., SCHEU, S., ZOTZ, G., HILLEBRAND, H. (2021) Functional trait dimensions of trophic metacommunities. Ecography 43, 1486-1500

BIRKHOFER, K., FLIESSBACH, A., GAVÍN‑CENTOL, M.P., HEDLUND, K., INGIMARSDÓTTIR, M., BRACHT JØRGENSEN, H., KOZJEK, K., MEYER, S., MONTSERRAT, M., SÁNCHEZ MORENO, S., MOYA LARAÑO, J., SCHEU, S., SERRANO‑CARNERO, D., TRUU, J., KUNDEL, D. (2021) Conventional agriculture and not drought alters relationships between soil biota and functions. Scientific Reports 11, 23975

BLUHM, S.L., EITZINGER, B., BLUHM, C., FERLIAN, O., HEIDEMANN, K., CIOBANU, M., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2021) The impact of root-derived resources on forest soil invertebrates depends on body size and trophic position. Frontiers in Forest and Global Change 4, 622370

BRANDT, A., TRAN-VAN, P., BLUHM, C., ANSELMETTI, Y., DUMAS, Z., FIGUET, E., FRANÇOIS, C.M., GALTIER, N., HEIMBURGER, B., JARON, K.S., LABÉDAN, M., MARAUN, M., PARKER, D.J., ROBINSON-RECHAVI, M., SCHAEFER, I., SIMION, P., SCHEU, S., SCHWANDER, T., BAST, J. (2021) Haplotype divergence supports long-term asexuality in the oribatid mite Oppiella nova. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the USA 118, 38 e2101485118; shared last authorship of Scheu, Schwander and Bast

GLATTHORN, J., ANNIGHÖFER, P., BALKENHOL, N., LEUSCHNER, C., POLLE, A., SCHEU, S., SCHULDT, A., SCHULDT, B., AMMER, C. (2021) An interdisciplinary framework to describe and evaluate the functioning of forest ecosystems. Basic and Applied Ecology 52, 1-14

HOEFFNER, K., BEYLICH, A., CLUZEAU, D., DASCALU, D., GRAEFE, U., GUZMÁN, G., HALLAIRE, V., HANISCH J., LANDA, B.B., LINSLER, D., MENASSERI, S., ÖPIK, M., POTTHOFF, M., SANDOR, M., SCHEU, S., SCHMELZ, R.M., ENGELL, I., SCHRADER, S., VAHTER, T., BANSE, M., NICOLAÏ, A., PLAAS, E., RUNGE, T., ROSLIN, T., CHABBI, A., DECAU, M.-L., SEPP, S.-K., ARIAS-GIRALDO, L.F., ROUCAUTE, M., PÉRÈS, G. (2021) Legacy effects of temporary grassland in annual crop rotation on soil ecosystem Services. Science of the Total Environment 780, 146140

JUNGGEBAUER, A., HARTKE, T., RAMOS, D., SCHAEFER, I., BUCHORI, D., HIDAYAT, P., SCHEU, S., DRESCHER, J. (2021) Changes in diversity and community assembly of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) after rainforest conversion to rubber and oil palm plantations. PeerJ Life and Environment 9, e11012

KRAUSE, A., SANDMANN, D., POTAPOV, A.M., ERMILOV, S., WIDYASTUTI, R., HANEDA, N.F., SCHEU, S., MARAUN, M. (2021) Variation in community-level trophic niches of soil microarthropods with conversion of tropical rainforest into plantation systems as indicated by stable isotopes (¹⁵N, ¹³C). Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9, 592149

KREIDER, J.J., CHEN, T.W., HARTKE, T.R., BUCHORI, D., HIDAYAT, P., NAZARRETA, R., SCHEU, S., DRESCHER, J. (2021) Rainforest conversion to monocultures favours generalist ants with large colonies. Ecosphere 12, e03717

LI, Z., SHI, L., KUZYAKOV, Y., PAUSCH, J., SCHEU, S., POLLIERER, M. (2021) The flux of root-derived carbon via fungi and bacteria into soil microarthropods (Collembola) differs markedly between cropping systems. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 160, 108336

LIEBKE, D.F., HARMS, D., WIDYASTUTI, R., SCHEU, S., POTAPOV, A.V. (2021) Impact of rainforest conversion into monoculture plantation systems on pseudoscorpion density, diversity and trophic niches. Soil Organisms 93, 83-95

LIU, Q., YIN, R., TAN, B., YOU, C., ZHANG, L., ZHANG, J., XU, Z., SCHÄDLER, M., SCHEU, S. (2021) Nitrogen addition and plant functional type independently modify soil mesofauna effects on litter decomposition. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 160, 108340

LU, J., SCHEU, S. (2021) Response of soil microbial communities to mixed beech-conifer forests varies with site conditions. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 155, 108155

MEYER, S., KUNDEL, D., BIRKHOFER, K., FLIESSBACH, A., SCHEU, S. (2021) Soil microarthropods respond differently to simulated drought in organic and conventional farming systems. Ecology and Evolution 11, 10369-10380

NAE, I., NAE, A., SCHEU, S., MARAUN, M. (2021) Oribatid mite communities in mountain scree: stable isotopes (¹⁵N, ¹³C) reveal three trophic levels of exclusively sexual species. Experimental and Applied Acarology 83, 375–386

PACHL, P., UUSITALO, M., SCHEU, S., SCHAEFER, I., MARAUN, M. (2021) Repeated convergent evolution of parthenogenesis in Acariformes (Acari). Ecology and Evolution 11, 321-337

POLLIERER, M.M., SCHEU, S. (2021) Stable isotopes of amino acids indicate that soil decomposer microarthropods predominantly feed on saprotrophic rather than ectomycorrhizal fungi. Ecosphere 12(3): e03425

POLLIERER, M.M., KLARNER, B., OTT, D., DIGEL, C., EHNES, R.B., EITZINGER, B., ERDMANN, G., BROSE, U., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2021) Diversity and functional structure of soil animal communities suggest soil animal food webs to be buffered against changes in forest land use. Oecologia 196, 195-209

POTAPOV, A., SCHAEFER, I., JOCHUM, M., WIDYASTUTI, R., EISENHAUER, N., SCHEU, S. (2021) Oil palm and rubber expansion facilitates earthworm invasion in Indonesia. Biological Invasions 23, 2783-2795

SANCHEZ-GALINDO, L.M., SANDMANN, D., MARIAN, F., KRASHEVSKA, V., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2021) Leaf litter identity rather than diversity shapes microbial functions and microarthropod abundance in tropical montane rainforests. Ecology and Evolution 11, 2360-2374

STRECKER, T., JESCH, A., BACHMANN, D., JÜDS, M., KRABSTEIN, K., RAVENEK, J., ROSCHER, C., WEIGELT, A., EISENHAUER, N., SCHEU, S. (2021) Incorporation of mineral nitrogen into the soil food web as affected by plant community composition. Ecology and Evolution 11, 4295–4309

SUSANTI, W.I., WIDYASTUTI, R., SCHEU, S., POTAPOV, A. (2021) Trophic niche differentiation and utilization of food resources in Collembola is altered by rainforest conversion to plantation systems. PeerJ Life and Environment 9, e10971

SUSANTI, W.I., BARTELS, B., KRASHEVSKA, V., WIDYASTUTI, R., DEHARVENG, L., SCHEU, S., POTAPOV, A. (2021) Conversion of rainforest into oil palm and rubber plantations affects the functional composition of litter and soil Collembola. Ecology and Evolution 11, 10686-10708

TARKKA, M.T., GRAMS, T.E.E., ANGAY, O., KURTH, F., MABOREKE, H.R., MAILÄNDER, S., BÖNN, M., FELDHAHN, L., FLEISCHMANN, F., RUESS, L., SCHÄDLER, M., SCHEU, S., SCHREY, S.D., BUSCOT, F., HERRMANN, S. (2021) Ectomycorrhizal fungus supports endogenous rhythmic growth and corresponding resource allocation in oak during various below- and aboveground biotic interactions. Scientific Reports 11, 23680

WALLIS, C.I.P., TIEDE, Y.C., BECK, E., BÖHNING-GAESE, K., BRANDL, R., DONOSO, D.A., ESPINOSA, C.I., FRIES, A., HOMEIER, J., INCLAN, D., LEUSCHNER, C., MARAUN, M., MIKOLAJEWSKI, K., NEUSCHULZ, E.L., SCHEU, S., SCHLEUNING, M., SUÁREZ, J.P., TINOCO, B.A., FARWIG, N., BENDIX, J. (2021) Biodiversity and ecosystem functions depend on environmental conditions and resources rather than the geodiversity of a tropical biodiversity hotspot. Scientific Reports 11, 24530

2020

ASSELMANN, M., SOBCZYK, L., WEINER, J., SCHEU, S., ROZEN, A. (2020) Does metal pollution affect the stoichiometry of soil-litter food webs? Pedobiologia 80, 150649

BUZHDYGAN, O.Y., MEYER, S.T., WEISSER, W.W., EISENHAUER, N., EBELING, A., BORRETT, S.R., BUCHMANN, N., CORTOIS, R., DE DEYN, G.B., DE KROON, H., GLEIXNER, G., HERTZOG, L.R., HINES, J., LANGE, M., MOMMER, L., RAVENEK, J., SCHERBER, C., SCHERER-LORENZEN, M., SCHEU, S., SCHMID, B., STEINAUER, K., STRECKER, T., TIETJEN, B., VOGEL, A., WEIGELT, A., PETERMANN, J.S. (2020) Biodiversity increases multitrophic energy use efficiency, flow and storage in grasslands. Nature Ecology and Evolution 4, 393-405

DING, S., LANGE, M., LIPP, J., SCHWAB, VALÉ.F., CHOWDHURY, S., POLLIERER, M.M., KRAUSE, K., LI, D., KOTHE, E., SCHEU, S., WELTI, R., HINRICHS, K.-U., GLEIXNER, G. (2020) Characteristics and origin of intact polar lipids in soil organic matter. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 151, 108045

ERKTAN, A., OR, D., SCHEU, S. (2020) The physical structure of soil: Determinant and consequence of trophic interactions. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 17, 4961–4980

ERKTAN, A., POLLIERER, M.M., SCHEU, S. (2020) Soil ecologists as detectives discovering who eats whom or what in the soil. Frontiers for Young Minds 08, 544803 (reviewed by young reviewers!)

ERKTAN, A., RILLIG, M.C., CARMINATI, A., JOUSSET, A., SCHEU, S. (2020) Protists and collembolans alter microbial community composition, C dynamics and soil aggregation in simplified consumer - prey systems. Biogeosciences 17, 4961–4980

GRASS, I., KUBITZA, C., KRISHNA, V.V., CORRE, M.D., MUßHOFF, O., PÜTZ, P., DRESCHER, J., REMBOLD, K., ARIYANTI, E.S., BARNES, A.D., BRINKMANN, N., BROSE, U., BRÜMMER, B., BUCHORI, D., DANIEL, R., DARRAS, K.F.A., FAUST, H., FEHRMANN, L., HEIN, J., HENNINGS, N., HIDAYAT, P., HÖLSCHER, D., JOCHUM, M., KNOHL, A., KOTOWSKA, M.M., KRASHEVSKA, V., KREFT, H., LEUSCHNER, C., LOBITE, N.J.S., PANJAITAN, R., POLLE, A., POTAPOV, A.M., PURNAMA, E., QAIM, M., RÖLL, A., SCHEU, S., SCHNEIDER, D., TJOA, A., TSCHARNTKE, T., VELDKAMP, E., WOLLNI, M. (2020) Trade-offs between multifunctionality and profit in tropical smallholder landscapes. Nature Communications 11, 1186

HAYNERT, K., GLUDERER, F., POLLIERER, M.M., SCHEU, S., WEHRMANN, A. (2020) Food spectrum and habitat-specific diets of benthic foraminifera from the Wadden Sea – a fatty acid biomarker approach. Frontiers in Marine Science 7, 510288

HÖRANDL, E., BAST, J., BRANDT, A., SCHEU, S., BLEIDORN, C., CORDELLIER, M., NOWROUSIAN, M., BEGEROW, D., STURM, A., VERHOEVEN, K., BOENIGK, J., FRIEDL, T., DUNTHORN, M. (2020) Genome evolution of asexual organisms and the paradox of sex in eukaryotes. In: PONTAROTTI, P. (ed.), Evolutionary Biology: a Transdisciplinary Approach. Springer, New York, pp. 133-167

JOCHUM, M., FISCHER, M., ISBELL, F., ROSCHER, C., VAN DER PLAS, F., BOCH, S., BOENISCH, G., BUCHMANN, N., CATFORD, J., CAVENDER-BARES, J., EBELING, A., EISENHAUER, N., GLEIXNER, G., HÖLZEL, N., KATTGE, J., KLAUS, V.H., KLEINEBECKER, T., LANGE, M., LE PROVOST, G., MEYER, S., MOLINA-VENEGAS, R., MOMMER, L., OELMANN, Y., PENONE, C., PRATI, D., REICH, P., RINDISBACHER, A., SCHÄFER, D., SCHEU, S., SCHMID, B., TILMAN, D., TSCHARNTKE, T., VOGEL, A., WAGG, C., WEIGELT, A., WEISSER, W.W., WILCKE, W., MANNING, P. (2020) The results of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic. Nature Ecology and Evolution 4, 1485-1494

LAMA, S., VELESCU, A., LEIMER, S., WEIGELT, A., CHEN, H., EISENHAUER, N., SCHEU, S., OELMANN, Y., WILCKE, W. (2020) Plant diversity influenced gross nitrogen mineralization, microbial ammonium consumption and gross inorganic N immobilization in a grassland experiment. Oecologia 193:731–748

LAMA, S., KUHN, T., LEHMANN, M.F., MÜLLER, C., GONZALES, O., EISENHAUER, N., LANGE, M., SCHEU, S., OELMANN, Y., WILCKE, W. (2020) The biodiversity - N cycle relationship: a 15N tracer experiment with soil from plant mixtures of varying diversity to model N pool sizes and transformation rates. Biology and Fertility of Soils 56, 1047-1061

LANGE, M., ROTH, V.-N., EISENHAUER, N., ROSCHER, C., DITTMAR, T., FISCHER, C., GONZÁLEZ MACÉ, O., HILDEBRANDT, A., MILCU, A., MOMMER, L., ORAM, N., RAVENEK, J., SCHEU, S., SCHMID, B., STRECKER, T., WAGG, C., WEIGELT, A., GLEIXNER, G. (2020) Plant diversity enhances production and downward transport of biodegradable dissolved organic matter. Journal of Ecology 10, 1284-1297

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

MARAUN, M., AUGUSTIN, D., POLLIERER, M.M., SCHEU, S. (2020) Variation in trophic niches of oribatid mites in temperate forest ecosystems as indicated by neutral lipid fatty acid patterns. Experimental and Applied Acarology 81, 103-115

MARIAN, F., RAMIREZ CASTILLO, P., INIGUEZ ARMIJOS, C., GÜNTER, S., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2020) Conversion of Andean montane forests into plantations: Effects on soil characteristics, microorganisms, and microarthropods. Biotropica 52, 1143-1155

MELGUIZO-RUIZ, N., JIMÉNEZ-NAVARRO, G., DE MAS, E., PATO, J., SCHEU, S., AUSTIN, A., WISE, D.H., MOYA-LARANO, J. (2020) Field exclusion of large soil predators impacts lower trophic levels, and decreases leaf-litter decomposition in dry forests. Journal of Animal Ecology 89, 334-346

NAZARRETA, R., HARTKE, T.R., HIDAYAT, P., SCHEU, S., BUCHORI, D., DRESCHER, J. (2020) Rainforest conversion to smallholder plantations of rubber or oil palm leads to species loss and community shifts in canopy ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecological News 30, 175-186

POLLIERER, M.M., SCHEU, S., TIUNOV, A.V. (2020) Isotope analyses of amino acids in fungi and fungal feeding Diptera larvae allow differentiating ectomycorrhizal and saprotrophic fungi-based food chains. Functional Ecology 34, 375–2388

POTAPOV, A.M., DUPÉRRÉ, N., JOCHUM, M., DRECZKO, K., KLARNER, B., BARNES, A.D., KRASHEVSKA, V., REMBOLD, K., KREFT, H., BROSE, U., WIDYASTUTI, R., HARMS, D., SCHEU, S. (2020) Functional losses in ground spider communities due to habitat-structure degradation under tropical land-use change. Ecology 101, e02917

POTAPOV, A., BONNIER, R., SANDMANN, D., WANG, S., WIDYASTUTI, R., SCHEU. S., KRASHEVSKA, V. (2020) Above-ground refugia for below-ground fauna in oil palm plantations. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 18, 181-186

QUINTERO-GUTIÉRREZ, E.J., SANDMANN, D., KLARNER, B., WIDYASTUTI, R., CÓMBITA-HEREDIA, O., SCHEU, S. (2020) A new species of the genus Lasioseius (Acari: Blattisociidae) inhabiting litter of secondary rainforest in Sumatra, Indonesia. Acarologia 60, 338-352

QUINTERO-GUTIÉRREZ EJ, SANDMANN D, CÓMBITA-HEREDIA O, KLARNER B, WIDYASTUTI R, SCHEU S (2020) Review of the mite genus Krantzolaspína Datta & Bhattacharjee (Mesostigmata, Parholaspididae) with re-description of K. angustatus comb. nov. (Ishikawa) from Indonesia. ZooKeys 997, 47–68

RADERMACHER, N., HARTKE, T.R., VILLAREAL, S., SCHEU, S. (2020) Spiders in rice-paddy ecosystems shift from aquatic to terrestrial prey and use carbon pools of different origin. Oecologia 192, 801-812

SALAMON, J.-A., WISSUWA, J., FRANK, T., SCHEU, S., POTAPOV, A.M. (2020) Trophic level and basal resource use of soil animals are hardly affected by local plant associations in abandoned arable land. Ecology and Evolution 10, 8279–8288

SUN, X., DEHARVENG, L., BEDOS, A., CHANG, L., SCHEU, S., WU, D. (2020) Changes in diversity and body size of Onychiurinae (Collembola: Onychiuridae) along an altitudinal gradient in Changbai Mountain, China. Soil Ecology Letters 2, 230-239

SUN, X., MARIAN, F., BLUHM, C., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2020) Response of Collembola to the addition of nutrients along an altitudinal gradient of tropical montane rainforests. Applied Soil Ecology 147, 103382

VAN DEN HOOGEN, J., GEISEN, S., ROUTH, D., FERRIS, H., TRAUNSPURGER, W., WARDLE, D., ADAMS, B., AHMAD, W., ANDRIUZZI, W., BARDGETT, R., BONKOWSKI, M., CAMPOS, R., CARES, J.E., CARUSO, T., CHEN, X., CREAMER, R., DAM, M., DE GOEDE, R., COSTA, S., ESCUER, M., FROST, C., GRIFFITHS, B., GUTIÉRREZ, C., HELDER, H., HOHBERG, K., KAIWEN, P., KARDOL, P., KERGUNTEUIL, A., KORTHALS, G., KRASHEVSKA, V., KUDRIN, A., MAGILTON, M., MARAIS, M., MARTIN, J., EL HASSAN, M., MULDER, C., MULLIN, P., NEILSON, R., NGUYEN, D., NIELSEN, U., PALOMARES RIUS, J., PENEVA, V., PEREIRA DA SILVA, J., PITTELOUD, C., POWERS, T., POWERS, K., QI, L., QUIST, C., RASMANN, S., SÁNCHEZ MORENO, S., SCHEU, S., SETÄLÄ, H., SUSHCHUK, A., TIUNOV, A., TRAP, J., VAN DER PUTTEN, W., VESTERGARD, M., VILLENAVE, C., WAEYENBERGE, L., WALL, D., WILSCHUT, R., YANG, J.-I., CROWTHER T.W. (2020) A global database of soil nematode abundance and functional group composition. Scientific Data 7, 103

VAN DER PLAS, F., SCHRÖDER-GEORGI, T., WEIGELT, A., SCHEU, S., WIRTH, C. (2020) Plant traits alone are poor predictors of ecosystem properties and long-term ecosystem functioning. Nature Ecology and Evolution 4, 1602-1611

XIE, Z., YAO, H., POTAPOV, M., DONG, J., WU, D., SCHEU, S., SUN, X. (2020) The complete mitochondrial genome of an enigmatic predaceous springtail Metisotoma macnamarai from northeast China. Mitochondrial DNA Part B 5, 506-508

ZHANG, P., SCHEU, S., LI, B., LIN, G., ZHAO, J., WU, J. (2020) Litter C transformations of invasive Spartina alterniflora affected by litter type and soil source. Biology and Fertility of Soils 56, 369–379

ZHOU, S., BUTENSCHOEN, O., BARANTAL, S., HANDA, T., MAKKONEN, M., VOS, V., AERTS, R., BERG, M., MCKIE, B., VAN RUIJVEN, J., HATTENSCHWILER, S., SCHEU, S. (2020) Decomposition of leaf litter mixtures across biomes: The role of litter identity, diversity and soil fauna. Journal of Ecology 108, 2283–2297

ZUEV, A., HEIDEMANN, K., LEONOV, V., SCHAEFER, I., SCHEU, S., TANASEVITCH, A., TIUNOV, A., TSURIKOV, S., POTAPOV, A. (2020) Different groups of ground-dwelling spiders share similar trophic niches in temperate forests. Ecological Entomology 45, 1346–1356

2019

BEAULIEU, F., QUINTERO-GUTIÉRREZ, E.J., SANDMANN, D., KLARNER, B., WIDYASTUTI, R., CÓMBITA-HEREDIA, O., SCHEU, S. (2019) Review of the mite genus Ololaelaps (Acari: Laelapidae) and redescription of O. formidabilis Berlese. ZooKeys 853, 1–36

BLUHM, C., BUTENSCHOEN, O., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2019) Effects of root and leaf litter identity and diversity on oribatid mite abundance, species richness and community composition. PLoS One 14(7): e0219166

BLUHM, S., EITZINGER, B., FERLIAN, O., BLUHM, C., SCHRÖTER, K., PENA, R., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2019) Deprivation of root-derived resources affects microbial biomass but not community structure in litter and soil. PLoS One 14(3): e0214233

