Gerd Weigmann

Contributions to MCED:
Chapter 23, How Valid Are Model Results?
Assumptions, Validity Range and Documentation  

Affiliation

Professor Emeritus for Zoology and Ecology

Free University of Berlin
Königin-Luise-Str. 1-3
14195 Berlin

Tel.: +49(030) 838 53941

E-mail

weigmann@zedat.fu-berlin.de

Research Interests:

  • Ecology of natural and urban biotopes, focussed on soil arthropod communities

  • Ecology of soil microarthropods, esp. oribatid mites and Collembola: population biology, their role in humus transformation, their distribution patterns

  • systematics, taxonomy, phylogenetics of oribatid mites

  • Ecotoxicology of soils and doil animals

  • 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