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Chair for Ecophysiology of Plants
Institution
Section overview
Description
Our process-oriented research at the Chair for Ecophysiology of Plants in the fields of experimental plant ecology and ecophysiology is focused on woody plants and provides the basis for teaching botany and dendrology. The scope is on the structure and function of plants and their growth performance, as resulting from their adaptations to natural environment, including physiological and ecological characteristics and sensitivities to natural and anthropogenic stress. Particular interest is on carbon, water and nutrient relations and associated efficiencies in above and belowground space exploitation and resource use, highlighting mechanisms of allocation and competition, root-shoot interaction and stress defence. Stress scenarios are considered as combinations of competitive and pathogenic influences, varying light, water and nutrient availabilities, and elevated ozone and CO2 regimes. Accordingly, employed methodologies analyze above and belowground growth and structural differentiation, photosynthesis, respiration, transpiration and stomatal regulation, sap flow and phloem transport as well as stable isotopes for quantifying resource flux and underlying mechanisms. One central research site is "Kranzberg Forest", which has been the core of interdisciplinary research programs like SFB 607, CASIROZ and currently Kranzberg Forest Roof Experiments (KROOF), all coordinated by the the Chair for Ecophysiology of Plants.
Activities
- Research Support
Parent institution
Coordinated projects
- Limitation of the CO2 sink strength of forests by ground-level ozone pollution as an intrinsic component of climate change - Validation of an ozone-uptake model and implementation in the physiological tree growth model 'BALANCE' for process-oriented risk assessment
- Pine (Pinus sylvestris) and beech (Fagus sylvatica) in mixed plantings - suitable partners securing production on sites suffering from draught during climate ?
- Stable forests through soil biodiversity
Involved in research projects
Contact
Chair for Ecophysiology of Plants
Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2
85354 Freising
Bavaria
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)8161 71-4575
Fax: +49 (0)8161 71-4576
Email: matyssek(@)wzw.tum.de
