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Christian Körner
Researcher at University of Basel
Publications - 398
Citations - 44617
Christian Körner is an academic researcher from University of Basel. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biodiversity & Ecosystem. The author has an hindex of 103, co-authored 376 publications receiving 39637 citations. Previous affiliations of Christian Körner include Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research & United States Department of Agriculture.
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Alpine plant life
TL;DR: In this article, a taxonomic index (genera) of alpine plants is presented, with a brief review of water relations and water relations of alpin plants in the alpine life zone.
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The use of ‘altitude’ in ecological research
TL;DR: There are two categories of environmental changes with altitude: those physically tied to meters above sea level, such as atmospheric pressure, temperature and clear-sky turbidity; and those that are not generally altitude specific, suchAs moisture, hours of sunshine, wind, season length, geology and even human land use.
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Plant diversity and productivity experiments in european grasslands
Andy Hector,Bernhard Schmid,Carl Beierkuhnlein,Maria C. Caldeira,M. Diemer,Panayiotis G. Dimitrakopoulos,John A. Finn,Helena Freitas,Paul S. Giller,J. Good,R. Harris,Peter Högberg,Kerstin Huss-Danell,Jasmin Joshi,Ari Jumpponen,Christian Körner,Paul Leadley,Michel Loreau,A. Minns,Christa P. H. Mulder,G. O'Donovan,S. J. Otway,João Pereira,Alexandra Prinz,David Read,Michael Scherer-Lorenzen,Ernst Detlef Schulze,A.-S. D. Siamantziouras,Eva Spehn,A. C. Terry,Andreas Y. Troumbis,F. I. Woodward,Shigeo Yachi,John H. Lawton +33 more
TL;DR: Niche complementarity and positive species interactions appear to play a role in generating diversity-productivity relationships within sites in addition to sampling from the species pool.
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A world-wide study of high altitude treeline temperatures
Christian Körner,Jens Paulsen +1 more
TL;DR: At a coarse scale, the treelines of the world's mountains seem to follow a common isotherm, but the evidence for this has been indirect so far, so this work aims at underpinning this with facts.
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A re-assessment of high elevation treeline positions and their explanation
TL;DR: It is hypothesized that the life form “tree” is limited at treeline altitudes by the potential investment, rather than production, of assimilates (growth as such,rather than photosynthesis or the carbon balance, being limited), and root zone temperature, though largely unknown, is likely to be most critical.