Author Biography
Bernhard Splechtna holds an engineering diploma in forestry from BOKU, and earned his PhD in forest sciences at the University of British Columbia, Canada, in 2002. He published about forest growth–site relationships and the disturbance history of the virgin forest Rothwald while working as a post-doc at the Institute of Forest Ecology at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna. He is now employed as a part-time researcher and lecturer at BOKU. His main interests are disturbance history, dendrochronology, and plant ecology, but also the relationship of humans to nature, e.g., the perception of wilderness and biodiversity in society as a whole and in different groups, and other issues related to nature conservation.
