Volker Grescho
Engineer / Administrative Officer
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)
Halle-Jena-Leipzig
Puschstraße 4
04103 Leipzig
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Research Interests
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- Remote Sensing
- Landscape research
- Citizen Science
- Biodiversity Research
- Ecosystem Services
Scientific Career
since
2021
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Halle, Dept. NSF
06/2019 -
2021
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Halle, Dept. BZF
since 01/2016
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ and German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Dept. ESS
2011 - 2015
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ
2001 - 2006
University of Applied Sciences Neubrandenburg (Germany), Dipl.-Ing. Geoinformatik
Projects
- RESPIN
- FLOW
- MikroSafari (finished)
- Pflanze KlimaKultur! (finished)
- Vielfaltergarten (technical support of website)
- Tagfalter Monitoring Deutschland (TMD)
- InsektenMobil (finished)
- ECOPOTENTIAL (finished)
- sMon (leaving project)
- Lebendiger Atlas - Natur Deutschland (finished)
- LEGATO (finished)
- ALARM (finished)
Publications
Index:
- 2025 (2)
- 2024 (5)
- 2022 (6)
- 2021 (3)
- 2020 (2)
- 2019 (1)
- 2018 (3)
- 2016 (3)
- 2015 (2)
- 2013 (1)
- 2010 (1)
- 2009 (1)
- 2006 (1)
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2025 (2)
- Chowdhury, S., Bowler, D.E., Boutaud, E., Bleich, O., Bruelheide, H., Buse, J., Engel, T., Gebert, J., Grescho, V., Gürlich, S., Harry, I., Jansen, F., Klenke, R.A., van Klink, R., Winter, M., Bonn, A. (2025):
Widespread decline of ground beetles in Germany
Divers. Distrib. 31 (11), e70112 10.1111/ddi.70112 - Settele, J., Aracil, A., Arnberg, H., Åström, S., Bacon, J., Balalaikins, M., Báldi, A., Bane, M., Barda, M., Barea‐Azcón, J.-M., Beckert, J., Berlengée, F., Bevk, D., Biesmeijer, J.C., Bonelli, S., Bosch, J., Botham, M., Bourn, N., Bozua, M., Brosens, D., Burguillos, A., Breeze, T.D., Buchner, D., Cabiddu, L., Pablo, J., Cantú-Salazar, C.S., Carbone, D., Caritg, R., Carvell, C., Castro, S., Collins, S., Dauber, J., De Flores, M., de Groot, M., Dapporto, L., Demeter, I., Dennis, E.B., Dieker, P., Dopagne, C., Dorchin, A., Dvořák, T., Ellis, S., Escobés, R., Eykelboom, J., Fric, Z.F., Fernández‐García, J.M., Flaminio, S., Fontaine, C., Frenzel, M., Gecchele, L., Gelaude, E., Ghisbain, G., Glogovčan, P., Gracianteparaluceta, A., Grescho, V., Haase, P., Harpke, A., Harrower, C., Haubrock, P.J., Heliölä, J., Herrera-Mesías, F., Hlaváček, A., Honchar, H., Houard, X., Høye, T.T., Isaac, N.J.B., Ješovnik, A., Jocqué M., , Johnson, K., Judge, M., Karlis, G., Kablar, D., Kazlauskis, K., Knapp, M., Koderman, B., Kolev, Z., Komac, B., Kovács-Hostyánszki, A., Kühn, E., Kuussaari, M., Lang, A., Le Divelec, R., Leese, F., Loureiro, J., Lutovinovas, E., Lysaght, L., Maebe, K., Maes, D., Mandery, K., McGowan, D., Mestdagh, X., Menger, J.S., Michez, D., Middlebrook, I., Milotic, T., Monasterio, Y., Monteiro, E., López