Didactics/ School

Purtauf T (2009).  Folgen des Klimawandels für Flora und Fauna- ein Stationenlernen. Raabits Biologie Juli 2009.

Purtauf T (2007).  Biologische Vielfalt oder Einkaufszentrum? Beurteilung der Artenvielfalt als Grundlage der Raumplanung. Unterricht Biologie 324: 18-21.

Peer-reviewed publications

Purtauf T, Scheu S (2005). Understanding the mutual relationships between the dynamics of food webs, resources, and nutrients. In: De Ruiter P, Wolters V, Moore J (Eds). Dynamic food webs. Multispecies assemblages, ecosystem development and environmental change. Elsevier. pp 198-200.

Purtauf T, Thies C, Ekschmitt K, Wolters V, Dauber J. (2005). Scaling properties of multivariate landscape structure. Ecological Indicators 5: 295-304.

Purtauf T, Roschewitz I, Dauber J, Thies C, Tscharntke T, Wolters V (2005). Landscape context of organic and conventional farms: influences on carabid beetle diversity. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 108: 165-174.

Purtauf T, Dauber J, Wolters V (2005). The response of carabids to landscape simplification is different for different trophic groups. Oecologia 142: 458-464.

Purtauf T, Dauber J, Wolters V (2004). Carabid communities in the spatio-temporal mosaic of a rural landscape. Landscape and Urban Planning 67: 185-193.

Clough Y, Holzschuh A, Gabriel D, Purtauf T, Kleijn D, Kruess A, Steffan-Dewenter S, Tscharntke T (2007). Alpha and beta diversity of arthropods and plants in organically and conventionally managed wheat fields. Journal of Applied Ecology 44:804-812. 

Dauber J, Purtauf T (2007). A multi-scale analysis of the relative importance of  habitat features and landscape context on species richness of carabids. In: Schröder B, Reuter H, Reiniking B (Eds.) Multiple  scales and scaling in ecology. Serie Theorie in der Ökologie, Vol. 12,  Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt. pp. 63-67.

Sander AC, Purtauf T, Holzhauer S, Wolters V (2006). Landscape effects on the genetic structure of the ground beetle Poecilus versicolor STURM 1824. Biodiversity and Conservation 15: 245-259.

Sander AC, Purtauf T, Wolters V, Dauber J (2006). Landscape genetics of the widespread ground-beetle Carabus auratus in an agricultural region. Basic and Applied Ecology 7: 555-564.

Gottschalk T, Ekschmitt K, Kuhlmann F, Weinmann B, Purtauf T, Dauber J, Diekötter T, Wolters V (2007). Impact of agricultural subsidies on biodiversity at the landscape level. Landscape Ecology 22:643-656.

Dauber J, Purtauf T, Allspach A, Frisch J, Voigtländer K, Wolters V (2005). Local versus landscape controls on diversity: a test using surface-dwelling soil macroinvertebrates of differing mobility. Global Ecology and Biogeography 14: 213-221.

Schmidt MH, Lauer A, Purtauf T, Thies C, Schaefer M, Tscharntke T (2003). Relative importance of predators and parasitoids for cereal aphid control. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 270: 1905-1909.

Steiner N, Dauber J, Knecht C, Hirsch M, Otte A, Purtauf T, Simmering D, Waldhardt R, Wolters V, Köhler W (2002). Modellierung der Artenvielfalt in Abhängigkeit vom Landschaftsmuster. Berichte über Landwirtschaft 80: 468-481.

Publications in German

Purtauf T, Dauber J, Hasseck S, Wolters V (2002). Erhalt der Biodiversität
einer marginalen Region unter Landnutzungswandel. In:   
Bundesamt für Naturschutz (Eds.) Treffpunkt Biologische    
Vielfalt: aktuelle Forschung im Rahmen des Übereinkommens über die biologische Vielfalt, Band II. Landwirtschaftsverlag, Münster, pp. 209-215.

Purtauf T, Dauber J, Wolters V (2004). Die Laufkäfergemeinschaften     
(Coleoptera: Carabidae) unterschiedlich genutzter landwirtschaftlicher 
Flächen des Lahn-Dill-Berglands. Hessische Faunistische Briefe 23: 9-20.

Abstracts and Conference Proceedings

Dauber J, Purtauf T, Wolters V  (2005). Local vs. landscape control of biodiversity in agricultural landscapes. Diversitas Open Science Conference, Oaxaca, Mexico, Abstracts. http://www.diversitas-osc1.org/

Mayr S, Purtauf  T, Wolters V, Dauber J (2005). Annual recolonization pattern of arable fields by carabids depends on the surrounding landscape. Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ökologie 35.

