Stefan Scheu

Earthworm and belowground competition effects on plant productivity in a plant diversity gradient.

How do earthworms, soil texture and plant composition affect infiltration along an experimental plant diversity gradient in grassland?

Unifying elemental stoichiometry and metabolic theory in predicting species abundances.

Plant diversity shapes microbe-rhizosphere effects on P mobilisation from organic matter in soil.

Ecological and socio-economic functions across tropical land use systems after rainforest conversion.

Mineralisation of C-labelled polystyrene plastics by Penicillium variabile after ozonation pre-treatment.

Flood-Induced Changes in Soil Microbial Functions as Modified by Plant Diversity.

Links between the detritivore and the herbivore system: effects of earthworms and Collembola on plant growth and aphid development.

Disentangling the root- and detritus-based food chain in the micro-food web of an arable soil by plant removal.

Trophic niches, diversity and community composition of invertebrate top predators (Chilopoda) as affected by conversion of tropical lowland rainforest in Sumatra (Indonesia).

Leaf and root litter decomposition is discontinued at high altitude tropical montane rainforests contributing to carbon sequestration.

Priorities for research in soil ecology.

Biodiversity-multifunctionality relationships depend on identity and number of measured functions.

Neutral lipid fatty acid composition as trait and constraint in Collembola evolution.

Root-derived carbon and nitrogen from beech and ash trees differentially fuel soil animal food webs of deciduous forests.

The structure of salt marsh soil mesofauna food webs - The prevalence of disturbance.

Micro-decomposer communities and decomposition processes in tropical lowlands as affected by land use and litter type.

Evaluation of Morphological Characteristics to Delineate Taxa of the Genus Trigonopyxis (Amoebozoa, Arcellinida).

Uncovering trophic positions and food resources of soil animals using bulk natural stable isotope composition.

Carbon costs and benefits of Indonesian rainforest conversion to plantations.

Response of Collembola and Acari communities to summer flooding in a grassland plant diversity experiment.

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.

Description of three new species of Thoma, 2014 (Araneae: Oonopidae) from Sumatra, Indonesia.

Decomposer diversity increases biomass production and shifts aboveground-belowground biomass allocation of common wheat.

Combining bulk and amino acid stable isotope analyses to quantify trophic level and basal resources of detritivores: a case study on earthworms.

Description of four new species of armoured spiders (Araneae, Tetrablemmidae) from Sumatra, Indonesia.

Protura are unique: first evidence of specialized feeding on ectomycorrhizal fungi in soil invertebrates.

Changes in Trophic Groups of Protists With Conversion of Rainforest Into Rubber and Oil Palm Plantations.

Deprivation of root-derived resources affects microbial biomass but not community structure in litter and soil.

No signal of deleterious mutation accumulation in conserved gene sequences of extant asexual hexapods.

Collembola interact with mycorrhizal fungi in modifying oak morphology, C and N incorporation and transcriptomics.

Linking size spectrum, energy flux and trophic multifunctionality in soil food webs of tropical land-use systems.

Review of the mite genus (Acari, Laelapidae) and redescription of Berlese.

Effects of root and leaf litter identity and diversity on oribatid mite abundance, species richness and community composition.

Soil nematode abundance and functional group composition at a global scale.

Conversion of rainforest to oil palm and rubber plantations alters energy channels in soil food webs.

Field exclusion of large soil predators impacts lower trophic levels and decreases leaf-litter decomposition in dry forests.

Shift in trophic niches of soil microarthropods with conversion of tropical rainforest into plantations as indicated by stable isotopes (15N, 13C).

Functional losses in ground spider communities due to habitat structure degradation under tropical land-use change.

Spiders in rice-paddy ecosystems shift from aquatic to terrestrial prey and use carbon pools of different origin.

Biodiversity increases multitrophic energy use efficiency, flow and storage in grasslands.

Trade-offs between multifunctionality and profit in tropical smallholder landscapes.

A global database of soil nematode abundance and functional group composition.

Variation in trophic niches of oribatid mites in temperate forest ecosystems as indicated by neutral lipid fatty acid patterns.

Plant diversity influenced gross nitrogen mineralization, microbial ammonium consumption and gross inorganic N immobilization in a grassland experiment.

The results of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic.

Plant traits alone are poor predictors of ecosystem properties and long-term ecosystem functioning.

Review of the mite genus Datta & Bhattacharjee (Mesostigmata, Parholaspididae) with re-description of comb. nov. (Ishikawa) from Indonesia.

The complete mitochondrial genome of an enigmatic predaceous springtail from northeast China.

Repeated convergent evolution of parthenogenesis in Acariformes (Acari).

Leaf litter identity rather than diversity shapes microbial functions and microarthropod abundance in tropical montane rainforests.

Changes in diversity and community assembly of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) after rainforest conversion to rubber and oil palm plantations.

Diversity and functional structure of soil animal communities suggest soil animal food webs to be buffered against changes in forest land use.

Incorporation of mineral nitrogen into the soil food web as affected by plant community composition.

Legacy effects of temporary grassland in annual crop rotation on soil ecosystem services.

