Research fields

Research of the chair comprises fundamental and application-oriented research as well. The main areas of our work are:

Biology and ecology of trees with emphasis on climate-change

Physiology of water balance, functional wood anatomy, crown development and reaction, competition dynamics

Urban trees and climate change

Tree species selection, development of methods of tree assessment, diagnosis and care on the basis of tree biology

Molecular Physiology of Woody Plants

Genetics of woody plants with emphasis on molecular tree physiology of poplars. (Molecular Physiology of Woody Plants)

Bio-indication with emphasis on indicator values of trees

Ground vegetation, mosses and lichens in environmental control