Grabherr CV
Keynote Presentations from the 3rd ALTER-Net Summer School, Peyresq 2 - 14 September 2008
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Speaker: Georg Grabherr georg.grabherr -at- univie.ac.atk Department of Conservation Biology, Vegetation and Landscape Ecology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria Personal homepage |
Title of the talk: Biodiversity in mountain regions (pdf: 21MB)
Biosketch
- 30 April 1946 Born in Bregenz; Austria
- 1952 – 1966 Elementary and high school (Bregenz, Feldkirch; Austria)
- 1967 – 1975 Studies at the University of Innsbruck, (Biology and Earth Sciences) Degrees: Magister rerum naturalium, Doctor philosophiae, Doctoral thesis. “Contributions to the ecophysiology of the alpine dwarf shrub Loiseleuria procumbens” (in German) (as contribution to the IBP-project “Dwarf shrub heath, Mt. Patscherkofel”; chaired by Prof. W. Larcher)
- 1975 – 1986 Assistant Professor at the Institute of Botany (Geobotany), University of Innsbruck; Research: Production biology of alpine grasslands as contribution to the Austrian MAB-project “Obergurgl”; Classification and ordination of alpine plant communities; Impact of tourism on alpine grassland ecosystems; Revegetation at high altitudes; Further activities: Inventories of rare and endangered habitats for conservation; Contributions to the flora mapping of Austria; Consultant for the Tyrolean government on high alpine ecology
- 1979 Research fellow at the University of Wales (Bangor; Prof. P. Greig-Smith, Prof. J. Harper); Application of numerical methods on ecological data from alpine plant communities; introduction to plant population biology
- 1983 Tenure at the University of Innsbruck; Habilitationsschrift: “Production biology of, and touristic impacts on high alpine grasslands”
- 1986 Appointments to chairs of Ecological Botany to the University of Vienna (Austria), and the University of Hannover (Germany)
- Since 1986 Full Professor of Conservation Biology, Vegetation- and Landscape Ecology at the University of Vienna and head of the department
