Körner CV
Keynote Presentations from the 3rd ALTER-Net Summer School, Peyresq 2 - 14 September 2008
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Speaker: Christian Körner ch.koerner -at- unibas.ch Institute of Botany, University of Basel, Schönbeinstrasse 6, 4056 Basel, Switzerland Personal homepage |
Title of the talk: Forest ecosystems in a CO2-rich world (pdf: 10MB)
Biosketch
| 1986-1973 |
M.Sc. (Biol.Diploma) University of Innsbruck,
Austria (masters project: Development and test of a new electronic diffusion
porometer) |
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| 1973-1977 |
Ph.D. University of Innsbruck with W. Larcher as part of IBP (Theses: Water relations of alpine plants) | |||
| 1977-1980 |
coworker of Austrian MAB alpine program and cooperative field work with the Acad. Sci of Georgia, Tbilisi, in the central Caucasus (together with A. Cernusca) | |||
| 1980-1981 |
Postdoctoral fellow, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University (RSBS-ANU) Canberra, with field work on stomatal diffusion, leaf morphology and plant nutrition in the Australian Snowy Mts, New Zealand and New Guinea | |||
| 1982-1989 | Senior lecturer University of Innsbruck (1982 Habilitation for Botany) | |||
| 1982-1988 | Various research projects on alpine and forest ecology in Austria, Sweden, Argentina, Venezuela and USA | |||
| 1986-1989 | Major Austrian research grant to study CO2 and temperature responses of photosynthesis in alpine plants in situ | |||
| 1989 | 6-month research leave, RSBS-ANU, Canberra (stable carbon isotopes) | |||
| since 1989 | Professor of Botany, University of Basel (see research projects) | |||
| 1994-1999 | Cooperative project with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama (Mellon Foundation) | |||
| 1999 | Start of Swiss canopy crane project |
