Stomatal closure prevents significant water losses during drought events. Yet, leaves are not perfectly hermetic and dehydration ensues through residual water losses, known as minimum conductance (g...

For TUD diversity is an essential feature and a quality criterion of an excellent university. Accordingly, we welcome all applicants who would like to commit themselves, their achievements and productivity to the success of the whole institution.

In this project, the Chair of Forest Botany at the Institute of Forest Botany and Forest Zoology offers, subject to the availability of resources, a project position as

Climate change is putting forests at risk. Our research shows that a tree's water-use strategy largely determines its growth across years: whereas one strategy performs better in normal years, the ot....

In vascular plants, the long-distance water transport between organs occurs under tension. Because it is difficult to study a system under negative pressure without measurement artefacts, the field of...

The research group Ecology at the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Basel in Switzerland invites applications for a fully funded four-year PhD position in alpine and arctic pla...