Keynote Presentations
from the
AVEC
International
Summer School, Peyresq, 14-27 September 2003
Speaker: Christian Körner
ch.koerner<at>unibas.ch
Botanisches Institut der Universität Basel, Schönbeinstrasse 6, CH-4056 Basel,
Switzerland
Title of the talk: CO2-increase
and biodiversity - a vulnerability problem (pdf)
Biosketch
born 29 March 1949 in Salzburg, Austrian citizen, Swiss
resident
- 1968-1973 M.Sc. (Biol.Diploma) University of Innsbruck,
Austria (masters project: development and test of a new electronic diffusion
porometer)
- 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)
