Contributions to MCED:
Chapter 23, How Valid Are Model Results?
Assumptions, Validity Range and Documentation
Professor Emeritus for Zoology and Ecology
Free University of Berlin
Königin-Luise-Str. 1-3
14195 Berlin
Tel.: +49(030) 838 53941
weigmann@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Research Interests:
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Ecology of natural and urban biotopes, focussed on soil arthropod communities
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Ecology of soil microarthropods, esp. oribatid mites and Collembola: population biology, their role in humus transformation, their distribution patterns
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systematics, taxonomy, phylogenetics of oribatid mites
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Ecotoxicology of soils and doil animals
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Ecological Statistics
Modelling approaches:
Equation-based Approaches, Ecological Statistics, Non-parametric Approaches, Multi-variate Approaches
Selected References
Weigmann G. (2010): Reconstruction of stem species pattern as a strategy towards integrated phylogenetic systematics and taxonomy, applied to Early-Derivative Poronota (Oribatida). – Acarologia 50: pp. 291-315
Weigmann G., Norton R. A. (2009): Validity and interpretation of Murcia Koch, Trichoribates Berlese and their type species (Acari: Oribatida: Ceratozetidae). – Zootaxa 2107: 65-68.
Weigmann G. (2009): Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) from the coastal region of Portugal. II. The genera Zachvatkinibates and Punctoribates (Mycobatidae). – Soil Organisms 81: 85-105.
Weigmann G. (2009): Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) from the coastal region of Portugal. III. New species of Scutoverticidae and Scheloribatidae. – Soil Organisms 81: 107-127.
Weigmann G. (2009): Anomalies of notogastral structures in poronotic oribatid mites (Oribatida: Poronota) interpreted as cryptic ancestral characters modulated by regulary genes. – In: Sabelis M.W., Bruin J. (Eds.): Trends in Acarology – Proceedings 12th International Congress of Acarology, Springer, Dordrecht: pp. 19-24.
Homepage:
http://www.biologie.fu-berlin.de/bodenzoologie/mitarbeiter/weigmann/index.html