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  1. Tree canopy shapes and buffers detritivore invertebrate responses to soil temperature variability

    Article • Community Ecology, May 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Christian Mulder

  2. Boreal patterns in the trophic structuring of soil nematodes along climatic and edaphic gradients

    Article • Ecological Indicators, April 2026, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  3. Safeguarding Sicily’s biodiversity: challenges in monitoring the global asymmetric warming in drying Mediterranean hotspots

    Article • Community Ecology, February 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Christian Mulder

  4. First insights into soil fauna mapping across Europe using data from multiple data sources for three different taxa

    Article • Applied Soil Ecology, January 2026, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  5. Omnivory in soil systems is facilitated by the allometric distribution of trophic links’ lengths

    Article • January 2025, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  6. Linking effect traits of soil fauna to processes of organic matter transformation

    Article • Functional Ecology, December 2024, Wiley

    Prof Christian Mulder

  7. Edaphobase 2.0: Advanced international data warehouse for collating and using soil biodiversity datasets

    Article • Applied Soil Ecology, December 2024, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder, Dr Maria A. Tsiafouli, Professor Olaf Schmidt

  8. Effects of land use and soil properties on taxon richness and abundance of soil assemblages

    Article • European Journal of Soil Science, November 2023, Wiley

    Prof Christian Mulder, Dr Paul Eggleton, Adriana De Palma

  9. From micro to macro-scenarios: Environmental and functional impacts of armed conflicts tackling the climate crisis perspective

    Article • January 2023, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  10. Land use and soil characteristics affect soil organisms differently from above-ground assemblages

    Article • BMC Ecology and Evolution, November 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Christian Mulder

  11. A common framework for developing robust soil fauna classifications

    Article • Geoderma, November 2022, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  12. Chemistry-driven Enchytraeidae assemblages acting as soil and ecosystem engineers in edaphic communities

    Article • Ecological Indicators, November 2022, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  13. BEFANA: A tool for biodiversity-ecosystem functioning assessment by network analysis

    Article • Ecological Modelling, September 2022, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  14. Ecological validation of soil food-web robustness for managed grasslands

    Article • Ecological Indicators, August 2022, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  15. Ecological network complexity scales with area

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Christian Mulder, Dr Sergi Valverde

  16. Foreword

    Article • African Entomology, December 2021, Entomological Society of Southern Africa

    Prof Christian Mulder

  17. Carbon budget and national gross domestic product in the framework of the Paris Climate Agreement

    Article • Ecological Indicators, November 2021, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  18. Global data on earthworm abundance, biomass, diversity and corresponding environmental properties

    Article • Scientific Data, May 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Olaf Schmidt, Pr Jean-François Ponge, Prof Christian Mulder

  19. Multiple climate-driven cascading ecosystem effects after the loss of a foundation species

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, May 2021, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  20. Effects of tetracycline on entomopathogenic nematodes and their bacterial symbionts

    Article • Ecotoxicology, March 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Christian Mulder

  21. Eco-Ethology and Trait Distribution of Two Congeneric Species – Different Strategies for the Pest Acanthoplus discoidalis and the Long-Legged A. Longipes (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae)

    Article • African Entomology, March 2021, Academy of Science of South Africa

    Prof Christian Mulder

  22. The Resilient Recurrent Behavior of Mediterranean Semi-Arid Complex Adaptive Landscapes

    Article • Land, March 2021, MDPI AG

    Prof Christian Mulder

  23. Beyond virology: environmental constraints of the first wave of COVID-19 cases in Italy

    Article • Environmental Science and Pollution Research, February 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Christian Mulder

  24. Capitalizing the blue world: What can we learn from an Eastern Mediterranean case study?

    Article • Ecological Indicators, August 2020, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  25. Testing for top‐down cascading effects in a biomass‐driven ecological network of soil invertebrates

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, June 2020, Wiley

    Prof Christian Mulder

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

    Article • Scientific Data, March 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Christian Mulder, Professor Olaf Schmidt

