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University of Freiburg
Institution
Section overview
Description
Not only is the University of Freiburg physically located in the heart of the city of Freiburg - its students, professors, and staff are also an integral part of daily life in the ‘Capital of the Black Forest’. This is also one of the reasons why Freiburg has become such a popular place to study. Aside from the numerous leisure activities which may be enjoyed in and near the city and its proximity to the Alsace and Switzerland, it is above all the variety of academic progams which attracts so many students to Freiburg. The university boasts a variety of degree programs in any of more than 60 fields in 11 faculties.
Activities
- Research
Subordinate institutions
- Institute for Landscape Management
- Institute of Environmental Medicine and Hospital Epidemiology
- Institut for Biology II / Department of Geobotany
- Institute of Forest and Environmental Policy
- Department of Physical Geography
- Chair of Forest Growth and Dendroecology
- Chair of Silviculture
- Institute of Soil Science and Forest Nutrition
- Institute of Forest Utilization and Work Science
- Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Department of Neuroanatomy
- Chair of Remote Sensing and Landscape Information Systems
- Chair of Forestry Economics and Forest Planning
- Institute of Forest Botany and Tree Physiology
- University Hospital Freiburg - Dermatology
- University Hospital Freiburg
- Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources
- Chair of Forest Operations
- Department of Microsystems Engineering
- Chair of Biometry and Environmental System Analysis
- Chair of Wildlife Ecology and Management
- Chair of Forest Zoology and Entomology
- Freiburg Institute for Sport and Sport Science
Coordinated projects
- Assessment of adaptaion potentials, groth plasticity of spruce, fir and Douglas fir as regards forecasted climatic changes in the Black Forest
- Climate-friendly management concepts with paludiculture and region-specific development of paludiculture product chains
- Crown collisions of forest trees by dynamic wind loads
- Developing a high-throughput genotype-independent regeneration system for accelerating breeding innovation in sugar beet
- EpiC - epiSOMA - Origins and consequences of epigenetic diversity in trees - Subproject C
- Flexible Wood Supply Chain (FLEXWOOD)
- Forest fire management in India: integrating ecological and cultural contexts and consequences
- Full-scale recording of the wind-induced streamlining of trees
- Implication of tree nutrient strategies and carbon exudation through root-mycorrhizal associations on the turnover of humus layers
- Integration of habitat structures in agricultural areas for the promotion of pollinator insects (INTEGRA)
- MiStriKi - Minimizing the risk of storm damages in forests as regards climate change
- Nitrogen co-limitation in drought-limited boreal forests
- Potentials of agroforestry and agri-photovoltaic systems for maximising humus buildup and carbon storage on agricultural land Subproject A: Assessment and modeling of carbon stocks and carbon storage potential of trees and shrubs in agroforestry systems.
- Quantification of effective wind loads on trees through investigation of their crown reconfiguration
- The DELLA-independent interactome of GID1 within regulation of shadow avoidance
- The interior structure of humus layers and its importance for their connectivity
- Tools for information and motivation to small private forest owners on the implementation of care and utilization measures in their forest, thus contributing to enhanced sustainable use of wood as a renewable raw material
- Water storage and water redistribution in the humus layer influences percolation, evapotranspiration and DOM fluxes
Coordinated projects of subordinate institutions
- Adaptation and implementation strategies for coppice forests on steep slopes with outstanding protection functions
- Adaptation strategies of beech forests to changing environmental conditions at different management intensities
- Adaptation strategies of forest hygiene facing an increasing potential of pathogens in vulnerable regions with regard to climate change and the growing number of restrictions. Subproject 5
- Agroforestry systems with added value for people and the environment
- Analysis of the economic aspects of the use of wood as an energy source
- Automated evaluation process for the extraction of forest trees and their classification by species and degree of damage with modern remote sensing media
- Collaborative project BioTip: Marine ecological economic systems in the Western Baltic Sea and beyond: shifting the baseline to a regime of sustainability. Subproject 3: Responsibility for sustainability
- Collaborative project: Breeding and mass propagation of peat moss in Sphagnum farming to create a sustainable supply of renewable raw material for horticultural growing media. Subproject 2: Smart Sphagnum Breeding (SSB) of new Sphagnum cultivars to increase productivity
- Collaborative project: Defensins to monitor and to characterise the vigor of broad-leaved trees under changing climatic conditions
- Collaborative project: Dynamic wil dlife-vehicle-collision warning under the consideration of hetero- geneous traffic, accident and environmental data as well as big da ta approaches
- Collaborative project: New consultancy services for forestry cooperatives - climate-adapted management in small- and medium-sized privately owned forests. Coordination
- Collaborative project: Reduction of multidrug resistant bacteria during milk production: Use of antimicrobial peptides to reduce bacterial pathogens in biofilms and develop a rapid detection system for bacteria- subproject 6
- Collaborative project: small private forests - energy wood supply and regional value. Subproject 2: Use intensity and use strategies
- Collaborative Project: Smart Wood Supply Chain Management
- Collection of non-wood functions of large-scale forest inventory with GIS
- Conservation of drougth tolerant and biodivers forests by natural rejuvenation through Quercus petraea
- Conservation of flora and fauna of dry locations through enhancement of pine forests in the so-called 'Trockenaue' on the Upper Rhine
- Decomposition dynamics and carbon storage lying dead wood of beech trees, spruce and pine
- Development of a management strategy of European Spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) using the antiaggregation pheromone verbenone in SPLAT®Verb.