BLUHM, S., POTAPOV, A.M., SHRUBOVYCH, J., AMMERSCHUBERT, S., POLLE, A., SCHEU, S. (2019) Protura are unique: First evidence of specialized feeding on ectomycorrhizal fungi in soil invertebrates. BMC Ecology 19:10

BRANDT, A., BAST, J., SCHEU, S., MEUSEMANN, K., DONATH, A., SCHÜTTE, K., MACHIDA, R., KRAIJEVELD, K. (2019) No signal of deleterious mutation accumulation in conserved gene sequences of extant asexual hexapods. Scientific Reports 9: 5338

CAMENZIND, T., SCHEU, S., RILLIG, M.C. (2019) Expanding the toolbox of nutrient limitation studies: Novel method of soil microbial in-growth bags to evaluate nutrient demands in tropical forests. Functional Ecology 33, 1536-1548

DARRAS, K.F.A., CORRE, M.D., FORMAGLIO, G., TJOA, A., POTAPOV, A., BRAMBACH, F., SIBHATU, K.T., GRASS, I., RUBIANO, A.A., BUCHORI, D., DRESCHER, J., FARDIANSAH, R., HÖLSCHER, D., IRAWAN, B., KNEIB, T., KRASHEVSKA, V., KRAUSE, A., KREFT, H., LI, K., MARAUN, M., POLLE, A., RYADIN, A.R., REMBOLD, K., STIEGLER, C., SCHEU, S., TARIGAN, S., VALDÉS-URIBE, A., YADI, S., TSCHARNTKE, T., VELDKAMP, E. (2019) Reducing fertilizer and avoiding herbicides in oil palm plantations – Ecological and economic valuations. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 2: 65, 1-15

EISENHAUER, N., BONKOWSKI, M., BROSE, U., BUSCOT, F., DURKA, W., EBELING, A., FISCHER, M., GLEIXNER, G., HEINTZ-BUSCHART, A., HINES, J., JESCH, A., LANGE, M., MEYER, S., ROSCHER, C., SCHEU, S., SCHIELZETH, H., SCHLOTER, M., SCHULZ, S., UNSICKER, S., VAN DAM, N.M., WEIGELT, A., WEISSER, W.W., WIRTH, C., WOLF, J., SCHMID, B. (2019) Biotic interactions, community assembly, and ecoevolutionary dynamics as drivers of long-term biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships. Research Ideas and Outcomes – RIO, 5: e47042

ERMILOV, S., SANDMANN, D., SCHEU, S. (2019) New species and records of oribatid mites of the genus Protoribates (Acari, Oribatida, Haplozetidae) from Indonesia. Systematic and Applied Acarology 24, 1236-1248

ERMILOV, S., SANDMANN, D., SCHEU, S. (2019) Contribution to the knowledge of the oribatid mite genus Kalloia (Acari, Oribatida, Carabodidae), with description of a new species from Indonesia. Acarologia 59, 323-334

ERMILOV, S., SANDMANN, D., SCHEU, S. (2019) New and interesting species of sacculonotic Haplozetidae (Acari, Oribatida, Haplozetidae) from Indonesia. Zootaxa 4656, 459-474

FARDIANSAH, R., DUPERRE, N., WIDYASTUTI, R., POTAPOV, A., SCHEU, S., HARMS, D. (2019) Description of four new species of armoured spiders (Araneae, Tetrablemmidae) from Sumatra, Indonesia. Zookeys 820, 95-118

GONG, X., WANG, S., WANG, Z., JIANG, Y., HU, Z., ZHENG, Y., CHEN, X., LI, H., HU, F., LIU, M., SCHEU, S. (2019) Earthworms modify soil bacterial and fungal communities through enhancing aggregation and buffering pH. Geoderma 347, 59-69

GONZALEZ MACE, O., EBELING, A., EISENHAUER, N., CESARZ, S., SCHEU, S. (2019) Variations in trophic niches of generalist predators with plant community composition as indicated by stable isotopes and fatty acids. Soil Organisms 91, 45-59

GRAF, M., BÖNN, M., FELDHAHN, L., KURTH, F., GRAMS, T.E.E., HERRMANN, S., TARKKA, M., BUSCOT, F., SCHEU, S. (2019) Collembola interact with mycorrhizal fungi in modifying oak morphology, C and N incorporation and transcriptomics. Royal Society Open Science 6: 181869.

HINES, J., EBELING, A., BARNES, A., BROSE, U., SCHERBER, C., SCHEU, S., TSCHARNTKE, T., WEISSER, W.W., GILING, D.P. (2019) Mapping change in biodiversity and ecosystem function research: Food webs foster integration of experiments and science policy. Advances in Ecological Research 61, 297-322.

KRASHEVSKA, V., KUDRIN, A.A., WIDYASTUTI, R., SCHEU, S. (2019) Changes in nematode communities and functional diversity with the conversion of rainforest into rubber and oil palm plantations. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7: 487

KRAUSE, A., SANDMANN, D., BLUHM, S.L., ERMILOV, S., WIDYASTUTI, R., HANEDA, N.F., SCHEU, S., MARAUN, M. (2019) Shift in trophic niches of soil microarthropods with conversion of tropical rainforest into plantations as indicated by stable isotopes (¹⁵N, ¹³C). PLoS One 14(10): e0224520

LANGE, G., SCHMITT, J.A., KRÖNCKE, I., MOORTHI, S.D., ROHDE, S., SCHEU, S., SCHUPP, P.J. (2019) The role of invasive marine plants for macrofauna nutrition in the Wadden Sea. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 512, 1-11

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 9:7324-7332

MARIAN, F., BROWN, L, SANDMANN, D., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2019) Roots, mycorrhizal fungi and altitude as determinants of litter decomposition and soil animal communities in tropical montane rainforests. Plant and Soil 438, 1-18

POLLIERER, M.M., LARSEN, T., POTAPOV, A., BRÜCKNER, A., HEETHOFF, M., DYCKMANS, J., SCHEU, S. (2019) Compound-specific isotope analysis of amino acids as a new tool to uncover trophic chains in soil food webs. Ecological Monographs 89, e01384

POTAPOV, A.M., TIUNOV, A.V., SCHEU, S. (2019) Uncovering the trophic positions and food resources of soil animals using bulk natural stable isotope composition. Biological Reviews 94, 37-59

POTAPOV, A.M., SCHEU, S., TIUNOV, A.V. (2019) Trophic consistency of supraspecific taxa in belowground invertebrate communities: comparison across lineages and taxonomic ranks. Functional Ecology 33, 1172-1183

POTAPOV, A.M., BROSE, U., SCHEU, S., TIUNOV, A.V. (2019) Trophic position of consumers and size structure of food webs across aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. The American Naturalist 194, 823-839

POTAPOV, A.M., KLARNER, B., SANDMANN, D., WIDYASTUTI, R., SCHEU, S. (2019) Linking size spectrum, energy flux and trophic multifunctionality in soil food webs of tropical land-use systems. Journal of Animal Ecology 88, 1845-1859. Featured in Ehnes, R.B. (2019) Land-use change affects size spectra, energy flux and ecosystem functions in litter and soil invertebrates. Journal of Animal Ecology 88, 1828-1831

POTAPOV, A.M., TIUNOV, A.V., SCHEU, S., LARSEN, T., POLLIERER, M.M. (2019) Combining bulk and amino acid stable isotope analyses to quantify trophic level and basal resources of detritivores: a case study on earthworms. Oecologia 189, 447-460

SANCHEZ‑GALINDO, L.M., CAMENZIND, T., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2019) Impacts of core rotation, defaunation and nitrogen addition on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, microorganisms and microarthropods in a tropical montane rainforest. Tropical Ecology 60, 350-361

SCHULZ, G., SCHNEIDER, D., BRINKMANN, N., NUR, E., DANIEL, R., POLLE, A., SCHEU, S., KRASHEVSKA, V. (2019) Changes in trophic groups of protists with conversion of rainforest into rubber and oil palm plantations. Frontiers in Microbiology 10:240

SCHYRA, J., SCHEU, S., KORB, J. (2019) Cryptic niche differentiation in West African savannah termites as indicated by stable isotopes. Ecological Entomology 44, 190-196

SUSANTI, W.I., POLLIERER, M.M., WIDYASTUTI, R., SCHEU, S., POTAPOV, V. (2019) Conversion of rainforest to oil palm and rubber plantations alters energy channels in soil food webs. Ecology and Evolution 9: 9027–9039.

VAN DEN HOOGEN, J., GEISEN, S., ROUTH, D., FERRIS, H., TRAUNSPURGER, W., WARDLE, D., ADAMS, B., AHMAD, W., ANDRIUZZI, W., BARDGETT, R., BONKOWSKI, M., CAMPOS, R., CARES, J.E., CARUSO, T., CHEN, X., CREAMER, R., DAM, M., DE GOEDE, R., COSTA, S., ESCUER, M., FROST, C., GRIFFITHS, B., GUTIÉRREZ, C., HELDER, H., HOHBERG, K., KAIWEN, P., KARDOL, P., KERGUNTEUIL, A., KORTHALS, G., KRASHEVSKA, V., KUDRIN, A., MAGILTON, M., MARAIS, M., MARTIN, J., EL HASSAN, M., MULDER, C., MULLIN, P., NEILSON, R., NGUYEN, D., NIELSEN, U., PALOMARES RIUS, J., PENEVA, V., PEREIRA DA SILVA, J., PITTELOUD, C., POWERS, T., POWERS, K., QI, L., QUIST, C., RASMANN, S., SÁNCHEZ MORENO, S., SCHEU, S., SETÄLÄ, H., SUSHCHUK, A., TIUNOV, A., TRAP, J., VAN DER PUTTEN, W., VESTERGARD, M., VILLENAVE, C., WAEYENBERGE, L., WALL, D., WILSCHUT, R., YANG, J.-I., CROWTHER T.W. (2019) Soil nematode abundance, distribution, and trophic group composition at a global scale. Nature 572, 194-198

VOGEL, A., EBELING, A., GLEIXNER, G., ROSCHER, C., SCHEU, S., CIOBANU, M., KOLLER-FRANCE, E., LANGE, M., LOCHNER, A., MEYER, S.T., OELMANN, Y., WILCKE, W., SCHMID, B., EISENHAUER, N. (2019) A new experimental approach to test why biodiversity effects strengthen as ecosystems age. Advances in Ecological Research 61, 221-264

XIE, Z., YAO, H., POTAPOV, M., DONG, J., WU, D., SCHEU, S., SUN, X. (2019) The complete mitochondrial genome of an enigmatic predaceous springtail Metisotoma macnamarai from northeast China. Mitochondrial DNA Part B 5:1, 506-508

YANG, N., BUTENSCHOEN, O., RANA, R., KÖHLER, R., HERTEL, D., LEUSCHNER, C., SCHEU, S., POLLE, A., PENA, R. (2019) Leaf litter species identity influences biochemical composition of ectomycorrhizal fungi. Mycorrhiza 29, 85-96

ZHANG, B., CHEN, T.-W., MATEOS, E., SCHEU, S., SCHAEFER, I. (2019) DNA-based approaches uncover cryptic diversity in the European Lepidocyrtus lanuginosus species group (Collembola: Entomobryidae). Invertebrate Systematics 33, 661-670

ZHANG, F., DING, Y., ZHU, C., ZHOU, X., ORR, M.C., SCHEU, S., LUAN, Y.-X. (2019) Phylogenomics from low-coverage whole-genome sequencing. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 10, 507-517

2018

EISENHAUER, N., VOGEL, A., JENSEN, B., SCHEU, S. (2018) Decomposer diversity increases biomass production and shifts aboveground-belowground biomass allocation of common wheat. Scientific Reports, 8(1), 17894.

EITZINGER, B., RALL, B.C., TRAUGOTT, M., SCHEU, S. (2018) Testing the validity of functional response models using molecular gut content analysis for prey choice in soil predators. Oikos 127, 915-926

FARDIANSAH, R., DUPERRE, N., WIDYASTUTI, R., POTAPOV, A., SCHEU, S., HARMS, D. (2018) Description of three new species of Aposphragsima Thoma, 2014 (Araneae: Oonopidae) from Sumatra, Indonesia. ZooKeys 797, 71-85

GONG, X., JIANG, Y., ZHENG, Y., CHEN, X., LI, H., HU, F., LIU, M., SCHEU, S. (2018) Earthworms differentially modify the microbiome of arable soils varying in residue management. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 121, 120-129

GONG, X., CHEN, T.-W., ZIEGER, S.L., BLUHM, C., HEIDEMANN, K., SCHAEFER, I., MARAUN, M., LIU, M., SCHEU, S. (2018) Phylogenetic and trophic determinants of gut microbiota in soil oribatid mites. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 123, 155-164

GONZÁLEZ-MACÉ, O., SCHEU, S. (2018) Response of collembola and acari communities to summer flooding in a grassland plant diversity experiment. PLoS One, 13(8), e0202862.

GUILLAUME, T., KOTOWSKA, M.M., HERTEL, D., KNOHL, A., KRASHEVSKA, V., MURTILAKSONO, K., SCHEU, S., KUZYAKOV, Y. (2018) Carbon costs and benefits of tropical land-use intensification. Nature Communications 9, 2388

HENKES, G.J., KANDELER, E., MARHAN, S., SCHEU, S., BONKOWSKI, M. (2018) Interactions of mycorrhiza and protists in the rhizosphere systemically alter microbial community composition, plant shoot-to-root ratio and within-root system nitrogen allocation. Frontiers in Environmental Science 6: 117

KRASHEVSKA, V., MALYSHEVA, E., KLARNER, B., MAZEI, Y., MARAUN, M., WIDYASTUTI, R., SCHEU, S. (2018) Micro-decomposer communities and decomposition processes in tropical lowlands as affected by land-use and litter type. Oecologia 187, 255-266

KUNDEL, D., MEYER, S., BIRKHOFER, H., FLIESSBACH, A., MÄDER, P., SCHEU, S., VAN KLEUNEN, M., BIRKHOFER, K. (2018) Design and manual to construct rainout-shelters for climate change experiments in agroecosystems. Frontiers in Environmental Science 6: 14

LANGE, G., HAYNERT, K., DINTER, T., SCHEU, S., KRÖNCKE, I. (2018) Adaptation of benthic invertebrates to food sources along marine-terrestrial boundaries as indicated by carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes. Journal of Sea Research 131, 12-21

MARIAN, F., SANDMANN, D., KRASHEVSKA, V., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2018) Altitude and decomposition stage rather than litter origin structure soil microarthropod communities in tropical montane rainforests. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 125, 263–274

MEYER, S.T., PTACNIK, R., HILLEBRAND H., BESSLER, H., BUCHMANN, N., EBELING, A., EISENHAUER, N. ENGELS, C., FISCHER, M., HALLE, S., KLEIN, A.-M. OELMANN, Y., ROSCHER, C., ROTTSTOCK, T., SCHERBER, C., SCHEU, S., SCHMID, B., SCHULZE, E.-D., TEMPERTON, V.M., TSCHARNTKE, T., VOIGT, W., WEIGELT, A., WILCKE, W., WEISSER, W.W. (2017) Biodiversity–multifunctionality relationships depend on identity and number of measured functions. Nature Ecology and Evolution 2, 44-49

MILCU, A., PUGA-FREITAS, A., ELLISON, A.M., BLOUIN, M., SCHEU, S., FRESCHET, G.T., ROSE, L., BAROT, S., CESARZ, S., EISENHAUER, N., GIRIN, T., ASSANDRI, G., BONKOWSKI, M., BUCHMANN, N., BUTENSCHOEN, O., DEVIDAL, S., GLEIXNER, G., GESSLER, A., GIGON, A., GREINER, A.,, GRIGNANI, C., HANSART, A., KAYLER, Z., LANGE, M., LATA, J.C., LE GALLIARD, J.-F., LUKAC, M., MANNERHEIM, N. MÜLLER, M.E.H., PANDO, A., ROTTER, P., SCHERER-LORENZEN, M., SEYHUN, R., URBAN-MEAD, K., WEIGELT, A., ZAVATTARO, L., ROY, J. (2018) Genotypic variability enhances the reproducibility of an ecological study. Nature Ecology and Evolution 2, 279-287

PAUSCH, J., HÜNNINGHAUS, M., KRAMER, S., SCHARROBA, A., SCHEUNEMANN, N., BUTENSCHOEN, O., MARHAN, S., BONKOWSKI, M., SCHEU, S., KUZYAKOV, Y., RUESS, L. (2018) Carbon budgets of top- and subsoil food webs in an arable system. Pedobiologia 69, 29-33

RAMÍREZ CASTILLO, P., MARIAN, L., MARIAN, F., ESPINOSA, C.I., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2018) Response of oribatid mites to reforestation of degraded tropical montane pasture land. European Journal of Soil Biology 84, 35-41

SCHULZ, G., MARAUN, M., VÖLCKER, E., SCHEU, S., KRASHEVSKA, V. (2018) Evaluation of morphological characteristics to delineate taxa of the genus Trigonopyxis (Amoebozoa, Arcellinida). Protist 169, 190-205

SETTELE, J., HEONG, K.L., KÜHN, I., (...), SCHEU, S., (…), ZHU, Z., WIEMERS, M. (2018) Rice ecosystem services in South-east Asia. Paddy and Water Environment 16, 211-24.

SOHLSTRÖM, E.H., MARIAN, L., BARNES, A.D., HANEDA, N.F., SCHEU, S., RALL, B.C., BROSE, U., JOCHUM, M. (2018) Applying generalised allometric regressions to predict live body mass of tropical and temperate arthropods. Ecology and Evolution 8, 12737-12749

STEINWANDTER, M., RIEF, A., SCHEU, S., TRAUGOTT, M., SEEBER, J. (2018) Structural and functional characteristics of high alpine soil macro-invertebrate communities. European Journal of Soil Biology 86, 72-80

WINTER, M., HAYNERT, K., SCHEU, S., MARAUN, M. (2018) Seasonal dynamics and changing sea level as determinants of the community and trophic structure of oribatid mites in a salt marsh of the Wadden Sea. PLoS One 13(11), e0207141

ZHANG, B., CHEN, T.-W., MATEOS, E., SCHEU, S., SCHÄFER, I. (2018) Cryptic species in Lepidocyrtus lanuginosus (Collembola: Entomobryidae) are sorted by habitat type. Pedobiologia 68, 12-19

ZHOU, S., HUANG, C., XIANG, Y., TIE, L., HAN, B., SCHEU, S. (2018) Effects of reduced precipitation on litter decomposition in an evergreen broad-leaved forest in western China. Forest Ecology and Management 430, 219-227

ZIEGER, S., SCHEU, S. (2018) Effects of storage and handling on neutral lipid fatty acid profiles of two woodlice (Isopoda, Crustacea) species differing in size. Applied Soil Ecology 130, 178-184

2017

BIRKHOFER, K., GOSSNER, M., DIEKÖTTER, T., DREES, C., FERLIAN, O., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S., WEISSER, W.W., WOLTERS, V., WURST, S., ZAITSEV, A., SMITH, H. (2017) Land-use type and intensity differentially filter traits in above- and belowground arthropod communities. Journal of Animal Ecology 86, 511-520.

BRANDT, A., SCHAEFER, I., GLANZ, J., SCHWANDER, T., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S., BAST, J. (2017) Effective purifying selection in ancient asexual oribatid mites. Nature Communications 8(1), 873.

CHEN, T.-W., SANDMANN, P., SCHAEFER, I., SCHEU, S. (2017) Neutral lipid fatty acid composition as trait and constraint in Collembola evolution. Ecology and Evolution 7, 1-16.

CHEN, H., ORAM, N.J., BARRY, K.E., MOMMER, L., VAN RUIJVEN, J., DE KROON, H., EBELING, A., EISENHAUER, N., FISCHER, C., GLEIXNER, G., GESSLER, A., GONZÁLEZ MACÉ, O., HACKER, N., HILDEBRANDT, A., LANGE, M., SCHERER-LORENZEN, M., SCHEU, S., OELMANN, Y., WAGG, C., WILCKE, W., WIRTH, C., WEIGELT, A. (2017) Root chemistry and soil fauna but not soil abiotic conditions explain the effects of plant diversity on root decomposition. Oecologia 185, 499-511.

CORTOIS, R., VEEN, G.F., DUYTS, H., ABBAS, M., STRECKER, T., EISENHAUER, N., SCHEU, S., GLEIXNER, G., DE DUYN, G.B., VAN DER PUTTEN, W.H. (2017) Mechanisms underlying abundance and diversity responses of nematode communities to plant diversity. Ecosphere 8(5), e01719.

EISENHAUER, N., LANOUE, A., STRECKER, T., SCHEU, S., STEINAUER, K., THAKUR, M.P., MOMMER, L. (2017) Root biomass and exudates link plant diversity with soil microbial communities. Scientific Reports 7:44641.

EISENHAUER, N., ANTUNES, P.M., BENNETT, A.E., BIRKHOFER, K., BISSETT, A., BOWKER, M.A., CARUSO, T., CHEN, B., COLEMAN, D.C., DE BOER, W., DE RUITER, P., DELUCA, T.H., FRATI, F., GRIFFITHS, B.S., HART, M.M., HÄTTENSCHWILER, S., HAIMI, J., HEETHOFF, M., KANEKO, N., KELLY, L.C., LEINAAS, H.P., LINDO, Z., MACDONALD, C., RILLIG, M.C., RUESS, L., SCHEU, S., SCHMIDT, O., SEASTEDT, T.R., VAN STRAALEN, N.M., TIUNOV, A.V., ZIMMER, M., POWELL, J.R. (2017) Priorities for research in soil ecology. Pedobiologia 63, 1-7.

GLAVATSKA, O., MÜLLER, K., BUTENSCHOEN, O., SCHMALWASSER, A., KANDELER, E., SCHEU, S., TOTSCHE, K.U., RUESS, L. (2017) Disentangling the root- and detritus-based food chain in the micro-food web of an arable soil by plant removal. PLoS One 12(7), 0180264.

