Dr Anton M. Potapov
Head of Junior Research Group, Cooperation Guest

Affiliations
Leipzig University
Postal address
Puschstrasse 4
04103 Leipzig
Germany
Room: B.00.25
Contact details
Email: anton.potapov@idiv.de
Phone: +49 341 9733239
iDiv Publications
Publications 2025
Pérez-Roig, Camila, Videla, Martín, El Mujtar, Verónica, Tittonell, Pablo A., Potapov, Anton M. (2025): Soil food-web energy fluxes reveal diverse responses to smallholder land-use choices in temperate forests. Soil Biology and Biochemistry
Bonfanti, Jonathan, Potapov, Anton M., Angst, Gerrit, Ganault, Pierre, Briones, Maria J. I., Calderón-Sanou, Irene, Chen, Ting-Wen, Conti, Erminia, Degrune, Florine, Eisenhauer, Nico, Ferlian, Olga, Hackenberger, Davorka, Hauer, Amelie, Hedde, Mickaël, Hohberg, Karin, Krogh, Paul Henning, Mulder, Christian, Perez-Roig, Camila, Russell, David, Shelef, Oren, Zhou, Zheng, Zuev, Andrey G., Berg, Matty P. (2025): Linking effect traits of soil fauna to processes of organic matter transformation. Functional Ecology
Publications 2024
Barnes, Andrew D., Deslippe, Julie R., Potapov, Anton M., Romero-Olivares, Adriana L., Schipper, Louis A., Alster, Charlotte J. (2024): Does warming erode network stability and ecosystem multifunctionality?. Trends in Ecology & Evolution
Potapov, Anton M. (2024): Resource omnivory in soil food webs and meta-ecosystem connections. Basic and Applied Ecology
Zuev, Andrey G., Gruzdev, Ivan V., Potapov, Anton M., Schaefer, Ina, Scheu, Stefan, Tiunov, Alexei V., Van Thinh, Nguyen, Zueva, Anna I. (2024): Assessing extraradical mycelium of mycorrhizal fungi in tropical forests using armored in-growth mesh bags. Pedobiologia
Angst, Gerrit, Potapov, Anton M., Joly, François-Xavier, Angst, Šárka, Frouz, Jan, Ganault, Pierre, Eisenhauer, Nico (2024): Conceptualizing soil fauna effects on labile and stabilized soil organic matter. Nature Communications
Muelbaier, Hannah, Arthen, Freya, Collins, Gemma, Hickler, Thomas, Hohberg, Karin, Lehmitz, Ricarda, Pauchet, Yannick, Pfenninger, Markus, Potapov, Anton M., Romahn, Juliane, Schaefer, Ina, Scheu, Stefan, Schneider, Clément, Ebersberger, Ingo, Bálint, Miklós (2024): Genomic evidence for the widespread presence of GH45 cellulases among soil invertebrates. Molecular Ecology
Pollierer, Melanie M., Potapov, Anton M., Zaitsev, Andrey (2024): Towards integrative analysis of abiotic and biotic drivers of soil biodiversity. Applied Soil Ecology
Quévreux, Pierre, Brose, Ulrich, Galiana, Núria, Potapov, Anton M., Thébault, Élisa, Travers-Trolet, Morgane, Wollrab, Sabine, Jabot, Franck (2024): Perspectives in modelling ecological interaction networks for sustainable ecosystem management. Journal of Applied Ecology
Wan, Bingbing, Barnes, Andrew D., Potapov, Anton M., Yang, Jiani, Zhu, Mengyi, Chen, Xiaoyun, Hu, Feng, Liu, Manqiang (2024): Altered litter stoichiometry drives energy dynamics of food webs through changing multiple facets of soil biodiversity. Soil Biology and Biochemistry
Zhang, Saichao, Qiao, Zhihong, Yao, Haifeng, Li, Zhipeng, Yan, Qibao, Potapov, Anton M., Sun, Xin (2024): Invasion by red imported fire ants depletes soil microarthropod communities in agricultural systems. European Journal of Soil Science
Sünnemann, Marie, Barnes, Andrew D., Amyntas, Angelos, Ciobanu, Marcel, Jochum, Malte, Lochner, Alfred, Potapov, Anton M., Reitz, Thomas, Rosenbaum, Benjamin, Schädler, Martin, Zeuner, Anja, Eisenhauer, Nico (2024): Sustainable Land Use Strengthens Microbial and Herbivore Controls in Soil Food Webs in Current and Future Climates. Global Change Biology