Dauber J, Purtauf T (2005). Kontrolle des lokalen Artenreichtums von Laufkäfern durch Einflussfaktoren auf multiplen Skalen. Multiple Skalen und Skalierung in der Ökologie – Workshop 2005 des GfÖ-AK Theorie in der Ökologie Postdam: 8-9.

Purtauf T, Roschewitz I, Dauber J, Thies C, Tscharntke T, Wolters V (2004). Conservation of catabid diversity by organic farming depends on landscape features. Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ökologie 34: 184.

Gottschalk T, Ekschmitt K, Dauber J, Purtauf T, Wolters V (2004). Predicting the spatial distribution of faunal diversity using a GIS-based simulation model. Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ökologie 34: 322.

Wiegand K, Purtauf T, Wiegand T (2004). Importance of landscape structure on species frequencies in fragmented landscapes. Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ökologie 34: 45.

Purtauf  T,  Thies C, Ekschmitt K, Wolters V, Dauber J (2003). Scale dependent importance of landscape context. IALE World Congress Darwin, Australien, Abstracts,  pp. 106-107.

Purtauf T, Thies C, Ekschmitt K, Wolters V, Dauber J (2003). Ecological interpretation of matrix effects on species richness can be obscured by the spatial scale of observation. Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ökologie 33: 56.

Dauber J, Purtauf T, Wolters V (2003). Landscape complexity and biodiversity in agricultural regions. In: Dijst M, Schot P, de Jong K (Eds.) Framing Land Use Dynamics: reviewed abstracts international conference, Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Utrecht, Niederlande, pp. 199-200.

Dauber J, Purtauf T, Wolters V (2003). Biodiversity and spatial complexity in agricultural landscapes under global change (BIOPLEX) – Soil Ecology. In: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Ed.). Sustainable use and conservation of biological diversity. A challenge for society. Symposium report, Part A,  Berlin, pp. 92-93.

Purtauf T, Höhn P, Wolters V, Dauber J (2002). Community composition of epigeic arthropods in wheat fields: The effect of landscape complexity. The IX European Ecological Congress (Eureco '02), Lund, Sweden. http://www.eurecol.org/eureco2002/index.html.

Purtauf T, Wolters V, Tscharntke T, Schmidt M,  Dauber J (2002). Landscape complexity and biodiversity of carabids in wheat fields. Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ökologie 32: 34.

Höhn P, Purtauf T, Wolters V, Dauber J (2002). Landscape effects on rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) in wheat fields. Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ökologie 32: 46.

Schmidt MH, Lauer A, Purtauf T, Thies C, Schaefer M, Tscharntke T (2002). Top- down control of cereal aphids by their natural enemies. Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ökologie 32: 359.

Wiegand K, Purtauf T, Wiegand T, Koehler W, Wolters V (2002). Linking landscape structure and species abundance and richness. The Ecological Society of America, 87th annual meeting, Abstracts, pp. 297-298.

Purtauf T, Dauber J, Wolters V (2001). Effects of changes in landscape patterns on carabid diversity and community structure. In: Mander U, Printsmann A, Palang H (Eds.) Development of European Landscapes: Conference proceedings of the IALE European Conference 2001, Vol I. Publicationes Instituti Geographici Univestitatis Tartuensis 92: 70-75.

Behrens T, Purtauf T, Wolters V, Köhler W, Dauber J (2001). Study site selection and gradient detection in complex landscapes using an automated patch detection tool (PaDS). In: Belward A, Binaghi E, Brivio PA, Aurelio G, Tosi G (Eds.) Proceedings of the International Workshop on Geo-Spatial Knowledge Processing of Natural Resource Management. ARTESTAMPA, Daverio, pp. 217-220.

Dauber J, Purtauf T, Wolters V (2001). Biodiversity and spatial complexity in agricultural landscapes under global change (BIOPLEX) – Soil Biota. In: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Ed.). BIOLOG German Program on Biodiversity and Global Change (Phase I, 2000 - 2004) Status Report 2001, Bonn, pp. 74-75.

Dauber J, Purtauf T, Ludy C, Hassek S, Wolters V (2001). Sustaining Biodiversity at the Landscape Level. Global Change Open Science Conference, Abstracts, Amsterdam, A 5.5.

Purtauf T, Dauber J, Wolters V (2000). Struktur und Diversität von Carabidengemeinschaften in einer Grünland-Chronosequenz. Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ökologie 30: 150.