© Roloff
The Chair
What are woody species? How can trees and shrubs maintain their life processes over years, decades or even centuries resisting diverse changing environmental conditions? How can trees ensure supply of water and nutrients and which structures are involved? Is it possible to detect life history of trees from outer and inner structures? How do trees and shrubs reproduce and spread?
The chair of forest botany focuses on these and many more questions within research and study. This complexity and meshing of plant-physiological, ecological and genetic aspects are characteristic for our working practices. We have fostered relations with international, national, and regional research institutions, local authority boards and enterprises supporting our trans- and interdisciplinary work approaches.