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Dr. rer. nat. Matthias Drösler


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Dr. rer. nat. Matthias Drösler
Leader of the Global Change Ecology - research group at the chair of Vegetation Ecology
Poster_AG Global change ecology

Vegetation Ecology
Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management
Technische Universitaet Muenchen
Am Hochanger 6
85350 Freising
Germany
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Curriculum vitae

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Teaching activities

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Curriculum vitae

since 8/2005: Senior scientist at the Chair of Vegetation Ecology, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany. Leader of the "Global Change Ecology"- research group
2002-2005: Post-Doc at the Chair of Plant Ecology, University of Bayreuth, Germany. Projects: CARBOMONT, GLOWA-Danube und CARBOEUROPE-IP.
10/2001: Research stay at the Universidade Federal de Rio Grande do Sul, Departamento de Ecologia, Porto Alegre, Brasil.
2001: Secretary and Scientific Manager of the 44th IAVS-conference, Freising, Germany: Vegetation and Ecosystem Functions.
1998-2001: Researcher at the Chair of Vegetation Ecology, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany. PhD-project: "Trace gas exchange and climatic relevance of bog ecosystems, Southern Germany".
1997: Researcher at the GAF (Gesellschaft für angewandte Fernerkundung), Munich, Germany. Project: Remote sensing for the control of EU-subsidies for German farmers.
1995 - 2000: Leader of the Research- and Planning-Project "Ecological planning for the conservation of natural resources in the Municipio Guama, Sierra Maestra, Cuba".
1994 - 1995: Employee at the environmental planning agency "Haase & Söhmisch" in Freising, Germany.
1993: Dipl.-Ing. Landespflege (Landscape Ecology) at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany: Thesis "Planning of protected areas in Costa Rica" contribution from the Cordillera de Talamanca".

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Research interests

Landscape and Vegetation Ecology:

  • ecosystem functions and services: theory, scales, assessment and implementation in landscape planning

  • greenhouse gas exchange of ecosystems: measurement and modelling

  • restoration ecology with special emphasis to biological sinks

  • climate change and biodiversity: modelling of effects, synergies and conflicts

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Research-projects

  • Climate reporting "histosols" – assessment and development of methods, activity-data and emission-factors for the climate reporting under LULUCF/AFOLU
    (funded by vTI BMELV); 2009-2012; MD: PI and project coordinator)

  • Climatic relevance of peatland restoration in Bavaria
    (funded by LfU); 2009-2011; MD: PI and project coordinator)

  • FORKAST, TP4: Climate change impacts on ecological services of fen-grasslands
    (funded by BStBWK); 2009-2011; MD: PI)

  • Climate change mitigation via climate friendly peatland management
    (funded by BMBF; 2006-2010; MD: PI and project coordinator) project homepage

  • GREENFLUX: Micrometeorological techniques for in situ measurements of greenhouse gases exchange
    (funded by EU; MTKD-CT-2006-042445; 2006-2010; MD: PI) http://www.greenflux.pl/

  • COST Action 639: Greenhouse gas budget of soils under changing climate and land use (BurnOut)
    (funded by EU; 2006-2010; MD: German expert) http://bfw.ac.at/rz/bfwcms.web?dok=5906

  • Monitoring of water-quality and nature conservation values at the CAMPEON-lakes
    (funded by Infineon; 2006-2010; MD: PI and project coordinator)

  • Monitoring of restoration success of ombrotrophic bogs
    (funded by Heidehofstiftung; 2000-2010; MD: PI)

  • GHG-exchange of degraded and restored fens in Benediktbeuern (2006), Southern Germany
    in cooperation with MPI-BGC, Jena (domestic funds and co-funding by MPI and Heidehofstiftung; 2006-2008; MD: PI)

  • GHG-exchange of fens in the Donauried (2005), Southern Germany
    in cooperation with MPI-BGC, Jena and University of Hohenheim (domestic funds and co-funding by MPI and Heidehofstiftung; 2005-2008; MD: PI)