  27. Towards an integrative understanding of soil biodiversity

    Article • Biological Reviews, November 2019, Wiley

    Prof Christian Mulder

  28. Global distribution of earthworm diversity

    Article • Science, October 2019, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Pr Jean-François Ponge, Prof Christian Mulder, Professor Olaf Schmidt

  29. Morphometry and feeding behaviour in two sympatric orthopterans in the Kalahari (Namibia): The trait as you like it

    Article • September 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Prof Christian Mulder

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

    Article • Nature, July 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Christian Mulder

  31. Predator traits determine food-web architecture across ecosystems

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, May 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Christian Mulder

  32. The Present is the Key to the Past: How Living Fossils in Namibia Share Insights on the Insects of Tertiary European Forests

    Article • African Entomology, April 2019, Entomological Society of Southern Africa

    Prof Christian Mulder

  33. Belowground thermoregulation in Namibian desert spiders that burrow their own chemostats

    Article • Acta Oecologica, April 2019, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  34. How soil granulometry, temperature, and water predict genetic differentiation in Namibian spiders ( Ariadna : Segestriidae) and explain their behavior

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, March 2019, Wiley

    Prof Christian Mulder

  35. Investigating landscape phase transitions in Mediterranean rangelands by recurrence analysis

    Article • Landscape Ecology, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Norbert Marwan, Prof Christian Mulder

  36. An allometric tragedy of the commons: The happy end

    Article • Ecological Indicators, July 2018, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  37. Functional diversity in nematode communities across terrestrial ecosystems

    Article • Basic and Applied Ecology, May 2018, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  38. An allometric tragedy of the commons: Response to the article “Evaluation of models capacity to predict size spectra parameters in ecosystems under stress”

    Article • Ecological Indicators, January 2018, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  39. Adaptive Food Webs

    Article • December 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Prof Christian Mulder

  40. Unifying the functional diversity in natural and cultivated soils using the overall body-mass distribution of nematodes

    Article • BMC Ecology, November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Christian Mulder

  41. Contextualizing macroecological laws: A big data analysis on electrofishing and allometric scalings in Ohio, USA

    Article • Ecological Complexity, September 2017, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  42. Identification and ranking of environmental threats with ecosystem vulnerability distributions

    Article • Scientific Reports, August 2017, Nature

    Prof Christian Mulder

  43. Pathogenic helminths in the past: Much ado about nothing

    Article • F1000Research, August 2017, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Prof Christian Mulder

  44. Pathogenic helminths in the past: Much ado about nothing

    Article • F1000Research, July 2017, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Prof Christian Mulder

  45. Pathogenic helminths in the past: Much ado about nothing

    Article • F1000Research, June 2017, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Prof Christian Mulder

  46. Feeding preference as a main determinant of microscale patchiness among terrestrial nematodes

    Article • Molecular Ecology Resources, April 2017, Wiley

    Prof Christian Mulder

  47. A community trait-based approach to ecosystem functioning in soil

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, February 2017, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  48. Selecting cost effective and policy-relevant biological indicators for European monitoring of soil biodiversity and ecosystem function

    Article • Ecological Indicators, October 2016, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder, Professor Olaf Schmidt, Professor Paula V Morais

  49. DECONTEXTUALIZING BIG DATA FOR A BETTER PERCEPTION OF MACROECOLOGY

    Article • June 2016, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Prof Christian Mulder

  50. Networking Our Way to Better Ecosystem Service Provision

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, February 2016, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  51. Monitoring soil bacteria with community-level physiological profiles using Biolog™ ECO-plates in the Netherlands and Europe

    Article • Applied Soil Ecology, January 2016, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  52. Mapping earthworm communities in Europe

    Article • Applied Soil Ecology, January 2016, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder, Professor Olaf Schmidt

