Introduction.- Preparation techniques - Making anatomical structures visible.- Morphology of the plant body.- Cellular composition of the plant bodies.- Structure of cell walls and cell contents.- Primary, secondary and tertiary meristem.- Stem anatomical structures of major taxonomic units.- Evolution of stems.- Anatomical adaptions to permanent changed environmental conditions.- Anatomical adaptions to temporarily changed environmental conditions.- Coexistence of algae, fungi and vascular plants.- Wood decay.- Fossilization, permineralization, coalification, carbonization and wetwood conservation.- Technically altered wood products.
Fritz Hans Schweingruber
After studies at the University
of Bern, Switzerland and postdocs by Hal Fritts in Tucson, Arizona
he was teaching during 26 years wood anatomy and dendrochronology
at the University of Basel. At the same time he was leader of the
Research Group Tree Rings and Environment at the Swiss Federal
Institute of Forest, Snow and Landscape in Birmensdorf, Switzerland
where he constructed the Northern hemispheric dendroclimatological
densitometric network and wood anatomical books from Europe, Russia
and the Sahara. 1986 he founded the International dendroecological
field week and 2001 the International dendroanatomical weeks.
Annett Börner
She is a geo-ecologist with a special
interest plant ecology. She has worked for more than 15 years as an
editor and designer in the field of scientific publications, in
print and web media. She specialises in science communication, and
her clients include a number of major research institutes in Europe
and Australia. She lives in Adelaide, Australia.
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