  • CARBOMONT: Effects of land-use changes on sources, sinks and fluxes of carbon in European mountain areas
    (funded by EU; 2002-2005; MD: field research team leader for the University of Bayreuth at the German site "National-Park Berchtesgaden")http://www.uibk.ac.at/carbomont/

  • Conservation and management of Vegetation in the Region of Porto Alegre, Brasil
    (Funded by DAAD; 2001-2002; MD: cooperation partner and thesis supervisor)

  • Ecological planning for conservation of natural resources in the Municipio Guama, Sierra Maestra Cuba
    (Funded by the Heidehofstiftung, Stuttgart; 1995-2000; MD: PI)

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Teaching activities

within the bachelor and master-courses of "landscape planning and nature conservation", "environmental engineering", "biology", "ecology"
  • lectures:
    • global change and ecosystems
  • selected supervision of student-projects: in the fields of landscape planning, ecosystem services and environmental policy (supervised students projects 2005-2008)
  • supervision of bachelor and master theses (supervised theses 2001-2008)
  • excursions: vegetation and ecosystems of Central-Europe and Latin-America

Selected supervised student-projects in the fields of landscape planning, ecosystem services and environmental policy:

2005-2006 Environmental planning I (2nd year): Implementation of the alpine convention in the county of Garmisch-Partenkirchen
2005-2006 Vegetation-management (4th year): Function and management of forests for climate mitigation
2006-2007 Orienting project (1st year): Regional landscape concept for the counties north of Munich
2006-2007 Vegetation-management (4th year): Restoration of peatlands for species conservation and climate mitigation
2006-2007 Environmental planning II/III (3rd and 4th year): Adaptation to climate change: potential of Bavarian Planning Systems
2007 Environmental planning II/III (3rd and 4th year): Climate mitigation potential within a fruit-production project in Jequitinhonha, Brasil
2007 Terrestrial ecology (3rd and 4th year): Water-table effects on CO2-exchange in sedge dominated calcareous fen-sites
2007-2008 Environmental planning II/III (3rd and 4th year): Management of peatland-forests for the implementation of Art. 3.4 of the Kyoto-Protocol
Renewable resources and peatlands
Synergies between peatland conservation goals and the CBD, the Ramsar convention and the potential of adaptation of the REDD mechanism
2008 Terrestrial ecology (3rd and 4th year): Biomass and LAI-curves of GHG-measurement-plots in the calcareous fen "Freisinger Moos"
2008 Study-projects in the frame of the "environmental planning and ecological engineering" course: CO2-exchange in peatland ecosystems


Supervised bachelor and master theses:

2001 Reconstruction of historical landuse in the area of the "Morro Santana" Porto Alegre, Brasil (Annette Guse)
2002 Environmental planning as tool for sustainable development of small islands - case study from Utila Island, Honduras (Stephanie Clauss)
2003 CO2-exchange of grassland-ecosystems, Nationalpark Berchtesgaden (Ursula Feigl-Kramer)
2004 Feasability of pealtand management for biological sinks (Julia Mailhammer)
2005 CO2-fluxes and C-balances of montaneuos and subalpine grassland-ecosystems in the biosphere reserve Berchtesgaden (Christian Skublics)
2005 N2O-exchange of montaneuos and subalpine grassland-ecosystems in the biosphere reserve Berchtesgaden - temporal and spatial dynamics in dependence of management activities (Kerstin Hentschel)
2005 Landuse assessment and site evaluation of the "Guarani" in the Comunidad Yukeriti in the bolivian Chaco - backstopping of landuse-planning by local knowledge (Stephanie Thurner)
2005 Aerial photographs as basis for the control of success of restoration of bogs in Mooseurach, Germany (Susanne Lubosch)
2006 Ecosystem respiration of restored and degraded fens in the Donauried, southern Germany (Rachel Schultz)
2007 Soil born greenhouse gas fluxes in cool temperate eucalypt forest ecosystems of south-eastern Australia (Benedikt Fest)
2007 Vegetation and site factor gradients of GHG-measurement-plots in the calcarous fen "Freisinger Moos" (Sven-Erik Rabe; bachelor thesis)
2008 Management effects on CO2-exchange in grasslands of the calcareous fen, Freisinger Moos, Germany (Sandra Dobmeier)
2008 CO2-exchange along landuse gradients in a nutrient rich fen, Rhinluch, Germany (Madlen Bayer)



