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Overview

Ingo Grass is affiliated with the University of Hohenheim in Germany. Their research expertise spans across Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular focus on various subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Insect Science, and Plant Science.

Their work addresses multiple main research topics such as Plant and animal studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, as well as Insect and Pesticide Research.

Among recent publications, notable papers include:

  • "Trade-offs between multifunctionality and profit in tropical smallholder landscapes" (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • "Beyond organic farming - harnessing biodiversity-friendly landscapes" (2021), in Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • "Environmental, Economic, and Social Consequences of the Oil Palm Boom" (2020), in Annual Review of Resource Economics
  • "Land-use history determines ecosystem services and conservation value in tropical agroforestry" (2020), published in Conservation Letters
  • "Unmanned aerial vehicles for biodiversity-friendly agricultural landscapes - A systematic review" (2020), in The Science of The Total Environment

The primary publication venues where Ingo Grass has contributed frequently include the Journal of Applied Ecology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, and Ecology Letters.

Frequent collaborators in research are:

  • Teja Tscharntke
  • Holger Kreft
  • Catrin Westphal
  • Dirk Hölscher
  • Annemarie Wurz

Additionally, the scholar has contributed to book publications, including a publication under the European Organization for Nuclear Research titled "Defining Agroecology: A Festschrift for Teja Tscharntke" in 2023.

Best Publications

  • Trade-offs between multifunctionality and profit in tropical smallholder landscapes

    Ingo Grass;Ingo Grass;Christoph Kubitza;Christoph Kubitza;Vijesh V. Krishna;Marife D. Corre

  • Beyond organic farming - harnessing biodiversity-friendly landscapes.

    Teja Tscharntke;Ingo Grass;Thomas C. Wanger;Thomas C. Wanger;Catrin Westphal

  • How urbanization is driving pollinator diversity and pollination – A systematic review

    Arne Wenzel;Ingo Grass;Ingo Grass;Vasuki V. Belavadi;Teja Tscharntke

  • Environmental, Economic, and Social Consequences of the Oil Palm Boom

    Matin Qaim;Kibrom T. Sibhatu;Hermanto Siregar;Ingo Grass;Ingo Grass

  • The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project

    Lawrence N. Hudson;Tim Newbold;Tim Newbold;Sara Contu;Samantha L.L. Hill;Samantha L.L. Hill

  • Land-sharing/-sparing connectivity landscapes for ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation

    Ingo Grass;Jacqueline Loos;Jacqueline Loos;Svenja Baensch;Péter Batáry

  • Autonomous sound recording outperforms human observation for sampling birds: a systematic map and user guide.

    Kevin Darras;Péter Batáry;Brett J. Furnas;Ingo Grass

  • Past and potential future effects of habitat fragmentation on structure and stability of plant-pollinator and host-parasitoid networks.

    Ingo Grass;Birgit Jauker;Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter;Teja Tscharntke

  • Predicting bee community responses to land-use changes : Effects of geographic and taxonomic biases

    Adriana De Palma;Adriana De Palma;Stefan Abrahamczyk;Marcelo A. Aizen;Matthias Albrecht

  • Land-use history determines ecosystem services and conservation value in tropical agroforestry

    Dominic Andreas Martin;Kristina Osen;Ingo Grass;Dirk Hölscher

  • Reducing Fertilizer and Avoiding Herbicides in Oil Palm Plantations—Ecological and Economic Valuations

    Kevin F. A. Darras;Marife D. Corre;Greta Formaglio;Aiyen Tjoa

  • Unmanned aerial vehicles for biodiversity-friendly agricultural landscapes - A systematic review.

    Felipe Librán-Embid;Felix Klaus;Teja Tscharntke;Ingo Grass

  • Tree islands enhance biodiversity and functioning in oil palm landscapes

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  • Biologia Futura : landscape perspectives on farmland biodiversity conservation

    Péter Batáry;András Báldi;Johan Ekroos;Róbert Gallé

  • Larger pollinators deposit more pollen on stigmas across multiple plant species—A meta-analysis

    Rita Földesi;Brad G. Howlett;Ingo Grass;Péter Batáry

  • Much more than bees—Wildflower plantings support highly diverse flower-visitor communities from complex to structurally simple agricultural landscapes

    Ingo Grass;Ingo Grass;Jörg Albrecht;Jörg Albrecht;Frank Jauker;Tim Diekötter;Tim Diekötter

  • Win-win opportunities combining high yields with high multi-taxa biodiversity in tropical agroforestry

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  • Joint environmental and social benefits from diversified agriculture

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  • Floral resource diversification promotes solitary bee reproduction and may offset insecticide effects – evidence from a semi‐field experiment

    Felix Klaus;Teja Tscharntke;Gabriela Bischoff;Ingo Grass

  • Combining land-sparing and land-sharing in European landscapes

    Ingo Grass;Péter Batáry;Teja Tscharntke

  • Economic value of bat predation services – A review and new estimates from macadamia orchards

    Peter John Taylor;Peter John Taylor;Ingo Grass;Andries J. Alberts;Elsje Joubert

  • Transferring biodiversity-ecosystem function research to the management of ‘real-world’ ecosystems

    Peter Manning;Jacqueline Loos;Jacqueline Loos;Andrew D. Barnes;Andrew D. Barnes;Péter Batáry

  • Taxonomic and functional homogenization of farmland birds along an urbanization gradient in a tropical megacity.

    Gabriel Marcacci;Catrin Westphal;Arne Wenzel;Varsha Raj

Frequent Co-Authors

Teja Tscharntke
Teja Tscharntke University of Göttingen
Catrin Westphal
Catrin Westphal University of Göttingen
Peter J. Taylor
Peter J. Taylor University of the Free State
Nina Farwig
Nina Farwig Philipp University of Marburg
Péter Batáry
Péter Batáry Centre for Ecological Research
Tim Diekötter
Tim Diekötter Kiel University
Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter
Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter University of Würzburg
Jason M. Tylianakis
Jason M. Tylianakis University of Canterbury
Andy Purvis
Andy Purvis Natural History Museum
Patrick Lavelle
Patrick Lavelle Sorbonne University

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