Dr. Anja Schmidt
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Dr. Anja Schmidt
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Community Ecology
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Theodor-Lieser-Str. 4
06120 Halle (Saale)
Germany
Orcid: 0000-0001-5339-219X
ResearcherID/publons: V-3289-2017
Curriculum Vitae
since 10/2020
Researcher at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department of Community Ecology
2018 - 2020
Researcher and Coordinator of the iDiv Ecotron Project at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Research group Experimental Interaction Ecology - EIE
2015 - 2018
Researcher and Project Officer within the STACCATO project at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department of Community Ecology
2012 - 2015
PhD Student within the LEGATO project at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department of Community Ecology
Topic: Decomposition driven by invertebrates in tropical rice ecosystems: impacts of management strategies
2010/2011
Master's Thesis at the University of Giessen, Department of Animal Ecology,
Topic: Spatial small scale analyses on distribution patterns of carabid beetles in a contiguous deciduous forest
2010
Erasmus student at Lund University, Sweden
2008 - 2011
Master of Science at the University of Giessen,
Majors: Ecology, Environmental Science, Bioinformatics
2008
Bachelor's Thesis within the project IBISCA at the University of Erlangen/Nuremberg, Working group of Ecology and Diversity of Arthropods,
Topic: Räumliche und zeitliche Verteilung der Buntkäfer (Col.: Cleridae) in einem tropischen Tiefland-Regenwald Panamas (San Lorenzo National Park)
2005 - 2008
Bachelor of Science at the University of Erlangen/Nuremberg,
Majors: Biotechnology, Animal Physiology, Organismic Biology
Research Interests
Invertebrate mediated decomposition, soil fauna, food webs, biological pest control, biodiversity, entomology
Publications
2021 (3)
- Junker, R.R., Eisenhauer, N., Schmidt, A., Türke, M., (2021):
Invertebrate decline reduces bacterial diversity associated with leaves and flowers
FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 97 (7), fiab088
Volltext (DOI) - Kwon, T., Shibata, H., Kepfer-Rojas, S., Schmidt, I.K., Larsen, K.S., Beier, C., Berg, B., Verheyen, K., Lamarque, J.F., Hagedorn, F., Eisenhauer, N., Djukic, I., Rebmann, C., Bruelheide, H., van Halder, I., Stadler, J., Dienstbach, L., Frenzel, M., Ferlian, O., Schädler, M., Schmidt, A., Trogisch, S., TeaComposition Network, et al., (2021):
Effects of climate and atmospheric nitrogen deposition on early to mid-term stage litter decomposition across biomes
Front. For. Glob. Change 4 , art. 678480
Volltext (DOI) - Roy, J., Rineau, F., De Boeck, H.J., Nijs, I., Pütz, T., Abiven, S., Arnone III, J.A., Barton, C.V.M., Beenaerts, N., Brüggemann, N., Dainese, M., Domisch, T., Eisenhauer, N., Garré, S., Gebler, A., Ghirardo, A., Jasoni, R.L., Kowalchuk, G., Landais, D., Larsen, S.H., Leemans, V., Le Galliard, J.-F., Longdoz, B., Massol, F., Mikkelsen, T.N., Niedrist, G., Piel, C., Ravel, O., Sauze, J., Schmidt, A., Schnitzler, J.-P., Teixeira, L.H., Tjoelker, M.G., Weisser, W.W., Winkler, J.B., Milcu, A., (2021):
Ecotrons: Powerful and versatile ecosystem analysers for ecology, agronomy and environmental science
Glob. Change Biol. 27 (7), 1387 - 1407
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2020 (1)
- Ulrich, J., Bucher, S.F., Eisenhauer, N., Schmidt, A., Türke, M., Gebler, A., Barry, K., Lange, M., Römermann, C., (2020):
Invertebrate decline leads to shifts in plant species abundance and phenology
Front. Plant Sci. 11 , art. 542125
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2019 (4)
- Settele, J., Spangenberg, J.H., Heong, K.L., Kühn, I., Klotz, S., Arida, G., Burkhard, B., Bustamante, J.V., Cabbigat, J., Canh, L.X., Catindig, J.L.A., Chien, H.V., Cuong, L.Q., Escalada, M., Görg, C., Grescho, V., Grossmann, S., Hadi, B.A.R., Harpke, A., Hass, A.L., Hirneisen, N., Horgan, F.G., Hotes, S., Jahn, R., Klotzbücher, A., Klotzbücher, T., Langerwisch, F., Magcale-Macandog, D.B., Manh, N.H., Marion, G., Marquez, L., Ott, J., Penev, L., Rodriguez-Labajos, B., Sann, C., Sattler, C., Schädler, M., Scheu, S., Schmidt, A., Schrader, J., Schweiger, O., Seppelt, R., Sinh, N.V., Stoev, P., Stoll-Kleemann, S., Tekken, V., Thonicke, K., Trisyono, Y.A., Truong, D.T., Tuan, L.Q., Türke, M., Václavík, T., Vetterlein, D., Villareal, S., Westphal, C., 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 societal responses
Springer International Publishing, Cham, p. 373 - 382
Volltext (DOI) - Yin, R., Eisenhauer, N., Auge, H., Purahong, W., Schmidt, A., Schädler, M., (2019):
Additive effects of experimental climate change and land use on faunal contribution to litter decomposition
