Dr. Michael Klinge
Focus of research:
- Geomorphology und Paleoclimatology
- Soil Science, Botany, Geology
- Glacial and Periglacial Morphology
- Cartography, GIS and Remote Sensing
- Geopysical analyses
- High Mountains, arid and semi-arid Regions
- Regional Focus: Central Asia, Alps, Mediterranean Sea, Harz Mountains
- Landscape and enviromental analysis, change detection
- Historical Geography, particularly Mining Industry, Development of Industry and Traffic
- Reconstructing Holocene landscape development in Mongolia influenced by climate and pastoralism, based on geomorphological archives
- Analysis of the geo-ecological parameters controlling the spatial pattern of forest islands and discontinuous permafrost and its modification by forest fire, forest use and climate change in the forest-steppe of Mongolia
- Upper Quaternary glaciation and aeolian sediments as archives for the paleoclimatology of the high-continental mountains of the Mongolian Altai and Khangai
- Forest regeneration and biodiversity at the forest-steppe border of the Altai and Khangai Mountains under contrasting developments of livestock numbers in Kazakhstan and Mongolia
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