Department
Research Station of Quaternary Palaeontology
Organization
Research Station of Quaternary Palaeontology
Email
frank.kienast@senckenberg.de

Location

Weimar , Thüringen 99423
Germany

Science Specialties

paleobotany, phytogeography, quaternary paleoecology, vegetation ecology, permafrost

Current Research

Vegetational development during the Pleistocene in Northern Siberia. Climatic indication by macrofossils of vascular plants, preserved in permafrost deposits. Phytogeography of "tundra-steppe" relicts, main focus on Beringia, vegetation - herbivore interactions

Websites

http://www.senckenberg.de/root/index.php?page_id=5243&PHPSESSID=pdhsetfnbm1on2blvfa7utmbk1&organisation=true&institutID=1&abteil