HAYNERT, K., KIGGEN, M., KLARNER, B., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2017) The structure of salt marsh soil mesofauna food webs - the prevalence of disturbance. PLoS One 12(12): e0189645.

JOCHUM, M., BARNES, A.D., OTT, D., LANG, B., KLARNER, B., FARAJALLAH, A., SCHEU, S., BROSE, U. (2017) Decreasing stoichiometric resource quality drives compensatory feeding and consumer species loss across trophic levels in tropical litter invertebrate communities. American Naturalist 190, 131-145.

KLARNER, B., WINKELMANN, H., KRASHEVSKA, V., MARAUN, M., WIDYASTUTI, R., SCHEU, S. (2017) Trophic niches, diversity and community composition of invertebrate top predators (Chilopoda) as affected by conversion of tropical lowland rainforest in Sumatra (Indonesia). PLoS One 12(8): e0180915.

KRASHEVSKA, V., MARIAN, F., SANDMANN, D., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2017) Leaf litter chemistry drives the structure and composition of soil testate amoeba communities in a tropical montane rainforest of the Ecuadorian Andes. Microbial Ecology 74, 681-690.

KLEIN, A., CAMERON, E.K., HEIMBURGER, B., EISENHAUER, N., SCHEU, S., SCHAEFER, I. (2017) Changes in the genetic structure of an invasive earthworm species (Lumbricus terrestris, Lumbricidae) along an urban – rural gradient in North America. Applied Soil Ecology 120, 265 - 272.

MABOREKE, H.R., GRAF, M., GRAMS, T.E.E., HERRMANN, S., SCHEU, S., RUESS, L. (2017) Multitrophic interactions in the rhizosphere of a temperate forest tree affect plant carbon flow into the belowground food web. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 115, 526-536.

MARIAN, F., SANDMANN, D., KRASHEVSKA, V., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2017) Leaf and root litter decomposition is discontinued at high altitude tropical montane rainforests contributing to carbon sequestration. Ecology and Evolution 7, 6432–6443.

MELGUIZO-RUIZ, N., JIMÉNEZ-NAVARRO, G., ZIEGER, S.L., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S., MOYA-LARAÑO, J. (2017) Complex effects of precipitation and basal resources on the trophic ecology of soil oribatid mites: implications for stable isotope analysis. European Journal of Soil Biology 82, 98-107.

PACHL, P., LINDL, A.C., KRAUSE, A., SCHEU, S., SCHAEFER, I., MARAUN, M. (2017) The tropics as an ancient cradle of oribatid mite diversity. Acarologia 57, 309–322.

POLLIERER, M., SCHEU, S. (2017) Driving factors and temporal fluctuation of Collembola communities and reproductive mode across forest types and regions. Ecology and Evolution 2017, 1-14.

SOMMER, J., DIPPOLD, M.A., ZIEGER, S.L., HANDKE, A., SCHEU, S., KUZYAKOV, Y. (2017) The tree species matters: Belowground carbon input and utilization in the myco-rhizosphere. European Journal of Soil Biology 81, 100-107.

STEINAUER, K., FISCHER, F.M., ROSCHER, C., SCHEU, S., EISENHAUER, N. (2017) Spatial plant resource acquisition traits explain plant community effects on soil microbial properties. Pedobiologia 65, 50-57.

SUN, X., WEINER, W.M., MARIAN, F., SCHEU, S. (2017) Agraphorura xuae sp. nov., the first record of Onychiuridae (Collembola) from continental Ecuador, with a key to the known species of the genus. Annales Zoologici (Warszawa) 67, 253-259.

TIAN, L., KOLVENBACH, B., CORVINI, N., WANG, S., TAVANAIE, N., WANG, L., MA, Y., SCHEU, S., CORVINI, P.F.X., JI, R. (2017) Mineralisation of ¹⁴C-labelled polystyrene plastics by Penicillium variabile after ozonation pre-treatment. New Biotechnology 38, 101-105.

TRAUNSPURGER, W., REIFF, N., KRASHEVSKA, V., MAJDI, N., SCHEU, S. (2017) Diversity and distribution of soil micro-invertebrates across an altitudinal gradient in a tropical montane rainforest of Ecuador, with focus on free living nematodes. Pedobiologia 62, 28-35.

VON SALTZWEDEL, H., SCHEU, S., SCHAEFER, I. (2017) Genetic structure and distribution of Parisotoma notabilis (Collembola) in Europe: cryptic diversity, split of lineages and colonization patterns. PLoS One 12(2): e0170909.

WEISSER, W.W., ROSCHER, C., MEYER, S.T., EBELING, A., LUO, G., ALLAN, E., BEßLER, H., BARNARD, R.L., BUCHMANN, N., BUSCOT, F., ENGELS, C., FISCHER, C., FISCHER, M., GESSLER, A., GLEIXNER, G., HALLE, S., HILDEBRANDT, A., HILLEBRANDT, H., DE KROON, H., LANGE, M., LEIMER, S., LE ROUX, X., MILCU, A., MOMMER, L., NIKLAUS, P.A., OELMANN, Y., PROULX, R., ROY, J., SCHERBER, C., SCHERER-LORENZEN, M., SCHEU, S., TSCHARNTKE, T., WACHENDORF, M., WAGG, C., WEIGELT, A., WILCKE, W., WIRTH, C., SCHULZE, E.-D., SCHMID, B., EISENHAUER, N. (2017) Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning in a 15-year grassland experiment: Patterns, mechanisms, and open questions. Basic and Applied Ecology 23, 1-73.

ZIEGER, S.L., HOLCZINGER, A., SOMMER, J., RATH, M., KUZYAKOV, Y., POLLE, A., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2017) Beech trees fuel soil animal food webs via root-derived nitrogen. Basic and Applied Ecology 22, 28-35.

ZIEGER, S.L., AMMERSCHUBERT, S., POLLE, A., SCHEU, S. (2017) Root-derived carbon and nitrogen from beech and ash trees differentially fuel soil animal food webs of deciduous forests. PLoS One 12(12): e0189502.

2016

BAST, J., SCHAEFER, I., SCHWANDER, T., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S., KRAAJEVELD, K. (2016) No accumulation of transposable elements in asexual arthropods. Molecular Biology and Evolution 33, 697-706

BLUHM, C., SCHEU, S., MARAUN, M. (2016) Temporal fluctuations in oribatid mites indicate that density-independent factors favour parthenogenetic reproduction. Experimental and Applied Acarology 68, 387-407

BONATO, L., KLARNER, B., WIDYASTUTI, R., SCHEU, S. (2016) The first geophilid centipedes from Malesia: a new genus with two new species from Sumatra (Chilopoda, Geophilidae). ZooKeys 605, 53-71

CLOUGH, Y., KRISHNA, V.V., CORRE, M.D., DARRAS, K., DENMEAD, L.H., MEIJIDE, A., MOSER, S., MUSSHOFF, O., STEINEBACH, S., VELDKAMP, E., ALLEN, K., BARNES, A.D., BREIDENBACH, N., BROSE, U., BUCHORI, D., DANIEL, R., FINKELDEY, R., HARAHAP, I., HERTEL, D., HOLTKAMP, A.M., HÖRANDL, E., IRAWAN, B., SURATI JAYA, I.N., JOCHUM, M., KLARNER, B., KNOHL, A., KOTOWSKA, M.M., KRASHEVSKA, V., KREFT, H., KURNIAWAN, S., LEUSCHNER, C., MARAUN, M., MELATI, D.N., OPFERMANN, N., PÉREZ-CRUZADO, C., PRABOWO, W.E., REMBOLD, K., RIZALI, A., RUBIANA, R., SCHNEIDER, D., TJITROSOEDIRDJO, S.S., TJOA, A., TSCHARNTKE, T., SCHEU, S. (2016) Land-use choices, profitability, and consequences for biodiversity and ecological functions in Indonesian smallholder landscapes. Nature Communications 7, 13137

DRESCHER, J., REMBOLD, K., ALLEN, K., BECKSCHÄFER, P., BUCHORI, D., CLOUGH, Y., FAUST, H., FAUZI, A.M., GUNAWAN, D., HERTEL, D., IRAWAN, B., JAYA, I.N.S., KLARNER, B., KLEINN, C., KNOHL, A., KOTOWSKA, M.M., KRASHEVSKA, V., KRISHNA, V., LEUSCHNER, C., LORENZ, W., MEIJIDE, A., MELATI, D., NOMURA, M., PÉREZ-CRUZADO, C., QAIM, M., SIREGAR, I.Z., STEINEBACH, S., TJOA, A., TSCHARNTKE, T., WICK, B., WIEGAND, K., KREFT, H., SCHEU, S. (2016) Ecological and socioeconomic functions across tropical land-use systems after rainforest conversion. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 371, 1-8

DUDENHÖFFER, J.-H., SCHEU, S., JOUSSET, A. (2016) Systemic enrichment of antifungal traits in the rhizosphere microbiome after pathogen attack. Journal of Ecology 104, 1566-1575

FERNANDEZ-MONTIEL, I., SIDRACH-CARDONA, R., GABILONDO, R., PEDESCOLL, A., SCHEU, S., BECARES, E. (2016) Soil communities are affected by CO₂ belowground emissions at a natural vent in Spain. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 97, 92-98

GONZALEZ MACE, O., STEINAUER, K., JOUSSET, A., EISENHAUER, J., SCHEU, S. (2016) Flood-induced changes in soil microbial functions as modified by plant diversity. PLoS One 11(11): e0166349

GRUBERT, D., BUTENSCHÖN, O., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2016) Understanding earthworm - collembola interactions and their importance for ecosystem processes needs consideration of species identity. European Journal of Soil Biology 77, 60-67

HEETHOFF, M., SCHEU, S. (2016) Reliability of isotopic fractionation (¹⁵N, ¹³C) for the delimitation of trophic levels of oribatid mites: Diet strongly affects ¹³C but not ¹⁵N. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 101, 124-129

HERRMANN, S., GRAMS, T.E.E., TARKKA, M.T., ANGAY, O., BACHT, M., BÖNN, M., FELDHAHN, L., GRAF, M., KURTH, F., MABOREKE, H., MAILANDER, S., RECHT, S., FLEISCHMANN, F., RUESS, L., SCHÄDLER, M., SCHEU, S., SCHREY, S., BUSCOT, F. (2016) Endogenous rhythmic growth, a trait suitable for the study of interplays between multitrophic interactions and tree development. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 19, 40–48

HINES, J., VAN DER PUTTEN, W.H., DE DEYN, G.B., WAGG, C., VOIGT, W., MULDER, C., WEISSER, W.W., ENGEL, J., MELIAN, C., SCHEU, S., BIRKHOFER, K., EBELING, A., SCHERBER, C., EISENHAUER, N. (2016) Towards an integration of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning and food-web theory to evaluate relationships between multiple ecosystem services. Advances in Ecological Research 53, 161-199

JOUSSET, A., EISENHAUER, N., MERKER, M., MOUQUET, N., SCHEU, S. (2016) High functional diversity stimulates diversification in experimental microbial communities. Science Advances 2, e1600124

KRASHEVSKA, V., KLARNER, B., WIDYASTUTI, R., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2016) Changes in structure and functioning of protist (testate amoebae) communities due to conversion of lowland rainforest into rubber and oil palm plantations. PLoS One 11(7): e0160179

KRAUSE, A., PACHL, P., SCHULZ, G., LEHMITZ, R., SENICZAK, A., SCHAEFER, I., SCHEU, S., MARAUN, M. (2016) Convergent evolution of aquatic life by sexual and parthenogenetic oribatid mites. Experimental and Applied Acarology 70, 439-453

LATZ, E., EISENHAUER, N., RALL, B.C., SCHEU, S., JOUSSET, A. (2016) Unravelling linkages between plant community composition and the pathogen-suppressive potential of soils. Scientific Reports 6:23584

LEIMER, S., OELMANN, Y., EISENHAUER, N., MILCU, M., ROSCHER, C., SCHEU, S., WEIGELT, A., WIRTH, C., WILCKE, W. (2016) Mechanisms behind plant diversity effects on inorganic and organic N leaching from temperate grassland. Biogeochemistry 131, 339–353

MEYER, S., EBELING, A., EISENHAUER, N., HERTZOG, L., HILLEBRANDT, H., MILCU, A., POMPE, S., ABBAS, M., BESSLER, H., BUCHMANN, N., DE LUCA, E., ENGELS, C., FISCHER, M., GLEIXNER, G., HUDENWENZ, A., KLEIN, A.-M., DE KROON, H., LEIMER, A., LORANGER, H., MOMMER, L., OELMANN, Y., RAVENEK, J.M., ROSCHER, C., ROTTSTOCK, T., SCHERBER, C., SCHERER-LORENZEN, M., SCHEU, S., SCHMID, B., SCHULZE, E.-D., STAUDLER, A., STRECKER, T., TEMPERTON, V., TSCHARNTKE, T., VOGEL, A., VOIGT, W., WEIGELT, A., WILCKE, W., WEISSER, W.W. (2016) Effects of biodiversity strengthen over time as ecosystem functioning declines at low and increases at high biodiversity. Ecosphere 7(12), e01619

MÜLLER, K., KRAMER, S., HASLWIMMER, H., MARHAN, S., SCHEUNEMANN, N., BUTENSCHÖN, 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 and 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 below-ground 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

SCHWARZ, M.T., BISCHOFF, S., BLASER, S., BOCH, S., GRASSEIN, F., KLARNER, B., SCHMITT, B., SOLLY, E.F., AMMER, C., MICHALZIK, B., SCHALL, B., SCHEU, S., SCHÖNING, I., SCHRUMPF, M., SCHULZE, E.-D., SIEMENS, J., WILCKE, W. (2016) Drivers of nitrogen leaching from organic layers in Central European beech forests. Plant and Soil 403, 343-360

STEINAUER, K., JENSEN, B., STRECKER, T., DE LUCA, E., SCHEU, S., EISENHAUER, N. (2016) Convergence of soil microbial properties after plant colonization of an experimental plant diversity gradient. BMC Ecology 16, 19

STRECKER, T., GONZALEZ MACE, O., SCHEU, S., EISENHAUER, N. (2016) Functional composition of plant communities determines the spatial and temporal stability of soil microbial properties in a long-term plant diversity experiment. Oikos 125, 1743-1754

THE QUINTESSENCE CONSORTIUM (61 authors incl. S. Scheu) (2016) Networking our way to better Ecosystem Service provision. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 31, 105-115

VON SALTZWEDEL, H., SCHEU, S., SCHAEFER, I. (2016) Founder events and pre-glacial divergences shape the genetic structure of European Collembola species. BMC Evolutionary Biology 16 (1), 148

2015

BLUHM, C., SCHEU, S., MARAUN, M. (2015) Oribatid mite communities on the bark of dead wood vary with log type, surrounding forest and regional factors. Applied Soil Ecology 889, 102-112

CESARZ, S., REICH, P.B., SCHEU, S., RUESS, L., SCHAEFER, M., EISENHAUER, N. (2015) Nematode functional guilds, not trophic groups, reflect shifts in soil food webs and processes in response to interacting global change factors. Pedobiologia 58, 23-32

ERMILOV, S.G., SANDMANN, D., KLARNER, B., WIDYASTUTI, R., SCHEU, S. (2015) Contributions to the knowledge of oribatid mites of Indonesia. 1. The genus Allogalumna (Galumnidae) with descriptions of two new species (Acari, Oribatida). ZooKeys 529, 71-86

ERMILOV, S.G., SANDMANN, D., KLARNER, B., WIDYASTUTI, R., SCHEU, S. (2015) Contributions to the knowledge of oribatid mites of Indonesia. 2. The genus Pergalumna (Galumnidae), with the description of a new species and key to known species in the Oriental region (Acari, Oribatida). ZooKeys 529, 87-103

ERMILOV, S.G., SANDMANN, D., KLARNER, B., WIDYASTUTI, R., SCHEU, S. (2015) Contribution to the knowledge of oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) of Indonesia. 3. The genus Galumna (Galumnidae), with description of a new subgenus and seven new species. ZooKeys 539, 11-51

FERLIAN, O., KLARNER, B., LANGENECKERT A.E., SCHEU, S. (2015) Trophic niche differentiation and utilisation of food resources in collembolans based on complementary analyses of fatty acids and stable isotopes. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 82, 28-35

FISCHER, C., TISCHER, J., ROSCHER, C., EISENHAUER, N., RAVENEK, J., GLEIXNER, G., ATTINGER, S., JENSEN, B., DE KROON, H., MOMMER, L., SCHEU, S., HILDEBRANDT, A. (2015) Plant species diversity affects infiltration capacity in an experimental grassland through changes in soil properties. Plant and Soil 397, 1-16

HACKER, N., EBELING, A., GESSLER, A., GLEIXNER, G., GONZÁLEZ MACÉ, O., DE KROON, H., LANGE, M., MOMMER, L., EISENHAUER, N., RAVENEK, J., SCHEU, S., WEIGELT, A., WAGG, C., WILCKE, W., OELMANN Y. (2015) Plant diversity shapes microbe-rhizosphere effects on P mobilization from organic matter in soil. Ecology Letters 18, 1356-1365

KRASHEVSKA, V., KLARNER, B., WIDYASTUTI, R., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2015) Impact of tropical lowland rainforest conversion into rubber and oil palm plantations on soil microbial communities. Biology and Fertility of Soils 51, 697-705

KREIPE, V., CORRAL-HERNÁNDEZ, E., SCHEU, S., SCHAEFER, I., MARAUN, M. (2015) Phylogeny and species delineation in European species of the genus Steganacarus (Acari, Oribatida) using mitochondrial and nuclear markers. Experimental and Applied Acarology 66, 173-186

LANGE, M., EISENHAUER, N., SIERRA, C., BESSLER, H., ENGELS, C., GRIFFITHS, R., MELLADO-VÁZQUEZ, P., MALIK, A., ROY, J., SCHEU, S., STEINBEISS, S., THOMSON, B., TRUMBORE S., GLEIXNER, G. (2015) Plant diversity increases soil microbial activity and soil carbon storage. Nature Communications 6, 6707

LATZ, E., EISENHAUER, N., SCHEU, S., JOUSSET, A. (2015) Plant identity drives the expression of biocontrol factors in a rhizosphere bacterium across a plant diversity gradient. Functional Ecology 29, 1225-1234

MAAß, S., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S., RILLIG, M.C., CARUSO, T. (2015) Environmental filtering vs. resource-based niche partitioning in diverse soil animal assemblages. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 85, 145-152

POLLIERER, M.M., FERLIAN, O., SCHEU, S. (2015) Temporal dynamics and variation with forest type of phospholipid fatty acids in litter and soil of temperate forests across regions. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 91, 248-257

RAMIREZ, K.S., DÖRING, M., EISENHAUER, N., GARDI, C., LADAU, J., LEFF, J-W., LENTENDU, G., LINDO, Z., RILLIG, M.C., RUSSELL, D., SCHEU, S., ST. JOHN, M.G., DE VRIES, F.T., WUBET, T., VAN DER PUTTEN, W.H., WALL, D.H. (2015) Towards a global platform for linking soil biodiversity data. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 3, 91

SCHEUNEMANN, N., DIGEL, C., SCHEU, S., BUTENSCHOEN, O. (2015) Roots rather than shoot residues drive soil arthropod communities of arable fields. Oecologia, 179, 1135-1145 (equal contribution of last two authors)

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 and Biochemistry 81, 81-88

SCHNEIDER, D., ENGELHAUPT, E., ALLEN, K., KURNIAWAN, S., KRASHEVSKA, V., HEINEMANN, M., NACKE, H., WIJAYANTI, M., MERYANDINI, A., CORRE, M.D., SCHEU, S., DANIEL, R. (2015) Impact of lowland rainforest transformation on diversity and composition of soil prokaryotic communities in Sumatra (Indonesia). Frontiers in Microbiology 6, 01339

STRECKER, T., BARNARD, R.L., NIKLAUS, P.A., SCHERER-LORENZEN, M., WEIGELT, A., SCHEU, S., EISENHAUER, N. (2015) Effects of plant diversity, functional group composition, and fertilization on soil microbial properties in experimental grassland. PLoS One, 10 (5), e0125678

THAKUR, M.P., MILCU, A., MANNING, P., NIKLAUS, P.A., ROSCHER, C., POWER, S., REICH, P.B., SCHEU, S., TILMAN, D., AI, F., GUO, H., JI, R., PIERCE, S., RAMIREZ, N.G., RICHTER, A.N., STEINAUER, K., STRECKER, T., VOGEL, A., EISENHAUER, N. (2015) Plant diversity drives soil microbial biomass carbon in grasslands irrespective of global environmental change factors. Global Change Biology 21, 4076 – 4085

WEIDNER, S., KOLLER, R., LATZ, E., KOWALCHUK, G., BONKOWSKI, M., SCHEU, S., JOUSSET, A. (2015) Bacterial diversity amplifies nutrient-based plant-soil feedbacks. Functional Ecology 29, 1341-1349

WRIGHT, A.J., EBELING, A., DE KROON, H., ROSCHER, C., WEIGELT, A., BUCHMANN, N., BUCHMANN, T., FISCHER, C., HACKER, N., HILDEBRANDT, A., LEIMER, S., MOMMER, S., OELMANN, I., SCHEU, S., STEINAUER, K., STRECKER, T., WEISSER, W., WILCKE, W., EISENHAUER, N. (2015) Flooding disturbances increase resource availability and productivity but reduce stability in diverse plant communities. Nature Communications 6, 6092

YANG, N., SCHÜTZENMEISTER, K., GRUBERT, D., JUNGKUNST, H.F., GANSERT, D., SCHEU, S., POLLE, A., PENA, R. (2015) Impacts of earthworms on nitrogen acquisition from leaf litter by arbuscular mycorrhizal ash and ectomycorrhizal beech trees. Environmental and Experimental Botany 120, 1-7

ZIEGER, S., EISSFELLER, V., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2015) Incorporation of carbon and nitrogen from leaf litter differing in structural compounds into soil microarthropods of a deciduous forest. Pedobiologia 58, 219-227

2014

BROSE, U., SCHEU, S. (2014) Into darkness: unravelling the structure of soil food webs. Oikos 123, 1153-1156

