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"Practically every terrestrial view that man has of his environment, outside his own constructions (…) is almost sure to be primarily of vegetation. It is the most obvious surface feature of the land. On it depends the existence of all animal life. Most human activities deal in some respect with vegetation or its products. In other words, vegetation is an inescapable fact of life. As such, it is one of the most important of all subjects for investigation and study."
Frederic A. Fosberg (Foreword to "Aims and Methods of Vegetation Ecology" by Dieter Mueller-Dombois and Heinz Ellenberg, 1974/2002)
My research is concentrated on the vegetation dynamics of various ecosystems. My research group is actively investigating e.g. the consequences of biological invasions in Hawaii´s rain forests and on Chile´s temperate islands; the causes and consequences of cultural landscape change in Central Europe (from a vegetation ecologist´s point of view); and the naturally disturbance driven dynamics of alpine and subalpine vegetation in the European Alps.
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