Gregor Aas

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Gregor Aas (born January 29, 1957 in Bamberg ) is a German forest scientist . He has specialized in the field of dendrology and has published numerous publications. He is the director of the Ecological and Botanical Garden at the University of Bayreuth . His brother is the ethnologist Norbert Aas .

Life

Gregor Aas grew up in his hometown Bamberg, where he also passed the Abitur. From 1978 to 1982 he studied forest sciences at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and at the ETH Zurich . Between 1984 and 1990 he worked as a research assistant at the chair for forest botany at Munich University, where he wrote his dissertation on the separation and cross-ability of English and sessile oak (Quercus robur L. and Q [uercus] petraea [Matt.] Liebl .) to Dr. forest. received his doctorate . In 1990 he received the Thurn-und-Taxis-Advancement Award for Forest Science for his dissertation .

For the next six years, Gregor Aas worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Forest Protection and Dendrology in the Department of Forest and Wood Research at ETH Zurich . At the ETH followed in 1996 with the research paper Morphological and Ecological Variation of Central European Quercus Species. His habilitation in the field of dendrology also contributed to the understanding of biodiversity . In addition to the oak species, Aas has dealt intensively with willow and whitebeam as well as with the silver fir . He is also researching the question of the extent to which non-native tree species can contribute to the formation of a climate-plastic forest that is better able to cope with the assumed consequences of global warming in Germany .

Gregor Aas has been director of the Ecological and Botanical Garden at the University of Bayreuth since 1996 .

In October 1996 Aas was appointed director of the Ecological and Botanical Garden at the University of Bayreuth. In this function he is also a member of the Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research , or BayCEER for short . Aas has also been a private lecturer for botany at the University of Bayreuth and for dendrology at the ETH Zurich since 1998 .

A wider audience is Gregor carrion above all by its GU -Naturführer Trees (1987) and deciduous trees become known (1992). These identification books had multiple editions and were translated into Danish , Norwegian , Dutch , English , Polish , Spanish , French and Slovak .

In addition, Aas publishes regularly in various specialist journals from the fields of forestry, dendrology, botany and horticulture . Numerous contributions by him have appeared in the series Reports from the Bavarian State Institute for Forests and Forestry .

In his spare time, Gregor Aas was an active basketball player . He played for FC Bamberg in the 1970s . In the 1980s he was a coach in the basketball department of FC Bayern Munich . He later took on this role for many years at BBC Bayreuth .

Gregor Aas has been a deputy member of the nature conservation council of the government of Upper Franconia since 2014 .

Fonts

  • GU nature guide trees. Recognize and identify deciduous and coniferous trees in Europe , with the collaboration of Peter Schütt and with photos by Andreas Riedmiller , Gräfe and Unzer, Munich 1987 (11th edition by this publisher 2002, ISBN 3-7742-4873-7 )
  • Studies on the separation and cross-ability of English oak and sessile oak (Quercus robur L. and Q [uercus] petraea [Matt.] Liebl.) , Dissertation, University of Munich 1989
  • GU nature guide for deciduous trees. Identify, get to know and protect the most important deciduous trees in Europe. Guide: Tree protection in nature and the garden , with photos by Andreas Riedmiller and drawings by György Jankovics, Gräfe and Unzer, Munich 1992 ( ISBN 3-7742-1486-7 )
  • as co-author: silver fir origins. New results on provenance research at Abies alba Mill. , Volume 5 of the series Contributiones biologiae arborum , ecomed, Landsberg am Lech 1993 ( ISBN 3-609-65820-7 )
  • Morphological and ecological variation of Central European Quercus species. A contribution to the understanding of biodiversity , habilitation thesis, ETH Zurich 1996 (in print as Volume 19 of the Libri botanici series , IHW-Verlag, Eching near Munich 1998, ISBN 3-930167-28-X )
  • as co-author: Promotion of the oak. Strategy for the preservation of a natural and cultural heritage in Switzerland , in the environmental series, No. 383: Forest and Wood , Federal Office for the Environment, Forests and Landscape (BUWAL), Bern 2005 ( page no longer available , search in web archives: here as PDF retrievable )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bafu.admin.ch
  • together with Ulrike Bertram and Marianne Lauerer: Discover - Explain - Preserve: the world of plants in the ecological-botanical garden. 2nd, expanded edition. Friends of the Ecological and Botanical Garden, Bayreuth 2008

Gregor Aas also founded the encyclopedia of woody plants together with Peter Schütt, Hans Joachim Schuck and Ulla Lang in 1994 and is still one of the editors and authors of this dendrological special encyclopedia to this day (as of 2015) . In this context he was also one of the editors of the book Lexikon der Forstbotanik. Morphology, pathology, ecology and systematics of important tree and shrub species (ecomed, Landsberg am Lech 1992, ISBN 3-609-65800-2 ). He is also co-author of the Encyclopedia of Garden Trees, edited by Andreas Bärtels and Peter A. Schmidt (2nd, updated and expanded edition, Ulmer, Stuttgart-Hohenheim 2013, ISBN 978-3-8001-7738-7 ).

Web links

  • Gregor Aas on the website of the Bayreuth Center for Ecology and Environmental Research

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Christian Martens (-mar-): About the person: Dr. Gregor Aas . In: Sonntag in Franken , Volume 2, No. 47 of November 21, 2010, p. 15 ( online edition , accessed January 10, 2015)
  2. ^ List of the winners of the Thurn-und-Taxis-Förderpreis für der Forstwissenschaft ; Retrieved July 31, 2011
  3. ↑ a b Editor: Thurn and Taxis Prize to Dr. Carrion . In: Forst und Holz , Volume 45, issue 22/1990, p. 670, ISSN  0932-9315
  4. ↑ cf. for example Albert Reif, Gregor Aas, Franz Essl: Does the forest need new, non-native tree species in times of climate change? . In: Natur und Landschaft , Volume 86, No. 6/2011, pp. 256–260
  5. ↑ BayCEER members ; Retrieved July 31, 2011
  6. ↑ Course catalog / lecturers in the spring semester 2011 at ETH Zurich; Retrieved July 31, 2011
  7. ↑ cf. the list of publications by Gregor Aas; accessed on January 10, 2015
  8. ↑ History of the basketball department ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of FC Bayern Munich; accessed on January 10, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fcb-basketball.de
  9. ^ NN: New nature conservation advisory board appointed to the government of Upper Franconia . Press release of the government of Upper Franconia No. 100/14 of October 28, 2014; accessed on January 10, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Carrion, Gregor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forest scientist
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Bamberg