My main research interests centre around the interactions of ecophysiology, climate variations and natural as well as anthropogenic disturbance. I am particularly concerned with the understanding and modelling of the feedbacks between  ecological, biogeochemical and climatological processes as well as anthropogenic change and their effects on various spatial and temporal scales.

My main tool is an integrated land surface and carbon cycle model that I developed on the basis of SiB2, CASA and my carbon cycle model, SILVAN. The integrated model is also implemented in an atmospheric general circulation model. With this range of models I study the interactions of canopy characteristics, biospheric fluxes and boundary layer properties on local to global scales in response to climate variations in an integrated fashion.

Research Activities

Publications

Earth System Science Seminars

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Teaching

Teaching & Supervision

Course development

I am involved in the development of the integrated science course i-science at the University which is to be taught by problem based learning

Teaching & learning project: "A web accessible ecosystem simulation package"

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