BUTENSCHOEN, O., SCHEU, S. (2014) Climate change triggers effects of fungal pathogens and insect herbivores on litter decomposition. Acta Oecologica 60, 49-56

BUTENSCHOEN, O., KRASHEVSKA, V., MARAUN, M., MARIAN, F., SANDMANN, D., SCHEU, S. (2014) Litter mixture effects on decomposition in tropical montane rainforests vary strongly with time and turn negative at later stages of decay. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 77, 121-128

EHNES, R.B., POLLIERER, M.M., ERDMANN, G., KLARNER, B., EITZINGER, B., DIGEL, C., OTT, D., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S., BROSE, U. (2014) Lack of energetic equivalence in forest soil invertebrates. Ecology 95, 527-537

EITZINGER, B., UNGER, E.M., TRAUGOTT, M., SCHEU, S. (2014) Effects of prey quality and predator body size on prey DNA detection success in a centipede predator. Molecular Ecology 23, 3767-3776

FERLIAN, O., SCHEU, S. (2014) Shifts in trophic interactions with forest type in soil generalist predators as indicated by complementary analyses of fatty acids and stable isotopes. Oikos 123, 1182-1191

FERLIAN, O., CESARZ, S., MARHAN, S., SCHEU, S. (2014) Carbon food resources of earthworms of different ecological groups as indicated by ¹³C compound-specific stable isotope analysis. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 77, 22-30

FISCHER, C., ROSCHER, C., JENSEN, B., EISENHAUER, N., BAADE, J., ATTINGER, S., SCHEU, S., SCHUMACHER, J., WEISSER, W.W., HILDEBRANDT, A. (2014) How do earthworms, soil texture and plant composition affect infiltration along an experimental plant diversity gradient in grassland? PLoS One 9(6): e98987

GÜNTHER, B., RALL, B., FERLIAN, O., SCHEU, S., EITZINGER, B. (2014) Variations in prey consumption of centipede predators in forest soils as indicated by molecular gut content analysis. Oikos 123, 1192-1198

HANDA, I.T., AERTS, R., BERENDSE, F., BERG, M.P., BRUDER, A., BUTENSCHOEN, O., CHAUVET, E., GESSNER, M.O., JABIOL, J., MAKKONEN, M., MCKIE, B.G., MALMQVIST, B., PEETERS, E.T.H.M., SCHEU, S., SCHMID, B., VAN RUIJVEN, J., VOS, V.C.A., HÄTTENSCHWILER, S. (2014) Consequences of biodiversity loss for litter decomposition across biomes. Nature 509, 218-221

HEIDEMANN, K., HENNIES, A., SCHAKOWSKE, J., BLUMENBERG, L., RUESS, L., SCHEU, S., MARAUN, M. (2014) Free-living nematodes as prey for higher trophic levels of forest soil food webs. Oikos 123, 1199-1211

HEIDEMANN, K., RUESS, L., SCHEU, S., MARAUN, M. (2014) Nematode consumption by mite communities varies in different forest microhabitats as indicated by molecular gut content analysis. Experimental and Applied Acarology 64, 49-60

JOUSSET, A., BECKER, J., CHATTERJEE, S., KARLOVSKY, P., SCHEU, S., EISENHAUER, N. (2014) Biodiversity and species identity shape the antifungal activity of bacterial communities. Ecology 95, 1184-1190

KLARNER, B., EHNES, R., ERDMANN, G., EITZINGER, B., POLLIERER, M.M., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2014) Trophic shift of soil animal species with forest type as indicated by stable isotope analysis. Oikos 123, 1173-1181

KRASHEVSKA, V., SANDMANN, D., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2014) Moderate changes in nutrient input alter tropical microbial and protist communities and belowground linkages. ISME Journal 8, 1126-1134

LANG, B., RALL, B., SCHEU, S., BROSE, U. (2014) Effects of environmental warming and drought on size-structured food webs. Oikos 123, 1224-1233

LANGE, M., HABEKOST, M., EISENHAUER, N., ROSCHER, C., BESSLER, H., ENGELS, C., OELMANN, Y., SCHEU, S., WILCKE, W., SCHULZE, E.-D., GLEIXNER, G. (2014) Biotic and abiotic properties mediating plant diversity effects on soil microbial communities in an experimental grassland. PLoS One 9(5): e96182

LEMANSKI, K., SCHEU, S. (2014) Incorporation of 13C labelled glucose into soil microorganisms of grassland: effects of fertilizer addition and plant functional group composition. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 69, 38-45

LEMANSKI, K., SCHEU, S. (2014) Fertilizer addition lessens the flux of microbial carbon to higher trophic levels in soil food webs of grassland. Oecologia 176, 487-496

LEMANSKI, K., SCHEU, S. (2014) The influence of fertilizer addition, cutting frequency and herbicide application on soil organisms in grassland. Biology and Fertility of Soils 51, 197-205

MARAUN, M., AUGUSTIN, D., MÜLLER, J., BÄSSLER, C., SCHEU, S. (2014) Changes in the community composition and trophic structure of microarthropods in sporocarps of the wood decaying fungus Fomitopsis pinicola along an altitudinal gradient. Applied Soil Ecology 84, 16-23

OTT, D., DIGEL, C., KLARNER, B., MARAUN, M., POLLIERER, M., RALL, B., SCHEU, S., SEELIG, G., BROSE, U. (2014) Litter elemental stoichiometry and biomass densities of forest soil invertebrates. Oikos 123, 1212-1223

OTT, D., DIGEL, C., RALL, B., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S., SEELIG, G., BROSE, U. (2014) Unifying elemental stoichiometry and metabolic theory in predicting species abundances. Ecology Letters 17, 1247-1256

VALTANEN, K., EISSFELLER, V., BEYER, F., HERTEL, D., SCHEU, S., POLLE, A. (2014) Carbon and nitrogen fluxes between beech and their ectomycorrhizal assemblage. Mycorrhiza 24, 645-650

VON SALTZWEDEL, H., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S., SCHAEFER, I. (2014) Evidence for frozen-niche variation in a cosmopolitan parthenogenetic soil mite species (Acari, Oribatida). PLoS One 9(11): e113268

WEHNER, K., SCHEU, S., MARAUN, M. (2014) Resource availability as driving factor of the reproductive mode in soil microarthropods (Acari, Oribatida). PLoS One 9(8): e104243

2013

ALLAN, E., WEISSER, W.W., FISCHER, M., SCHULZE, E.-D., WEIGELT, A., ROSCHER, C., BAADE, J., BARNARD, R.L., BEßLER, H., BUCHMANN, N., EBELING, A., EISENHAUER, N., ENGELS, C., FERGUS, A.J.F., GLEIXNER, G., GUBSCH, M., HALLE, S., KLEIN, A.M., KERTSCHER, I., KUU, A., LANGE, M., LE ROUX, X., MEYER, S.T., MIGUNOVA, V.D., MILCU, A., NIKLAUS, P.A., OELMANN, Y., PAŠALIĆ, E., PETERMANN, J.S., POLY, F., ROTTSTOCK, T., SABAIS, A.C.W., SCHERBER, C., SCHERER-LORENZEN, M., SCHEU, S., STEINBEISS, S., SCHWICHTENBERG, G., TEMPERTON, V., TSCHARNTKE, T., VOIGT, W., WILCKE, W., WIRTH, C., SCHMID, B. (2013) A comparison of the strength of biodiversity effects across multiple functions. Oecologia 173, 223-237

CESARZ, S., FENDER, A.-C., BEYER, F., VALTANEN, K., PFEIFFER, B., GANSERT, D., HERTEL, D., POLLE, A., DANIEL, R., LEUSCHNER, C., SCHEU, S. (2013) Roots from beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) and ash (Fraxinus excelsior L.) differentially affect soil microorganisms and carbon dynamics. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 61, 23-32

CESARZ, S., RUESS, L., JACOB, M., JACOB, A., SCHAEFER, M., SCHEU, S. (2013) Tree species diversity versus tree species identity: Driving forces in structuring forest food webs as indicated by soil nematodes. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 62, 36-45

DÖLL, K., CHATTERJEE, S., SCHEU, S., KARLOVSKY, P., ROHLFS, M. (2013) Fungal metabolite plasticity and sexual development mediate induced resistence to arthropod fungivory. Proceedings of the Royal Society B – Biological Sciences 280, 20131219

EISENHAUER, N., SCHULZ, W., SCHEU, S., JOUSSET, A. (2013) Niche dimensionality links biodiversity and invasibility of microbial communities. Functional Ecology 27, 282-288

EISSFELLER, V., BEYER, F., VALTANEN, K., HERTEL, D., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2013) Incorporation of plant carbon and microbial nitrogen into the rhizosphere food web of beech and ash. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 62, 76-81

EISSFELLER, V., LANGENBRUCH, C., JACOB, A., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2013) Tree identity surpasses tree diversity in affecting the community structure of oribatid mites (Oribatida) of deciduous temperate forests. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 63, 154-162

EITZINGER, B., MICIC, A., KÖRNER, M., TRAUGOTT, M., SCHEU, S. (2013) Unveiling soil food web links: New PCR assays for detection of prey DNA in the gut of soil arthropod predators. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 57, 943-945

HAMER, U., POTTHAST, K., WILCKE, W., WULLAERT, H., VALAREZO, C., SANDMANN, D., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S., HOMEIER, J. (2013) Future regulating (supporting) services: Matter turnover and nutrient additions. In: BENDIX, J., BECK, E., BRÄUNING, A., MAKESCHIN, F., MOSANDL, R., SCHEU, S., WILCKE, W. (eds) Ecosystem services, biodiversity and environmental change in a tropical mountain ecosystem of south Ecuador. Ecological Studies 221, Springer, New York, pp. 297-313

HENKE, C., NICKEL, H., SCHEU, S., SCHAEFER, I. (2013) Evidence for Wolbachia in leafhoppers of the genus Eupteryx (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae) with intersexual morphotypes. Bulletin of Insectology 66, 109-118

JOUSSET, A., EISENHAUER, N., MATERNE, E., SCHEU, S. (2013) Evolutionary history predicts the stability of cooperation in microbial communities. Nature Communications 4, 2573

JOUSSET, A., SCHULDES, J., KEEL, J., MAURHOFER, M., DANIEL, R., SCHEU, S., THUERMER, A. (2013) Full genome sequence of the plant-growth promoting bacterium Pseudomonas protegens CHA0. Genome Announcement genomeA00322-14R1

KLARNER, B., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2013) Trophic diversity and niche partitioning in a species rich predator guilde – Natural variations in stable isotope ratios (¹³C/¹²C, ¹⁵N/¹⁴N) of mesostigmatid mites (Acari, Mesostigmata) from Central European beech forests. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 57, 327-333

KOLLER, R., SCHEU, S., BONKOWSKI, M., ROBIN, C. (2013) Protozoa stimulate N uptake and growth of arbuscular mycorrhizal plants. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 65, 204-210

KOLLER, R., ROBIN, C., BONKOWSKI, M., RUESS, L., SCHEU, S. (2013) Litter quality as driving factor for plant nutrition via grazing of protozoa on soil microorganisms. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 85, 241-250

KOLLER, R., RODRIGUEZ, A., ROBIN, C., SCHEU, S., BONKOWSKI, M. (2013) Protozoa enhance foraging efficiency of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi for mineral nitrogen from organic matter in soil to the benefit of host plants. New Phytologist 199, 203-211

MARAUN, M., FRONCEK, S., MARIAN, F., SANDMANN, D., SCHEU, S. (2013) More sex at higher altitudes: Changes in the frequency of parthenogenesis in oribatid mites in tropical montane rain forests. Pedobiologia 56, 185-190

MILCU, A., ALLAN, E., ROSCHER, C., JENKINS, T., MEYER, S.T., FLYNN, D., BESSLER, H., BUSCOT, F., ENGELS, C., GUBSCH, M., KÖNIG, S., LIPOWSKY, A., LORANGER, J., RENKER, C., SCHERBER, C., SCHMID, B., THÉBAULT, E., WUBET, T., WEISSER, W.W., SCHEU, S., EISENHAUER N. (2013) Functionally and phylogenetically diverse plant communities key to soil biota. Ecology 94, 1878-1885

MÜLLER, S.A., SCHEU, S., JOUSSET, A. (2013) Protozoa drive the dynamics of culturable biocontrol bacteria. PLoS One 8(6): e66200

PERES, G., CLUZEAU, D., MENASSERI, S., SOUSSANA, J.F., BESSLER, H., ENGELS, C., HABEKOST, M., GLEIXNER, G., WEIGELT, A., WEISSER, W.W., SCHEU, S., EISENHAUER, N. (2013) Mechanisms linking plant community properties to soil aggregate stability in an experimental grassland plant diversity gradient. Plant and Soil, 373, 285-299

RILLIG, M., CAMENZIND, T., GAWLIK, J., HAUG, I., KRASHEVSKA, V., MARAUN, M., SANDMANN, D., SCHEU, S. (2013) Diversity in soil fungi, protists and microarthropods. In: BENDIX, J., BECK, E., BRÄUNING, A., MAKESCHIN, F., MOSANDL, R., SCHEU, S., WILCKE, W. (eds) Ecosystem services, biodiversity and environmental change in a tropical mountain ecosystem of south Ecuador. Ecological Studies 221, Springer, New York, pp. 81-92

ROSENBERGER, M., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S., SCHAEFER, I. (2013) Pre- and post-glacial diversifications shape genetic complexity of a soil-living microarthropod. Pedobiologia 56, 79-87

TARKKA, M.T., HERRMANN, S., WUBET, T., FELDHAHN, L., RECHT, S., KURTH, F., MAILÄNDER, S., BÖNN, M., NEEF, M., ANGAY, O., BACHT, M., GRAF, M., MABOREKE, H., FLEISCHMANN, F., GRAMS, T.E.E., RUESS, L., SCHÄDLER, M., BRANDL, R., SCHEU, S, SCHREY, S.D., GROSSE, I., BUSCOT, F. (2013) OakContigDF159.1, a reference library for studying differential gene expression in Quercus robur L. during controlled biotic interactions: use for quantitative transcriptomic profiling of oak roots in ectomycorrhizal symbiosis. New Phytologist 199, 529-540

WERNER, F., BREHM, G., JANTZ, N., KRASHEVSKA, V., PETERS, T., BEHLING, H., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2013) Future preserving ecosystem services: Climate change effects on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. In: BENDIX, J., BECK, E., BRÄUNING, A., MAKESCHIN, F., MOSANDL, R., SCHEU, S., WILCKE, W. (eds) Ecosystem services, biodiversity and environmental change in a tropical mountain ecosystem of south Ecuador. Ecological Studies 221, Springer, New York, 247-263

2012

BECKER, J., EISENHAUER, N., SCHEU, S., JOUSSET, A. (2012) Increasing antagonistic interactions cause bacterial communities to collapse at high diversity. Ecology Letters 15, 468-474

BIRKHOFER, K., SCHÖNING, I., ALT, F., HEROLD, N., KLARNER, B., MARAUN, M., MARHAN, S., OELMANN, Y., WUBET, T., YURKOV, A., BEGEROW, D., BERNER, D., BUSCOT, F., DANIEL, R., DIEKÖTTER, T., EHNES, R.B., ERDMANN, G., FISCHER, C., FOESEL, B., GROH, J., GUTKNECHT, J., KANDELER, E., LANG, C., LOHAUS, G., MEYER, A., NACKE, H., NÖTHER, A., OVERMANN, J., POLLE, A., POLLIERER, M.M., SCHEU, S., SCHLOTER, M., SCHULZE, E.-D., SCHULZE, W., WEINERT, J., WEISSER, W.W., WOLTERS, V., SCHRUMPF, M. (2012) General relationships between abiotic soil properties and soil biota across spatial scales and different land-use types. PLoS ONE 7(8): e43292

EISENHAUER, N., SCHEU, S., JOUSSET, A. (2012) Bacterial diversity stabilizes community productivity. PLoS One 7(3), e34517

EISENHAUER, N., REICH, P.B., SCHEU, S. (2012) Increasing plant diversity effects on productivity with time due to delayed soil biota effects on plants. Basic and Applied Ecology 13, 571-578

ERDMANN, G., SCHEU, S., MARAUN, M. (2012) Regional rather than local factors associated with forest type drive the community structure of soil living oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida). Experimental and Applied Acarology 57, 157-169

FERLIAN, O., SCHEU, S., POLLIERER, M. (2012) Trophic interactions in centipedes (Chilopoda, Myriapoda) as indicated by fatty acid patterns: variations with life stage, forest age and season. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 52, 33-42

HOMEIER, J., HERTEL, D., CAMENZIND, T., CUMBICUS, N.L., MARAUN, M., MARTINSON, G.O., POMA, N.L., RILLIG, M.C., SANDMANN, D., SCHEU, S., VELDKAMP, E., WILCKE, W., WULLAERT, H., LEUSCHNER, C. (2012) Tropical Andean forests are highly susceptible to nutrient inputs – Rapid effects of experimental N and P addition to an Ecuadorian montane forest. PLoS One 7(10): e47128

KRAMER, S., MARHAN, S., RUESS, L., ARMBRUSTER, W., BUTENSCHOEN, O., HASLWIMMER, H., KUZYAKOV, Y., PAUSCH, J., SCHOENE, J., SCHEUNEMANN, N., SCHMALWASSER, A., TOTSCHE, K.U., WALKER, F., SCHEU, S., KANDELER, E. (2012) Carbon flow into microbial and fungal biomass as a basis to understand the belowground food web in an agroecosystem. Pedobiologia 55, 111-119

KRASHEVSKA, V., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2012) How does litter quality affect the community of soil protists (testate amoebae) of tropical montane rainforests? FEMS Microbiology and Ecology 80, 603-607

KRASHEVSKA, V., SANDMANN, D., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2012) Consequences of exclusion of precipitation on microorganisms and microbial consumers in montane tropical rain forests. Oecologia 170, 1067-1076

LATZ, E., EISENHAUER, N., RALL, B.C., ALLAN, E., ROSCHER, C., SCHEU, S., JOUSSET, A. (2012) Plant diversity improves protection against soil-borne pathogens by fostering antagonistic bacterial communities. Journal of Ecology 100, 597-604; highlighted in The Scientist

LUMMER, D., SCHEU, S., BUTENSCHOEN (2012) Connecting litter quality, microbial community and nitrogen transfer mechanisms in decomposing litter mixtures. Oikos 121, 1649-1655

MARAUN, M., NORTON, R.A., EHNES, R.B., SCHEU, S., ERDMANN, G. (2012) Positive correlation between density and parthenogenetic reproduction in oribatid mites (Acari) supports the structured resource theory of sexual reproduction. Evolutionary Ecology Research 14, 311-323

PACHL, P., DOMES, K., SCHULZ, G., NORTON, R.A., SCHEU, S., SCHAEFER, I., MARAUN, M. (2012) Convergent evolution of defense mechanisms in oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) shows no ‘ghosts of predation past’. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 65, 412-420

POLLIERER, M., DYCKMANS, J., SCHEU, S., HAUBERT, D. (2012) Carbon flux through fungi and bacteria into the forest soil animal food web as indicated by compound specific ¹³C fatty acid analysis. Functional Ecology 26, 978-990

SABAIS, A.C.W., EISENHAUER, N., KÖNIG, S., RENKER, C., BUSCOT, F., SCHEU, S. (2012) Soil organisms shape the competition between grassland plant species. Oecologia 170, 1021-1032

SCHARROBA, A., DIBBERN, D., HÜNNINGHAUS, M., KRAMER, S., MOLL, J., BUTENSCHOEN, O., BONKOWSKI, M., BUSCOT, F., KANDELER, E., KOLLER, R., KRÜGER, D., LUEDERS, T., SCHEU, S., RUESS, L. (2012) Effects of resource availability and quality on the structure of the micro-food web of an arable soil across depth. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 50, 1-11

SCHNEIDER, F.D., SCHEU, S., BROSE, U. (2012) Body mass constraints on feeding rates determine the consequences of predator loss. Ecology Letters 15, 436-443

SEIFERT, L., SCHEU, S. (2012) Linking aquatic and terrestrial food webs – Odonata in boreal systems. Freshwater Biology 57, 1449-1457

SONG, Y., SCHEU, S., DROSSEL, B. (2012) The ecological advantage of sexual reproduction in multicellular long-lived organisms. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25, 556-565

SONG, Y., SCHEU, S., DROSSEL, B. (2012) Life histories and Cope’s rule from an explicit resource–consumer model based on metabolic theory. Journal of Theoretical Biology 310, 175–182

STOETEFELD, L., SCHEU, S., ROHLFS, M. (2012) Fungal chemical defence alters density-dependent foraging behaviour and success in a fungivorous soil arthropod. Ecological Entomology 37, 323-329

VON BERG, K., TRAUGOTT, M., SCHEU, S. (2012) Scavenging and active predation in generalist predators: a mesocosm study employing DNA-based gut content analysis. Pedobiologia 55, 1-5

2011

BIRKHOFER, K., FLIEßBACH, A., WISE, D., SCHEU, S. (2011) Arthropod food webs in organic and conventional wheat farming systems of an agricultural long-term experiment: a stable isotope approach. Agriculture and Forest Entomology 13, 197-204

BUTENSCHOEN, O., SCHEU, S., EISENHAUER, N. (2011) Interactive effects of warming, soil humidity and plant diversity on litter decomposition and microbial activity. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 43, 1902-1907

EISENHAUER, N., MIGUNOVA, V.D., ACKERMANN, M., RUESS, L., SCHEU, S. (2011) Changes in plant species richness induce functional shifts in soil nematode communities in experimental grassland. PLoSOne 6(9) e24087

EISENHAUER, N., MILCU, A., ALLEN, E., NITSCHKE, N., SCHERBER, C., TEMPERTON, V., WEIGELT, A., WEISSER, W.W., SCHEU, S. (2011) Impact of above- and below-ground invertebrates on temporal and spatial stability of grassland of different diversity. Journal of Ecology 99, 572-582

