Anja Fankhänel

Lab Assistant



phone (0049) 3641 - 57-6228
fax (0049) 3641 - 577200
email afank@bgc-jena.mpg.de
room: C1.024 Dendro Lab

Interests

• Old-growth forests
• Dendrochronology, wood anatomy, tree ring measurement
• Radiocarbon-dating
• Canopy and solar radiation analysis
• Sample preparation for isotope analysis etc.
  

Projects

Non-equilibrium dynamics in old-growth dark taiga in Siberia
Multiple successional pathway after fire in Siberian forests
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Funtioning Experiment China (DFG)
Intra- and interannual variability of anatomy and delta13C in tree rings (INTAS)
Siberian tall tower inventory project (ISTC)
FET database project
Vegetation shifts between black and white spruce forests after fire (DFG)
Forest diversity and carbon cycling - the BEAM-Project (DFG)

Curriculum vitae

• since 2005: Lab assistant at Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Independent Junior Research Group "Organismic Biogeochemistry"
• 2005: Participant of the 5^th International Winter School on "Wood Anatomy of Tree Rings" in Davos Laret, Switzerland, by Holger Gärtner and Fritz H. Schweingruber
• 2004: M.Sc. (Biology, biological Anthropology, Psychology) at University of Jena, Institute of Human genetics and Anthropology, Thesis: �Degenerative Veränderungen der Wirbelsäule - Untersuchung eines mittelalterlichen Gräberfeldes�

Publications

Wirth C, Messier C, Bergeron Y, Frank D, Fankhänel A (2009): Old-growth forest definitions: a pragmatic view. In Wirth C, Gleixner G, Heimann M (eds.) Old-growth forests: Function, fate and value. Ecological Studies, Vol. 207, Springer New York, Berlin, Heidelberg.