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Georg Kindermann
Research Scholar
Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services Research Group
Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program
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Biography
Georg Kindermann is a research scholar in Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services research group of the IIASA Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program. He first joined the Institute in 2005.He holds a PhD in forestry, with particular focus on forest growth and yield modeling. He has experience in forest measurement and sample plot design, data storage (SQL), statistics (R), programming (C++, Julia) and GIS (QGis, Grass, gdal). He is developing a model estimating forest growth anywhere in the world, called the Global Forest Model (G4M), which allows simulation of the amount of biomass for bioenergy and carbon stored in forests, reacting to changes in the environment (temperature, precipitation, C02) and management (rotation time, thinning). In combination with economic estimates such as the wood price, it is possible to calculate the competition over land between different land uses and to find regions which have high pressure on deforestation.
Currently, Kindermann is also employed at the Federal Research and Training Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape (BFW), Austria, where he is working on tree ring width analysis. There, he is developing a regional single tree forest growth simulator.
Previously, Kindermann worked at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (BOKU) in the Institute of Forest Growth and Yield Research in Vienna. He refined a distance dependent single tree growth simulator (Moses) to use it as decision support in companies. He also investigated the field of natural regeneration.
Last update: 06 JUN 2024
Publications
Zhou, L., Wang, S., Kindermann, G. , Yu, G., Huang, M., Mickler, R., Kraxner, F., Shi, H., & Gong, Y. (2013). Carbon dynamics in woody biomass of forest ecosystem in China with forest management practices under future climate change and rising CO2 concentration. Chinese Geographical Science 23 (5) 519-536. 10.1007/s11769-013-0622-9.
Kraxner, F., Nordström, E., Havlik, P. , Gusti, M., Mosnier, A., Frank, S. , Valin, H. , Fritz, S. , Fuss, S., Kindermann, G. , McCallum, I. , Khabarov, N. , Bottcher, H., See, L. , Aoki, K., Schmid, E., Mathe, L., & Obersteiner, M. (2013). Global bioenergy scenarios - Future forest development, land-use implications, and trade-offs. Biomass and Bioenergy 57 86-96. 10.1016/j.biombioe.2013.02.003.
Tum, M., McCallum, I. , Kindermann, G. , Guenther, K.P., & Schmid, E. (2013). Sustainable bioenergy potentials for Europe and the globe. Geoinformatics and Geostatistics: An Overview S1 10.4172/2327-4581.S1-010.
Lei, Z., Shaoqiang, W., Weimin, J., Zhe, X., Kindermann, G. , Jingming, C., & Hao, S. (2013). Assessment of Carbon Dynamics of Forest Ecosystems in the Poyang Lake Basin Responding to Afforestation and Future Climate Change. Journal of Resources and Ecology 4 (1) 11-19. 10.5814/j.issn.1674-764x.2013.01.002.
Wetterlund, E., Leduc, S., Dotzauer, E., & Kindermann, G. (2013). Optimal use of forest residues in Europe under different policies-second generation biofuels versus combined heat and power. Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery 3 (1) 3-16. 10.1007/s13399-012-0054-2.