| Expert Name | Pro.Dr. Norbert Jürgens |
| Title | Director of Department and Senior lecturer |
| Division | |
| Institution | University of Köln |
| City | Hamburg |
| Country | German |
| Telephone | 49 40 42816260 |
| Email | Juergens(at)botanik.uni-hamburg.de |
| Work Experience | Various projects (LEAD: DFG SFB 389 ACACIA, BMBF BIOTA AFRICA, BMBF THE FUTURE OKAVANGO, BMBF REGIONAL SCIENCE SERVICE CENTER, PARTICIPANT: EU PRACTICE) linking basic science regarding vegetation ecology and adaptive evolution of dryland plants as well as biogeography with applied approaches regarding sustainable resource management, restoration of degraded systems and conservation. |
| Qualifications | 1. PhD, Plant Ecology, Hamburg, 1987
2. Habilitation, Biodiversity and Biogeography, Hamburg 1992 |
| Number of Publications | 75 |
| Awards | 1. Gründungsmitglied Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg
2. Tagungspräsident Tropentag 2009
3. Chair Diversitas Deutschland 2000-2009 |
| Other Activities | 1. Advisory Board Member: Desertnet International
2. Principal: GEOSS GEO BON
3. Co-Chair. BioDISCOVERY Core Projects of DIVERSITAS INTERNATIONAL (2003- 2010)
4. Ad-personam gewähltes Mitglied: Deutsche UNESCO Kommission
5. Co-Chair: Nationales Komittee für Global Change Forschung (NKGCF) der DFG (2003- 2009) |
| Publications | 1. Jürgens, N.; Schmiedel, U.; Hoffman, M.T.(Eds.) (2010): Biodiversity in Southern Africa. Vol I-III, 1426 pp. Hess Publishers.
2. Jürgens, N., Schmiedel, U., Haarmeyer, D.H., Dengler, J., Finckh, M., Goetze, D., Gröngröft, A., Karen Hahn-Hadjali, Koulibaly, A., Luther-Mosebach, J.C., Muche, G., Oldeland, J., Petersen, A., Porembski, S., Rutherford, M.C., Schmidt, M., Sinsin, B., Strohbach, B.J., Thiombiano, A., Wittig, R., & Zizka, G. (in review). The BIOTA Biodiversity Observatories in Africa – A standardized framework for large-scalenvironmental monitoring. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment (EMAS).
3. Scholes, R.J.; Mace, G.M.; Turner, W.; Geller, G.N.; jürgens, N.; Larigauderie, A.;
Muchoney, D.; Walther, B.A.; Monney, H.A. (2008) Toward a Global Biodiversity Observing System. Science 321: 1044-45
4. Jürgens, N. (2008): Monitoring of biodiversity. In: Barthlott, W., Linsenmaier, K. E.,
Porembski, S. [Eds.]: Biodiversity: structure and function. In: UNESCO [Ed.]: Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS). Eolss Publishers, Oxford, pp. 229-242.
5. Jürgens, N. (2006): Recent change of flora and vegetation in Namibia - A review of dynamics, drivers and scientific approaches. Basler Afrika Bibliographien, pp. 91-108. |
| Discipline | Plant Science |
| Last updated | 22/08/2011 12:12:00 |
|
|