Dieter Overdieck

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Dieter Overdieck (born 25. November 1943 in Bad Honnef ) is a German botanist (plant ecologist) and emeritus professors at the Institute of Ecology at the Technical University of Berlin .

Life

Dieter Overdieck studied biology and chemistry for the higher teaching post at grammar schools at the University of Bonn and received his doctorate there in 1975 at the former Institute for Agricultural Botany on the subject of "fluctuations in the content of substances in sun and shade leaves". After moving to the Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin) , he completed his habilitation there in 1979 on the subject of "Effects of visible radiation on CO 2 gas changes and transpiration of higher land plants". He then worked as an academic councilor, private lecturer and later as an adjunct professor at the University of Osnabrück in the department (formerly subject) ecology . In 1990 he was appointed professor for the field of "Woody Plant Ecology" at the Institute for Ecology at the Technical University in Berlin. His academic teachers were Werner Kausch , Reinhard Bornkamm, Boyd Strain and Helmut Lieth .

Dieter Overdieck is widowed and has three children.

Research focus

As one of the pioneers in this field, Dieter Overdieck began experimental research work as early as 1979 on the effect of the atmospheric increase in CO2 concentration and temperature on woody plants and herbaceous plants and woody plants ( global warming ). He was involved in several international, EU- funded research projects on this subject.

Other activities

Dieter Overdieck was editor for the section "Plants" in the Journal of Biometeorology. and chairman of the working group "Experimental Ecology of Plants" of the Society for Ecology (Austria, Switzerland, Germany) from 1997 to 2001. From 1992 to 2008 he was chairman of the examination boards of the courses in the fields of landscape architecture and landscape planning at the TU Berlin.

Dieter Overdieck is a volunteer reviewer for various scientific journals (Forests, Tree Physiology, Symmetry etc.).

Books

Together with Gerd Esser , he published the work Modern ecology: basic and applied aspects in 1991.

Works (selection)

Dieter Overdieck is the author of numerous plant ecological publications.

Individual evidence

  1. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/44547388_Modern_ecology_basic_and_applied_aspects_edited_by_G_Esser_and_D_Overdieck Modern ecology: basic and applied aspect