- Development of low forests
- Development of low forests (Pre study)
- Formulation of recommendations for sustainable floodplain-forest management tested for their practicability and with a particular focus on poplar forests to optimize the forest functions biodiversity, income and climate protection, with special regard to climate change and ash dieback disease
- Functional significance of forest biodiversity in Europe
- GABI-FUTURE-collaborative projects: Targeted gene in barley - GABI-PRECISE (Project B)
- Gewebsspezifische and persistent muting of genes in the chicken embryo for the study of kidney diseases
- GlobE: HORTINLEA - Diversifying food systems: Learning and innovation in horticultural value chains to improve the livelihood situation in rural and urban regions in East Africa (Kenya, Ethiopia and Tanzania). Partner H
- GlobE: UrbanFoodPlus - African-German partnership to enhance resource use efficiency in urban and peri-urban agriculture for improved food security in West African cities, partner D
- Interaction of global warming and atmospheric nitrogen inputs in controlling the rejuvenation success of beech compared to more drought-tolerant tree species
- Joint Project: Research on the utilization of secondary constituents of sea buckthorn leaves as the basis for innovative cosmetic products for dermatological applications; Sub-project 3: Investigations of the extracts in dermatological efficacy in vitro and in vivo
- Joint Project: Sustainable agro-forestry systems: old systems for sustainable land use, sub-projects: land conservation, forest management, network coordination
- Joint project: Valwood - innovative sustainable land use: a new approach to improving the environment, with a combined production value of wood, bamboo and wood biomass
- Laser based structure collection in forests (bats)
- Measures to preserve and increase the productivity of forests
- Multifunctional Evaluation of Agrofrestry systems
- Multifunctional Evaluation of Agrofrestry systems
- Multifunctional Evaluation of Agrofrestry systems
- Nature conservation in public forest
- Photoprotective isoprenoids as physiological markers for the adaptation of Douglas fir to drought stress and climate change
- PioWood: use of fast-growing pioneer tree species on forest areas to increase the biomass volume in the small timber sector
- Possible trade-offs between strategies to increase carbon storage and adaptation to climate change
- Procedures for the determination of nutriment potentials of soil under special consideration of the soil body and their integration into the soil condition survey in the forest (BZE II)
- Silvicultura instead Viticultura, silviculture instead of viticulture
- Soil aeration - the key factor of oak decline?
- Stand management measures to increase the adaptive capacity of beech forests to the anticipated climate change
- Strategic planning in a dynamic world - Exploring planning horizons with the forestry example
- SURGE - Strengthening the Adaptive Potential of the Forests of Western Ukraine, Northwest Russia and Southwest Germany to Changing Environmental Conditions and Societal Needs
- Survey of patients on the quality of hospital food and about their attitudes to organic food as well as the hospitals on the use of organic food in their food supply
- The effects of fructification on log thickness growth of forest trees in interaction with drought
- The impact of changes in the humus layer on the success and composition of tree regeneration
- The impact of structual, functional and tree species diversity on the temporal stability of productivity and efficient ressoure use in a tropical tree species diversity experiment
- The importance of the coarse soil in acid forest soils for the metabolism of trees
- Timber harvesting and transportation systems - use and deployment concepts adapted to future forest structures
- Timber harvesting and transportation systems adapted altered forest structures due to climate change - SOLVE
- Use of Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) to determine the mass and distribution of fine roots in forest soils
- Wood decay inside trunks in trees as a possibly underestimated cause of error in biomass estimation
- WoodWisdom-Net: AGROCOP - agroforestry systems of quality timber trees and short rotation coppice as a temporary use of project identification, evaluation, optimization Short rotation coppice
Coordinated collaborative projects of subordinate institutions
Subordinate institutions as work package leader of collaborative projects
Involved in research projects
- Assessment of wind erosion susceptibility of agroforestry systems
- Breeding and mass propagation of peat moss in Sphagnum farming to create a sustainable supply of renewable raw material for horticultural growing media
- Development of innovative strategies for sustainable plant protection in viticulture. Part: Identification and comparative analysis of candidate genes for resistance to contribute to the elucidation of different resistance mechanisms
- Enhancing poplar traits for energy applications (ENERGYPOPLAR)
- Establishment of embryogenic cell lines in Cyclamen persicum: Identification of relevant factors for embryogenic competence using expression analyses
- German Contribution to the Harmonisation of National Forest Inventories in Europe – Techniques for Common Reporting
- Importance of resource diversity to stingless bees in Australia
- Integral - Future-oriented integrated management of European forest landscapes
- Nano- and microtechnology -based analytical devices for online measurements of bioprocesses (NANOBE)
- Non-native tree species for European forests - experiences, risks and opportunities
- Of the atmosphere into the soil – how pressure fluctuations influence in-soil gas transportation
- Precision phenotyping for improving drought stress tolerant maize in southern Asia and eastern Africa
- smallFOREST - Biodiversity and ecosystem services of small forest fragments in European landscapes
- VitiFuture
- Zoonotic Borna viruses – virus reservoir, virus detection, in vitro and vivocharacterisation as well as epidemiology
Contact
University of Freiburg
Friedrichstr. 39
79098 Freiburg im Breisgau
Baden-Württemberg
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)761 203-0
Fax: +49 (0)761 203-4369
Email: info(@)uni-freiburg.de