PEAK-Expert
Ulrike Tappeiner
Focus
LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY
Kontakt
E-Mail:
ulrike.tappeiner@uibk.ac.at
Phone:
+43 512 507 51610
Web:
Department of Ecology
Personal Website
Speaks: German, Italian, English
Ulrike Tappeiner is a professor at the Institute of Ecology at the University of Innsbruck and coordinates the research centre "Ecology of the Alpine Region". She works in the field of ecosystem and landscape ecology in mountains, focussing on the effects of global change and land use changes. Her work combines process studies in areas such as biodiversity, energy and water with landscape ecology. The combined influence of land-use and climate change on ecosystem services is of special importance. Tappeiner is co-chair of the APCC Special Report: Land Use and Climate Change in Austria, which will be published in early 2024, and co-author of the Austrian Climate Report (AAR2), which is currently being prepared.
Focus-Cloud: Ecosystems, mountains, landscape ecology, global change, biodiversity, ecosystem services, sustainability, land use, carbon cycles, nutrient cycles, climate crisis
About
Ulrike Tappeiner is head of the "Ecosystems and Landscape Ecology" research group at the Department of Ecology, coordinator of the research center "Ecology of the Alpine Region" at the University of Innsbruck and President of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. She studied biology and computer science at the University of Innsbruck and habilitated in ecology in 1996. Tappeiner has headed the Eurac Institute for Alpine Environment since 1995 and was Dean of the Faculty of Biology at the University of Innsbruck from 2012 to 2018. She conducts research on biodiversity, climate change and ecosystem services and has authored over 270 publications and 25 books. Tappeiner has received several science awards, including the Science Prize of the South Tyrolean Sparkasse Foundation in 2019 and the Research Award South Tyrol in 2020. She has been President of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano since 2018. Tappeiner is coordinating Lead Author of the 2nd Austrian Assessment Report on Climate Change, which will be prepared by 120 scientists by 2025.