Rudiger Wittig

Rüdiger Wittig (born October 17, 1946 in Herne ) is a German biologist ; Most recently he worked as a university professor for geobotany and ecology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

Career

From 1968 to 1973 Wittig studied biology and chemistry at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster and passed his state examination in biology and chemistry. From 1973 to 1976 he did his doctorate at the Botanical Institute of the Westphalian Wilhelms University. From 1976 to 1980 he worked as a research assistant at the Department of Landscape Ecology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University. In 1980 he completed his habilitation on the subject of the moors and oligotrophic waters of the Westphalian Bight - flora, vegetation, conservation efficiency and care suggestions . From 1980 to 1988 Wittig was Professor of Botany at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf , where he headed the Department of Geobotany at the Institute for Ecological Plant Physiology and Geobotany. Between 1989 and 2013 he worked as a professor ( grade C4) for ecology and geobotany at the Botanical Institute of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.

Main areas of work

Flora and vegetation of the West African savanna (6 major research projects since 1990)
Anthropogenic changes in flora, vegetation and biotopes
Urban ecology
Immission ecology
Regional biodiversity research ( Rothaargebirge , Taunus , Frankfurt am Main)

Memberships (selection)

Publishing activities

Rüdiger Wittig is editor of the series:

Geobotanical Colloquia
Flora et Vegetatio Sudano-Sambesica (previously under the title: Etudes sur la flore et végétation du Burkina Faso et des pays avoisinants)

Fonts (selection)

Wittig has published over 250 publications, including the books:

R. Wittig: Ecology of the big city flora . G. Fischer, Stuttgart / Jena 1991, 261 pages ISBN 3-437-20460-2
Herbert Sukopp u. R. Wittig (Ed.): Urban ecology . G. Fischer, Stuttgart 1993, 402 pp. ISBN 3-437-26000-6
R. Wittig: settlement vegetation . Ulmer, Stuttgart 2002, 252 pp. ISBN 3-8001-3693-7 (2nd edition 2008)
R. Wittig et al. Bruno Streit (Ed.): Ecology . UTB basics, Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2004, 303 pp. ISBN 3-8252-2542-9
R. Wittig: Geobotany . UTB-Basics, Verlag Haupt, Bern 2012, 420 pp. ISBN 978-3-8252-3753-0
R. Wittig et al. M. Niekisch : Biodiversity . Springer Spectrum, Wiesbaden 2014, 585 pp. ISBN 978-3-642-54693-8

Special

In 2002 a blackberry was named after Rüdiger Wittig: Rubus wittigianus .

Web links

Short biography (University of Frankfurt) with list of publications
Literature by and about Rüdiger Wittig in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature by and about Rüdiger Wittig in the catalog of the Virtual Library of Biology (vifabio)

Individual evidence

^ Farewell party February 15, 2013
^ Flora et Vegetatio Sudano-Sambesica
^ Heinrich E. Weber: Rubus wittigianus spec. nov., a spreading blackberry species in Westphalia and near Osnabrück . In: Osnabrücker Naturwissenschaftliche Mitteilungen . No. 28, 2002, pp. 153-158.

personal data
SURNAME	Wittig, Rudiger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German biologist, professor of geobotany and ecology
DATE OF BIRTH	October 17, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	Herne

[1] Farewell party February 15, 2013

[2] Flora et Vegetatio Sudano-Sambesica

[weber2002-3] Heinrich E. Weber: Rubus wittigianus spec. nov., a spreading blackberry species in Westphalia and near Osnabrück . In: Osnabrücker Naturwissenschaftliche Mitteilungen . No. 28, 2002, pp. 153-158.