Christian Zang

I am a reseach associate at the Chair of Ecoclimatology, Technische Universität München. The focus of my current research is on tree growth in response to climate and extreme climatic events, and my areas of expertise include dendroecology, bioindication, niche-modeling, vegetation dynamics & island biogeography. I hold a PhD in natural sciences and a diploma in geoecology. Here is my academic CV.

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Zang C, Pretzsch H & Rothe A (2011) Size-dependent responses to summer drought in Scots pine, Norway spruce and common oak. Trees -- Structure and Function online first

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Resources

Scientific Software

bootRes is an R package for bootstrapped response function analysis for dendroclimatic calibration I wrote
I contribute to dplR, an R package of dendrochronology programs

Literature Database

Bibliothek.bib, a growing collection of 1,300+ bibliographic records, mostly dendro-related.

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For my research I almost exclusively use free software. Most of my work is done within GNU Emacs. I do most of my computations in R, interfaced to Emacs via ESS. I use the wonderful org-mode with org-babel for most of my writing and literate programming purposes. Whenever things get to complex for lightweight markup, I go directly to LaTeX and BibTeX, using AucTeX, RefTeX and CDLaTeX in Emacs. My citations get managed with Ebib.

Publications

2011

Zang C, Pretzsch H & Rothe A (2011) Size-dependent responses to summer drought in Scots pine, Norway spruce and common oak. Trees -- Structure and Function online first

Zang C, Rothe A, Weis W, Pretzsch H (2011) Zur Baumarteneignung bei Klimawandel: Ableitung der Trockenstress-Anfälligkeit wichtiger Waldbaumarten aus Jahrringbreiten. Allgemeine Forst- und Jagdzeitung 182: 98-112

Nikolova PS, Zang C, Pretzsch H (2011) Combining tree-ring analyses on stems and coarse roots to study the growth dynamics of forest trees: a case study on Norway spruce (Picea abies [L.] H. Karst) Trees – Structure and Function 25: 859-872

Rothe A, Dittmar C, Zang C (2011) Tanne - vom Sorgenkind zum Hoffnungsträger. LWF Wissen 66: 59-63

2010

Zang C (2010) Growth reactions of temperate forest trees to summer drought - a multispecies tree-ring network approach. PhD Thesis, Technische Universität München