Potapov, Anton M., Drescher, Jochen, Darras, Kevin, Wenzel, Arne, Janotta, Noah, Nazarreta, Rizky, Kasmiatun,, Laurent, Valentine, Mawan, Amanda, Utari, Endah H., Pollierer, Melanie M., Rembold, Katja, Widyastuti, Rahayu, Buchori, Damayanti, Hidayat, Purnama, Turner, Edgar, Grass, Ingo, Westphal, Catrin, Tscharntke, Teja, Scheu, Stefan (2024): Rainforest transformation reallocates energy from green to brown food webs. Nature
Amyntas, Angelos, Eisenhauer, Nico, Scheu, Stefan, Klarner, Bernhard, Ilieva-Makulec, Krassimira, Madaj, Anna-Maria, Gauzens, Benoit, Li, Jingyi, Potapov, Anton M., Rosenbaum, Benjamin, Bassi, Leonardo, van Berkum, Pamela Medina, Brose, Ulrich (2024): Soil community history strengthens belowground multitrophic functioning across plant diversity levels in a grassland experiment. Nature Communications
Zhou, Zheng, Lu, Jing-Zhong, Widyastuti, Rahayu, Scheu, Stefan, Potapov, Anton, Krashevska, Valentyna (2024): Plant roots are more strongly linked to microorganisms in leaf litter rather than in soil across tropical land-use systems. Soil Biology and Biochemistry
Potapov, Anton M., Chen, Ting-Wen, Striuchkova, Anastasia V., Alatalo, Juha M., Alexandre, Douglas, Arbea, Javier, Ashton, Thomas, Ashwood, Frank, Babenko, Anatoly B., Bandyopadhyaya, Ipsa, Baretta, Carolina Riviera Duarte Maluche, Baretta, Dilmar, Barnes, Andrew D., Bellini, Bruno C., Bendjaballah, Mohamed, Berg, Matty P., Bernava, Verónica, Bokhorst, Stef, Bokova, Anna I., Bolger, Thomas, Bouchard, Mathieu, Brito, Roniere A., Buchori, Damayanti, Castaño-Meneses, Gabriela, Chauvat, Matthieu, Chomel, Mathilde, Chow, Yasuko, Chown, Steven L., Classen, Aimee T., Cortet, Jérôme, Čuchta, Peter, de la Pedrosa, Ana Manuela, De Lima, Estevam C. A., Deharveng, Louis E., Doblas Miranda, Enrique, Drescher, Jochen, Eisenhauer, Nico, Ellers, Jacintha, Ferlian, Olga, Ferreira, Susana S. D., Ferreira, Aila S., Fiera, Cristina, Filser, Juliane, Franken, Oscar, Fujii, Saori, Koudji, Essivi Gagnon, Gao, Meixiang, Gendreau-Berthiaume, Benoit, Gers, Charles, Greve, Michelle, Hamra-Kroua, Salah, Handa, I. Tanya, Hasegawa, Motohiro, Heiniger, Charlène, Hishi, Takuo, Holmstrup, Martin, Homet, Pablo, Høye, Toke T., Ivask, Mari, Jacques, Bob, Janion-Scheepers, Charlene, Jochum, Malte, Joimel, Sophie, Jorge, Bruna Claudia S., Juceviča, Edite, Kapinga, Esther M., Kováč, Ľubomír, Krab, Eveline J., Krogh, Paul Henning, Kuu, Annely, Kuznetsova, Natalya, Lam, Weng Ngai, Lin, Dunmei, Lindo, Zoë, Liu, Amy W. P., Lu, Jing-Zhong, Luciáñez, María José, Marx, Michael T., Mawan, Amanda, McCary, Matthew A., Minor, Maria A., Mitchell, Grace I., Moreno, David, Nakamori, Taizo, Negri, Ilaria, Nielsen, Uffe N., Ochoa-Hueso, Raúl, Oliveira Filho, Luís Carlos I., Palacios-Vargas, José G., Pollierer, Melanie M., Ponge, Jean-François, Potapov, Mikhail B., Querner, Pascal, Rai, Bibishan, Raschmanová, Natália, Rashid, Muhammad Imtiaz, Raymond-Léonard, Laura J., Reis, Aline S., Ross, Giles M., Rousseau, Laurent, Russell, David J., Saifutdinov, Ruslan A., Salmon, Sandrine, Santonja, Mathieu, Saraeva, Anna K., Sayer, Emma J., Scheunemann, Nicole, Scholz, Cornelia, Seeber, Julia, Shaw, Peter, Shveenkova, Yulia B., Slade, Eleanor M., Stebaeva, Sophya, Sterzynska, Maria, Sun, Xin, Susanti, Winda Ika, Taskaeva, Anastasia A., Tay, Li Si, Thakur, Madhav P., Treasure, Anne M., Tsiafouli, Maria, Twala, Mthokozisi N., Uvarov, Alexei V., Venier, Lisa A., Widenfalk, Lina A., Widyastuti, Rahayu, Winck, Bruna, Winkler, Daniel, Wu, Donghui, Xie, Zhijing, Yin, Rui, Zampaulo, Robson A., Zeppelini, Douglas, Zhang, Bing, Zoughailech, Abdelmalek, Ashford, Oliver, Klauberg-Filho, Osmar, Scheu, Stefan (2024): Global fine-resolution data on springtail abundance and community structure. Sci Data