  53. Pack hunting by a common soil amoeba on nematodes

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, July 2015, Wiley

    Prof Christian Mulder

  54. Chemical footprints of anthropogenic nitrogen deposition on recent soil C : N ratios in Europe

    Article • Biogeosciences, July 2015, Copernicus GmbH

    Prof Christian Mulder

  55. Effects of GM potato Modena on soil microbial activity and litter decomposition fall within the range of effects found for two conventional cultivars

    Article • Biology and Fertility of Soils, July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Christian Mulder

  56. Chemical footprints of anthropogenic nitrogen deposition on recent soil C : N ratios in Europe

    Article • March 2015, Copernicus GmbH

    Prof Christian Mulder

  57. Resource niche overlap promotes stability of bacterial community metabolism in experimental microcosms

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, February 2015, Frontiers

    Prof Christian Mulder

  58. Towards an Integration of Biodiversity–Ecosystem Functioning and Food Web Theory to Evaluate Relationships between Multiple Ecosystem Services

    Article • January 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Christoph Scherber, Prof Christian Mulder

  59. 10 Years Later

    Article • January 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Christoph Scherber, Prof Christian Mulder, Corinne Vacher

  60. Detrital Dynamics and Cascading Effects on Supporting Ecosystem Services

    Article • January 2015, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  61. Choice of Resolution by Functional Trait or Taxonomy Affects Allometric Scaling in Soil Food Webs

    Article • The American Naturalist, January 2015, University of Chicago Press

    Prof Christian Mulder

  62. Half-saturation constants in functional responses

    Article • Global Ecology and Conservation, December 2014, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  63. Chemical Footprints: Thin Boundaries Support Environmental Quality Management

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, November 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Leo Posthuma, Prof Christian Mulder

  64. Size-Mediated Effects of Water-Flow Velocity on Riverine Fish Species

    Article • River Research and Applications, October 2014, Wiley

    Prof Christian Mulder

  65. Beyond Safe Operating Space: Finding Chemical Footprinting Feasible

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, June 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Leo Posthuma, Prof Christian Mulder

  66. Soil invertebrates, chemistry, weather, human management, and edaphic food webs at 135 sites in The Netherlands: SIZEWEB

    Article • Ecology, February 2014, Wiley

    Prof Christian Mulder

  67. Release of isothiocyanates does not explain the effects of biofumigation with Indian mustard cultivars on nematode assemblages

    Article • Soil Biology and Biochemistry, January 2014, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  68. Environmentally-driven dissimilarity of trait-based indices of nematodes under different agricultural management and soil types

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, October 2013, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  69. Effects of copper on invertebrate–sediment interactions

    Article • Environmental Pollution, September 2013, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  70. Contrasting influence of soil nutrients and microbial community on differently sized basal consumers

    Article • The Science of Nature, May 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Christian Mulder

  71. A novel framework for linking functional diversity of plants with other trophic levels for the quantification of ecosystem services

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, May 2013, Wiley

    Prof Christian Mulder

  72. The practicalities and pitfalls of establishing a policy-relevant and cost-effective soil biological monitoring scheme

    Article • Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, March 2013, Wiley

    Prof Christian Mulder

  73. Connecting the Green and Brown Worlds

    Article • January 2013, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  74. Mesocosm Experiments as a Tool for Ecological Climate-Change Research

    Article • January 2013, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  75. Networking Agroecology

    Article • January 2013, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  76. DECOTAB: a multipurpose standard substrate to assess effects of litter quality on microbial decomposition and invertebrate consumption

    Article • Freshwater Science, December 2012, University of Chicago Press

    Prof Christian Mulder

  77. SSU Ribosomal DNA-Based Monitoring of Nematode Assemblages Reveals Distinct Seasonal Fluctuations within Evolutionary Heterogeneous Feeding Guilds

    Article • PLOS One, October 2012, PLOS

    Prof Christian Mulder

  78. Invertebrate footprints on detritus processing, bacterial community structure, and spatiotemporal redox profiles

    Article • Freshwater Science, September 2012, University of Chicago Press

    Prof Christian Mulder

  79. Delayed logistic and Rosenzweig–MacArthur models with allometric parameter setting estimate population cycles at lower trophic levels well

