The Geoecology Group aims at understanding ecosystem functioning across scales and time. More specifically, our research aims at identifying physical, chemical and biological parameters that control ecosystem carbon turnover on the landscape scale. We pay particular attention to vegetation and soils, as they are proxies for present and past ecosystem conditions. To achieve this, our research employs methods from soil science, ecophysiology and micrometeorology in a geography context. At present most of our projects focus on peatland carbon cycling at various field sites in Austria, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and Sweden.

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Peatlands are the most effective CO2 reservoirs - if they are healthy. If they dry out, they become emitters. On the road with someone who watches a...

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Study in Environmental Research on the consequences of intensive drought on the carbon fluxes of the reed belt at Lake Neusiedl

Pamela Baur
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This summer, the Ph.D. student from Nanjing University in China is visiting us to conduct experiments in our Geoecology lab.

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The Geoecology working group, together with ECH visiting chair Lee Slater, had the opportunity to visit exciting peatland sites and collect soil...

Raphael Müller
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Dust in the Wind - Vorführung des Windkanals zur Erosionsforschung. Interessierte konnten naturnahen Wind fühlen, messen und sehen - inklusive...

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Stephan Glatzel as a guest on Punkt Eins (ORF radio program Ö1)