EISENHAUER, N., MILCU, A., SABAIS, A.C.W., BESSLER, H., BRENNER, J., ENGELS, C., KLARNER, B., MARAUN, M., PARTSCH, S., ROSCHER, C., SCHONERT, F., TEMPERTON, V.M., THOMISCH, K., WEIGELT, A., WEISSER, W.W., SCHEU, S. (2011) Plant diversity surpasses plant functional groups and plant productivity as driver of soil biota in the long term. PLoSOne 6(1) e16055

EISENHAUER, N., SABAIS, A.C.W., SCHEU, S. (2011) Collembola species composition and diversity effects on ecosystem functioning vary with plant functional group identity. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 43, 1697-1704

EISENHAUER, N., YEE, K., JOHNSON, E.A., MARAUN, M., PARKINSON, D., STRAUBE, D., SCHEU, S. (2011) Positive relationship between herbaceous layer diversity and the performance of soil biota in a temperate forest. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 43, 462-465

ENDLWEBER, K., KROME, K., WELZL, G., SCHÄFFNER, A.R. SCHEU, S. (2011) Decomposer animals induce differential expression of defence and auxin responsive genes in plants. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 43, 1130-1138

FOREY, E., BAROT, S., DECAËNS, T., LANGLOIS, E., LAOSSI, K.-R., MARGERIE, P., SCHEU, S., EISENHAUER, N. (2011) Document Importance of earthworm-seed interactions for the composition and structure of plant communities: A review. Acta Oecologica 37, 594-603

HAUBERT, D., POLLIERER, M., SCHEU, S. (2011) Fatty acid patterns as biomarker for trophic interactions: changes after dietary switch and starvation. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 43, 490-494

HEIDEMANN, K., SCHEU, S., RUESS, L., MARAUN, M. (2011) Molecular detection of nematode predation and scavenging in oribatid mites: Laboratory and field experiments. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 43, 2229-2236

HENKES, G.J., JOUSSET, A., BONKOWSKI, M., THORPE, M.R., SCHEU, S., LANOUE, A., SCHURR, U., RÖSE, U.S.R. (2011) Pseudomonas fluorescens CH0 maintains carbon delivery to Fusarium graminearum-infected roots and prevents reduction in biomass of barley shoots through systemic interactions. Journal of Experimental Botany 62, 4337-4344

JOUSSET, A., ROCHAT, L., LANOUE, A., BONKOWSKI, M., KEEL, C., SCHEU, S. (2011) Plants respond to pathogen infection by enhancing the antifungal gene expression of root-associated bacteria. Molecular Plant - Microbe Interactions 24, 352-356

JOUSSET, A., SCHULZ, W., SCHEU, S., EISENHAUER, N. (2011) Intraspecific genotypic richness and relatedness predict the invasibility of microbial communities. ISME Journal 2011, 1108-1114

JOUSSET, A., SCHMID, B., SCHEU, S., EISENHAUER, N. (2011) Genotypic richness and dissimilarity opposingly affect ecosystem functioning. Ecology Letters 14, 537-545

KÖNIG, T., KAUFMANN, R., SCHEU, S. (2011) The formation of terrestrial food webs in glacier foreland: Evidence for the pivotal role of decomposer prey and intraguild predation. Pedobiologia 54, 147-152

MARAUN, M., ERDMANN, G., FISCHER, B.M., POLLIERER, M.M., NORTON, R.A., SCHNEIDER, K., SCHEU, S. (2011) Stable isotopes revisited: Their use and limits for oribatid mite trophic ecology. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 43, 877-882

MILCU, A., HEIM, A., ELLIS, R.J., SCHEU, S., MANNING, P. (2011) Identification of general patterns of nutrients and labile carbon control on soil carbon dynamics across a successional gradient. Ecosystems 14, 710-719

NEIDIG, N., PAUL, R.J., SCHEU, S., JOUSSET, A. (2011) Secondary metabolites of soil Pseudomonas fluorescens CHA0 drive complex non-trophic interactions with bacterivorous nematodes. Microbial Ecology 61, 853-859

SABAIS, A.C.W., SCHEU, S., EISENHAUER, N. (2011) Plant species richness drives the density and diversity of Collembola in temperate grassland. Acta Oecologica 37, 195-202

SONG, Y., SCHEU, S., DROSSEL, B. (2011) Geographic parthenogenesis in a consumer-resource model for sexual reproduction. Journal of Theoretical Biology 273, 55-62

SONG, Y., DROSSEL, B., SCHEU, S. (2011) Tangled Bank dismissed too early. Oikos 120, 1601-1607

STAADEN, S., MILCU, A., ROHLFS, M., SCHEU, S. (2011) Olfactory cues associated with fungal grazing intensity and secondary metabolite pathway modulate Collembola foraging behaviour. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 43, 1411-1416

UVAROV, A.V., TIUNOV, A.V., SCHEU, S. (2011) Effects of seasonal and diurnal temperature fluctuations on population dynamics of two epigeic earthworm species in forest soil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 43, 559-570

2010

ASSHOFF, R., SCHEU, S., EISENHAUER, N. (2010) Different earthworm ecological groups interactively impact seedling establishment. European Journal of Soil Biology 46, 330-334

BEZEMER, T.M., FOUNTAIN, M.T., BAREA, J.M., CHRISTENSEN, S., DEKKER, S.C., VAN HAL, R., HARVEY, J.A., HEDLUND, K., MARAUN, M., MIKOLA, J., MLADENOV, A.G., ROBIN, C., DE RUITER, P.C., SCHEU, S., SETÄLÄ, H., ŠMILAUER, P., VAN DER PUTTEN W.H. (2010) Divergent composition but similar function of soil food webs of individual plants: plant species and community effects. Ecology 91, 3027-3036

BIRKHOFER, K., SCHEU, S., WIEGAND, W. (2010) Assessing spatiotemporal predator-prey patterns in heterogeneous habitats. Basic and Applied Ecology 11, 486-494

EISENHAUER, N., BUTENSCHOEN, O., RADSICK, S., SCHEU, S. (2010) Earthworms as seedling predators: Importance of seeds and seedlings for earthworm nutrition. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 42, 1245-1252

EISENHAUER, N., HÖRSCH, V., MOESER, J., SCHEU, S. (2010) Synergistic effects of microbial and animal decomposers on plant and herbivore performance. Basic and Applied Ecology 11, 23-34

EISENHAUER, N., MILCU, A., BESSLER, H., ENGELS, C., GLEIXNER, G., HABEKOST, M., PARTSCH, S., SABAIS, A.C.W., SCHERBER, C., STEINBEISS, S., WEIGELT, A., WEISSER, W.W., SCHEU, S. (2010) Plant diversity effects on soil microorganisms support the singular hypothesis. Ecology 91, 485-496.

EISENHAUER, N., SABAIS, A.C.W., MIGUNOVA, V., KLIER, M., GASS, S., ACKERMANN, M., NITSCHKE, N., RUESS, L., WEISSER, W.W., SCHEU, S. (2010) Impacts of nematicide application on nematode communities and feedbacks on plant productivity depend on grassland plant community characteristics. Acta Oecologica 36, 477-483

EISENHAUER, N., SABAIS, A.C.W., SCHONERT, F., SCHEU, S. (2010) Soil insects beneficially rather than detrimentally impact plant performance in experimental grassland systems of different diversity. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 42, 1418-1424

FREYTH, K., JANOWITZ, T., NUNES, F., VOSS, M., HEINICK, A., BERTAUX, J., SCHEU, S., PAUL, R.J. (2010) Reproductive fitness and dietary choice behavior of the genetic model organism Caenorhabditis elegans under semi-natural conditions. Molecules and Cells 30, 347-353

ILLIG, J., NORTON, R.A., SCHEU, S., MARAUN, M. (2010) Density and community structure of soil and bark living microarthropods along an altitudinal gradient in a tropical mountain rain forest. Experimental and Applied Acarology 52, 49-62

JANSSENS, T.K.S., STAADEN, S., SCHEU, S., MARIEN, J., YLASTRA, B., ROELOFS, D. (2010) Transcriptional responses of Folsomia candida upon exposure to Aspergillus nidulans secondary metabolites in single and mixed diets. Pedobiologia 54, 45-52

JOUSSET, A., ROCHAT, L., SCHEU, S., BONKOWSKI, M., KEEL, C. (2010) Predator-prey chemical warfare determines the expression of biocontrol genes by rhizosphere Pseudomonas fluorescens. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 76, 5263-5268

KRASHEVSKA, V., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2010) Micro- and macroscale changes in density and diversity of testate amoebae of tropical montane rain forests of southern Ecuador. Acta Protozoologica 49, 17-28

KRASHEVSKA, V., MARAUN, M., RUESS, L., SCHEU, S. (2010) Carbon and nutrient limitation of soil microorganisms and microbial grazers in a tropical montane rain forest. Oikos 119, 1020-1028

KROME, K., ROSENBERG, K., DICKLER, C., KREUZER, K., LUDWIG-MÜLLER, J., ULLRICH-EBERIUS, C., SCHEU, S., BONKOWSKI, M. (2010) Soil bacteria and protozoa affect root branching via effects on the auxin and cytokinin balance in plants. Plant and Soil 328, 191-201

MILCU, A., THEBAULT, E., SCHEU, S., EISENHAUER, N. (2010) Plant diversity enhances the reliability of belowground processes. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 42, 2102-2110

NEIDIG, N., JOUSSET, A., NUNES, F., BONKOWSKI, M., PAUL, R.J., SCHEU, S. (2010) Interference between bacterial feeding nematodes and amoebae relies on innate and inducible mutual toxicity. Functional Ecology 24, 1133-1138

OELBERMANN, K., SCHEU, S. (2010) Trophic guilds of generalist feeders in soil animal communities as indicated by stable isotope analysis (¹⁵N/¹⁴N). Bulletin of Entomological Research 100, 511-520

POLLIERER, M., SCHEU, S., HAUBERT, D. (2010) Taking it to the next level: Trophic transfer of marker fatty acids from basal resource to predators. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 42, 919-925

PROULX, R., WIRTH, C., VOIGT, W., WEIGELT, A., ROSCHER, C., ATTINGER, S., BAADE, J., BARNARD, R.L., BUCHMANN, N., BUSCOT, F., EISENHAUER, N., FISCHER, M., GLEIXNER, G., HALLE, S., HILDEBRANDT, A., KOWALSKI, E., KUU, A., LANGE, M., MILCU, A., NIKLAUS, P.A., OELMANN, Y., ROSENKRANZ, S., SABAIS, A., SCHERBER, C., SCHERER-LORENZEN, M., SCHEU, S., SCHULZE, E.-D., SCHUMACHER, J., SCHWICHTENBERG, G., SOUSSANA, J.-F., TEMPERTON, V.M., WEISSER, W.W., WILCKE, W., SCHMID, B. (2010) Diversity promotes temporal stability across levels of ecosystem organization in experimental grasslands. PLoS One 5(10). e13382

SCHAEFER, I., NORTON, R.A., SCHEU, S., MARAUN, M. (2010) Arthropod colonization of land – linking molecules and fossils in oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida). Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution 57, 113-121

SCHERBER, C., MWANGI, P.M., SCHMITZ, M., SCHERER-LORENZEN, M., BEßLER, H., ENGELS, C., EISENHAUER, N., MIGUNOVA; V.D., SCHEU, S., WEISSER, W., SCHULZE, E.-D., SCHMID, B. (2010) Biodiversity and belowground interactions mediate community invasion resistance against a tall herb invader. Journal of Plant Ecology 3, 99-108

SCHERBER, C., EISENHAUER, N., WEISSER, W.W., SCHMID, B., VOIGT, W., FISCHER, M., SCHULZE, E.-D., ROSCHER, C., WEIGELT, A., ALLAN, E., BEßLER, H., BONKOWSKI, M., BUCHMANN, N., BUSCOT, F., CLEMENT, L.W., EBELING, A., ENGELS, C., HALLE, S., KERTSCHER, I., KLEIN, A.-M., KOLLER, R., KÖNIG, S., KOWALSKI, E., KUMMER, V., KUU, A., LANGE, M., LAUTERBACH, D., MIDDELHOFF, C., MIGUNOVA, V.D., MILCU, A., MÜLLER, R., PARTSCH, S. PETERMANN, J.S., RENKER, C., ROTTSTOCK, T., SABAIS, A., SCHEU, S., SCHUMACHER, J., TEMPERTON, V.M., TSCHARNTKE, T. (2010) Bottom-up effects of plant diversity on multitrophic interactions in a biodiversity experiment. Nature 468, 553-556.

SCHEUNEMANN, N., SCHEU, S., BUTENSCHÖN, O. (2010) Incorporation of decade old soil carbon into the soil animal food web of an arable system. Applied Soil Ecology 46, 59-63

SCHÜTZ, K., KANDELER, E., NAGEL, P., SCHEU, S., RUESS, E. (2010) Functional microbial community response to nutrient pulses by artificial groundwater recharge practice in surface soils and subsoils. FEMS Microbiology and Ecology 72, 445-455

SONG, Y., DROSSEL, B., SCHEU, S. (2010) Temporal patterns of resource usage in an ecological model for sexual reproduction and geographic parthenogenesis. Evolutionary Ecology Research 12, 831-841

STAADEN, S., MILCU, A., ROHLFS, M., SCHEU, S. (2010) Fungal toxins affect the fitness and stable isotope fractionation of Collembola. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 42, 1766-1773

VON BERG, K., THIES, C., TSCHARNTKE, T., SCHEU, S. (2010) Changes in herbivore control in arable weeds by detrital subsidies depend on predator species and vary in space. Oecologia 163, 1033-1042

VUČIĆ-PESTIĆ, O., BIRKHOFER, K., SCHEU, S., BROSE, U. (2010) Habitat structure, predator interference and prey aggregation determine the functional response of a soil predator-prey interaction. Pedobiologia 53, 307-312

WANG, Y., XU, J., SHEN, J., SCHEU, S., KE, X. (2010) Tillage, residue burning and crop rotation alter soil fungal community and water-stable aggregation in arable fields. Soil and Tillage Research 107, 71-79

2009

BUTENSCHOEN, O., JI, R., SCHÄFFER, A., SCHEU, S. (2009) The fate of catechol in soil as affected by earthworms and clay. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 41, 330-339

BUTENSCHOEN, O., MARHAN, S., LANGEL, R., SCHEU, S. (2009) Carbon and nitrogen mobilization by earthworms of different functional groups as affected by soil sand content. Pedobiologia 52, 263-272

CHAHARTAGHI, M., SCHEU, S., MARAUN, M., DOMES, K. (2009) Resource depletion and colonization: A comparison between parthenogenetic and sexual Collembola species. Pedobiologia 52, 181-189

EISENHAUER, N., SCHUY, M., BUTENSCHOEN, O., SCHEU, S. (2009) Direct and indirect effects of endogeic earthworms on plant seeds. Pedobiologia 52, 151-162

EISENHAUER, N., MILCU, A., SABAIS, A.C.W., BESSLER, H., WEIGELT, A., ENGELS, C., SCHEU, S. (2009) Plant community impacts on the structure of earthworm communities depend on season. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 41, 2430-2443

EISENHAUER, N., KLIER, M., PARTSCH, S., SABAIS, A.C.W., SCHERBER, C., WEISSER, W.W., SCHEU, S. (2009) No interactive effects of pesticides and plant diversity on soil microbial parameters. Applied Soil Ecology 42, 31-36

EISENHAUER, N., KÖNIG, S., SABAIS, A.C.W., RENKER, C., BUSCOT, F., SCHEU, S. (2009) Impacts of earthworms and vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhiza (Glomus intraradices) on plant performance are not interrelated. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 41, 561-567

EISENHAUER, N., STRAUBE, D., JOHNSON, E.A., PARKINSON, D., SCHEU, S. (2009) Exotic ecosystem engineers change the emergence of plants from the seed bank of a deciduous forest. Ecosystems 12, 1008-1019

EISENHAUER, N., MILCU, A., NITSCHKE, N., SABAIS, A.C.W., SCHERBER, C., SCHEU, S. (2009) Earthworm and belowground competition effects on plant productivity in a plant diversity gradient. Oecologia 161, 291-301

EISENHAUER, N., MILCU, A., SABAIS, A.C.W., SCHEU, S. (2009) Earthworms enhance plant regrowth in a grassland plant diversity gradient. European Journal of Soil Biology 45, 455-458

ENDLWEBER, K., RUESS, L., SCHEU, S. (2009) Collembola switch diet in presence of plant roots thereby functioning as herbivores. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 41, 1151-1154

HAUBERT, D., BIRKHOFER, K., FLIEßBACH, A., GEHRE, M., SCHEU, S., RUESS, L. (2009) Trophic structure and major trophic links in conventional vs organic farming systems as indicated by carbon stable isotope ratios of fatty acids. Oikos 118, 1579-1589

HEETHOFF, M., NORTON, R.A., SCHEU, S., MARAUN, M. (2009) Parthenogenesis in oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) and their adaptation and evolution without sex. In: SCHÖN, I., MARTENS, K. (eds) Lost sex – evolution of ancient asexuals. Springer, New York, pp. 241-257

JOUSSET, A., ROCHAT, L., PÉCHY-TARR, M., KEEL, C., SCHEU, S., BONKOWSKI, M. (2009) Predators promote defence of rhizosphere bacterial populations by selective feeding on non-toxic cheaters. ISME Journal 3, 666-674; featured in Nature Reviews Microbiology

KROME, K., ROSENBERG, K., BONKOWSKI, M., SCHEU, S. (2009) Grazing of protozoa on rhizosphere bacteria alters growth and fitness of Arabidopsis thaliana. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 41, 1866-1873

LOHMANN, M., SCHEU, S., MÜLLER, C. (2009) Decomposers and root feeders interactively affect plant defence in Sinapis alba. Oecologia 160, 289-298

MARAUN, M., ERDMANN, G., SCHULZ, G., NORTON, R.A., SCHEU, S., DOMES, K. (2009) Multiple convergent evolution of arboreal life in oribatid mites indicates the primacy of ecology. Proceedings of the Royal Society B – Biological Sciences 276, 3219-3227

NGOSONG, C., RAUPP, J., SCHEU, S., RUESS, L. (2009) Low importance for a fungal based food web in arable soils under mineral and organic fertilization indicated by Collembola. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 41, 2308-2317

OELBERMANN, K., SCHEU, S. (2009) Control of aphids on wheat by generalist predators: effects of predator density and the presence of alternative prey. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 132, 225-231

POLLIERER, M., LANGEL, R., SCHEU, S., MARAUN, M. (2009) Compartmentalization of the soil animal food web as indicated by dual analysis of stable isotope ratios (¹⁵N/¹⁴N and ¹³C/¹²C). Soil Biology and Biochemistry 41, 1221-1226

ROSENBERG, K., BERTAUX, J., KROME, K., HARTMANN, A., SCHEU, S., BONKOWSKI, M. (2009) Soil amoebae rapidly change bacterial community composition in the rhizosphere of Arabidopsis thaliana. ISME Journal 3, 675-684

SCHAEFER, M., MIGGE-KLEIAN, M., SCHEU, S. (2009) The role of soil fauna for decomposition of plant residues. In: Brumme, R., Khanna, P.K. (eds) Functioning and management of European Beech ecosystems. Ecological Studies (Springer, New York) 208, 207-230

STRAUBE, D., JOHNSON, E.D., PARKINSON, D., SCHEU, S., EISENHAUER, N. (2009) Nonlinearity of effects of invasive ecosystem engineers on abiotic soil properties and soil biota. Oikos 118, 885-896

VON BERG, K., THIES, C., TSCHARNTKE, T., SCHEU, S. (2009) Cereal aphid control by generalist predators in presence of belowground alternative prey: complementary predation as affected by prey density. Pedobiologia 53, 41-48

2008

AMENDT, I, SCHEU, S., DROSSEL, B. (2008) Influence of spatial structure on the maintenance of sexual reproduction. Journal of Theoretical Biology 254, 520-528

BIRKHOFER, K., WISE, D.H., SCHEU, S. (2008) Subsidy from the detrital food web, but not microhabitat complexity, affects the role of generalist predators in an aboveground herbivore food web. Oikos 117, 494-500

BIRKHOFER, K., FLIEßBACH, A., WISE, D.H., SCHEU, S. (2008) Generalist predators in organically and conventionally managed grass-clover fields: implications for conservation biological control. Annals of Applied Biology 153, 271-280

BIRKHOFER, K., GAVISH-REGEV, E., ENDLWEBER, K., LUBIN, Y.D., VON BERG, K., WISE, D.H., SCHEU, S. (2008) Cursorial spiders retard initial aphid population growth at low densities in winter wheat. Bulletin of Entomological Research 98, 249-255

BIRKHOFER, K., BEZEMER, T.M., BLOEM, J., BONKOWSKI, M., CHRISTENSEN, S., DUBOIS, D., EKELUND, F., FLIEßBACH, A., GUNST, L., HEDLUND, K., MÄDER, P., MIKOLA, J., ROBIN, C., SETÄLÄ, S., TATIN-FROUX, F., VAN DER PUTTEN, W.H., SCHEU, S. (2008) Long-term organic farming fosters below- and aboveground biota: Implications for soil quality, biological control and productivity. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 40, 2297–2308

BROSE, U., EHNES, R.B., RALL, B.C., VUČIĆ-PESTIĆ, O., BERLOW, E.L., SCHEU, S. (2008) Foraging theory predicts predator-prey energy fluxes. Journal of Animal Ecology 77, 1072-1078

BUTENSCHOEN, O., MARHAN, M., SCHEU, S. (2008) Response of soil microorganisms and endogeic earthworms to cutting of grassland plants in a laboratory experiment. Applied Soil Ecology 38, 152-160

DOMES, K., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S., CAMERON, S.L. (2008) The complete mitochondrial genome of the sexual oribatid mite Steganacarus magnus: genome rearrangements and loss of tRNAs. BMC Genomics 9, 532

EISENHAUER, N., SCHEU, S. (2008) Invasibility of experimental grassland communities: the role of earthworms, plant functional group identity and seed size. Oikos 117, 1026-1036

EISENHAUER, N., SCHEU, S. (2008) Earthworms as drivers of the competition between grasses and legumes. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 40, 2650-2659

