Diploma/Master Theses

Current Theses

Christoph Nehrbass-Ahles

Title: Potential biases in the assessment of aboveground biomass and climate variations - Sampling strategies put to test

Lena Hellmann

Title: Wood anatomical analysis of Arctic driftwood

Completed Theses

Stefan Klesse (2012)
Title: Response of Pinus nigra to long term moisture variability on Mt. Olympus, Greece

Malin Ziehmer (2012)
Title: Towards a 500-year summer temperature reconstruction from Pinus heldreichii on Mt. Olympus

Steffen Walz (2011)

Title: Extra-tropical biomass response to the unknown 1258 AD eruption

Lara Läubli (2010)

Title: Linking Alpine glacier dynamics to tree growth

Andrea Seim (2009/2010)
Title: Potential and limitations of Pinus heldreichii Christ for long-term climate reconstruction in Albania

Seim A, et al. TRACE (pdf); Climate Research (pdf)

Erin Gleeson (2009)
Title: Toward a hydroclimatic reconstruction for the Río Santa Cruz, Patagonia, Argentina

Sonja Boda (2009)

Title: Intra-seasonal pathway of oxygen isotopes from precipitation and soil to the tree ring.

Stephan Bechet (2009)

Title: Dendroökologiische Untersuchungen zur optimalen Wachstumszone von Lärchen und Fichten im Lötschental (Wallis/ Schweiz)

Flurin Babst (2009)

Title: Remote sensing and tree-ring based assessment of Autumnal Moth (Epirrita autumnata) defoliation in Fennoscandian Mountain Birch forests.

Babst F, et al. TRACE (pdf); Remote Sensing of Environment (pdf)

Thomas Neuenschwander (2008)

Title: Climate sensitivity of a millennial-long Larix decidua tree-ring chronology in the French Maritime Alps.

Büntgen U, et al. Climatic Change (pdf)

Lea Moser (2008)

Title: Intra-annual tree growth along an altitudinal gradient in the Lötschental, Switzerland (pdf)

Moser L, et al. Tree Physiology (pdf)

Pascale Affolter (2007)

Title: Aufbau eines Tieflagen-Jahrringnetzwerkes im Rhonetal, Wallis, und seine klimatische Analyse (pdf)

Affolter PN, et al. European Journal of Forest Research (pdf)