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Georg von Arx
Organisational unit: Forest Dynamics
Forest Growth and Climate
Phone: +41 44 7392 316
Fax: +41 44 7392 215
Room: Bi HP D 57
E-Mail:
Address: Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111
8903 Birmensdorf

Research interests

  • Climate - forest interactions: effect of forest structure on below-canopy micro-climate and influence of micro-climate on forest regeneration
  • Herb-chronology: analysis of annual rings in perennial forbs
  • Plant ecology: phenotypic plasticity, life-history changes, growth and structural responses in perennial forbs to changing environments
  • Anatomy / Ecophysiology: conduit diameter in forbs and trees in response to changing environments, lignification patterns, water status of plants

Software

  • ROXAS: Tool for the quantitative analysis of xylem anatomy in cross-sections and cores of angiosperm trees, shrubs and herbs.

Education

2007                      
Degree as a high school teacher in biology, ETH Zurich
2005 PhD thesis, Geobotanical Institute, ETH Zurich
2001 Master thesis, Geobotanical Institute, ETH Zurich

Professional experiences

Since 2010
Postdoc at Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL (Birmensdorf, Switzerland)
2009 - 2010
Project management at Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences SATW (Zurich, Switzerland)
2007 - 2008 Postdoc at Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research / School of Natural Ressources, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ, USA)
2006 - 2007
Image analysis project «ROXAS», funded by the Velux Stiftung (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
2005 - 2006
High school teaching in Biology and Chemistry at Paedagogische Maturitaetsschule (Kreuzlingen, Switzerland)