Soil Biol. Biochem. 131 , 141 - 148
Volltext (DOI) - Yin, R., Eisenhauer, N., Schmidt, A., Gruss, I., Purahong, W., Siebert, J., Schädler, M., (2019):
Climate change does not alter land-use effects on soil fauna communities
Appl. Soil Ecol. 139 , 79 - 84
Volltext (DOI) - Yin, R., Gruss, I., Eisenhauer, N., Kardol, P., Thakur, M.P., Schmidt, A., Xu, Z., Siebert, J., Zhang, C., Wu, G.-L., Schädler, M., (2019):
Land use modulates the effects of climate change on density but not community composition of Collembola
Soil Biol. Biochem. 138 , art. 107598
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2018 (5)
- Djukic, I., Kepfer-Rojas, S., Schmidt, I.K., Larsen, K.S., Beier, C., Berg, B., Verheyen, K., Schmidt, A., Rebmann, C., Auge, H., García Quirós, I., Stadler, J., Dienstbach, L., Frenzel, M., Schädler, M., TeaComposition Network, et al., (2018):
Early stage litter decomposition across biomes
Sci. Total Environ. 628–629 , 1369 - 1394
Volltext (DOI) - Panteleit, J., Horgan, F.G., Türke, M., Schmidt, A., Schädler, M., Bacht, M., Brandl, R., Hotes, S., (2018):
Effects of detritivorous invertebrates on the decomposition of rice straw: evidence from a microcosm experiment
Paddy Water Environ. 16 (2), 279 - 286
Volltext (DOI) - Settele, J., Heong, K.L., Kühn, I., Klotz, S., Spangenberg, J.H., Arida, G., Beaurepaire, A., Beck, S., Bergmeier, E., Burkhard, B., Brandl, R., Bustamante, J.V., Butler, A., Cabbigat, J., Le, X.C., Catindig, J.L.A., Ho, V.C., Le, Q.C., Dang, K.B., Escalada, M., Dominik, C., Franzén, M., Fried, O., Görg, C., Grescho, V., Grossmann, S., Gurr, G.M., Hadi, B.A.R., Le, H.H., Harpke, A., Hass, A.L., Hirneisen, N., Horgan, F.G., Hotes, S., Isoda, Y., Jahn, R., Kettle, H., Klotzbücher, A., Klotzbücher, T., Langerwisch, F., Loke, W.-H., Lin, Y.-P., Lu, Z., Lum, K.-Y., Magcale-Macandog, D.B., Marion, G., Marquez, L., Müller, F., Nguyen, H.M., Nguyen, Q.A., Nguyen, V.S., Ott, J., Penev, L., Pham, H.T., Radermacher, N., Rodriguez-Labajos, B., Sann, C., Sattler, C., Schädler, M., Scheu, S., Schmidt, A., Schrader, J., Schweiger, O., Seppelt, R., Soitong, K., Stoev, P., Stoll-Kleemann, S., Tekken, V., Thonicke, K., Tilliger, B., Tobias, K., Trisyono, Y.A., Dao, T.T., Tscharntke, T., Le, Q.T., Türke, M., Václavík, T., Vetterlein, D., Villareal, S., Vu, K.C., Vu, Q., Weisser, W.W., Westphal, C., Zhu, Z., Wiemers, M., (2018):
Rice ecosystem services in South-east Asia. Editorial
Paddy Water Environ. 16 (2), 211 - 224
Volltext (DOI) - Spangenberg, J.H., Beaurepaire, A.L., Bergmeier, E., Burkhard, B., Chien, H.V., Cuong, L.Q., Görg, C., Grescho, V., Hai, L.H., Heong, K.L., Horgan, F.G., Hotes, S., Klotzbücher, A., Klotzbücher, T., Kühn, I., Langerwisch, F., Marion, G., Moritz, R.F.A., Nguyen, Q.A., Ott, J., Sann, C., Sattler, C., Schädler, M., Schmidt, A., Tekken, V., Thanh, T.D., Thonicke, K., Türke, M., Václavík, T., Vetterlein, D., Westphal, C., Wiemers, M., Settele, J., (2018):
The LEGATO cross-disciplinary integrated ecosystem service research framework: an example of integrating research results from the analysis of global change impacts and the social, cultural and economic system dynamics of irrigated rice production
Paddy Water Environ. 16 (2), 287 - 319
Volltext (DOI) - Türke, M., Schmidt, A., Schädler, M., Hotes, S., Weisser, W.W., (2018):
Are invasive apple snails important neglected decomposers of rice straw in paddy fields?
Biol. Agric. Hortic. 38 (4), 245 - 257
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2016 (2)
- Marxen, A., Klotzbücher, T., Jahn, R., Kaiser, K., Nguyen, V.S., Schmidt, A., Schädler, M., Vetterlein, D., (2016):
Interaction between silicon cycling and straw decomposition in a silicon deficient rice production system
Plant Soil 398 (1), 153 - 163
Volltext (DOI) - Schmidt, A., John, K., Auge, H., Brandl, R., Horgan, F.G., Settele, J., Zaitsev, A.S., Wolters, V., Schädler, M., (2016):
Compensatory mechanisms of litter decomposition under alternating moisture regimes in tropical rice fields
Appl. Soil Ecol. 107 , 79 - 90
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2015 (2)
- Schmidt, A., Auge, H., Brandl, R., Heong, K.L., Hotes, S., Settele, J., Villareal, S., Schädler, M., (2015):
Small-scale variability in the contribution of invertebrates to litter decomposition in tropical rice fields
Basic Appl. Ecol. 16 (8), 674 - 680
Volltext (DOI) - Schmidt, A., John, K., Arida, G., Auge, H., Brandl, R., Horgan, F.G., Hotes, S., Marquez, L., Radermacher, N., Settele, J., Wolters, V., Schädler, M., (2015):
Effects of residue management on decomposition in irrigated rice fields are not related to changes in the decomposer community
PLOS One 10 (7), e0134402
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