EISENHAUER, N., MARHAN, M., SCHEU, S. (2008) Anecic earthworms put to test: effects on wheat seed burial, seedling establishment, wheat growth and litter incorporation. Applied Soil Ecology 38, 79-82

EISENHAUER, N., STRAUBE, D., SCHEU, S. (2008) Efficiency of two widespread non-destructive extraction methods under dry conditions for different ecological earthworm groups. European Journal of Soil Biology 44, 141-145

EISENHAUER, N., MILCU, A., SABAIS, A.C.W., SCHEU, S. (2008) Animal ecosystem engineers modulate the diversity-invasibility relationship. PLoS ONE 3, e3489

EKSCHMITT, K., KANDELER, E., POLL, C., BRUNE, A., BUSCOT, F., FRIEDRICH, M., GLEIXNER, G., HARTMANN, A., KÄSTNER, M., KOPINKE, F.-D., SCHEU, S., WOLTERS, V. (2008) Soil carbon preservation through biological constraints of decomposer activity. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 171, 27-35

HAASE, J., BRANDL, R., SCHEU, S., SCHÄDLER, M. (2008) Above- and belowground interactions are mediated by nutrient availability. Ecology 89, 3072-3081

HABEKOST, M., EISENHAUER, N., SCHEU, S., GLEIXNER, G. (2008) Seasonal changes of a microbial community in a grassland plant diversity gradient four years after establishment. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 40, 2588-2595

HAUBERT, D., HÄGGBLOM, M.M., SCHEU, S., RUESS, L. (2008) Effects of temperature and life stage on the fatty acid composition of Collembola. European Journal of Soil Biology 44, 213-219

HERDLER, S., KREUZER, K., SCHEU, S., BONKOWSKI, M. (2008) Interactions between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Glomus intraradices, Glomeromycota) and amoebae (Acanthamoeba castellanii, Protozoa) in the rhizosphere of rice (Oryza sativa). Soil Biology and Biochemistry 40, 660-668

ILLIG, J., SCHATZ, H., SCHEU, S., MARAUN, M. (2008) Decomposition and colonization by micro-arthropods of two litter types in a tropical montane rain forest in southern Ecuador. Journal of Tropical Ecology 24, 157-167

JOUSSET, A., SCHEU, S., BONKOWSKI, M. (2008) Secondary metabolite production facilitates establishment of rhizobacteria by reducing both protozoan predation and the competitive effects of the indigenous bacteria. Functional Ecology 22, 714-719

KE, X., SCHEU, S. (2008) Earthworms, Collembola and residue management change wheat (Triticum aestivum) and herbivore pest performance (Aphidina: Rhophalosiphum padi). Oecologia 157, 603-617

KÖGEL-KNABNER, I., GUGGENBERGER, G., KLEBER, M., KANDELER, E., KALBITZ, K., SCHEU, S., EUSTERHUES, K., LEINWEBER, P. (2008) Organo-mineral associations in temperate soils: integrating biology, mineralogy and organic matter chemistry. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 171, 61-82

KRASHEVSKA, V., BONKOWSKI, M., MARAUN, M., RUESS, L., KANDELER, E., SCHEU, S. (2008) Microorganisms as driving factors for the community structure of testate amoebae along an altitudinal gradient in tropical mountain rain forests. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 40, 2427-2433

MARAUN, M., ILLIG, J., SANDMANN, D., KRASHEVSKA, V., NORTON, R.A., SCHEU, S. (2008) Soil fauna. In: BECK, E., BENDIX, J., KOTTKE, I., MAKESCHIN, F., MOSANDL, R. (eds) Gradients in a tropical mountain ecosystem of Ecuador. Ecological Studies 198, Springer, Heidelberg, pp. 181-192

MILCU, A., PARTSCH, M., SCHERBER, C., WEISSER, W., SCHEU, S. (2008) Decomposers and litter decomposition in a plant species and functional group diversity gradient. Ecology 89, 1872-1882

OELBERMANN, K., LANGEL, R., SCHEU, S. (2008) The role of prey out of the decomposer system for generalist predators of grassland. Oecologia 155, 605-617

SALAMON, J.-A., SCHEU, S., SCHAEFER, M. (2008) The Collembola community of pure and mixed stands of beech (Fagus sylvatica) and spruce (Picea abies) of different age. Pedobiologia 51, 385-396

SCHUETZ, K., BONKOWSKI, M., SCHEU, S. (2008) Effects of Collembola and fertilizers on plant performance (Triticium aestivum) and aphid reproduction (Rhopalosiphum padi). Basic and Applied Ecology 9, 182-188

SCHUETZ, K., DILL, A., NAGEL, P., SCHEU, S. (2008) Structure and functioning of earthworm communities in woodland flooding systems used for drinking water production. Applied Soil Ecology 39, 342-351

SEEBER, S., SEEBER, G.U.H., LANGEL, R., SCHEU, S., MEYER, E. (2008) The effect of macro-invertebrates and plant litter of different quality on the release of N from litter to plant on alpine pastureland. Biology and Fertility of Soils 44, 783-790

VON BERG, K., TRAUGOTT, M., SYMONDSON, W.O.C., SCHEU, S. (2008) Impact of abiotic factors on predator-prey interactions: DNA-based gut content analysis in a microcosm experiment. Bulletin of Entomological Research 98, 257-261

VON BERG, K., TRAUGOTT, M., SYMONDSON, W.O.C., SCHEU, S. (2008) The effects of temperature on the detection of prey DNA in two species of carabid beetle. Bulletin of Entomological Research 98, 263-269

2007

BERTAUX, J., GLOGER, U., SCHMID, M., HARTMANN, A., SCHEU S. (2007) Routine fluorescence in situ hybridization in soil. Journal of Microbiological Methods 69, 451-460

BIRKHOFER, K., SCHEU, S., WISE, D. (2007) Small scale spatial pattern of web-building spiders (Araneae) in alfalfa: relationship to disturbance from cutting; prey availability and intraguild interactions. Environmental Entomology 36, 801-810

BUTENSCHOEN, O., POLL, C., LANGEL, R., KANDELER, E., MARHAN, S., SCHEU, S. (2007) Endogeic earthworms alter carbon translocation by fungi at the soil–litter interface. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 39, 2854-2864

DOMES, K., SCHEU, S., MARAUN, M. (2007) Resources and sex: Soil re-colonization by sexual and parthenogenetic oribatid mites. Pedobiologia 51, 1-11

DOMES, K., NORTON, R., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2007) Reevolution of sexuality brakes Dollo’s law. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the USA 104, 7139-7144

DOMES, K., ALTHAMMER, M., NORTON, R.A., SCHEU, S., MARAUN, M. (2007) The phylogenetic relationship between Astigmata and Oribatida (Acari) as indicated by molecular markers. Experimental and Applied Acarology 42, 159-171

EISENHAUER, N., PARTSCH, S., PARKINSON, D., SCHEU, S. (2007) Invasion of a deciduous forest by earthworms: Changes in soil chemistry, microflora, microarthropods and vegetation. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 39, 1099-1110

ENDLWEBER, K., SCHEU, S. (2007) Interactions between mycorrhizal fungi and Collembola: effects on root structure of competing plant species. Biology and Fertility of Soils 43, 741-749

ERDMANN, G., OTTE, V., LANGEL, R., SCHEU, S., MARAUN, M. (2007) The trophic structure of bark-living oribatid mite communities analysed with stable isotopes (¹⁵N, ¹³C) indicates strong niche differentiation. Experimental and Applied Acarology 41, 1-10

HEETHOFF, M., DOMES, K., LAUMANN, M., MARAUN, M., NORTON, R.A., SCHEU, S. (2007) High genetic divergences indicate ancient separation of parthenogenetic lineages of the oribatid mite Platynothrus peltifer (Acari, Oribatida). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20, 392-402

KRASHEVSKA, V., BONKOWSKI, M., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2007) Testate amoebae (protista) of an elevational gradient in the tropical mountain rain forest of Ecuador. Pedobiologia 51, 319-331

LAUMANN, M., NORTON, R.A., WEIGMANN, G., SCHEU, S., MARAUN, M., HEETHOFF, M. (2007) Speciation in the parthenogenetic oribatid mite genus Tectocepheus (Acari, Oribatida) as indicated by molecular phylogeny. Pedobiologia 51, 111-122

MARAUN, M., SCHATZ, H., SCHEU S. (2007) Awesome or ordinary? Global diversity patterns of oribatid mites. Ecography 30, 209-216

MARHAN, S., LANGEL, R., KANDELER, E., SCHEU, S. (2007) Use of stable isotopes (¹³C) for studying the mobilisation of old soil organic carbon by endogeic earthworms (Lumbricidae). European Journal of Soil Biology 43/1, S201-S208

MARHAN S, KANDELER E, SCHEU S (2007) Phospholipid fatty acid profiles and xylanase activity in particle size fractions of forest soil and casts of Lumbricus terrestris L. (Oligochaeta, Lumbricidae). Applied Soil Ecology 35, 412-422

POLLIERER, M., LANGEL, R., KÖRNER, C., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2007) The underestimated importance of belowground carbon input for forest soil animal food webs. Ecology Letters 10, 729-736; Featured in Science

POVEDA, K., STEFFAN-DEWENTER, I., SCHEU, S., TSCHARNTKE, T. (2007) Plant-mediated interactions between below- and aboveground processes: decomposition, herbivory, parasitism and pollination. In: Ohgushi T., Craig, T.P., Price, P.W. (eds) Indirect interaction webs: non trophic linkages through induced plant traits. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 147-163

RUESS, L., SCHÜTZ, K., MIGGE, S., HÄGGBLOM, M.M., KANDELER, E., SCHEU, S. (2007) Lipid composition of Collembola and their food resources in deciduous forest stands – implications for feeding strategies. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 39, 1990-2000

SCHEU, S., DROSSEL, B. (2007) Sexual Reproduction prevails in a world of structured resources in short supply. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 274, 1225-1231

SCHNEIDER K, SCHEU S, MARAUN M (2007) Microarthropod density and diversity respond little to spatial isolation. Basic and Applied Ecology 8, 26-35

2006

ALBERS, D., SCHAEFER, M., SCHEU, S. (2006) Incorporation of plant carbon into the soil animal food web of an arable system. Ecology 87, 235-245

BIRKHOFER, K., HENSCHEL, J.R., SCHEU, S. (2006) Spatial-pattern analysis in a territorial spider: evidence for multi-scale effects. Ecography 29, 641-648

CHAHARTAGHI, M., SCHEU, S., RUESS, L. (2006) Sex ratio and mode of reproduction in Collembola of an oak-beech forest. Pedobiologia 50, 331-340

DEKKER, S.C., SCHEU, S., SCHRÖTER, D., SETÄLÄ, H., SZANSER, M., TRAAS T.P. (2006) Towards a new generation of dynamical soil decomposer food web models. In: De Ruiter, P., Wolters, V., Moore, J.C. (eds) Dynamic food webs: Multispecies assemblages, ecosystem development, and environmental change. Academic Press, Amsterdam, pp. 258-266

ENDLWEBER, K., SCHÄDLER, M., SCHEU, S. (2006) Effects of above- and belowground insecticide applications on the Collembola community in a plant succession experiment. Applied Soil Ecology 31, 136-146

ENDLWEBER, K., SCHEU, S. (2006) Establishing arbuscular mycorrhiza-free soil: A comparison of six methods and their effects on nutrient mobilization. Applied Soil Ecology 34, 276-279

ENDLWEBER, K., SCHEU, S. (2006) Effects of Collembola on root properties of two competing ruderal plant species. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 38, 2025-2031

ERDMANN, G., FLOREN, A., LINSENMAIR, K.E., SCHEU, S., MARAUN, M. (2006) Little effect of forest age on oribatid mites on the bark of trees. Pedobiologia 50, 433-441

FRELICH, L.E., HALE, C.M., SCHEU, S., HOLDSWORTH, A.R., HENEGHAN, L., BOHLEN, P.J., REICH, P.B. (2006) Earthworm invasion into previously earthworm-free temperate and boreal forests. Biological Invasions 8, 1235-1245

HASSALL, M., ADL, S., BERG, M., GRIFFITHS, B.S., SCHEU, S. (2006) Soil fauna-microbe interactions: towards a conceptual framework for research. European Journal of Soil Biology 42, S54-S60

HAUBERT, D., HÄGGBLOM, M.M., LANGEL, R., SCHEU, S., RUESS, L. (2006) Trophic shift of stable isotopes and fatty acids in Collembola on bacterial diets. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 38, 2004-2007

KREUZER, K., ADAMCZYK, J., IJIMA, M., WAGNER, M., SCHEU, S., BONKOWSKI, M. (2006) Grazing of common species of protozoa (Acanthamoeba castellanii) affects rhizosphere bacterial community composition and root architecture of rice (Oryza sativa L.). Soil Biology & Biochemistry 38, 1665-1672

KUPFER, A., LANGEL, R., SCHEU, S., HIMSTEDT, W., MARAUN, M. (2006) Trophic ecology of a tropical aquatic and terrestrial food web: insights from stable isotope data (15N). Journal of Tropical Ecology 22, 469-476

MARHAN, M., SCHEU, S. (2006) Mixing of different mineral soil layers by endogeic earthworms affects carbon and nitrogen mineralization. Biology and Fertility of Soils 42, 308-314

MILCU, A., SCHUMACHER, J., SCHEU, S. (2006) Earthworms (Lumbricus terrestris) affect plant seedling recruitment and microhabitat heterogeneity. Functional Ecology 20, 261-268

MILCU, A., PARTSCH, S., LANGEL, R., SCHEU, S. (2006) The response of decomposers (earthworms, springtails and microorganisms) to variations in species and functional group diversity of plants. Oikos 112, 513-524

PARTSCH, S., MILCU, A., SCHEU, S. (2006) The role of decomposer animals (Lumbricidae, Collembola) for plant performance in model grassland systems of different diversity. Ecology 87, 2548-2558

PESCHEL, K., NORTON, R., SCHEU, S., MARAUN, M. (2006) Do adult oribatid mites live in enemy-free space? Evidence from feeding experiments with the predatory mite Pergamasus septentrionalis. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 38, 2985-2989

POVEDA, K., STEFFAN-DEWENTER, I., SCHEU, S., TSCHARNTKE, T. (2006) Belowground effects of organic and conventional farming on aboveground plant-herbivore and plant-pathogen interactions. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 113, 162-167

RICKERS, S., LANGEL, R., SCHEU, S. (2006) Dietary routing from prey to offspring in a generalist predator: effects of prey quality. Functional Ecology 20, 124-131

RICKERS, S., LANGEL, R., SCHEU, S. (2006) Stable isotope analyses document intraguild predation in wolf spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae) and underline beneficial effects of alternative prey and microhabitat structure on intraguild prey survival. Oikos 114, 471-478

SALAMON, J., ALPHEI, J., RUF, A., SCHAEFER, M., SCHEU, S., SCHNEIDER, K., SÜHRIG, A., MARAUN, M. (2006) Transitory dynamic effects in the soil invertebrate community in a temperate deciduous forest: effects of resource quality. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 38, 209-221

SCHAEFER, I., DOMES, K., SCHNEIDER, K., HEETHOFF, M., NORTON, R.A., SCHEU, S., MARAUN, M. (2006) No evidence for ’Meselson effect’ in oribatid mites. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 19, 184-193

SCHERBER, C., MILCU, A., PARTSCH, S., SCHEU, S., WEISSER, W. (2006) The effects of plant diversity and insect herbivory on performance of individual plant species in experimental grassland. Journal of Ecology 94, 922-931

SEEBER, J., SCHEU, S., MEYER, E. (2006) Effect of macro-decomposers on litter decomposition and soil properties in alpine pastureland: a mesocosm experiment. Applied Soil Ecology 34, 168-175

UVAROV AV, TIUNOV AV, SCHEU S (2006) Long-term effects of seasonal and diurnal temperature fluctuations on carbon dioxide efflux from a forest soil. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 38, 3387-3397

WURST, S., LANGEL, R., RODGER, S., SCHEU, S. (2006) Effects of belowground biota on primary and secondary metabolites in Brassica oleracea. Chemoecology 16, 69-73

2005

CHAHARTAGHI, M., LANGEL, R., SCHEU, S., RUESS, L. (2005) Feeding guilds in Collembola based on nitrogen stable isotope ratios. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 37, 1718-1725

HÄTTENSCHWILER, S., TIUNOV, A.V., SCHEU, S. (2005) Biodiversity and litter decomposition in terrestrial ecosystems. Annual Review Ecology Evolution Systematics 36, 191-208

HAUBERT, D., LANGEL, R., SCHEU, S., RUESS, L. (2005) Effects of food quality, starvation and life stage on stable isotope fractionation in Collembola. Pedobiologia 49, 229-237

ILLIG, J., LANGEL, R., NORTON, R.A., SCHEU, S., MARAUN, M. (2005) Where are the decomposers? Uncovering the soil food web of a tropical montane rain forest in southern Ecuador using stable isotopes (15N). Journal of Tropical Ecology 21, 589-593

MARHAN, S., SCHEU, S. (2005) Effects of sand and litter availability on organic matter decomposition in soil and in casts of Lumbricus terrestris L. Geoderma 128, 155-166

MARHAN, S., SCHEU, S. (2005) The influence of mineral and organic fertilizers on the growth of the endogeic earthworm Octolasion tyrtaeum (Savigny). Pedobiologia 49, 239-249

POVEDA, K., STEFFAN-DEWENTER, I., SCHEU, S., TSCHARNTKE, T. (2005) Effects of decomposers and herbivores on plant performance and aboveground plant-insect interactions. Oikos 108, 503-510

POVEDA, K., STEFFAN-DEWENTER, I., SCHEU, S., TSCHARNTKE, T. (2005) Floral trait expression and plant fitness in response to below- and aboveground plant-animal interactions. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 7, 77-83

RICKERS, S., SCHEU, S. (2005) Cannibalism in Pardosa lugubris (Araneae, Lycosidae): effects of alternative prey, habitat structure, and density. Basic and Applied Ecology 6, 471-478

RUESS, L., SCHÜTZ, K., HAUBERT, D., HÄGGBLOM, M.M., SCHEU, S. (2005) Application of lipid analysis to understand trophic interactions in soil. Ecology 86, 2075-2082

RUESS, L., TIUNOV, A.V., HAUBERT, D., RICHNOW, H.H., HÄGGBLOM, M.M., SCHEU, S. (2005) Carbon stable isotope fractionation and trophic transfer of lipids in fungal based soil food chains. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 37, 945-953

SCHEU, S. (2005) Linkages between tree diversity, soil fauna and ecosystem processes. In: M. SCHERER-LORENZEN, C. KÖRNER, E.-D. SCHULZE (eds) Forest diversity and function: Temperate and boreal systems. Ecological Studies 176, 211-233

SCHEU, S., RUESS, L., BONKOWSKI, M. (2005) Interactions between micro-organisms and soil micro- and mesofauna. In: Buscot, F., Varma, A. (eds) Soil Biology, Volume 3 - Microorganisms in soils: Roles in genesis and functions. Springer, New York, pp. 253-275

SEEBER, J., SEEBER, G.U.H., KÖSSLER, W., LANGEL, R., SCHEU, S., MEYER, E. (2005) Abundance and trophic structure of macro-decomposers on alpine pastureland (Central Alps, Tirol): effects of abandonment of pasturing. Pedobiologia 49, 221-228

TIUNOV, A.V., SCHEU, S. (2005) Arbuscular mycorrhiza and Collembola interact in affecting community composition of saprotrophic microfungi. Oecologia 142, 636-642

TIUNOV, A.V., SCHEU, S. (2005) Facilitative interactions rather than resource partitioning drive diversity-functioning relationships in laboratory fungal communities. Ecology Letters 8, 618-625

UVAROV, A.V., SCHEU, S. (2005) Effects of temperature regime on the regime on respiratory activity of the epigeic earthworm species Dendrobaena octaedra and Lumbricus rubellus (Lumbricidae). European Journal of Soil Biology 40, 163-167

WURST, S., LANGEL, R., SCHEU, S. (2005) Do earthworms change plant competition? A microcosm study. Plant and Soil 271, 123-130

2004

ALBERS, D., MIGGE, S., SCHAEFER, M., SCHEU, S. (2004) Decomposition of beech leaves (Fagus sylvatica) and spruce needles (Picea abies) in pure and mixed stands of beech and spruce. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 36, 155-164

BOHLEN, P., SCHEU, S., HALE, C., MCLEAN, M.A., MIGGE, S., GROFFMAN, P., PARKINSON, D. (2004) Non-native invasive earthworms as agents of change in northern temperate forests. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 2, 427-435

BONKOWSKI, M., SCHEU, S. (2004) Biotic interactions in the rhizosphere: effects on plant growth and herbivore development. In: WEISSER, W., SIEMANN, E. (eds) Insects and ecosystem functions. Ecological Studies 173. Springer, Berlin, pp. 71-91

EGERT, M., MARHAN, S., WAGNER, B., SCHEU, S., FRIEDRICH, M.W. (2003) Molecular profiling of 16S rRNA genes reveals diet-related differences of microbial communities in soil, gut and casts of Lumbricus terrestris L. (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae). FEMS Microbial Ecology 48, 187-197

HAUBERT, D., HÄGGBLOM, M., SCHEU, S., RUESS, L. (2004) Effects of fungal food quality and starvation on the fatty acid composition of Protaphorura fimata (Collembola). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology B 138, 41-52

HEDLUND, K., GRIFFITHS, B., CHRISTENSEN, S., SCHEU, S., SETÄLÄ, H., TSCHARNTKE, T., VERHOEF, H.A. (2004) Trophic interactions in changing landscapes: responses of soil food webs. Basic and Applied Ecology 5, 495-503

HEETHOFF, M., ETZOLD, K, SCHEU, S. (2004) Mitochondrial COII sequences indicate that the parthenogenetic earthworm Octolasion tyrtaeum (Savigny, 1826) constitutes of two lineages differing in body size and genotype. Pedobiologia 48, 9-13

KREUZER, K., BONKOWSKI, M., LANGEL, R., SCHEU, S. (2004) Decomposer animals (Lumbricidae, Collembola) and organic matter distribution affect the performance of Lolium perenne (Poaceae) and Trifolium repens (Fabaceae). Soil Biology & Biochemistry 36, 2005-2011

