PD Dr. Martin Worbes 

 
 
Contact mworbes@gwdg.de
Area of Specialization
Forestry, Plant Ecology, Dendrochronology
Department ZEFc - Ecology and Natural Resource Management (Prof. P. Vlek)
Current Research Topics
  • Ecophysiology and Growth of Trees and Distribution of Forests in Khorezm, Uzbekistan.
  • Forest Growth and Ecology in the Tropics and Subtropics
Further Research Topics
  • Sustainable Management of Natural Tropical Forests
  • Climate Change
  • Carbon Sequestration of Tropical Secondary and Primary Forests
Contacts / Partners / Funding Institutions
  • Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas de Amazonia, (INPA) Manaus, Brazil (EU-Carbonsink).
  • University of Braganca, Brazil (Madam Project, BMBF).
  • CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica (La Pacifica Project, AVENSA-Foundation)
  • Organisation for Tropical Studies (OTS), La Selva, Costa Rica (Carbon-Project, Mellon Foundation).
  • IVIC, Carracas, Venezuela.
  • University of Bern (Cameroon Korup Project, Swiz National Fond)
  • Max-Planck-Institute for Limnologie, Plön (SHIFT-Project, BMBF)
  • University of Göttingen.

  • Further information: http://www.gwdg.de/~mworbes/index.html
Publications

WORBES, M., STASCHEL, R., ROLOFF, A. & W.J. JUNK. (2002) Tree Ring Analysis Reveals Age Structure, Dynamics and Wood Production of a Natural Forest Stand in Cameroon: Forest Ecology and Management (in print)

WORBES, M. (1999) Annual growth rings, rainfall dependent growth and long-term growth patterns of tropical trees from the Forest Reserve Caparo in Venezuela. Journal of Ecology 87: 391-403.

WORBES, M. (1997) The Forest Ecosystems of the Floodplains. In: W.J. Junk (ed.): The Amazonian Floodplains: Ecology of a Pulsing System. Ecological Studies 126, Springer: 223-265.

WORBES, M. (1995) How to measure growth dynamics in tropical trees. - A review -. IAWA Journal 16: 337-351.

SCHÖNGART, J. PIEDADE, M.F.T., LUDWIGSHAUSEN, S., HORNA, V. & M. WORBES (2002) Phenology and stem-growth periodicity of tree species in Amazonian floodplain forests. Journal of Tropical Ecology 18: (in print)

  
   
Curriculum Vitae
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