Munguira, M., Musche, M., Neukermans, A., Nogueira Tavares, C., Östrand, F., Oteman, B., Ozden, O., Pavlíčko, A., Pérez-Bañón, C., Perrard, A., Petanidou, T., Pettersson, L.B. et al., Pladevall, C., Pocock, M.J.O., Pollet, M., Potts, S.G., Quaranta, M., Ranalli, R., Rákosy, L., Rasmont, P., Reverté Saiz, S., Reyserhove, L., Roberts, S.P.M., Rodrigo, A., Rojo, S., Rosa, P., Roth, T., Rüdisser, J., Šašić, M., Scalercio, S., Schamp, K., Schmidt, V., Schmucki, R., Schönwälder, M., Schweiger, O., Sevilleja, C.G., Sielezniew, I., Sielezniew, M., Simoens, N., Sinclair, J.S., Slabbert, E., Sobczyk‐Moran, G., Soors, J., Ståhls, G., Stavrianakis, G., Stavrinides, M., Stefanescu, C., Štrobl, M., Šturm, R., Švitra, G., Szabadfalvi, A., Szigeti, V., Teunissen, L., Tiitsaar, A., Tiitsaar, N., Tscheulin, T., Tzirkalli, E., Ubach, A., van Breda, A., Van Deijk, J., Van de Meutter, F., Van den Heuvel, Y., Vanden Houten, J., Vander Mijnsbrugge, K., Van Gompel, W., Vanhaverbeke, K., Van Nieuwstadt, M., van Swaay, C.A.M., Varnava, A., Vereecken, N.J., Verkaik, I., Verovnik, R., Vilks, K., Vizauer, T.-C., Vray, S., Vujić, A., Warren, M.S., Weigand, A., Wever, R., Whitfield, A., Wood, T.J., Wynhoff, I., Zavatta, L., Roy, D.B. (2025):
SPRING - Strengthening Pollinator Recovery through Indicators and monitoring
European Commission, Brussels, 116 pp. 10.2779/7978371
2024 (5)
- Felipe-Lucia, M.R., De Frutos, A., Crouzat, E., Grescho, V., Heuschele, J.M., Marselle, M., Heurich, M., Pöpperl, F., Porst, F., Portela, A.P., Rossi, C., Carvalho-Santos, C., Stritih, A., Vaz, A.S., Bonn, A. (2024):
Differences in the experience of cultural ecosystem services in mountain protected areas by clusters of visitors
Ecosyst. Serv. 70 , art. 101663 10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101663 - Harpke, A., Brünecke, J., Bohring, H., Grescho, V., Haase, K., Kühn, E., Kuhnert, T., Musche, M., Petruschke, S., Schnicke, T., Sielaff, D., Strätling, J., Bumberger, J. (2024):
BioMe - The butterfly monitoring Germany usecase
Version: 0.1 Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.11190783 - von Gönner, J., Gröning, J., Grescho, V., Neuer, L., Gottfried, B., Hänsch, V.G., Molsberger-Lange, E., Wilharm, E., Liess, M., Bonn, A. (2024):
Citizen science shows that small agricultural streams in Germany are in a poor ecological status
Sci. Total Environ. 922 , art. 171183 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.171183 - von Gönner, J., Gröning, J., Grescho, V., Neuer, L., Hänsch, V.G., Gottfried, B., Molsberger-Lange, E., Wilharm, E., Liess, M., Bonn, A. (2024):
Stream monitoring data from the citizen science project FLOW, 2021-2023 [dataset]
PANGAEA 10.1594/PANGAEA.971638 - von Gönner, J., Gröning, J., Grescho, V., Neuer, L., Hänsch, V.G., Gottfried, B., Molsberger-Lange, E., Wilharm, E., Liess, M., Bonn, A. (2024):
Macroinvertebrate taxonomic data from the citizen science project FLOW, 2021-2023 [dataset]
PANGAEA 10.1594/PANGAEA.971944
2022 (6)
- Bruelheide, H., Jansen, F., Jandt, U., Klenke, R., Sperle, T., Grescho, V., Bonn, A., Winter, M. (2022):