MARAUN, M., HEETHOFF, M., SCHNEIDER, K., SCHEU, S., WEIGMANN, G., CIANCIOLO, J., THOMAS, R.H., NORTON, R.A. (2004) Molecular phylogeny of oribatid mites (Oribatida, Acari): evidence for multiple radiations of parthenogenetic lineages. Experimental and Applied Acarology 33, 183-201

PARKINSON, D., MCLEAN, M.A., SCHEU, S. (2004) Impacts of earthworms on other soil biota in forest soils, with some emphasis on cool temperate montane forests. In: EDWARDS, C.A. (ed) Earthworm ecology, 2nd ed., CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp. 241-259

RUESS, L., HÄGGBLOM, M.M., LANGEL, R., SCHEU, S. (2004) Nitrogen isotope ratios and fatty acid composition as indicators of animal diets in belowground systems. Oecologia 139, 336-346

SALAMON, J.-A., SCHAEFER, M., ALPHEI, J., SCHMID, B., SCHEU, S. (2004) Effects of plant diversity on Collembola in an experimental grassland ecosystem. Oikos 106, 51-60

SCHÄDLER, M., ALPHEI, J., SCHEU, S., BRANDL, R., AUGE, H. (2004) Resource dynamics in an early-successional plant community are influenced by insect exclusion. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 36, 1817-1826

SCHEU, S., SIMMERLING, F. (2004) Growth and reproduction of fungal feeding Collembola as affected by fungal species and mixed diets. Oecologia 139, 347-353

SCHEU, S., FOLGER, M. (2004) Single and mixed diets in Collembola: effects on reproduction and stable isotope fractionation. Functional Ecology 18, 94-102

SCHNEIDER, K., MIGGE, S., NORTON, R.A., SCHEU, S., LANGEL, R., REINEKING, A., MARAUN, M. (2004) Trophic niche differentiation in soil microarthropods (Oribatida, Acari): evidence from stable isotope ratios (15N/14N). Soil Biology & Biochemistry 36, 1769-1774

TIUNOV, A.V., SCHEU, S. (2004) Carbon availability controls the growth of detritivores (Lumbricidae) and their effect on nitrogen mineralization. Oecologia 138, 83-90

UVAROV, A.V., SCHEU, S. (2004) Effects of temperature regime on the respiratory activity of developmental stages of Lumbricus rubellus (Lumbricidae). Pedobiologia 48, 365-371

WURST, S., GUBASSA-DUGENA, D., SCHEU, S. (2004) Earthworms and litter distribution affect plant defensive chemistry. Journal of Chemical Ecology 30, 691-701

WURST, S., GUBASSA-DUGENA, D., LANGEL, R., BONKOWSKI, M., SCHEU, S. (2004) Combined effects of earthworms and vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhiza on plant growth and aphid performance. New Phytologist 163, 179-176

2003

MARAUN, M., MIGGE, S., THEENHAUS, A., SCHEU, S. (2003) Adding to ‘the enigma of soil animal diversity’: fungal feeders and saprophagous soil invertebrates prefer similar food substrates. European Journal of Soil Biology 39, 85-95

MARAUN, M., HEETHOFF, M., SCHEU, S., NORTON, R.A., WEIGMANN, G., THOMAS, R.H. (2003) Radiation in sexual and parthenogenetic oribatid mites (Oribatida, Acari) as indicated by genetic divergence of closely related species. Experimental and Applied Acarology 29, 175-187

MARAUN, M., SALAMON, J.-A., SCHNEIDER, K., SCHAEFER, M., SCHEU, S. (2003) Oribatid mite and collembolan diversity, density and community structure in a moder beech forest (Fagus sylvatica): effects of mechanical perturbations. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 35, 1387-1394

POVEDA, K., STEFFAN-DEWENTER, I., SCHEU, S., TSCHARNTKE, T. (2003) Effects of below- and above-ground herbivores on plant growth, flower visitation and seed set. Oecologia 135, 601-605

SCHEU, S. (2003) Effects of earthworms on plant growth: patterns and perspectives. Pedobiologia 47, 846-856 (Review)

SCHEU, S., ALBERS, D., ALPHEI, J., BURYN, R., KLAGES, U., MIGGE, S., PLATNER, C., SALAMON, J.-A. (2003) The soil fauna community in pure and mixed stands of beech and spruce of different age: trophic structure and structuring forces. Oikos 101, 225-238 – Featured in Science 300

WURST, S., LANGEL, R., REINEKING, A., BONKOWSKI, M., SCHEU, S. (2003) Effects of earthworms and organic litter distribution on plant performance and aphid reproduction. Oecologia 137, 90-96

2002

OELBERMANN, K., SCHEU, S. (2002) Effects of prey type and mixed diets on survival, growth and development of a generalist predator, Pardosa lugubris (Araneae: Lycosidae). Basic and Applied Ecology 3, 285-291

OELBERMANN, K., SCHEU, S. (2002) Stable isotope enrichment (δ¹⁵N and δ13C) in a generalist predator (Pardosa lugubris): effects of prey quality. Oecologia 130, 337-344

SCHEU, S. (2002) The soil food web: structure and perspectives. European Journal of Soil Biology 38, 11-20 (Review)

SCHEU, S., SETÄLÄ, H. (2002) Multitrophic interactions in decomposer food webs. In: Hawkins, B.A., Tscharntke, T. (eds.) Multitrophic level interactions. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 223-264 (Review)

SCHEU, S., SCHLITT, N., TIUNOV, A.V., NEWINGTON, J.E., JONES, T.H. (2002) Effects of presence and community composition of earthworms on microbial community functioning. Oecologia 133, 254-260

2001

BONKOWSKI, M., JENTSCHKE, G., SCHEU, S. (2001) Contrasting effects of microbial partners in the rhizosphere: interactions between Norway Spruce seedlings (Picea abies Karst.), mycorrhiza (Paxillus involutus (Batsch) Fr.) and naked amoebae (Protozoa). Applied Soil Ecology 18, 193-204

MARAUN, M., ALPHEI, J., BESTE, P., BONKOWSKI, M., BURYN, R., MIGGE, S., PETER, M., SCHAEFER, M., SCHEU, S. (2001) Indirect effects of carbon and nutrient amendments on the soil meso- and microfauna of a beechwood. Biology and Fertility of Soils 34, 222-229

MARTENS, H., ALPHEI, J., SCHAEFER, M., SCHEU, S. (2001) Millipedes and earthworms increase the decomposition rate of 15N-labelled winter rape litter in an arable field. Isotopes in Environment and Health Studies 37, 43-51

SCHEU, S. (2001) Plants and generalist predators as mediators between the below-ground and the above-ground system. Basic and Applied Ecology 2, 3-13 (Review)

TIUNOV, A., BONKOWSKI, M., ALPHEI, J., SCHEU, S. (2001) Microflora, Protozoa and Nematoda in Lumbricus terrestris burrow walls: a laboratory experiment. Pedobiologia 45, 46-60

2000

BONKOWSKI, M., CHENG, W., GRIFFITHS, B., ALPHEI, J., SCHEU, S. (2000) Microbial-faunal interactions in the rhizosphere and effects on plant growth. European Journal of Soil Biology 36, 135-147 (Review)

HEETHOFF, M., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2000) Genetische Variabilität der ribosomalen ITS1-Sequenzen bei der parthenogenetischen Hornmilbe Platynothrus peltifer (C.L. Koch, 1839). Berichte naturwissenschaftlich-medizinischer Verein Innsbruck 87, 339-354

MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2000) The structure of oribatid mite communities (Acari, Oribatida): patterns, mechanisms and implications for future research. Ecography 23, 374-383

SCHEU, S., FALCA, M. (2000) The soil food web of two beech forests (Fagus sylvatica) of contrasting humus form: stable isotope analysis of a macro- and mesofauna dominated community. Oecologia 123, 285-296. Featured in Trends in Ecology and Systematics 15 (2000).

TIUNOV, A.V., SCHEU, S. (2000) Microfungal communities in soil, litter and casts of Lumbricus terrestris L.: A laboratory experiment. Applied Soil Ecology 14, 17-26

TIUNOV, A.V., SCHEU, S. (2000) Microbial biomass, biovolume and respiration in Lumbricus terrestris L. cast material of different age. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 32, 265-276

1999

JOERGENSEN, R.G., SCHEU, S. (1999) Response of soil microorganisms to the addition of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus to a forest Rendzina. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 31, 859-866

JOERGENSEN, R.G., SCHEU, S. (1999) Depth gradients in microbial and chemical properties in moder soils under beech and spruce. Pedobiologia 43, 134-144

MARAUN, M., ALPHEI, J., BONKOWSKI, M., BURYN, R., MIGGE, S., PETER, M., SCHAEFER, M., SCHEU, S. (1999) Middens of the earthworm Lumbricus terrestris (Lumbricidae): microhabitats for micro- and mesofauna in forest soil. Pedobiologia 43, 276-287

SCHEU, S., ALPHEI, J., BONKOWSKI, M., JENTSCHKE, G. (1999) Soil food web interactions and ecosystem functioning: experimental approaches with systems of increasing complexity. In: N. RASTIN, J. BAUHUS (eds) Going underground – Ecological Studies in forest soils. Research Signpost, Trivandrum, India, pp. 1-32

SCHEU, S., THEENHAUS, A., JONES, T.H. (1999) Links between the detritivore and the herbivore system: effects of earthworms and collembolans on plant growth and aphid development. Oecologia 119, 541-551

THEENHAUS, A., SCHEU, S., SCHAEFER, M. (1999) Contramensal interactions between two collembolan species (Onychiurus furcifer and Heteromurus nitidus) as effected by availability of resources: population development and effects on soil processes. Functional Ecology 13, 238-246

TIUNOV, A.V., SCHEU, S. (1999) Microbial respiration, biomass, biovolume and nutrient status in burrow walls of Lumbricus terrestris L. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 31, 2039-2049

WOLTER, C., SCHEU, S. (1999) Changes in bacterial numbers and hyphal lengths during the gut passage through Lumbricus terrestris (Lumbricidae, Oligochaeta). Pedobiologia 43, 891-900

1998

BONKOWSKI, M., SCHEU, S., SCHAEFER, M. (1998) Interactions of earthworms (Octolasion lacteum), millipedes (Glomeris marginata) and plants (Hordelymus europaeus) in a beechwood on a basalt hill: implications for litter decomposition and soil formation. Applied Soil Ecology 9, 161-166

JOERGENSEN, R.G., KÜNTZEL, H., SCHEU, S., SEITZ, D. (1998) Movement of faecal indicator organisms in earthworm channels under a loamy arable and grassland soil. Applied Soil Ecology 8, 1-10

MARAUN, M., MIGGE, S., SCHAEFER, M., SCHEU, S. (1998) Selection of microfungal food by six oribatid mite species (Oribatida, Acari) from two different beech forests. Pedobiologia 42, 232-240

MARAUN, M., VISSER, S., SCHEU, S. (1998) Oribatid mites enhance the recovery of the microbial community after a strong disturbance. Applied Soil Ecology 9, 175-181

MIGGE, S., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S., SCHAEFER, M. (1998) The oribatid mite community (Acarina: Oribatida) of pure and mixed stands of beech (Fagus sylvatica) and spruce (Picea abies) of different age. Applied Soil Ecology 9, 115-121

SCHEU, S., SCHAEFER, M. (1998) Bottom-up control of the soil macrofauna community in a beechwood on limestone: manipulation of food resources. Ecology 79, 1573-1585

1997

DYMOND, P., SCHEU, S., PARKINSON, D. (1997) Density and distribution of Dendrobaena octaedra (Lumbricidae) in an aspen and pine forest in the Canadian Rocky Mountains (Alberta). Soil Biology & Biochemistry 29, 265-273

BECK, T., JOERGENSEN, R.G., KANDELER, E., MAKESCHIN, F., OBERHOLZER, H.R., NUSS, H.W., SCHEU, S. (1997) An inter-laboratory comparison of ten different ways of measuring soil microbial biomass C. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 29, 1023-1032

SCHEU, S. (1997) Effects of litter (beech and stinging nettles) and earthworms (Octolasion lacteum) on carbon and nutrient cycling in beech forests on a basalt - limestone gradient: a laboratory experiment. Biology and Fertility of Soils 24, 384-393

THEENHAUS, A., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (1997) Substrate-induced respiration in forest and arable soils measured by O₂-microcompensation: moisture conditions and respiratory quotient. Pedobiologia 41, 449-455

1996

ALPHEI, J., BONKOWSKI, M., SCHEU, S. (1996) Protozoa, Nematoda and Lumbricidae in the rhizosphere of Hordelymus europaeus (Poaceae): Faunal interactions, response of microorganisms and effects on plant growth. Oecologia 106, 111-126

MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (1996) Changes in microbial biomass, respiration and nutrient status of beech (Fagus sylvatica) leaf litter processed by millipedes (Glomeris marginata). Oecologia 107, 131-140

MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (1996) Seasonal changes in microbial biomass and activity in leaf litter layers of beech (Fagus sylvatica) forests on a basalt - limestone gradient. Pedobiologia 40, 21-31

SCHEU, S. (1996) Changes in the millipede (Diplopoda) community during secondary succession from a wheat field to a beechwood on limestone. In: GEOFFROY, J.J., MAURIÉS, J.-P., NGUYEN-DUYJAQUEMIN, M. (eds) Acta Myriapodologica. Mémoires du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (Paris) 169, 647-656

SCHEU, S., MARAUN, M., BONKOWSKI, M., ALPHEI, J. (1996) Microbial biomass and respiratory activity in soil aggregates of different size from three beechwood sites on a basalt hill. Biology and Fertility of Soils 21, 69-76

SCHEU, S., POSER, G. (1996) The soil macrofauna (Diplopoda, Isopoda, Lumbricidae and Chilopoda) near trunks in a beechwood on limestone: Effects of stemflow induced soil acidification on community structure. Applied Soil Ecology 3, 115-125

SCHEU, S., SCHULZ, E. (1996) Secondary succession, soil formation and development of a diverse community of saprophagous soil macro-invertebrates and oribatids. Biodiversity & Conservation 5, 235-250

THEENHAUS, A., SCHEU, S. (1996) Successional changes in microbial biomass and respiration in faecal material of the slug Arion rufus (Gastropoda). Soil Biology & Biochemistry 28, 569-577

THEENHAUS, A., SCHEU, S. (1996) The influence of slug (Arion rufus) mucus and cast materials on microbial biomass, respiration and nutrient cycling in beech leaf litter. Biology and Fertility of Soils 23, 80-85

1995

ALPHEI, J., BONKOWSKI, M., SCHEU, S. (1995) Application of the selective inhibition method to determine bacterial : fungal ratios in three beechwood soils rich in carbon - Optimization of inhibitor concentrations. Biology and Fertility of Soils 19, 173-176

JENTSCHKE, G., BONKOWSKI, M., GODBOLD, D.C., SCHEU, S. (1995) Soil protozoa and forest tree growth: Non-nutritional effects and interaction with mycorrhizae. Biology and Fertility of Soils 20, 263-269

MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (1995) Influence of beech litter fragmentation and glucose concentration on the microbial biomass in three different litter layers of a beechwood. Biology and Fertility of Soils 19, 155-158

SCHEU, S. (1995) Mixing of litter and soil by earthworms: Effects on carbon and nitrogen dynamics - a laboratory experiment. Acta Zoologica Fennica 196, 33-40

SCHEU, S., PARKINSON, P. (1995) Successional changes in microbial biomass, respiration and nutrient status during litter decomposition in an aspen and pine forest (Canada, Alberta). Biology and Fertility of Soils 19, 327-323

1994

SCHEU, S. (1994) There is an earthworm mobilizable nitrogen pool in soil. Pedobiologia 38, 243-249

SCHEU, S. (1994) The influence of earthworms (Lumbricidae) on nitrogen mobilization in different ecosystems on limestone. Mitteilungen des Hamburger Zoologischen Instituts und Museums 89/2, 129-137

SCHEU, S., PARKINSON, D. (1994) Effects of earthworms on nutrient dynamics, carbon turnover, and microorganisms in soil from cool temperate forests of the Canadian Rocky Mountains - laboratory studies. Applied Soil Ecology 1, 113-125

SCHEU, S., PARKINSON, D. (1994) Changes in the bacterial and fungal biomass C, bacterial and fungal biovolume and ergosterol content after drying, remoistening and incubation of different layers of cool temperate forest soils. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 26, 1515-1525

SCHEU, S., PARKINSON, D. (1994) Effects of invasion of an aspen forest (Canada) by Dendrobaena octaedra on plant growth. Ecology 75, 2348-2361

SCHEU, S., SCHAUERMANN, J. (1994) Decomposition of roots and twigs: Effects of wood type (beech and ash), diameter, site of exposure and macrofauna exclusion. Plant and Soil 163, 13-24

SCHEU, S., SCHULZ, E. (1994) Simulation of mesofauna mediated changes in litter decomposition: Laboratory experiments with 14-C-labelled holocellulose. Pedobiologia 38, 353-360

SCHULZ, E., SCHEU, S. (1994) Oribatid mite mediated changes in litter decomposition: Model experiments with ¹⁴C-labelled holocellulose. Pedobiologia 38, 344-352

1993

ALPHEI, J., SCHEU, S. (1993) Effects of biocidal treatments on biological and nutritional properties of a mull-structured woodland soil. Geoderma 56, 435-448

SCHEU, S. (1993) Analysis of the microbial nutrient status in soil microcompartments: Earthworm faeces from a basalt - limestone gradient. Geoderma 56, 575-586

SCHEU, S. (1993) Cellulose and lignin decomposition in soils of different ecosystems on limestone as affected by earthworm processing. Pedobiologia 37, 167-177

SCHEU, S. (1993) Litter microflora - soil macrofauna interactions in lignin decomposition: a laboratory experiment with 14-C-labelled lignin. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 25, 1703-1711

SCHEU, S., MCLEAN, M.A. (1993) The earthworm (Lumbricidae) distribution in Alberta (Canada). Megadrilogica 4, 175-180

SCHEU, S., WIRTH, S., EBERHARDT, U. (1993) Decomposition of cellulose in litter and soil of a beechwood on limestone: Short- and long-term incubations with three ¹⁴C-labelled cellulose substrates. Microbial Ecology 25, 287-304

1992

SCHEU, S. (1992) Decomposition of lignin in soil microcompartments: A methodical study with three different 14-C-labelled lignin substrates. Biology and Fertility of Soils 13, 160-164

SCHEU, S. (1992) Automated measurement of the respiratory response of soil microcompartments: Active microbial biomass in earthworm faeces. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 24, 1113-1118

SCHEU, S. (1992) Changes in the lumbricid coenosis during secondary succession from a wheat field to a beechwood on limestone. Proceedings of the 4th International Symposion on Earthworm Ecology, Avignon 1990; Soil Biology & Biochemistry 24, 1641-1646

1991

SCHEU, S. (1991) Mucus excretion and carbon turnover of endogeic earthworms. Biology and Fertility of Soils 12, 217-220

SCHEU, S., WOLTERS, V. (1991) Buffering of the effect of acid rain on decomposition of ¹⁴C-labelled beech leaf litter by saprophagous invertebrates. Biology and Fertility of Soils 11, 285-289

SCHEU, S., WOLTERS, V. (1991) The influence of fragmentation and bioturbation on the decomposition of carbon-14-labelled beech leaf litter. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 23, 1029-1034

1990

SCHEU, S. (1990) Changes in microbial nutrient status during secondary succession and its modification by earthworms. Oecologia 84, 351-358

1987

SCHEU, S. (1987) The role of substrate feeding earthworms (Lumbricidae) for bioturbation in a beechwood soil. Oecologia 72, 192-196

SCHEU, S. (1987) The influence of earthworms (Lumbricidae) on the nitrogen dynamics in the soil litter system of a deciduous forest. Oecologia 72, 197-201

SCHEU, S. (1987) Microbial activity and nutrient dynamics in earthworm casts (Lumbricidae). Biology and Fertility of Soils 5, 230-234

Non-peer reviewed books, papers and abstracts

2024

Scheu, S., Maraun, M. (2024) Bodenökologie: Eine Einführung. Springer Verlag, Berlin. 450 S.

