Christian Körner#
| Email: | ch.koerner 'at' unibas.ch |
| Membership Number: | 2187 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Section: | ORGANISMIC & EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY |
| Username: | ckorner |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 1989 Full Professor for Botany, University of Basel
- 1989 Visiting Research Fellow, RSBS-ANU, Canberra (stable carbon isotopes)
- 1982-1989 Senior lecturer University of Innsbruck (1982 “Habilitation” for Botany). Various projects on alpine ecology
- 1980-1981 Postdoctoral fellow, Research School of Biol. Sci., Australian Natl. Univ. (RSBS-ANU) Canberra
- 1977-1980 Postdoc: Austrian MAB alpine program and field work in the Caucasus (Georgia)
- 1973-1977 Ph.D. thesis, University of Innsbruck with W. Larcher (Water relations of alpine plants)
- 1968-1973 M.Sc. (Biol.Diploma), University of Innsbruck, Austria
Fields of Scholarship
- the influence of increasing atmospheric CO₂ concentration on natural vegetation
- alpine plant ecology and biodiversity
- high elevation treeline research - global comparisons
- implications of climate change in the Mediterranean
- various projects in bioclimatology
Honours and Awards
- highest score in Ecology for all German, Austrian and Swiss research institutions 1997-1998 (Bild der Wiss. 8/1999)
- plenary opening lecture of the International GCTE-LUCC Conference (Barcelona 1998)
- vice president International Botanical Congress (St. Louis 1999, plenary lecture)
- plenary speaker for the millennial ESA/BES conference (Orlando, 2000)
- Tansley lecture of the British Ecological Society (London 2002)
- private Royal Colloquium for his Majesty the King of Sweden (2003)
- keynote at 8th SBSTA plenary/CBD Convention of Biodiversity (Montreal 2003)
- plenary lecture, International Botanical Congress (Vienna 2005)
- plenary lecture/opening session Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP, Beijing 2006)
- Marsh Award, British Ecological Society (2007)
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