Mindestanforderungen an ein Monitoring von Gefäßpflanzenarten auf den bundesweit repräsentativen Stichprobenflächen. Minimum requirements for vascular plant species monitoring on Germany's nationally representative sample plots
NuL 97 (6), 289 - 299 10.19217/NuL2022-06-03 - Crouzat, E., De Frutos, A., Grescho, V., Carver, S., Büermann, A., Carvalho-Santos, C., Kraemer, R., Mayor, S., Pöpperl, F., Rossi, C., Schröter, M., Stritih, A., Vaz, A.S., Watzema, J., Bonn, A. (2022):
Potential supply and actual use of cultural ecosystem services in mountain protected areas and their surroundings
Ecosyst. Serv. 53 , art. 101395 10.1016/j.ecoser.2021.101395 - Jandt, U., Bruelheide, B., Jansen, F., Bonn, A., Grescho, V., Klenke, R.A., Sabatini, F.M., Bernhardt-Römermann, M., Blüml, V., Dengler, J., Diekmann, M., Doerfler, I., Döring, U., Dullinger, S., Haider, S., Heinken, T., Horchler, P., Kuhn, G., Lindner, M., Metze, K., Müller, N., Naaf, T., Peppler-Lisbach, C., Poschlod, P., Roscher, C., Rosenthal, G., Rumpf, S.B., Schmidt, W., Schrautzer, J., Schwabe, A., Schwartze, P., Sperle, T., Stanik, N., Storm, C., Voigt, W., Wegener, U., Wesche, K., Wittig, B., Wulf, M. (2022):
More losses than gains during one century of plant biodiversity change in Germany
Nature 611 (7936), 512 - 518 10.1038/s41586-022-05320-w - Svenningsen, C.S., Bowler, D.E., Hecker, S., Bladt, J., Grescho, V., van Dam, N.M., Dauber, J., Eichenberg, D., Ejrnæs, R., Fløjgaard, C., Frenzel, M., Frøslev, T.G., Hansen, A.J., Heilmann-Clausen, J., Huang, Y., Larsen, J.C., Menger, J., Binti Mat Nayan, N.L., Pedersen, L.B., Richter, A., Dunn, R.R., Tøttrup, A.P., Bonn, A. (2022):
Flying insect biomass is negatively associated with urban cover in surrounding landscapes
Version: 1 Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.6416236 - Svenningsen, C.S., Bowler, D.E., Hecker, S., Bladt, J., Grescho, V., van Dam, N.M., Dauber, J., Eichenberg, D., Ejrnæs, R., Fløjgaard, C., Frenzel, M., Frøslev, T.G., Hansen, A.J., Heilmann-Clausen, J., Huang, Y., Larsen, J.C., Menger, J., Binti Mat Nayan, N.L., Pedersen, L.B., Richter, A., Dunn, R.R., Tøttrup, A.P., Bonn, A. (2022):
Flying insect biomass is negatively associated with urban cover in surrounding landscapes [Dataset]
Dryad 10.5061/dryad.547d7wm9f - Svenningsen, C.S., Bowler, D.E., Hecker, S., Bladt, J., Grescho, V., van Dam, N.M., Dauber, J., Eichenberg, D., Ejrnæs, R., Fløjgaard, C., Frenzel, M., Frøslev, T.G., Hansen, A.J., Heilmann-Clausen, J., Huang, Y., Larsen, J.C., Menger, J., Binti Mat Nayan, N.L., Pedersen, L.B., Richter, A., Dunn, R.R., Tøttrup, A.P., Bonn, A. (2022):
Flying insect biomass is negatively associated with urban cover in surrounding landscapes
Divers. Distrib. 28 (6), 1242 - 1254 10.1111/ddi.13532
2021 (3)
- Bruelheide, H., Jansen, F., Jandt, U., Bernhardt-Römermann, M., Bonn, A., Bowler, D., Dengler, J., Eichenberg, D., Grescho, V., Kellner, S., Klenke, R.A., Lütt, S., Lüttgert, L., Sabatini, F.M., Wesche, K. (2021):