Wenzel, Arne, Westphal, Catrin, Ballauff, Johannes, Berkelmann, Dirk, Brambach, Fabian, Buchori, Damayanti, Camarretta, Nicolò, Corre, Marife D., Daniel, Rolf, Darras, Kevin, Erasmi, Stefan, Formaglio, Greta, Hölscher, Dirk, Iddris, Najeeb Al-Amin, Irawan, Bambang, Knohl, Alexander, Kotowska, Martyna M., Krashevska, Valentyna, Kreft, Holger, Mulyani, Yeni, Mußhoff, Oliver, Paterno, Gustavo B., Polle, Andrea, Potapov, Anton, Röll, Alexander, Scheu, Stefan, Schlund, Michael, Schneider, Dominik, Sibhatu, Kibrom T., Stiegler, Christian, Sundawati, Leti, Tjoa, Aiyen, Tscharntke, Teja, Veldkamp, Edzo, Waite, Pierre-André, Wollni, Meike, Zemp, Delphine Clara, Grass, Ingo (2024): Balancing economic and ecological functions in smallholder and industrial oil palm plantations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Publications 2023
Le Guillarme, Nicolas, Hedde, Mickael, Potapov, Anton M., Martínez-Muñoz, Carlos A., Berg, Matty P., Briones, Maria J. I., Calderón-Sanou, Irene, Degrune, Florine, Hohberg, Karin, Martinez-Almoyna, Camille, Pey, Benjamin, Russell, David J., Thuiller, Wilfried (2023): The Soil Food Web Ontology: Aligning trophic groups, processes, resources, and dietary traits to support food-web research. Ecological Informatics
Potapov, Anton M., Lindo, Zoë, Buchkowski, Robert, Geisen, Stefan (2023): Multiple dimensions of soil food-web research: History and prospects. European Journal of Soil Biology
Potapov, Anton M., Guerra, Carlos A., van den Hoogen, Johan, Babenko, Anatoly, Bellini, Bruno C., Berg, Matty P., Chown, Steven L., Deharveng, Louis, Kováč, Ľubomír, Kuznetsova, Natalia A., Ponge, Jean-François, Potapov, Mikhail B., Russell, David J., Alexandre, Douglas, Alatalo, Juha M., Arbea, Javier I., Bandyopadhyaya, Ipsa, Bernava, Verónica, Bokhorst, Stef, Bolger, Thomas, Castaño-Meneses, Gabriela, Chauvat, Matthieu, Chen, Ting-Wen, Chomel, Mathilde, Classen, Aimee T., Cortet, Jerome, Čuchta, Peter, Manuela de la Pedrosa, Ana, Ferreira, Susana S. D., Fiera, Cristina, Filser, Juliane, Franken, Oscar, Fujii, Saori, Koudji, Essivi Gagnon, Gao, Meixiang, Gendreau-Berthiaume, Benoit, Gomez-Pamies, Diego F., Greve, Michelle, Tanya Handa, I., Heiniger, Charlène, Holmstrup, Martin, Homet, Pablo, Ivask, Mari, Janion-Scheepers, Charlene, Jochum, Malte, Joimel, Sophie, Claudia S. Jorge, Bruna, Jucevica, Edite, Ferlian, Olga, Iuñes de Oliveira Filho, Luís Carlos, Klauberg-Filho, Osmar, Baretta, Dilmar, Krab, Eveline J., Kuu, Annely, de Lima, Estevam C. A., Lin, Dunmei, Lindo, Zoe, Liu, Amy, Lu, Jing-Zhong, Luciañez, María José, Marx, Michael T., McCary, Matthew A., Minor, Maria A., Nakamori, Taizo, Negri, Ilaria, Ochoa-Hueso, Raúl, Palacios-Vargas, José G., Pollierer, Melanie M., Querner, Pascal, Raschmanová, Natália, Rashid, Muhammad Imtiaz, Raymond-Léonard, Laura J., Rousseau, Laurent, Saifutdinov, Ruslan A., Salmon, Sandrine, Sayer, Emma J., Scheunemann, Nicole, Scholz, Cornelia, Seeber, Julia, Shveenkova, Yulia B., Stebaeva, Sophya K., Sterzynska, Maria, Sun, Xin, Susanti, Winda I., Taskaeva, Anastasia A., Thakur, Madhav P., Tsiafouli, Maria A., Turnbull, Matthew S., Twala, Mthokozisi N., Uvarov, Alexei V., Venier, Lisa A., Widenfalk, Lina A., Winck, Bruna R., Winkler, Daniel, Wu, Donghui, Xie, Zhijing, Yin, Rui, Zeppelini, Douglas, Crowther, Thomas W., Eisenhauer, Nico, Scheu, Stefan (2023): Globally invariant metabolism but density-diversity mismatch in springtails. Nature Communications
Zhang, Ajuan, Zhang, Yan, Potapov, Anton M., Ram Bhusal, Daya, Qiang, Wei, Wang, Min, Pang, Xueyong (2023): Changes in diversity and functional groups of soil mite communities are associated with properties of food resources along a subalpine secondary succession. Geoderma
Zhou, Zheng, Lu, Jing-Zhong, Preiser, Jooris, Widyastuti, Rahayu, Scheu, Stefan, Potapov, Anton M. (2023): Plant roots fuel tropical soil animal communities. Ecology Letters