Department of Environmental Sciences
Physiological Plant Ecology
On November 8th Svenja Förster and Dan Nelson from the stable isotope lab led a group of students from 5th to 7th class around the labs in the botanical institute. The goal of National Future Day is to promote open career and life planning…
The Physiological Plant Ecology group is looking for a PhD student in Globarl Change ecology (supervision by Prof. Ansgar Kahmen) start in February 2019.
We are pleased to welcome Jochem Baan to the PPE group. Jochem comes to our group after obtaining his MSc degree from the University of Amsterdam. He will work in the ERC project HYDROCARB and will investigate the biochemical mechanisms…
In this paper Nadine reports data from a three-year study in which she has investigated the soil water uptake depth for different mature temperate tree species. With this study, Nadine shows that different tree species have similar soil…
Claudia Hahn successfully defended her PhD on October 18th
The Physiological Plant Ecology (PPE) group at the University of Basel, Switzerland is looking for a PhD Student in Alpine Plant Ecology (supervision by Erika Hiltbrunner, start in February 2019).
In this new paper Lars Dietrich shows that mature trees can maintain their water relations with 50% of their conducting tissue destroyed. With this work, Lars contributes important new data that will help with the the interpretation of…
The PPE group is looking for a motivated PhD student to start a doctorate in Physiological Tree Ecology (supvervised by Günter Hoch) in February 2019.
Devesh Singh successfully defended his PhD on October 4th
Congratulations to both Erika and Günter for each receiving funding for four year SNF projects.
On Monday the 17.9. we started with the 2018 Block Course in Plant Biology. We were able to welcome 25 undergraduate students in our labs that we will teach the basic principles of physiological plant ecology and stable isotope ecology over…
The 48th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland took place in Vienna during the week of September 10th.
Congratulations to Anja Schmutz in passing her Master's exam on Friday September 7th.
We warmly welcome Meisha Holloway-Phillips as a new postdoc in our team. Meisha will work on hydrogen isotopes in plant organic compounds in the context of the ERC project HYDROCARB. Specifically she will address biochemical, physiological…
The topic is especially relevant this year as the area experiences one of the driest summers on record.
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