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Publications

  • Drösler M., Adelmann W., Augustin J., Bergmann L., Beyer M., Giebels M., Förster C., Freibauer A., Höper H., Petschow U., Hahn-Schöfl M., Kantelhardt J., Liebersbach H., Schägner J-P., Schaller L., Sommer M., Thuille A., Wehrhahn M. (2010): Klimaschutz durch Moorschutz.- In: Klimaschutz und Anpassung an die Klimafolgen - Strategien, Maßnahmen und Anwendungsbeispiele. Mahammadzadeh M., Biebeler H., Bardt H. (Hrsg.), Köln. ISBN 978-3-602-14847-9; S.89-97.

  • Bettina S. Höll, Sabine Fiedler, Hermann F. Jungkunst, Karsten Kalbitz, Annette Freibauer, Matthias Drösler, Karl Stahr (2009): Characteristics of dissolved organic matter following 20 years of peatland restoration. Accepted 2009 in Science of the Total Environment. 408 (2009) 78-83.

  • Freibauer A., Drösler M., Gensior A., Schulze E.-D. (2009): Das Potenzial von Wäldern und Mooren für den Klimaschutz in Deutschland und auf globaler Ebene. Natur und Landschaft. Heft 1/2009. Sonderheft Biodiversität und Klimawandel. pp 20-25.

  • Fest B J, Livesley S J, Drösler M., Gorsel E. v., Arndt S K (2009): Soil-atmosphere greenhouse gas exchange in a cool, temperate Eucalyptus delegatensis forest in south-eastern Australia Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 149 393-406.

  • Albrecht H., Drösler M., Pfadenhauer J. (2008): Lehrstuhl für Vegetationsökologie - Perspektiven in Forschung und Lehre.- In: Ambigous Landscapes - Vieldeutige Landschaften. Schriftenreihe der Lehrstühle für Landschaftsarchitektur und Landschaftsplanung, Freising. S. 210-215

  • Bahn M., Rodeghiero M., Anderson M., Dore S., Gimeno C., Drösler M., Williams M., Acosta M., Ammann C., Berninger C., Flechard C., Jones S., Kumar S., Newesely Ch., Pavelka M., Priwitzer T., Raschi Antonio, Siegwolf R., Susiluoto S., Tenhunen J., Wohlfahrt G., Cernusca A., (2008): Soil respiration in European grasslands in relation to climate and assimilate supply. Ecosystems DOI: 10.1007/s10021-008-9198-0

  • Bayfield N., Barancok P., Furger M., Sebastia T., Dominguez G., Lapka M., Cudlinova E., Vescovo L., Ganielle D., Cernusca A., Tappeiner U. and Drösler M. (2008): Stakeholder Perceptions of the Impacts of Rural Funding Scenarios on Mountain Landscapes Across Europe. Ecosystems DOI: 10.1007/s10021-008-9197-1.

  • Fiedler, S., B.S. Höll, K. Stahr, A. Freibauer, M. Drösler, M. Schloter, H.F. Jungkunst (2008): Partitioning of particulate organic carbon and total carbon in the pore water of drained and rewetted fen peatlands. Biogeosciences Discuss., 5, 2049-2073.

  • Höper, H., Augustin, J., Drösler, M., Lundin, L., Moors, E., Vasander, H., Waddington, M. (2008): Restoration of peatlands and greenhouse gas balance. In: Strack, M. (Ed.) Peatlands and Climate Change, International Peat Society, Jyväskylä, Finland. ISBN 978-952-99401-1-0. pp. 182-210.

  • Drösler M., Freibauer A., Christensen T., Friborg T., (2008) Observation and status of peatland greenhouse gas emission in Europe. In: The Continental-Scale Greenhouse Gas Balance of Europe. Dolman, H.; Valentini, R.; Freibauer, A. (Eds.) Series: Ecological Studies, Vol. 203 2008, 305 p. ISBN: 978-0-387-76568-6; pp. 237-255.

