Adaptation Processes to Extreme Environments
Research activities focus on adaptations of plants to alpine environments and survival strategies at the margins of plant life from molecular, cellular, organismic up to the population level. In a variety of disciplines various, often interdisciplinary projects are conducted within the frame of this topic.
| Development and life history adaptation More details »» |
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| Functional adaptations to environmental stress: Drought, excessive irradiation, frost, heat, calcification stress, temperature and winter stress |  |
| CITREE - City Trees Citizen Science More details »» |
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| Woody Woodpecker – Wood anatomical analyses of conifers at the alpine timberline More details »» |
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Alpine Seed Conservation and Research Network The Network focuses on seed collection, germination and survival of species along an elevation gradient, effects of provenances in Saxifraga species and germination dynamics |
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