A checklist for using Beals’ index with incomplete floristic monitoring data. Reply to Christensen et al. (2021): Problems in using Beals’ index to detect species trends in incomplete floristic monitoring data
Divers. Distrib. 27 (7), 1328 - 1333 10.1111/ddi.13277 - Eichenberg, D., Bowler, D.E., Bonn, A., Bruelheide, H., Grescho, V., Harter, D., Jandt, U., May, R., Winter, M., Jansen, F. (2021):
Widespread decline in Central European plant diversity across six decades
Glob. Change Biol. 27 (5), 1097 - 1110 10.1111/gcb.15447 - Fried, O., Westphal, C., Schellenberg, J., Grescho, V., Kühn, I., Van Sinh, N., Settele, J., Bergmeier, E. (2021):
Vascular plant species diversity in Southeast Asian rice ecosystems is determined by climate and soil conditions as well as the proximity of non-paddy habitats
Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 314 , art. 107346 10.1016/j.agee.2021.107346
2020 (2)
- Bruelheide, H., Jansen, F., Jandt, U., Bernhardt-Römermann, M., Bonn, A., Bowler, D., Dengler, J., Eichenberg, D., Grescho, V., Harter, D., Jugelt, M., Kellner, S., Ludwig, M., Wesche, K., Lütt, S. (2020):
Using incomplete floristic monitoring data from habitat mapping programmes to detect species trends
Divers. Distrib. 26 (7), 782 - 794 10.1111/ddi.13058 - Eichenberg, D., Bernhardt-Römermann, M., Bowler, D., Bruelheide, H., Conze, K.-J., Dauber, J., Dengler, J., Engels, D., Fartmann, T., Frank, D., Geske, C., Grescho, V., Harter, D., Henle, K., Hofmann, S., Jandt, U., Jansen, F., Kamp, J., Kautzner, A., König-Ries, B., Krämer, R., Krüß, A., Kühl, H., Ludwig, M., Lueg, H., May, R., Musche, M., Opitz, A., Ronnenberg, K., Schacherer, A., Schäffler, L., Schiffers, K., Schulte, U., Schwarz, J., Sperle, T., Stab, S., Stöck, M., Theves, F., Trockur, B., Wesche, K., Wessel, M., Winter, M., Wirth, C., Bonn, A. (2020):
Langfristige Biodiversitätsveränderungen in Deutschland erkennen - mit Hilfe der Vergangenheit in die Zukunft schauen. Recognising long-term changes in biodiversity in Germany - Exploring the future with the help of the past
NuL 95 (11), 479 - 491 10.17433/11.2020.50153851.479-491
2019 (1)
- Settele, J., Spangenberg, J.H., Heong, K.L., Kühn, I., Klotz, S., Arida, G., Burkhard, B., Bustamante, J.V., Cabbigat, J., Canh, L.X., Catindig, J.L.A., Chien, H.V., Cuong, L.Q., Escalada, M., Görg, C., Grescho, V., Grossmann, S., Hadi, B.A.R., Harpke, A., Hass, A.L., Hirneisen, N., Horgan, F.G., Hotes, S., Jahn, R., Klotzbücher, A., Klotzbücher, T., Langerwisch, F., Magcale-Macandog, D.B., Manh, N.H., Marion, G., Marquez, L., Ott, J., Penev, L., Rodriguez-Labajos, B., Sann, C., Sattler, C., Schädler, M., Scheu, S., Schmidt, A., Schrader, J., Schweiger, O., Seppelt, R., Sinh, N.V., Stoev, P., Stoll-Kleemann, S., Tekken, V., Thonicke, K., Trisyono, Y.A., Truong, D.T., Tuan, L.Q., Türke, M., Václavík, T., Vetterlein, D., Villareal, S., Westphal, C., Wiemers, M. (2019):
Rice ecosystem services in South-East Asia: the LEGATO project, its approaches and main results with a focus on biocontrol services
In: Schröter, M., Bonn, A., Klotz, S., Seppelt, R., Baessler, C. (eds.)