    Article • Ecological Complexity, February 2012, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  80. How to calculate the spatial distribution of ecosystem services — Natural attenuation as example from The Netherlands

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, January 2012, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  81. A method to assess ecosystem services developed from soil attributes with stakeholders and data of four arable farms

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, January 2012, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  82. Ecology and eScience

    Article • Ecological Processes, January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Christian Mulder

  83. Distributional (In)Congruence of Biodiversity–Ecosystem Functioning

    Article • January 2012, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder, Dr. Michael Kaspari

  84. TRAIT VARIATION IN SOIL NEMATODES

    Article • The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, October 2011, Wiley

    Prof Christian Mulder

  85. Nematode traits and environmental constraints in 200 soil systems: scaling within the 60–6000 μm body size range

    Article • Ecology, October 2011, Wiley

    Prof Christian Mulder

  86. Trait-mediated diversification in nematode predator-prey systems

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, September 2011, Wiley

    Prof Christian Mulder

  87. How allometric scaling relates to soil abiotics

    Article • Oikos, March 2011, Wiley

    Prof Christian Mulder

  88. A Belowground Perspective on Dutch Agroecosystems: How Soil Organisms Interact to Support Ecosystem Services

    Article • January 2011, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  89. World Wide Food Webs: Power to Feed Ecologists

    Article • AMBIO, June 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Christian Mulder

  90. Soil fertility controls the size-specific distribution of eukaryotes

    Article • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, May 2010, Wiley

    Prof Christian Mulder

  91. Soil pH, ecological stoichiometry, and allometric scaling in soil biota

    Article • Nature Precedings, February 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr James Elser, Prof Christian Mulder

  92. Soil acidity, ecological stoichiometry and allometric scaling in grassland food webs

    Article • Global Change Biology, October 2009, Wiley

    Dr James Elser, Prof Christian Mulder

  93. Biological measurements in a nationwide soil monitoring network

    Article • European Journal of Soil Science, October 2009, Wiley

    Prof Christian Mulder

  94. Soil biodiversity monitoring in Europe: ongoing activities and challenges

    Article • European Journal of Soil Science, October 2009, Wiley

    Prof Christian Mulder

  95. Soil resource supply influences faunal size–specific distributions in natural food webs

    Article • The Science of Nature, May 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Christian Mulder

  96. Biotechnology, environmental forcing, and unintended trophic cascades

    Article • Arthropod-Plant Interactions, May 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Christian Mulder

  97. Dissimilar response of plant and soil biota communities to long-term nutrient addition in grasslands

    Article • Biology and Fertility of Soils, March 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Christian Mulder

  98. Relative abundance and activity of melanized hyphae in different soil ecosystems

    Article • Soil Biology and Biochemistry, February 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Wietse de Boer, Prof Christian Mulder

  99. Chapter 1 Allometry of Body Size and Abundance in 166 Food Webs

    Article • January 2009, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  100. Chapter 2 Human and Environmental Factors Influence Soil Faunal Abundance–Mass Allometry and Structure

    Article • January 2009, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  101. Aboveground Herbivory Shapes the Biomass Distribution and Flux of Soil Invertebrates

    Article • PLOS One, October 2008, PLOS

    Prof Christian Mulder

  102. Three allometric relations of population density to body mass: theoretical integration and empirical tests in 149 food webs

    Article • Ecology Letters, September 2008, Wiley

    Prof Christian Mulder

  103. Scaling of offspring number and mass to plant and animal size: model and meta-analysis

    Article • Oecologia, January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Christian Mulder

  104. Age Structure and Senescence in Long-Term Cohorts of Eisenia andrei (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae)

    Article • The Journals of Gerontology Series A, December 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Christian Mulder

  105. Empirical maximum lifespan of earthworms is twice that of mice

    Article • AGE, August 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leo Posthuma, Prof Christian Mulder

