Members – Universität Innsbruck

Dr. Barbara Beikirchner, Department of Botany, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Dr. Helmut Berger, Consulting Engineering Office for Ecology, Salzburg, Austria
Dr. Agnes Bouchez, INRA, France
Dr. Othmar Buchner, University of Salzburg, Austria
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Stefan Dullinger, CVL, University of Vienna, Austria
Dr. Arwyn Edwards, University of Aberystwyth
Dr. Andrea Ganthaler, Department of Botany, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Notburga Gierlinger, BOKU, Austria
Dr. Albin Hammerle, Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Dr. Eliza Harris, Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Johannes Ingrisch PhD, Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Prof. Dr. Ivan Janssens, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Prof. Dr. Ulf Karsten, University of Rostock, Germany
Dr. Filip Kolar, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic
Dr. Catherine Larose, École Centrale de Lyon, France
Dr. Reinhard Lentner, Amt der Tiroler Landesregierung, Austria
Fabien Maussion PhD, Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences (ACINN), University of Innsbruck
Mirco Migliavacca PhD, Max Planck Institute of Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
Dr. Andrea Mondoni, University of Pavia, Italy
Dr. Markus Möst, Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Dr. Nadine Rühr, Karsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Mag. Dr. Bettina Sonntag, Research Department for Limnology, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Dr. Matthias Stegner, Department of Botany, University of Innsbruck, Austria
ao.Univ.-Prof. i.R. Dr. Gerhard Tomedi, Department of Archeologies, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Dr. Sonja Wipf, WSL, Switzerland
Univ.-Prof. Dr.phil. Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern, BOKU, Austria

Student Members and Research Focus

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Victoria Als	Ant-fungi mutualism in Lasius fuliginosus
Matteo Anderle	Investigating different pressures for bird communities in the Central Alps
Rubén Morón Asensio	Bioorthogonal labelling as a tool for detecting and following the synthesis of cyanobacterial toxins and bioactive peptides
Lisa Capponi	Drought, heat, and grassland resilience under global change
Filippo Colla	Evaluating interactions between arthropods and microorganism in subalpine and alpine extensive pastures along elevational gradient
Harald Crepaz	Measuring and simulating global change impacts on alpine vegetation
Daniel Gattinger	Dispersal of antibiotic resistant microbes in remote cryospheric and urbanized habitats
Marlene Haider	Population genetics and genomics of Tetrao urogallus and Tetrao tetrix
Lorenz Hänchen	Spatio-temporal variability in water availability and demand in the Peruvian Andes
Valentin Heimer	Cryptic evolution and diversification of Luzula sect. Luzula (Juncaceae) in the grasslands of the Eastern Alps (LUZALP)
Veronika Hierlmeier	protectAlps - Alps, persistent pollutants, and insects
Tania Holtzem	Daphnia Resilience - Comparison of genomic and functional resilience of water flea populations in Lake Constance, Lake Zurich and Lake Walen under eutrophication and oligotrophication
Lesley Huymann	Diversity and Evolution of the ectomycorrhizal dermocyboid Cortinarius species in a global context
Tania Patricia Sosa Jiron	Effects of fragmentation on river network functioning
Lumnesh Swaroop Kumar Joseph	Individual and interactive effects of elevated CO2, warming and drought on the phenology of mountain grassland
Dominik Kaplenig	Adaption and acclimation to alpine habitats viewed through different populations of Arabidopsis arenosa
Andreas Martin Kollert	Development of high-resolution maps of snow-cover and soil-temperature for use in species distribution models at a high alpine study site
Timo Knüver	Drought stress and recovery in adult and juvenile Norway spruce and European beech: effects of stress duration and species composition
Lucía Laorden Camacho	Effects of shrub encroachment on ecosystem services in mountain grasslands due to land -use and climate change
Silvia Lembo	The effects of lower air pressure conditions on upwards shifting mountain ecosystems: how do plants-soil react?
Edoardo Mandolini	Microbial Interactions in Snow Covered Habitats
Clemens Maylandt	Elucidating the evolutionary history and taxonomy of two widespread steppe plants: Astragalus onobrychis and Astragalus exscapus
Kathiravan Mohamed Meeran	Interactive effects of multiple global change drivers on belowground carbon allocation and coupling in grassland
Sophia Mützel	Atmospheric Deposition and Interaction of Microplastics in High Mountains
Lena Nicklas	Winners and losers of climate change in the Central and South Alps
Robert Niederheiser	Mapping alpine vegetation location properties
Florian Oberleitner	Effects of drought legacies and compound stress on mountain grassland and forest
Charlotte Permann	Sexual reproduction in Zygnematophyceae (Charophyta)
Hanna Pritsch	Alpine limnology and its relevance for ecosystem services under climate change
Fabrizzio Protti-Sanchez	Sources of soil CO2 emissions in subarctic grasslands exposed to warming
Špela Pungaršek	Polyploidisation in Luzula, Euphorbia and Knautia
Maria Ralser	Control and growth of extracellular ice in plants
Katharina Ramskogler	Short and long term feedback between vegetation and morphodynamic processes
David Reinthaler	Interactive effects of warming, elevated CO2 and extreme climatic events on C-cycling in a temperate grassland
Hans Rund	Development and implementation of eDNA monitoring methods for fish in the alpine region and comparison with traditional ecological status assessment methods
Theresa Magdalena Rzehak	Key Factors for Microbial Diversity in Alpine Soils
Elena Stoll	Effects of global changes on N2O fluxes in mountain grasslands
Elena Tello-Garcia	Implications of drought on water use strategies and arbuscular mycorrhizal abundance in Alpine grasslands
Svenja Trautmann	Cryogeomorphic Processes and their Impact on Spatial Soil Heterogeneity
Simon Tscholl	Analyzing climate change impacts and adaptation strategies for mountain viticulture
Maria Chiara Vulcano	The role of phytobenthic fatty acids in glacial streams ecosystems under alpine deglaciation
Sebastiano Zanini	Crop pollination across spatial scales: integrated assessment of related ecosystem services
Teresa Zeni	Role of genome duplication in changing mountain landscapes

