PEAK-Expert
Michael Bahn
Focus
ECOSYSTEMS UNDER GLOBAL CHANGE
Kontakt
E-Mail:
michael.bahn@uibk.ac.at
Phone
+43 512 507 51360
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Research Group Functional Ecology
Sprachen: German, English
Michael Bahn is a professor at the department of Ecology and heads the "Functional Ecology" research group there. Bahn investigates how global change and climate change affect ecosystems, with a particular focus on the interactions between plants and soils, greenhouse gas emissions and adaptations to extreme climatic events.
Focus-Cloud: Plants, soil, ecosystems, carbon, carbon cycle, nutrient cycle, greenhouse gases, climate crisis, global change
About
Michael Bahn's research interests cover plant, soil and ecosystem processes, including biogeochemical cycles, carbon dynamics and their interactions with water and nutrient cycles, as well as global change and greenhouse gas emissions. Bahn is involved in a large number of national and international projects and is active as an editor and reviewer for numerous scientific journals. Michael Bahn also publishes regularly in internationally renowned journals. The researcher often works with field experiments at a wide variety of locations in order to understand the mechanisms underlying the reactions of ecosystems to environmental changes. Michael Bahn was part of the scientific team working on the first Austrian Citizens' Climate Council in 2022.
In the media
- ORF Tirol: Erwärmung bedroht Kohlenstoffspeicher
- Kurier: Artenreichtum wäre bei uns Versicherung gegen verheerende Dürrefolgen
- Podcast: Lebensraum Boden - Warum Erde kein Dreck ist
- APA Science: Dürren schaden Wiesen stärker als bisher angenommen
- ZDF Dokumentation: Alpen in Gefahr
- Video des Österreichischen Wissenschaftsfonds: Porträt von Michael Bahn
- Collection Media and Outreach