Prof. Dr. Albert Reif

3. OG - Westflügel
Tel. 0761/203-3615
Fax 0761/203-3781

Teaching

Summer semester:

• Excursions to the Alsace and Regions of Southwest Baden-Württemberg  -elective course 621a

• Field Practicum in Romania  -elective course 716a

• Population and Community Ecology -compulsory module (2nd semester FEM)

• Conservation Biology -elective module (2nd semester FEM)

• Flora and Vegetation in the Region of Freiburg  -case study (B. Sc)

• Field Practicum in Romania   -case study (B. Sc)

• Introduction to international forestry -compulsory module 2nd semester (B. Sc.)

• Wald, Standort und Umwelt I - Wahlpflichtmodul M. Sc. Forstwissenschaft
   

Winter semester:

• Biology and Ecology   -compulsory module 1st sem. B.Sc. "Forestry and Environment"
  

• Biology and Ecology   -compulsory module 3rd sem. B.Sc. "Forestry and Environment"

• Protection and Restoration of Habitats in Südbaden -elective module 5th sem.  B.Sc. "Forestry and Environment"

• Global Environmental Change   -compulsory module (1st semester FEM & MEG)

• Conservation Biology -elective module (FEM)
  

• Agro- and Farm forestry -elective module (FEM)

• Wald und Wasser III: Feuchtgebiete und Auen  -Wahlpflichtmodul M. Sc. Forstwissenschaft
  
   

Research projects

• Implementation of the 2% wilderness-goal of the National Biodiversity Strategy
• Forest vegetation and site - Fundamentals for a site-adapted selection of tree species in montane semi-natural forests in the Western Qingling Mountains, Gansu Province, China
• Verbesserung der waldökologischen Informationsbasis für eine nachhaltige Waldbewirtschaftung und den Wald-Naturschutz in Montenegro
• Umsetzung des 2%-Ziels für Wildnisgebiete aus der Nationalen Biodiversitätsstrategie
• Natural forest development as an aim within the National Strategy on Biological Diversity (NWE5)

• Effect of land use changes on ecosystem structures, species compositions and ecosystem services: a case study from the transition zone between the Valdivian coastal range and the central valley of Chile

• The influence of the cultivation of spruce (Picea abies) and its effects on ground vegetation, humus and topsoil of limestone beech (Fagus sylvatica) forest sites of the Schwaebischen Alb, Germany

• Succession of windthrown forests in relation to stand conditions in several regions of Baden- Württemberg and in relation to stand treatment on acidic soils in the Odenwald mountains

• Waldbau und Baumartenwahl in Zeiten des Klimawandels aus Sicht des Naturschutzes

• Anthropogenic disturbances affecting SOUTHERN BEECH (Nothofagus pumilio) forests at “torres del paine” biosphere reserve, Southern Chilean Patagonia

• Forest structure, tree species composition and diversity in Amazonian black-water floodplains in relation to hydro-chemical gradients

• The evolution and current state of nutrient poor, acid swamp forests in the northern Black Forest region, south-west Germany

• Vegetation and sites of fir forests on Mt. Oxia (central Greece), with emphasis on the morphological adaptation of Greek fir trees to drought

• Vegetation and sites near the ecotone between near-natural beech (Fagus sylvatica) and black pine (Pinus nigra) forests on the eastern slopes of Mt. Olympos, Greece

• Spatial modelling and planning of sustainable land use in the Apuseni Mountains, Romania (Dieter Lehmann)

• Plant communities and land use history of the lower montane tropical cloud forests of the Andes of Mérida, Venezuela

• Growth phase changes and gap dynamics in the cloud forests of the Sierra de Lema, Gran Sabana, Venezuela

• Canopy gaps and understorey light conditions effect on forest floor vegetation and regeneration patterns of Nothofagus betuloides forests in Tierra del Fuego, Chile  (concluded 01/2009)
  

• Conservation of flora and fauna of arid sites through the improvement of pine forests in the 'Trockenaue' (arid floodplain) along the Oberrhein  (concluded  6/2007)

• Regeneration and Growth of Pedunculate Oak (Quercus robur) on xerothermous sites in the Upper Rhine Valley (abgeschlossen  3/2007)

• The effects of anthropogenic forest utilisation on the structure and ground vegetation of forests in the Apuseni Mountains, Romania     (concluded  2/2007)

• The epiphytic mosses and lichens in the southern Black Forest, Germany, as influenced by climate and forest management   (concluded  2/2007)

• Influence of forest fertilisation on ground vegetation, humus and topsoil after forty years - a study on red sandstone areas in the Black Forest, Germany. (concluded  6/2006)

• Grassland vegetation and its role in nature conservation and the economy of rural households in the Apuseni Mountains, Romania    (concluded  6/2006)

• Changes of land use and the effects on vegetation, plant species diversity, and landscape structure in Vikos-Aoos National Park, northeastern Greece    (concluded  2/2006)

• Plant species composition along railway tracks of the "Deutsche Bahn AG" under special consideration of the application of herbicides   (concluded  12/2005)

Publications

Curriculum vitae