Volkmar Wolters

Volkmar Wolters (* 1953 in Bremen ) is a German biologist and professor of animal ecology and special zoology at the University of Giessen .

Research and Teaching

After studying biology, psychology and philosophy at the Georg-August University in Göttingen , Wolters received his doctorate in 1985 with a thesis on the role of invertebrates in the soil in the ecosystems of temperate latitudes. He became professor for environmental sciences at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . In 1995 he went to the University of Giessen. There he is working group leader with a research focus on soil ecology , animal biodiversity, landscape ecology and molecular ecology.

Wolters is President of the Society for Ecology in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfÖ) and was Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Biology & Chemistry. He coordinated several EU projects and participates in the SOILSERVICE program (7th framework program of the EU). He works in the context of the biodiversity exploratories on animal ecology in the cultural landscape and coordinates the BIOLOG Europe project of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research .

Television appearances

Wolters writes humorous short poems that deal with elephants in different ways ("elephant poems "). With some of them he appeared in the four episodes of the series Rhyme wins! on ZDFkultur .

Fonts

Investigation of the habitat attachment and nutritional biology of springtails (Collembola) of a deciduous forest with special consideration of their function in the decomposition chain. Dissertation, University of Göttingen 1985.
Control of microbial metabolism in soils by invertebrates. Habilitation thesis, University of Göttingen 1991.
with Andreas Krüß as editor: nature conservation and ecology. Selected contributions to the GfÖ annual conference 2007 in Marburg (= nature conservation and biological diversity. Issue 60). BfN publications in the Landwirtschaftsverlag, Münster 2008.
as publisher: Book of abstracts / 40th Anniversary Conference "The Future of Biodiversity: Genes, Species, Ecosystems" Justus Liebig University Giessen, August 30th - September 3rd 2010. GfÖ c / o Inst. for Ecology, TU Berlin, Berlin 2010.
with Stefan Hotes as editor: Focus on biodiversity. How biodiversity can be preserved in the cultural landscape and used sustainably. oekom Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86581-172-1 .

supporting documents

↑ ^a ^b CV of Prof. Dr. Volkmar Wolters ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the Institute for Animal Ecology and Special Zoology at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, accessed on May 15, 2012 @1@ 2

↑ Contributions by Professor Wolters on the website of the show Reim wins! accessed on April 11, 2014 (there is also a report about Wolters from the program “Hauptsache Kultur”).

Web links

Institute for Animal Ecology and Special Zoology at the Justus Liebig University Gießen: Prof. Dr. Volkmar Wolters , accessed April 26, 2012
Literature by and about Volkmar Wolters in the catalog of the German National Library

personal data
SURNAME	Wolters, Volkmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German biologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	1953
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bremen

[Lebenslauf-1] CV of Prof. Dr. Volkmar Wolters ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the Institute for Animal Ecology and Special Zoology at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, accessed on May 15, 2012 @1@ 2

[2] Contributions by Professor Wolters on the website of the show Reim wins! accessed on April 11, 2014 (there is also a report about Wolters from the program “Hauptsache Kultur”).