Scientific staff

Gerald Parolly

Contact
Functions
Teaching
Curriculum
Membership in scientific societies
Committee memberships
Research interests
Selected publications

Contact:
Dr. Gerald PAROLLY,
Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Freie Universität Berlin, Königin-Luise-Straße 6-8, D-14195 Berlin, Germany.
Phone: (+4930) 838-50117, E-mail: g.parolly@bgbm.org.

Functions:

Curator, Temperate and Mediterranean Living Collections
Coordinator, Pan-Caucasian Plant Biodiversity Initiative

Teaching:

Lecturer, Beuth Hochschule Berlin (Beuth HS, University of Applied Sciences Berlin): Lectures and courses in Fundamental & Systematic Botany, Tropical Crops & Tropical Cropping, Indoor Horticulture, etc. Supervision or co-supervision of 10 diploma theses on various fields of tropical cropping (e. g., sustainable coffee and vanilla cropping in Uganda; sustainable use oil palms in Indonesia), historical and recent production of potatoes, onions and geraniums (Pelargonium) in Germany, horticultural plant-physiology and applied vegetation science.
Lecturer, Institut für Biologie, Systematische Botanik & Pflanzengeographie: Lectures and various courses in Fundamental & Systematic Botany, vegetation sciences, etc.

Curriculum:

Born in Passau (Bavaria). University studies in botany, zoology, and ecology. 1992-1994 PhD study (granted by NaFöG and DAAD). 1995-1997 Research Assistant, BRYOSTRAT Project, Peru (DFG; Prof. Dr H. Kürschner, Systematische Botanik & Pflanzengeographie, FU Berlin). 1997-1999 Free-lance consultant (fauna, flora, vegetation and landscape-ecology in Berlin and Brandenburg) and Project Assistant the BGBM. 1999-2001 DFG research grant; performance of the "PONTAURUS Project". 2001-2004 Research Assistant, DFG-research group "Functional aspects in a tropical rainforest in S Ecuador: Diversity, dynamic processes and potentials of use from an ecosystem viewpoint", subproject "Life strategies and adaptations of epiphytic bryophytes" (Prof. Dr. H. Kürschner). 2001-2009 Associate Editor, Turkish Journal of Botany. 2004-2006 Short Time Expert, EU-Twinning Project "Capacity Building in the Field of Environment for Turkey, Component 3 Nature". Since 2001 Lecturer (partly as guest docent), University of Applied Sciences. Since WS 2006-2008 (Lecturer guest docent), Institut für Biologie, Systematische Botanik & Pflanzengeographie, FU Berlin. 2008-2010 Research Assistant, PESI Project (Prof. Dr W. Berendsohn) at the BGBM and Institute of Biologie, Systematische Botanik & Pflanzengeographie (Prof. Dr. H.H. Hilger). Since 2011 Curator, BGBM.

Membership in scientific societies:

Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik.
Gesellschaft zur Erforschung der Flora Deutschlands.
OPTIMA
IAPT

Research interests:

"PONTAURUS project" ("Sippendifferenzierung und Evolution in ausgewählten Vegetationseinheiten der Hochlagen arider und humider Gebirge in Vorderasien (Taurus und Pontisches Hochgebirge)", funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
Geobotany of SW Asia and the Mediterranean region, with a particular focus on the high mountain flora and vegetation.
Plant biodiversity of the Caucasus.
Plant biodiversity in Mediterranean and Irano-Turanian ecosystems (vascular plants and bryophytes); speciation and distribution patterns.
Theoretical and applied phytosociology.
Life strategies of bryophytes and angiosperms.
Diversity, ecosociology, and evolution of tropical epiphytic and Mediterranean bryophytes.
Floral and dispersal biology.
Mediterranean orchids.
Archeobotany.

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