Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter

65.7k total citations · 16 hit papers
303 papers, 35.9k citations indexed

About

Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter has authored 303 papers receiving a total of 35.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 250 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 146 papers in Insect Science and 120 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter's work include Plant and animal studies (241 papers), Insect and Pesticide Research (119 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (107 papers). Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (241 papers), Insect and Pesticide Research (119 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (107 papers). Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter's co-authors include Teja Tscharntke, Alexandra‐Maria Klein, Carsten Thies, Andreas Kruess, Claire Kremen, Saul A. Cunningham, Bernard Vaissière, Jochen Krauß, James H. Cane and Andrea Holzschuh and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter

297 papers receiving 34.5k citations

Hit Papers

Importance of pollinators in changing landscapes for worl... 1999 2026 2008 2017 2006 2005 2007 2009 2008 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Importance of pollinators in changing landscapes for world crops
    2006 4.9k citations Alexandra‐Maria Klein, Bernard Vaissière et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →
  2. Landscape perspectives on agricultural intensification and biodiversity – ecosystem service management
    2005 3.2k citations Teja Tscharntke, Alexandra‐Maria Klein et al. profile →
  3. Pollination and other ecosystem services produced by mobile organisms: a conceptual framework for the effects of land‐use change
    2007 1.1k citations Claire Kremen, Simon G. Potts et al. profile →
  4. Extinction debt: a challenge for biodiversity conservation
    2009 1.0k citations Riccardo Bommarco, Jochen Krauß et al. profile →
  5. Landscape effects on crop pollination services: are there general patterns?
    2008 955 citations Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter, Saul A. Cunningham et al. profile →
  6. SCALE-DEPENDENT EFFECTS OF LANDSCAPE CONTEXT ON THREE POLLINATOR GUILDS
    2002 937 citations Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter, Teja Tscharntke et al. profile →
  7. Mixed biodiversity benefits of agri‐environment schemes in five European countries
    2006 780 citations David Kleijn, Yann Clough et al. profile →
  8. Habitat fragmentation causes immediate and time‐delayed biodiversity loss at different trophic levels
    2010 622 citations Jochen Krauß, Riccardo Bommarco et al. profile →
  9. MEASURING BEE DIVERSITY IN DIFFERENT EUROPEAN HABITATS AND BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS
    2008 614 citations Riccardo Bommarco, Simon G. Potts et al. profile →
  10. Fruit set of highland coffee increases with the diversity of pollinating bees
    2003 613 citations Alexandra‐Maria Klein, Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →
  11. Functional group diversity of bee pollinators increases crop yield
    2008 535 citations Teja Tscharntke, Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →
  12. Mass flowering crops enhance pollinator densities at a landscape scale
    2003 531 citations Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter, Teja Tscharntke et al. profile →
  13. Effects of habitat isolation on pollinator communities and seed set
    1999 522 citations Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter, Teja Tscharntke profile →
  14. Functional identity and diversity of animals predict ecosystem functioning better than species-based indices
    2015 513 citations Vesna Gagić, Ígnasi Bartomeus et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →
  15. Landscape simplification filters species traits and drives biotic homogenization
    2015 422 citations Alexandra‐Maria Klein, Jochen Krauß et al. Nature Communications profile →
  16. Combined effects of global change pressures on animal-mediated pollination
    2013 314 citations Riccardo Bommarco, Simon G. Potts et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter Germany 88 26.1k 16.7k 12.9k 12.8k 8.4k 303 35.9k
Simon G. Potts United Kingdom 73 23.0k 0.9× 15.6k 0.9× 10.8k 0.8× 7.9k 0.6× 8.7k 1.0× 240 29.2k
Teja Tscharntke Germany 112 31.7k 1.2× 20.2k 1.2× 17.6k 1.4× 18.1k 1.4× 8.1k 1.0× 410 51.4k
Alexandra‐Maria Klein Germany 59 16.7k 0.6× 11.3k 0.7× 8.2k 0.6× 6.3k 0.5× 5.5k 0.7× 211 22.8k
William E. Kunin United Kingdom 54 12.7k 0.5× 6.9k 0.4× 6.2k 0.5× 7.5k 0.6× 4.4k 0.5× 147 19.0k
Josef Settele Germany 62 12.1k 0.5× 7.4k 0.4× 4.9k 0.4× 6.1k 0.5× 5.1k 0.6× 229 19.7k
Petr Pyšek Czechia 105 19.8k 0.8× 8.7k 0.5× 19.3k 1.5× 26.5k 2.1× 3.2k 0.4× 488 49.8k
Dave Goulson United Kingdom 85 22.8k 0.9× 21.4k 1.3× 8.6k 0.7× 3.9k 0.3× 13.1k 1.6× 329 31.7k
Riccardo Bommarco Sweden 60 9.9k 0.4× 7.4k 0.4× 5.6k 0.4× 5.1k 0.4× 3.0k 0.4× 168 16.1k
Wolfgang W. Weisser Germany 72 8.3k 0.3× 6.2k 0.4× 5.5k 0.4× 7.5k 0.6× 2.0k 0.2× 400 18.9k
Marcelo A. Aizen Argentina 57 14.1k 0.5× 6.8k 0.4× 7.6k 0.6× 6.4k 0.5× 4.2k 0.5× 192 16.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ocampo‐Ariza, Carolina, Johannes Wessely, Stefan Dullinger, et al.. (2025). Landscape context influences local management effects on birds and bats in Amazonian cacao agroforestry systems. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 385. 109545–109545. 1 indexed citations
