Rainer Lösch
Rainer Lösch (born January 11, 1944 in Friedland in the Jizera Mountains ) is a German professor of botany .
Rainer Lösch studied biology , chemistry and Catholic theology at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . At first he was a research assistant and assistant in Würzburg and Kiel. Since 1989 he has been Professor of Botany at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf . There he is head of the geobotany department .
The main research areas of Rainer Lösch are the water balance and the production biology of plants (vegetation-atmosphere interactions). In addition, he deals with the ecological principles of plant evolutionary processes and, as a further scientific focus, with ecophysiological studies of tropical and subtropical vegetation in the Mediterranean region . He is editor of the geobotanical journal Flora (Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants).
In 1996 Rainer Lösch was appointed a full member of the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts , natural science class.
Works
- Wolfgang Frey, Rainer Lösch: Textbook of Geobotany. Plant and vegetation in space and time . 2nd Edition. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 978-3-8274-1193-8
- Rainer Lösch: Water balance of plants 2nd edition. Quelle & Meyer 2003, ISBN 978-3-4940-1334-3
Web links
- Literature by and about Rainer Lösch in the catalog of the German National Library
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| SURNAME | Delete, Rainer |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German botanist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 11, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Friedland |