Biodiversitäts-Exploratorium-Hainich-Dün
Am Burghof 3
D-99947 Mülverstedt
Phone: +49.3602.21.59845
Fax: +49.3602.21.59844
Mobil: +49.176.43848559
E-mail: anna.franke[at]tum.de
| Since | 2020 | Local manager of the biodiversity exploratory team in Hainich-Dün |
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| 2016- | 2020 | Academic staff member at the University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Department Institute of Biomedicine of Aging) |
| 2019 | Graduation doctoral degree Dr. rer. nat. at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. Topic of the thesis: Climate-induced growth response and tree-line shifts of boreal conifers in the alpine and polar tree-line ecotone in Finnish Lapland. | |
| 2014- | 2015 | PhD-related collaboration and research at the Natural Resources Institute Finland Luke (previous METLA) in Rovaniemi / Finland |
| 2013 | Graduation Master of Science Physische Geographie at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. Topic of the master thesis: Oak mortality in Lower Franconia caused by backwater-induced hypoxia. |
I am interested in forest ecology, in particular the response of forests to changing climate and environment. During my master thesis, I studied in cooperation with the LWF Freising oak mortality in Lower Franconia, being predominantly induced by backwater-induced hypoxia. Information derived from soil conditions, crown defoliation and remote sensing data were used to test the relation between hypoxia and mortality statistically.
In my PhD thesis, I studied in cooperation with the Natural Resources Institute Luke (previous Metla) climate-induced growth response and regeneration success of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) H.Karst) in the tree-line ecotone of Finish Lapland. This was done by a multi-methodological approach in order to detect growth responses and tree-line relocations on varying temporal and spatial scales: Growth and regeneration were examined by plot-based field monitoring and dendroecological sampling, while vegetation indices derived from satellite-based datasets indicated changes in tree-line position and vegetation density. Based on the research results, I am highly interested in external disturbance regimes as regulating factors for successful regeneration in tree-line locations, or for increasing mortality rate masking the benefits of climate warming.
Bayerische Landesanstalt für Wald und Forst LWF. 2013. Schadensumfang und Schadensursachen – Teilbericht zu: „Untersuchungen und Maßnahmen zum Erhalt der Eichenbestände im Bereich der Fränkischen Platte“. Teilbericht zur Masterarbeit 2013, Freising. (unveröffentl.)