2023

JOCHUM, M., ZIZKA, V.M.A., SCHEU, S., EISENHAUER, N., POLLIERER, M.M. (2023) Global change in above-belowground multitrophic grassland communities. Research Ideas and Outcomes 9: e113960. doi: 10.3897/rio.9.e113960

2022

BUCHORI, D., HIDAYAT, P., NAZARRETA, R., ARDIYANTI, R.M., SIDDIKAH, F., AMRULLOH, R., AZHAR, A., KASMIATUN, SCHEU, S., & DRESCHER, J. (2022) Keanekaragaman Serangga Hutan Hujan Tropis Dataran Rendah di Provinsi Jambi, Sumatra: Dampak Perubahan Tata Guna Lahan (A field guide to the butterflies of tropical rainforests of the province of Jambi, Sumatra). BRIN Press, Jakarta, Indonesis

HIDAYAT P, SIDDIKAH F, KASMIATUN, NOERDJITO WA, AMRULLOH R, HIOLA MS, NAJMI L, NAZARRETA R, SCHEU S, BUCHORI D, DRESCHER J (2022) Guidebook of beetles and weevils of Jambi, Sumatra, Indonesia. e-Publishing Penerbit BRIN, ISBN-13 (15) 978-623-7425-71-7 https://doi.org/10.55981/brin.321

2021

NAZARRETA, R., BUCHORI, D., HASHIMOTO, Y., HIDAYAT, P., SCHEU, S., DRESCHER, J. (2021) A guide to the ants of Jambi (Sumatra, Indonesia) – Identification key to ant genera and images of the EFForTS collectioon. LIPI Press, Jakarta, Indonesia. DOI: 10.14203/press.273

PANJAITAN, R., HIDAYAT, P., PEGGIE, D., BUCHORI, D., SCHEU, S., DRESCHER, J. (2021) The butterflies of Jambi (Sumatra, Indonesia): An EFForTS field guide. LIPI Press, Jakarta, Indonesia

POLLIERER, M.M., SCHEU, S. (2021) Soil decomposer microarthropods predominantly feed on saprotrophic rather than ectomycorrhizal fungi. The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 102, e01869

RIZQULLOH, M.N., DRESCHER, J., HARTKE, T.R., POTAPOV, A., SCHEU, S., HIDAYAT, P., WIDYASTUTI, R. (2021) Effects of rainforest transformation to monoculture cash crops on soil living ants (Formicidae) in Jambi Province, Sumatra, Indonesia. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 771, 012031

2020

PANJAITAN, R., BUCHORI, D., PEGGIE, D., HARAHAP, I.S., DRESCHER, J.,SCHEU, S., HIDAYAT, P. (2020) How will oil palm expansion affect to butterflies diversity in Jambi, Indonesia? The 3rd International Conference on Biosciences

POTAPOV, A.M., DUPÉRRÉ, N., JOCHUM, M., DRECZKO, K., KLARNER, B., BARNES, A.D., KRASHEVSKA, V., REMBOLD, K., KREFT, H., BROSE, U., WIDYASTUTI, R., HARMS, D., SCHEU, S. (2020) Ground spider communities under tropical land-use change. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 101, e01668

2019

ASRA, R., WITONO, J.R., FIJRIDIYANTO, I., ELVA, SCHEU, S. (2019) Community study of dragon’s blood palm (Daemonorops spp.) in Harapan Rainforest, Sumatra. Biodiversitas 20, 3632-3640

PANJAITAN, R., HIDAYAT, P., BUCHORI, D., PEGGIE, D., HARAHAP, I.S., DRESCHER, J., SCHEU, S. (2019) Diversity of butterflies (Lepidoptera) caught by using fruit traps in Bukit duabelas and Harapan Forest landscape, Jambi. AIP Conference Proceedings 2120, 070015; https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5115732

SANDMANN, D., SCHEU, S., POTAPOV, A. (2019) Ecotaxonomy: Linking taxa with traits and integrating taxonomical and ecological research. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 3: e37146 doi.org/10.3897/biss.3.37146

SETÄLÄ, J., SPANGENBERG, J.H., … SCHEU, S., … WIEMERS, M. (2019) Rice ecosystem services in South-East Asia: The LEGATO project, its approaches and main results with a focus on biocontrol services. In: Schröter, M., Bonn, A., Klotz, S., Seppelt, R., Baessler, C. (Eds.): Atlas of Ecosystem Services – Drivers, Risks and Responses. Springer, New York, pp. 373-382

2018

SCHEU, S. (2018) Annelida, Ringelwürmer. In Schaefer, M. (Hrsg.) Brohmer – Fauna von Deutschland, 25. Aufl. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim, pp. 111-124.

SCHEU, S. (2018) Myriapoda, Tausendfüßer. In Schaefer, M. (Hrsg.) Brohmer – Fauna von Deutschland, 25. Aufl. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim, pp. 174-182.

SCHEU, S., SCHAEFER, M. (2018) Hexapoda, Insekten: Auchenorrhyncha, Zikaden. In Schaefer, M. (Hrsg.) Brohmer – Fauna von Deutschland, 25. Aufl. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim, pp. 285-295.

SCHEU, S., SCHAEFER, M. (2018) Hexapoda, Insekten: Sternorrhyncha, Pflanzenläuse. In Schaefer, M. (Hrsg.) Brohmer – Fauna von Deutschland, 25. Aufl. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim, pp. 296-309.

SCHEU, S., SCHAEFER, M. (2018) Hexapoda, Insekten: Heteroptera, Wanzen. In Schaefer, M. (Hrsg.) Brohmer – Fauna von Deutschland, 25. Aufl. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim, pp. 310-338.

SCHEU, S. (2018) Hexapoda, Insekten: Diptera, Zweiflügler. In Schaefer, M. (Hrsg.) Brohmer – Fauna von Deutschland, 25. Aufl. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim, pp. 502-553.

2016

ORGIAZZI, A., BARDGETT, R.D., BARRIOS, E., BEHAN-PELLETIER, V., BRIONES, M.J.I., CHOTTE, J-L., DE DEYN, G.B., EGGLETON, P., FIERER, N., FRASER, T., HEDLUND, K., JEFFERY, S., JOHNSON, N.C., JONES, A., KANDELER, E., KANEKO, N., LAVELLE, P., LEMANCEAU, P., MIKO, L., MONTANARELLA, L., MOREIRA, F.M.S., RAMIREZ, K.S., SCHEU, S., SINGH, B.K., SIX, J., VAN DER PUTTEN, W.H., WALL, D.H. (Eds.) (2016) Global Soil Biodiversity Atlas. European Commission, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg. 176 pp.

SCHEU, S. (2016) Annelida, Ringelwürmer. In Schaefer, M. (Hrsg.) Brohmer – Fauna von Deutschland, 24. Aufl. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim, pp. 111-124.

SCHEU, S. (2016) Myriapoda, Tausendfüßer. In Schaefer, M. (Hrsg.) Brohmer – Fauna von Deutschland, 24. Aufl. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim, pp. 174-182.

SCHEU, S., SCHAEFER, M. (2016) Hexapoda, Insekten: Auchenorrhyncha, Zikaden. In Schaefer, M. (Hrsg.) Brohmer – Fauna von Deutschland, 24. Aufl. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim, pp. 285-295.

SCHEU, S., SCHAEFER, M. (2016) Hexapoda, Insekten: Sternorrhyncha, Pflanzenläuse. In Schaefer, M. (Hrsg.) Brohmer – Fauna von Deutschland, 24. Aufl. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim, pp. 296-309.

SCHEU, S., SCHAEFER, M. (2016) Hexapoda, Insekten: Heteroptera, Wanzen. In Schaefer, M. (Hrsg.) Brohmer – Fauna von Deutschland, 24. Aufl. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim, pp. 310-338.

SCHEU, S. (2016) Hexapoda, Insekten: Diptera, Zweiflügler. In Schaefer, M. (Hrsg.) Brohmer – Fauna von Deutschland, 24. Aufl. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim, pp. 502-553.

2015

MEHRAFROUZ MAYVAN, M., SHAYANMEHR, M., SCHEU, S. (2015) Depth distribution and inter-annual fluctuations in density and diversity of Collembola in an Iranian Hyrcanian forest. Soil Organisms 87, 239–247.

2014

JOUSSET A, SCHULDES J, KEEL C, MAURHOFER M, DANIEL R, SCHEU S, THUERMER A (2014) Full-genome sequence of the plant growth-promoting bacterium Pseudomonas protegens CHA0. Genome Announc 2(2): 0

2013

BENDIX, J., BECK, E., BRÄUNING, A., MAKESCHIN, F., MOSANDL, R., SCHEU, S., Hrsg. (2013) Ecosystem services, biodiversity and environmental change in a tropical mountain ecosystem of south Ecuador. Ecological Studies 221, Springer, Berlin

2010

COLEMAN, D.C., EDWARDS, C., SCHEU, S. PRESCOTT, C. (2010) Resolution of respect for Professor Dennis Parkinson – Obituary. Pedobiologia 53, 219-220. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 42, 1358-1359

COLEMAN, D.C., EDWARDS, C., SCHEU, S. (2010) Resolution of respect for Professor Dennis Parkinson – Obituary. Pedobiologia 53, 219-220

2009

MUNK, K. (Hrsg.) Taschenlehrbuch Biologie: Ökologie – Evolution. Kap. 1-4 mit Steidle, J.L.M., Brose, U. & Kronberg, I. Thieme, Stuttgart

2008

SCHEU, S. (2008) Stable isotopes as tools for food web analysis. In: Rossing, W.A.H., Poehling, H.-M., Van Helden, M. (Hrsg.) Landscape management for functional biodiversity. IOBC/wprs Bulletin 34, 93-96.

SCHEU, S., ILLIG, J., EISSFELLER, V., KRASHEVSKA, V., SANDMANN, D., MARAUN, M. (2008) The soil fauna of a tropical mountain rainforest in southern Ecuador: structure and functioning. In: Gradstein, S.R., Homeier, J., Gansert, D. (Hrsg.) The tropical mountain forest – Patterns and processes in a biodiversity hotspot. Biodiversity and Ecology Series 2 (Universitätsverlag Göttingen), 79-96.

MARAUN, M., DOMES, K., SCHAEFER, I., SCHEU, S. (2008) Molekulare Phylogenie von Oribatiden (Hornmilben). In: Jopp, F., Pieper, S. (Hrsg.) Bodenzoologie und Ökologie – 30 Jahre Umweltforschung an der Freien Universität Berlin. Peter Lang, Frankfurt, pp. 33-45.

2007

ILLIG, J., SANDMANN, D., SCHATZ, H., SCHEU, S., MARAUN, M. (2007) Oribatida (mites) - Checklist Reserva Biologica San Francisco (Prov. Zamora-Chincipe, S. Ecuador). Ecotropical Monographs 4, 221-230.

KRASHEVSKA, V., BONKOWSKI, M., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2007) Testate amoebae – Checklist Reserva Biologica San Francisco (Prov. Zamora-Chincipe, S. Ecuador). Ecotropical Monographs 4, 231-236.

SCHEU, S. (2007) Perspektiven ökologischer Forschung. In: Wägele, W. (Hrsg.) Höhepunkte der zoologischen Forschung im deutschen Sprachraum – Festschrift zur 100. Jahresversammlung der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft in Köln vom 21. bis 24. September 2007. Basilisken Presse, Marburg, pp. 309-320.

2006

PURTAUF, T. SCHEU, S. (2006) Nutrient and resource dynamics and food webs – Understanding the mutual relationships between the dynamics of food webs, resources, and nutrients. Introduction to chapter 5. In: De Ruiter, P., Wolters, V., Moore, J.C. (eds) Dynamic food webs: Multispecies assemblages, ecosystem development, and environmental change. Academic Press, Amsterdam, pp. 198-200.

2005

KOLLER, R., JUNG, K., SCHEU, S., ZIMMERMANN, G., RUTHER, J. (2005) Biocontrol of the forest cockchafer (Melolontha hippocastani): Experiments on the applicability of the “Catch and Infect”-Technique using a combination of attractant traps with the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria brongniartii. IOBC/wprs Bulletin 28, 37-44

SCHEU, S. (2005) Insecta, Insekten: Diptera, Zweiflügler. In Schaefer, M. (Hrsg.) Brohmer – Fauna von Deutschland, 22. Aufl. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim, pp. 538-594.

SCHNEIDER, K., RENKER, C., SCHEU, S., MARAUN, M. (2005) Feeding biology of oribatid mites: a minireview. In: G. Weigmann, G. Alberti, A. Wohltmann, S. Ragusa (eds) Acarine Biodiversity in the Natural and Human Sphere. Phytophaga (Palermo) 14 (2004), 247-256.

EISENHAUER, N., SCHEU, S. (2005) Invasion europäischer Lumbriciden in einen kanadischen Espenwald: Auswirkungen auf Bodenchemie, Mikroflora, Bodenmesofauna und Vegetation. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft 107, 7-8.

PARTSCH, S., MILCU, A., SCHEU, S. (2005) Einfluss von Regenwürmern und Collembolen auf Pflanzenperformance. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft 107, 11-12.

2004

POVEDA, K., STEFFAN-DEWENTER, I., SCHEU, S., TSCHARNTKE, T. (2004) Influence of root and leaf herbivores on plant growth, flower visitation and seed set. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für allgemeine und angewandte Entomologie 14, 59-62.

SCHEU, S., DROSSEL, B. (2004) Komplexität und Stabilität von Nahrungsnetzen. In D. Ipsen, S. Schmidt (Hrsg.) Dynamik der Nachhaltigkeit. Metropolis Verlag, Marburg, pp. 43-69

2003

SCHEU, S., DROSSEL, B. (2003) Komplexität und Stabilität von Nahrungsnetzen. IANUS Arbeitsbericht, Technische Universität Darmstadt

AUGE, H., KIESEL, B., LIEBER, A., BRANDL, R., SCHÄDLER, M., SCHEU, S., ENDLWEBER, K., ALPHEI, J. (2003) Pflanzen zwischen Insekten und Mikroben. UFZ - Umweltdforschungszentrum Leipzig-Halle in der Helmholzgemeinschaft: Forschen für die Umwelt, 4. Ausgabe, pp. 20-27

RICKERS, S., WALLUS, M., SCHEU, S. (2003) The food web of a xeric grassland: effects of invasion of Cynodon dactylon (Poaceae). Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ökologie 33, 147

POVEDA, K., STEFFAN-DEWENTER, I., SCHEU, S., TSCHARNTKE, T. (2003) Effects of decomposers, below- and aboveground herbivores on plant growth and herbivore-parasitoid interactions. Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ökologie 33, 159

PLATNER, C., SCHAEFER, M., SCHEU, S. (2003) Belowground effects of ants (Formicidae: Lasius flavus) on soil fauna and plant growth. Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ökologie 33, 166

WURST, S., SCHEU, S. (2003) Earthworm effects on plant growth and competition. Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ökologie 33, 167

SEEBER, J., MEYER, E., SCHEU, S. (2003) Abundance and trophic structure of macrofauna decomposers on alpine pastureland (Central Alps, Tyrol). Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ökologie 33, 409

PARTSCH, S., MILCU, A., SCHEU, S. (2003) Role of soil fauna for plant performance in a plant diversity gradient. Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ökologie 33, 418

2002

SCHEU, S. (2002) Biologische Vielfalt und Ökosystemfunktionen. In: HUMMEL, M., SCHEFFRAN, J., SIMON, H.-R. (Hrsg.) Konfliktfeld Biodiversität. Agenda Verlag, Münster, pp. 43-57

2001

ALBERS, D., ALPHEI, J., SCHEU, S., SCHAEFER, M. (2001) Trophische Diversität einer Ackerbodenzönose - Analyse der stabilen Isotope 13-C und 15-N. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft 95, 3-6

PLATNER, C., SCHAEFER, M., SCHEU, S. (2001) Der Einfluss von Ameisen (Formicidae, Lasius flavus) auf den Boden und die mikrobielle Gemeinschaft trockener Brachwiesen. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft 95, 84-87

ALPHEI, J., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (2001) Der Einfluß experimentell manipulierter Faunendiversität auf die Gemeinschaftsstruktur freilebender Nematoden im Boden eines Mull-Buchenwaldes. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft 95, 7-10

1999

SCHEU, S. (1999) Biologische Vielfalt und Ökosystemfunktionen. In: HUMMEL, M.E., SIMON, H.-R., SCHEFFRAN, J. (Hrsg.) Konfliktfeld Biodiversität: Erhalt der biologischen Vielfalt – Interdisziplinäre Problemstellung. IANUS Arbeitsbericht, Technische Universität Darmstadt, pp. 3-13

MARAUN, M., SALAMON, J., ALPHEI, J., SCHEU, S. (1999) Der Einfluß zunehmender funktioneller Diversität von Bodentieren auf die Dichte von Collembolen, Oribatiden, Gamasinen und Nematoden im Boden eines Mull-Buchenwaldes: Laborexperimente in Mikrokosmen. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft 89, 269-272

PLATNER, C., SCHEU, S., SCHAEFER, M. (1999) Kurzfristige Auswirkungen kleinräumiger Klimaveränderungen auf Ameisen (Formicidae) und andere Bodentiere einer Grünlandbrache. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft 89, 281-284

1997

ALBERS, D., MIGGE, S., SCHEU, S. (1997) Messung der mikrobiellen Atmung in Fichtenstreu über Substrat-induzierte Respiration: Methodische Grundlagen. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft 85/II, 457-460

MARAUN, M., MIGGE, S., SCHEU, S. (1997) Nahrungspräferenzen von Hornmilben. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft 85/II, 553-556

PLATNER, C., SCHAUERMANN, J., SCHAEFER, M., SCHEU, S. (1997) Die Bodenmakrofauna in Rein- und Mischbeständen von Buche (Fagus sylvatica) und Fichte (Picea abies) unterschiedlichen Alters. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft 85/II, 575-578

1996

JENTSCHKE, G., BONKOWSKI, M., GODBOLD, D.L., SCHEU, S. (1996) Effects of protozoa on mycorrhizal and non-mycorrhizal spruce seedlings. In: AZCON-AGUILAR, C., BAREA, J.M. (Hrsg.) Mycorrhizas in integrated systems - From genes to plant development. European Commission, Luxembourg; pp. 642-645

MARAUN, M., PETER, M., SCHEU, S. (1996) Sind Oribatiden und Collembolen in der Streu und im Boden eines Buchenwaldes (Fagus sylvatica) durch das Nahrungsangebot (Biomasse der Mikroorganismen) limitiert? Mitteilungen der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft 81, 145-148.

MIGGE, S., ALBERS, D., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (1996) Oribatiden und Collembolen in einem Gradienten von Buche (Fagus sylvatica) zu Fichte (Picea abies): Mikrosukzession in alternder Streu und Beziehungen zur mikrobiellen Biomasse. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft 81, 149-152

PLATNER, C., SCHEU, S., SCHAUERMANN, J., SCHAEFER, M. (1996) Die Bodenfauna eines 30- und eines 120-jährigen Mischwaldes in einem Gradienten von Fichte (Picea abies) zu Buche (Fagus sylvatica). Mitteilungen der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft 81, 253-256

SCHAEFER, M., SCHEU, S. (1996) Wie sind Ökosysteme organisiert? Natürliche Stoffkreisläufe und Eingriffe des Menschen. Akademie-Journal (Mitteilungsblatt der deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften) 1/96, 29-37

SCHAEFER, M., SCHEU, S. (1996) Animal oriented ecosystem research - the importance of long-term studies. Verhandlungen der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft 89.2, 189-203

THEENHAUS, A., MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (1996) Messung der Substrat-induzierten Respiration in Wald- und Ackerböden über O2-Mikrokompensation: Feuchtebedingungen und respiratorischer Quotient. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft 81, 105-108

1995

MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (1995) Die zellulolytische Aktivität der Mikroflora in Buchenlaubstreu (Fagus sylvatica) und in Kotpellets des Diplopoden Glomeris marginata. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft 75, 129-132

MARAUN, M., COENEN, H., BONKOWSKI, M., BURYN, R., ALPHEI, J., SCHEU, S. (1995) Bauten von Lumbricus terrestris als bedeutende Mikrohabitate im Waldboden. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft 75, 115-118

SCHEU, S. (1995) Bodenfauna und Bodenmikroflora in Buchenwäldern: Wechselwirkung von Populationen, Stoffflüsse und Pflanzenwachstum. Habilitationsschrift, Göttingen

1994

SCHAEFER, M., SCHEU, S., ALPHEI, J., BONKOWSKI, M., MARAUN, M. (1994) Anwendung der O2-Mikro-kompensation in der Bodenanalytik. In: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur: Niedersächsische Hochschulen auf der HANNOVER MESSE ‚94 20.-27. April 1994, S. 11

1993

SCHEU, S., MARAUN, M. (1993) Streuzerkleinerung und Pelletierung von Buchenstreu durch saprophage Makroarthropoden: Einfluß auf den Nährstoffstatus der Mikroflora. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft 71, 377-380

ALPHEI, J., BONKOWSKI, M., SCHEU, S. (1993) Optimierung und Anwendung der selektiven Hemmung in drei kohlenstoffreichen Buchenwaldböden. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft 71, 309-312

KOCH, M., SCHEU, S. (1993) Mikrobielle Biomasse in Bodenaggregaten unterschiedlicher Größe eines Buchenwaldes nach Exposition im Freiland. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft 71, 347-350

MARAUN, M., SCHEU, S. (1993) Messung der mikrobiellen Biomasse in verschiedenen Streuhorizonten: Einfluß der Zerkleinerung. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft 71, 361-364

1992

SCHAEFER, M., SCHEU, S. (1992) Bodentiergemeinschaften (Saprophage, Zoophage) als Abbild der standörtlichen Bedingungen. Berichte des Forschungszentrums Waldökosysteme B 31, 129-144

1991

SCHEU, S. (1991a) Der Einfluß von horizontalgrabenden Regenwürmern auf die Zersetzung von Polysacchariden. Berichte des Forschungszentrums Waldökosysteme B 22, 344-346

SCHEU, S., WOLTERS, V. (1991a) Influence of fragmentation and bioturbation on the decomposition of ¹⁴C labelled beech leaf litter. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 23, 1029-1034

1990

SCHEU, S. (1990) Die saprophage Makrofauna (Diplopoda, Isopoda und Lumbricidae) in Lebensräumen auf Kalkgestein: Sukzession und Stoffumsatz. Berichte des Forschungszentrums Waldökosysteme A 57, 1-302

1989

SCHEU, S., SPRENGEL, T. (1989) Die Rolle der endogäischen Regenwürmer im Ökosystem Kalkbuchenwald und ihre Wechselwirkung mit saprophagen Makroarthropoden. Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ökologie 17, 237-243

SCHEU, S., WOLTERS, V. (1989) Die Wirkung von simuliertem sauren Regen auf die Leistung von Lumbriciden. International Congress of Forest Decline Research: State of Knowledge and Perspectives; Friedrichshafen 1989; Poster Abstracts Vol. 2, 276

POSER, T., SCHEU, S. (1989) Der Einfluß des Mikrostandortes „Stammfußbereich“ auf Struktur und Leistung der Bodenfauna eines Kalkbuchenwaldes. International Congress of Forest Decline Research: State of Knowledge and Perspectives; Friedrichshafen 1989; Poster Abstracts Vol. 2, 275-276

WOLTERS, V., SPRENGEL, T., VANSELOW, M., SCHEU, S. (1989) Bodentiere als Steuergrößen für die Zusammensetzung und Leistungsfähigkeit der Zersetzergemeinschaft von Waldökosystemen - Perspektiven für einen integrierten Forschungsansatz. Berichte des Forschungszentrums Waldökosysteme A 49, 153-157

1987

WOLTERS, V., SCHEU, S. (1987) Die Wirkung von sauren Niederschlägen auf die Leistung von Bodentieren. Spezieller Bericht der Kernforschungsanlage Jülich 413, 336-340