Soil microarthropods respond differently to simulated drought in organic and conventional farming systems.

Conversion of rainforest into oil palm and rubber plantations affects the functional composition of litter and soil Collembola.

Ectomycorrhizal fungus supports endogenous rhythmic growth and corresponding resource allocation in oak during various below- and aboveground biotic interactions.

Conventional agriculture and not drought alters relationships between soil biota and functions.

Biodiversity and ecosystem functions depend on environmental conditions and resources rather than the geodiversity of a tropical biodiversity hotspot.

Feeding habits and multifunctional classification of soil-associated consumers from protists to vertebrates.

Trophic niche but not abundance of Collembola and Oribatida changes with drought and farming system.

Drivers of Collembola assemblages along an altitudinal gradient in northeast China.

Biotic filtering by species' interactions constrains food-web variability across spatial and abiotic gradients.

Spatial and temporal variations in salt marsh microorganisms of the Wadden Sea.

Tropical land use alters functional diversity of soil food webs and leads to monopolization of the detrital energy channel.

Earthworms as catalysts in the formation and stabilization of soil microbial necromass.

Trophic structure and origin of resources of soil macrofauna in the salt marsh of the Wadden Sea: a stable isotope (N, C) study.

Land-use change shifts and magnifies seasonal variations of the decomposer system in lowland tropical landscapes.

Historical and future climate change fosters expansion of Australian harvester termites, Drepanotermes.

Rainforest conversion to rubber and oil palm reduces abundance, biomass and diversity of canopy spiders.

Differences in leaf and root litter decomposition in tropical montane rainforests are mediated by soil microorganisms not by decomposer microarthropods.

The road to recovery: a synthesis of outcomes from ecosystem restoration in tropical and sub-tropical Asian forests.

Multidimensional stoichiometric mismatch explains differences in detritivore biomass across three forest types.

Response of arboreal Collembola communities to the conversion of lowland rainforest into rubber and oil palm plantations.

High consistency of trophic niches in generalist arthropod species (Oribatida, Acari) across soil depth and forest type.

Changes in microbial community structure and functioning with elevation are linked to local soil characteristics as well as climatic variables.

Reply to: Plant traits alone are good predictors of ecosystem properties when used carefully.

Conifers and non-native tree species shift trophic niches of generalist arthropod predators in Central European beech forests.

Globally invariant metabolism but density-diversity mismatch in springtails.

Plant roots fuel tropical soil animal communities.

Correction to: Conifers and non-native tree species shift trophic niches of generalist arthropod predators in central european beech forests.

Earthworms increase forest litter mass loss irrespective of deposited compounds - A field manipulation experiment in subtropical forests.

Opening up new niche dimensions: The stoichiometry of soil microarthropods in European beech and Norway spruce forests.

Tree islands enhance biodiversity and functioning in oil palm landscapes.

Earthworms neutralize the influence of components of particulate pollutants on soil extracellular enzymatic functions in subtropical forests.

Response of protists to nitrogen addition, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi manipulation, and mesofauna reduction in a tropical montane rainforest in southern Ecuador.

Tree species identity, canopy structure and prey availability differentially affect canopy spider diversity and trophic composition.

Urban greenspaces shape soil protist communities in a location-specific manner.

Mycorrhizal C/N ratio determines plant-derived carbon and nitrogen allocation to symbiosis.

Climate-dependent plant responses to earthworms in two land-use types.

Global fine-resolution data on springtail abundance and community structure.

Trophic niches of Collembola communities change with elevation, but also with body size and life form.

Rainforest transformation reallocates energy from green to brown food webs.

Balancing economic and ecological functions in smallholder and industrial oil palm plantations.

Niche dimensions in soil oribatid mite community assembly under native and introduced tree species.

Species delimitation 4.0: integrative taxonomy meets artificial intelligence.

Colonization ability and uniformity of resources and environmental factors determine biological homogenization of soil protists in human land-use systems.

The unique epicuticular chemistry of Collembola - A cross-species analysis.

Colonization of mudflat substrate by microarthropods: the role of distance, inundation frequency and body size.

Convergent evolution revealed by paraphyly and polyphyly of many taxa of oribatid mites: A molecular approach.

Identification of unique highly hetero-substituted benzenes as chemical weapons of springtails by a combination of trace analytical methods with DFT calculations and synthesis.

The influence of forest types including native and non-native tree species on soil macrofauna depends on site conditions.

Enhancing economic multifunctionality without compromising multidiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality via forest enrichment.

Soil community history strengthens belowground multitrophic functioning across plant diversity levels in a grassland experiment.

Trophic Change and Community Decline in Acrobat Ants After Rainforest Conversion to Cash Crops.

Litter quality modulates changes in bacterial and fungal communities during the gut transit of earthworm species of different ecological groups.

Interactions Between Bacterivorous Nematodes and Bacteria Reduce NO Emissions.

Shared community history strengthens plant diversity effects on below-ground multitrophic functioning.

High litter quality enhances plant energy channeling by soil macro-detritivores and lowers their trophic position.

Older Lineages of Oribatid Mites in Mountain Ranges Have Broader Geographic Ranges and Exhibit More Generalistic Traits.