Alumni

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Pablo Aguilar	Bacterial diversity and community composition from high-elevation aquatic ecosystems
Siegfried Aigner	Stress responses in phylogenetically distant green algae from extreme habitats: Ecophysiological and molecular adaption in free living green algae and isolated lichen photobionts
Marlies Ausserlechner	Archaeobotanical analyses of Bronze and Iron Age burnt-offering sites in the subalpine and alpine belt of the Eastern Alps
Andreas Bär	Effects of forest fires on trees in Alpine ecosystems
Julie Blommaert	Mechanisms and significance of genome size variation in rotifers
Teofana Chonova	Effect of pollutants on microbial communities in environmental biofilms
Matsapume Detcharoen	Effects of Wolbachia bacteria on the new host Drosophila nigrosparsa
Manuel Ebner	A social-ecological system perspective on mountain lakes: integrated assessment for sustainable management
Nora Els	Airborne inoculation sources of cryospheric microbial communities in the Alps and in the Arctic
Elia Guariento	Biodiversity and trophic structures of soil invertebrates along management intensity gradients
Lisa Huber	Modelling ecosystem services in Alpine areas with special emphasis on human impacts
Patrick Krapf	Population genetics, social organisation, and genomics in Tetramorium ants
Xiaoteng Lu	Functional ecology and biodiversity of planktonic ciliates
Vera Margreiter	Germination, establishment & phenotypic plasticity of alpine plants
Gregor Pichler	The lichen symbiosis: Metabolites involved in lichenization
Nadine Präg	Effects of plants on methanogenic Archaea and methanotrophic Bacteria
Katharina Scholz	Influence of climate extremes on the carbon balance of a pre-alpine lake
Alberto Scotti	Employing macroinvertebrates for the analysis of small alpine catchments affected by different anthropogenic impacts
Matthias Stegner	The role of cell wall attributes in ice management and freeze dehydration of plant cells
Roland Vogt	Fate and effect of waste water-borne manufactured nanomaterials in aquatic ecosystems
Klemens Weisleitner	Ecology of cryospheric habitats in polar regions
Brenda Maria Zoderer	Identifying and mapping people's preferences of Alpine landscapes