Bredemeier CV
Keynote Presentations from the 3rd ALTER-Net Summer School, Peyresq 2 - 14 September 2008
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Speaker: Michael Bredemeier mbredem -at- gwdg.de Forest Ecosystems Research Centre, Göttingen University, Büsgenweg 2, 37077 Göttingen, Germany |
Title of the talk: Indicators of ecosystem services (pdf: 5MB)
Biosketch
Michael Bredemeier was born 1958 in Dortmund, Germany. He studied forestry at the Universities of Munich and Göttingen from 1978 to 1982 and was an exchange student to OSU School of Forestry in Corvallis, Oregon 1980.
He did his PhD in soil science (1987) and passed the habilitation in soil science and forest nutrition (1999). In his current position he is professor, research scientist and coordinator at the Forest Ecosystems Research Center of Goettingen University. His research interests encompass terrestrial ecosystems ecology, forest ecology, soil science, soil chemistry and hydrology, element cycling and budget studies, ecological time series analysis, long-term dynamics in ecosystems, biodiversity assessment and functional biodiversity.
In ALTER-Net, Michael is coordinating Research Work Package R2, "Biodiversity Assessment and Change" from the start of the Network in 2004, and in 2007 he launched the COST Action "Forest Management and the Water Cycle (FORMAN)", of which he is the Chairman (www.forestandwater.eu). The focus of this international consortium of ecologists and hydrologists is on the key ecosystem service of water provision, as well as on mitigation of water related hazards such as flooding and erosion.
