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Dr. Andreas Rigling - Personal Homepage

Andreas Rigling
head of research unit
Organisational unit: Forest Dynamics
Phone: +41 44 7392 593
Fax: +41 44 7392 215
Room: Bi HL D 31.2
E-Mail:
Address: Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111
8903 Birmensdorf

Function

Research Focus - Keywords

  • Forest dynamics; germination, growth and mortality of trees; dendroecology; site ecology; ecology of mountain forests; disturbance regimes; climate change; land-use change; forest management.

Education

         
1980-1983   Apprenticeship as forester (Forstwart), Forest Service   Schaffhausen
1984-1987   Cantonal high-school for adults KME
  Zurich
1987-1993   Federal Institute of Technology ETH, Dep. of Forest Sciences
  • Study of Forest Sciences; Focus on mountain forest ecology
  • Practice in Switzerland (FR, VS – 11 months) and Canada (BC – 4 months)
   Zurich
1996-2000   University of Basel, Institute of Botany
  • Dissertation on dendroecology. Title: "Wood anatomical characteristics as indicators of biotic and abiotic stress factors – a dendroecological study in the Scots pine forest-steppe ecotone of Europe and Siberia" (Examination committee: Prof. Dr. F.H. Schweingruber, Dr. O.U. Bräker, Prof. Dr. C. Körner)
   Basel/Birmensdorf
1998-1999   Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH, Seminar for Statistics
  • Post-graduate diploma course in applied statistics
   Zurich
 
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