  106. Transgenic Maize Containing the Cry1Ab Protein Ephemerally Enhances Soil Microbial Communities

    Article • AMBIO, June 2007, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

    Dr Leo Posthuma, Prof Christian Mulder

  107. Allometry, biocomplexity, and web topology of hundred agro-environments in The Netherlands

    Article • Ecological Complexity, September 2006, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  108. Driving forces from soil invertebrates to ecosystem functioning: the allometric perspective

    Article • The Science of Nature, July 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Christian Mulder

  109. Impact of heavy metal pollution on plants and leaf-miners

    Article • Environmental Chemistry Letters, March 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Christian Mulder

  110. Can Transgenic Maize Affect Soil Microbial Communities?

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, January 2006, PLOS

    Prof Christian Mulder

  111. Considerations for the use of soil ecological classification and assessment concepts in soil protection

    Article • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, October 2005, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  112. Ecological classification and assessment concepts in soil protection

    Article • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, October 2005, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  113. Legislation and ecological quality assessment of soil: implementation of ecological indication systems in Europe

    Article • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, October 2005, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  114. Numerical abundance and biodiversity of below-ground taxocenes along a pH gradient across the Netherlands

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, October 2005, Wiley

    Prof Christian Mulder

  115. The use of nematodes in ecological soil classification and assessment concepts

    Article • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, October 2005, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  116. Embedding soil quality in the planning and management of land use

    Article • The International Journal of Biodiversity Science and Management, June 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Christian Mulder

  117. Nonparasitic Nematoda provide evidence for a linear response of functionally important soil biota to increasing livestock density

    Article • The Science of Nature, April 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Christian Mulder

  118. Corrigenda

    Article • Ecology Letters, April 2005, Wiley

    Prof Christian Mulder

  119. SPATIAL ASPECTS OF FOOD WEBS

    Article • January 2005, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  120. Evaluating the impact of pollution on plant-Lepidoptera relationships

    Article • Environmetrics, January 2005, Wiley

    Prof Christian Mulder

  121. Can Transgenic Maize Affect Soil Microbial Communities?

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, January 2005, PLOS

    Prof Christian Mulder

  122. Bacterial traits, organism mass, and numerical abundance in the detrital soil food web of Dutch agricultural grasslands

    Article • Ecology Letters, December 2004, Wiley

    Prof Christian Mulder

  123. Observational and simulated evidence of ecological shifts within the soil nematode community of agroecosystems under conventional and organic farming

    Article • Functional Ecology, August 2003, Wiley

    Prof Christian Mulder

  124. AIZOACEAE

    Article • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, February 2003, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  125. ARISTOLOCHIACEAE

    Article • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, February 2003, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  126. Assessing fungal species sensitivity to environmental gradients by the Ellenberg indicator values of above-ground vegetation

    Article • Basic and Applied Ecology, January 2003, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  127. Chapter 14 Plant biodiversity and environmental stress

    Article • January 2003, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  128. Fungal functional diversity inferred along Ellenberg's abiotic gradients: Palynological evidence from different soil microbiota

    Article • Grana, January 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Christian Mulder

  129. Fungal functional diversity inferred along Ellenberg's abiotic gradients: Palynological evidence from different soil microbiota

    Article • Grana, January 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Christian Mulder

  130. Ecohydrological perspective of phytogenic organic and inorganic components in Greek lignites: a quantitative reinterpretation

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, June 2000, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  131. Occurrence of pollen and spores in relation to present-day vegetation in a Dutch heathland area

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, February 1999, Wiley

    Prof Christian Mulder

  132. Application of Chernobyl caesium-137 fallout and naturally occurring lead-210 for standardization of time in moss samples: recent pollen–flora relationships in the Allgäuer Alpen, Germany

    Article • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, September 1998, Elsevier

    Prof Christian Mulder

  133. Ecological Networks in Managed Ecosystems: Connecting Structure to Services

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Prof Christian Mulder