Head of the Workers council University of Vienna

Vice-Head of the Workers-UNION

PROMERE - Psychotherapie

Interests

• Vegetation Ecology
• Arctic and Alpine Ecology
• Global Change - Vegetation Distribution Modelling
• Monitoring Application of Digital Elevation Models
• Sampling Design based on GIS - tools
• Landscape Ecology
• Definition of Landscapetypes in Alpine Environments
• Sustainable Development of Cultural Landscapes
• Classification of Landscapes to Landscapetypes by the use of GIS
• Conservation Biology
• Monitoring of riverine vegetation and floodplains contruction projects
• Hemeroby of Forest Ecosystems
• Planing and Zonation of Biospherereserves
• Geographical Information Systems - Geoinformatics - Information Technology as tool of Conservation Biology

Reseach Aktivties

After a period of seven years as a school - teacher, I started my scientific work in the field of analysis of vegetation in space and time putting the emphasis on using Geographical Information Systems, Remote Sensing and Multivariate Analysis. In most of the scientific work at the department I am directly involved (e.g. Hemeroby of Austrian Forest Ecosystems, Sustainable Use of Austrian Cultural Landscapes, MAB - Projects wuth focus on Biospherereserves, Flussbauliches Gesamtproject Donau ö. Wien).During the last years I tried to develop strategies in sampling design based on spatial factors manly derived from Digital Elevation Models and classification of remote sensed data.

Teaching

My teaching activities are concetrated on Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Computer-Based Methods in Vegetation Science, Landscape Ecology und Conservation Biology for Teachers Vegetation Science for Geographers and others and field-coures in vegetation and Landscape Ecology.