Group leader

Prof. Dr. Ingo Grass
Tel + 49 (0)711 / 459-22385 - ingo.grass@uni-hohenheim.de

 

Postdoctoral researchers

Dr. Cassandra Vogel
Biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes
Tel + 49 (0)711 / 459-23628 - cassandra.vogel@uni-hohenheim.de 

Dr. Zheng Zhou
Spatial scaling of biodiversity and ecosystem functions in rainforest transformation landscapes
Tel +49 (0)711 / 459-23602 - zheng.zhou@uni-hohenheim.de

 

PhD candidates 

Sabine Baumgartner
Resilience of semi-arid rangelands towards high grazing and rainfall variability
Tel + 49 (0)711 / 459-23605 - sabine.baumgartner@uni-hohenheim.de

David Becker
Fitness effects of invasive plants on pollinators
Tel +49 (0)711 / 459-23602 - d.becker@uni-hohenheim.de 

Isabell Braunstein
Landscape-scale effects of pesticides on biodiversity and ecosystem services
Tel +49 (0)711 / 459-23602 - isabell.braunstein@uni-hohenheim.de 

Klara Dietrich
Agroecological management of olive orchards
Tel +49 (0)711 / 459-23505 - klara_dietrich@gmx.de  

Marit Kasten
Participatory landscape design for biodiversity and multifunctionality
Tel + 49 (0)711 / 459-23605 - marit.kasten@uni-hohenheim.de

Hannah Melcher
Tel + 49 (0)711 / 459-23605 - hannah.melcher@uni-hohenheim.de 

Sara Tassoni
Multitrophic interactions in a landscape context
Tel +49 (0)711 / 459-23605 - sara.tassoni@uni-hohenheim.de 

Aaron Willmott
Integrating biodiversity and ecosystem services in tropical plantations
Tel +49 (0)711 / 459-23605 - aaron.willmott@uni-hohenheim.de 

 

Technical assistant

Yasha Auer
Tel +49 (0)711 / 459-23604 - yasha.auer@uni-hohenheim.de

 

Secretary

Elke Schmidt
Tel +49 (0)711 / 459-23505 - elke.schmidt@uni-hohenheim.de 

 

Associated researchers

PD Dr. Regina Belz
HerbBi – Herbicide-mediated biphasic responses in plants
regina.belz@uni-hohenheim.de

Dr. Huan Liang
Ecology of species interactions
huan.liang@idiv.de 

Prof. Dr. Anna Treydte
Associate Professor in Nature and Environmental Management, Stockholm University
anna.treydte@natgeo.su.se

 

MSc & BSc students, interns  

Deborah Abban
Assessing the contribution of underutilized indigenous crops to household food security in Africa

Nora Bockstrahler
Linking farmer networks and agroecological practices to bird biodiversity in agroforestry systems in Kerala, India

Lena Keuerleber
Land-use effects on insect biomass and diversity

Niclas Magnussen
Butterfly diversity, community structure and functional traits along an agroecological gradient in tropical smallholder agroforestry systems in Kerala, India

Julia Schuster
Land-use effects on insect biomass and diversity

David Vallon
Agroecological practices and agricultural network activity as drivers of vegetation and structural diversity in smallholder agroforestry farms in Kerala, India