Atlas of ecosystem services: Drivers, risks, and societal responses
Springer International Publishing, Cham, p. 373 - 382 10.1007/978-3-319-96229-0_57
2018 (3)
- Settele, J., Heong, K.L., Kühn, I., Klotz, S., Spangenberg, J.H., Arida, G., Beaurepaire, A., Beck, S., Bergmeier, E., Burkhard, B., Brandl, R., Bustamante, J.V., Butler, A., Cabbigat, J., Le, X.C., Catindig, J.L.A., Ho, V.C., Le, Q.C., Dang, K.B., Escalada, M., Dominik, C., Franzén, M., Fried, O., Görg, C., Grescho, V., Grossmann, S., Gurr, G.M., Hadi, B.A.R., Le, H.H., Harpke, A., Hass, A.L., Hirneisen, N., Horgan, F.G., Hotes, S., Isoda, Y., Jahn, R., Kettle, H., Klotzbücher, A., Klotzbücher, T., Langerwisch, F., Loke, W.-H., Lin, Y.-P., Lu, Z., Lum, K.-Y., Magcale-Macandog, D.B., Marion, G., Marquez, L., Müller, F., Nguyen, H.M., Nguyen, Q.A., Nguyen, V.S., Ott, J., Penev, L., Pham, H.T., Radermacher, N., Rodriguez-Labajos, B., Sann, C., Sattler, C., Schädler, M., Scheu, S., Schmidt, A., Schrader, J., Schweiger, O., Seppelt, R., Soitong, K., Stoev, P., Stoll-Kleemann, S., Tekken, V., Thonicke, K., Tilliger, B., Tobias, K., Trisyono, Y.A., Dao, T.T., Tscharntke, T., Le, Q.T., Türke, M., Václavík, T., Vetterlein, D., Villareal, S., Vu, K.C., Vu, Q., Weisser, W.W., Westphal, C., Zhu, Z., Wiemers, M. (2018):
Rice ecosystem services in South-east Asia. Editorial
Paddy Water Environ. 16 (2), 211 - 224 10.1007/s10333-018-0656-9 - Spangenberg, J.H., Beaurepaire, A.L., Bergmeier, E., Burkhard, B., Chien, H.V., Cuong, L.Q., Görg, C., Grescho, V., Hai, L.H., Heong, K.L., Horgan, F.G., Hotes, S., Klotzbücher, A., Klotzbücher, T., Kühn, I., Langerwisch, F., Marion, G., Moritz, R.F.A., Nguyen, Q.A., Ott, J., Sann, C., Sattler, C., Schädler, M., Schmidt, A., Tekken, V., Thanh, T.D., Thonicke, K., Türke, M., Václavík, T., Vetterlein, D., Westphal, C., Wiemers, M., Settele, J. (2018):
The LEGATO cross-disciplinary integrated ecosystem service research framework: an example of integrating research results from the analysis of global change impacts and the social, cultural and economic system dynamics of irrigated rice production
Paddy Water Environ. 16 (2), 287 - 319 10.1007/s10333-017-0628-5 - Vaz, A.S., Crouzat, E., Santarém, F., Grescho, V., Carvalho-Santos, C. (2018):
From pork to fork: The social experience of bundles of interacting ecosystem services through gastronomy
Ecosyst. Serv. 32 , 170 - 172 10.1016/j.ecoser.2018.07.011
2016 (3)
- Bonn, A., Settele, J., Löw, M., von Ruschkowski, E., Andersen, A., Grescho, V., Hecker, S., Inden-Heinrich, H., Krämer, R., Lischka, A., Richter, A., Wedekind, S., Wiebe, A., Wessel, M. (2016):
Lebendiger Atlas - Natur Deutschland: Machbarkeitsstudie. Endbericht zum DBU-Projekt (Aktenzeichen 32587)
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung (UFZ) ; Deutsches Zentrum für integrative Biodiversitätsforschung (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, 104 S. 10.13140/RG.2.2.15048.11529 - Bonn, A., Settele, J., Löw, M., von Ruschkowski, E., Wahl, J., Wiebe, A., Andersen, A., Grescho, V., Hecker, S., Krämer, R., Lischka, A., Richter, A., Neumeier, V., Schwarz, J., Sudfeldt, C., Wedekind, S., Wessel, M. (2016):
Lebendiger Atlas – Natur Deutschland: Dokumentation des Auftaktworkshops am 21./22.01.2016 in Berlin
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung (UFZ) ; Deutsches Zentrum für integrative Biodiversitätsforschung (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, 38 S. - Wahl, J., Wiebe, A., Grescho, V., Krämer, R., Schwarz, J., Wedekind, S., Bonn, A. (2016):
Lebendiger Atlas – Natur Deutschland: Workshop Dateninfrastruktur, Datenmanagement und Datenrecht am 10./11. März 2016 im Göttingen
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung (UFZ) ; Deutsches Zentrum für integrative Biodiversitätsforschung (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, 44 S.