  • Yue-Lin Li, J. Tenhunen, K. Owen, M. Schmitt, M. Bahn, M. Droesler, D. Otieno, M. Schmidt, Th. Gruenwald, M.Z. Hussain, H. Mirzae and Ch. Bernhofer (2008): Patterns in CO2 gas exchange capacity of grassland ecosystems in the Alps. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 148 (2008) 51-68.

  • Wang Q., Tenhunen, J., Schmidt,M., Kolcun,O., Droesler, M., Reichstein, M., (2006): Estimation of total, direct and diffuse PAR under clear skies in complex alpine terrain of the National Park Berchtesgaden, Germany. Ecological-Modelling. 196(1-2): 149-162.

  • Wang Q., Tenhunen, J., Schmidt,M., Kolcun, O., Droesler, M., (2006) A model to estimate global radiation in complex terrain. Boundary-Layer-Meteorology. 119(2): 409-429.

  • Droesler M. (2005): Trace gas exchange and climatic relevance of bog ecosystems, Southern Germany. Dissertation an der Technischen Universität München, 179 S. published online: urn:nbn:de:bvb:91-diss20050901-12494310.

  • Pfadenhauer J., Hoheisel D., Hübner R., Schweiger M., Droesler M., Overbeck G. (2005): Südamerika 2005 - Bericht über die Exkursion zwischen dem 20. und 30. Grad südlicher Breite, Berichte des Lehrstuhls für Vegetationsökologie. 131 S. http://www.wzw.tum.de/vegoek/publikat/suedam2005.pdf

  • Reth, S. Hentschel,-K. Droesler,-M., Falge, E., (2005) DenNit - Experimental analysis and modelling of soil N2O efflux in response on changes of soil water content, soil temperature, soil pH, nutrient availability and the time after rain event. Plant-and-Soil. 272(1-2): 349-363.

  • Wohlfahrt,-G. Anfang, Ch., Bahn, M., Haslwanter,A., Newesely,-Ch., Droesler, M., Pfadenhauer, J., Cernusca, A., (2005) Quantifying nighttime ecosystem respiration of a meadow using eddy covariance, chambers and modelling. Agricultural-and-Forest-Meteorology. 128(3-4): 141-162.

  • Wang Q., Tenhunen, J., Schmidt,M., Otineo D., Kolcun, O., Droesler, M., (2005) Diffuse PAR irradiance under clear skies in complex alpine terrain. Agricultural-and-Forest-Meteorology. 128(1-2).

  • Byrne, K.A., B. Chojnicki, T.R. Christensen, M. Drösler, A. Freibauer, et al. (2004). EU peatlands: Current carbon stocks and trace gas fluxes. CarboEurope-GHG Concerted Action - Synthesis of the European Greenhouse Gas Budget, Report 4/2004, Specific Study, Tipo-Lito Recchioni, Viterbo, October 2004, ISSN 1723-2236.

  • Drösler M. & Schönthaler K., 2001: ökologische Planung zur nachhaltigen Entwicklung des Landkreises Guama, Sierra Maestra, Cuba. Pages 116-126. In Höfler H., Hoffmann, H., Köhler S., Lehmann S., Metz M.: Schutz und Nutzung. Strategien und Konzepte für den Umgang mit natürlichen Ressourcen. Ökologische Hefte der Landwirtschaftlich-Gärtnerischen Fakultät. Heft 14. Berlin. ISBN Nr.: 3-929603-93-4.

  • Drösler M. & Schönthaler K., 1997: Introduccion en la interpretacion de fotos aereas. Pag.27-42. In: Mehl & Mies: Aplicacion de la teledeteccion y de los sitemas de infomacion geografica en la gestion de recursos naturales. DOK 1830 c. DSE Zschortau.


Reviewer for following Journals:
  • Agricultural-and-Forest-Meteorology
  • Applied Vegetation Science
  • Basic and Applied Ecology
  • Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
  • European Journal of Soil Science
  • Journal of Vegetation Science
  • Water, Air & Soil Pollution

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