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Yon, Felipe, et al.. (2025). Cold waves in the Amazon rainforest and their ecological impact. Biology Letters. 21(1). 20240591–20240591. 1 indexed citations
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Ocampo‐Ariza, Carolina, et al.. (2025). Cacao grafting increases crop yield without compromising biodiversity. Journal of Applied Ecology. 62(3). 579–592. 2 indexed citations
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Kohl, Patrick L., et al.. (2025). Swarming rate and timing of unmanaged honeybee colonies (Apis mellifera carnica) in a forest environment. Insectes Sociaux. 72(4). 505–512. 1 indexed citations
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Krauß, Jochen, et al.. (2024). Micro‐ and macroclimate interactively shape diversity, niches and traits of Orthoptera communities along elevational gradients. Diversity and Distributions. 30(5). 10 indexed citations
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Scheiner, Ricarda, et al.. (2023). Reproduction of Varroa destructor depends on well-timed host cell recapping and seasonal patterns. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 22484–22484. 2 indexed citations
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Pirk, Christian W. W., Abdullahi A. Yusuf, Alice Claßen, et al.. (2023). Seasonal and elevational changes of plant‐pollinator interaction networks in East African mountains. Ecology and Evolution. 13(5). e10060–e10060. 9 indexed citations
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Scheper, Jeroen, Riccardo Bommarco, G.A. de Groot, et al.. (2023). Inconsistent responses of carabid beetles and spiders to land-use intensity and landscape complexity in north-western Europe. Biological Conservation. 283. 110128–110128. 8 indexed citations
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Rummler, Thomas, et al.. (2023). Evaluation of MODIS, Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 Data for Accurate Crop Yield Predictions: A Case Study Using STARFM NDVI in Bavaria, Germany. Remote Sensing. 15(7). 1830–1830. 15 indexed citations
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Kohl, Patrick L., et al.. (2023). Reduced parasite burden in feral honeybee colonies. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(3). 5 indexed citations
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Poveda, Katja, Aaron L. Iverson, Fabian A. Boetzl, et al.. (2023). The effects of crop type, landscape composition and agroecological practices on biodiversity and ecosystem services in tropical smallholder farms. Journal of Applied Ecology. 60(5). 859–874. 17 indexed citations
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Steffan‐Dewenter, Ingolf, Oliver Castor Nyakunga, Emanuel H. Martin, et al.. (2023). A dataset of occurrence of wild bees and their interaction with foraging plants along a livestock grazing gradient of northern Tanzania. Data in Brief. 48. 109181–109181. 4 indexed citations
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Kohl, Patrick L., et al.. (2022). Population demography of feral honeybee colonies in central European forests. Royal Society Open Science. 9(8). 220565–220565. 17 indexed citations
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Mayr, Antonia V., Fabrice Réquier, Marcell K. Peters, & Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter. (2021). Seasonal variation in the ecology of tropical cavity-nesting Hymenoptera on Mt. Kilimanjaro. Frontiers of Biogeography. 13(3). 2 indexed citations
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Krauß, Jochen, et al.. (2019). Understanding extinction debts: spatio–temporal scales, mechanisms and a roadmap for future research. Ecography. 42(12). 1973–1990. 95 indexed citations
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Albrecht, Jörg, Alice Claßen, Maximilian G. R. Vollstädt, et al.. (2018). Plant and animal functional diversity drive mutualistic network assembly across an elevational gradient. Nature Communications. 9(1). 3177–3177. 71 indexed citations
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Carrié, Romain, Émilie Andrieu, Annie Ouin, & Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter. (2017). Interactive effects of landscape-wide intensity of farming practices and landscape complexity on wild bee diversity. Landscape Ecology. 32(8). 1631–1642. 16 indexed citations
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Gagić, Vesna, Ígnasi Bartomeus, Tomas Jönsson, et al.. (2015). Functional identity and diversity of animals predict ecosystem functioning better than species-based indices. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 282(1801). 20142620–20142620. 513 indexed citations breakdown →
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Clough, Yann, Andrea Holzschuh, Doreen Gabriel, et al.. (2007). Alpha and beta diversity of arthropods and plants in organically and conventionally managed wheat fields. Journal of Applied Ecology. 44(4). 804–812. 148 indexed citations
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Klein, Alexandra‐Maria, Bernard Vaissière, James H. Cane, et al.. (2006). Importance of pollinators in changing landscapes for world crops. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 274(1608). 303–313. 4856 indexed citations breakdown →

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