2015 (2)
- Burkhard, B., Müller, A., Müller, F., Grescho, V., Anh, Q., Arida, G., Bustamante, J.V., Chien, H.V., Heong, K.L., Escalada, M., Marquez, L., Truong, D.T., Villareal, S., Settele, J. (2015):
Land cover-based ecosystem service assessment of irrigated rice cropping systems in southeast Asia—An explorative study
Ecosyst. Serv. 14 , 76 - 87 10.1016/j.ecoser.2015.05.005 - Settele, J., Spangenberg, J.H., Heong, K.L., Burkhard, B., Bustamante, J.V., Cabbigat, J., Chien, H.V., Escalada, M., Grescho, V., Hai, L.H., Harpke, A., Horgan, F.G., Hotes, S., Jahn, R., Kühn, I., Marquez, L., Schädler, M., Tekken, V., Vetterlein, D., Villareal, S., Westphal, C., Wiemers, M. (2015):
Agricultural landscapes and ecosystem services in South-East Asia—the LEGATO-Project
Basic Appl. Ecol. 16 (8), 661 - 664 10.1016/j.baae.2015.10.003
2013 (1)
- Settele, J., Kühn, I., Klotz, S., Arida, G., Bergmeier, E., Burkhard, B., Bustamante, J., Dao, T.T., Escalada, M., Görg, C., Grescho, V., Ho, V.C., Heong, K.L., Hirneisen, N., Hotes, S., Jahn, R., Klotzbücher, T., Marion, G., Marquez, L., Marxen, A., Moritz, R., Müller, F., Nguyen, V.S., Ott, J., Penev, L., Rodriguez-Labajos, B., Schädler, M., Scheu, S., Seppelt, R., Stoev, P., Tscharntke, T., Tekken, V., Thonicke, K., Vetterlein, D., Vidal, S., Villareal, S., Weisser, W.W., Westphal, C., Wiemers, M., Spangenberg, J.H. (2013):
Kulturlandschaftsforschung in Südostasien - das LEGATO-Projekt
Berichte. Geographie und Landeskunde 87 (3), 315 - 323
2010 (1)
- Marion, G., Grabaum, R., Grescho, V., Butler, A., Bierman, S., Douguet, J.-M., Hammen, V., Hickler, T., Hulme, P.E., Maxim, L., Omann, I., Peterson, K., Potts, S.G., Reginster, I., Settele, J., Spangenberg, J.H., Kühn, I. (2010):
Biodiversity risk assessment for Europe - putting it all together
In: Settele, J., Penev, L., Georgiev, T., Grabaum, R., Grobelnik, V., Hammen, V., Klotz, S., Kotarac, M., Kühn, I. (eds.)
Atlas of biodiversity risk
Pensoft, Sofia, p. 252 - 253
2009 (1)
- Banzhaf, E., Grescho, V., Kindler, A. (2009):
Monitoring urban to peri-urban development with integrated remote sensing and GIS information: a Leipzig, Germany case study
Int. J. Remote Sens. 30 (7), 1675 - 1696 10.1080/01431160802642297
2006 (1)
- Banzhaf, E., Grescho, V. (2006):
Analysing a reverse development of open spaces and densification in the (sub)urban gradient - a gis tool with sensing and vector data
1st EARSeL Workshop of the SIG Urban Remote Sensing Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2-3 March 2006
Conference distributions (presentation/poster)
- Grescho, V., Krämer, R., Bonn, A., (2017):
OpenSource, OpenData and Citizen Science in biodiversity research -
How science and administration benefit from from Open Access and civil participation,
FOSSGIS 2017, Passau, Germany, 23.03.2017
https://doi.org/10.5446/30531