Karin Koinig

Dr. Karin Koinig
Alpine Freshwater Ecology
Departement of Ecology
University of Innsbruck
Technikerstrasse 25
AT-6020 Innsbruck
Austria


E-mail: karin.koinig(at)uibk.ac.at
URL Institution: https://www.uibk.ac.at/ecology/
Personal URL: link


Key Publications of Karin Koinig (up to ten) :
Heiri, O., Koinig, K.A., Spoetl, C., Barrett, S., Brauer, A., Drescher-Schneider, R., Gaar, D., Ivy-Ochs, S., Kerschner, H., Luetscher, M., Moran, A., Nicolussi, K., Preusser, F., Schmidt, R., Schoeneich, P., Schwoerer, C., Sprafke, T., Terhorst, B., Tinner, W., 2014. Palaeoclimate records 60-8 ka in the Austrian and Swiss Alps and their forelands. Quaternary Science Reviews 106, 186-205.

Koinig K.A., Shotyk W., Lotter A.F., Ohlendorf C. and Sturm M. 2003. 9000 years of geochemical evolution of lithogenic major and trace elements in alpine lake sediments - the role of climate, vegetation and land-use history. J. Paleolim. 30: 307-320.

Schmidt R., Kamenik C., Tessadri R., and Koinig K. (2006). Climatic changes from 12,000 to 4,000 years ago in the Austrian Central Alps tracked by sedimentological and biological proxies of a lake sediment core. J. Paleolim. 35: 491-505.

Koinig K.A., Kamenik C., Schmidt R., Agustí-Panareda A., Appleby P., Lami A., Prazakova M., Rose N., Schnell O.A., Tessadri R., Thompson R. and Psenner R. 2002. Environmental changes in an alpine lake (Gossenköllesee, Austria) over the last two centuries - the influence of air temperature on biological parameters. J. Paleolim. 28: 147-160.

Koinig K.A., Schmidt R., Sommaruga-Wögrath S., Tessadri R. and Psenner R. 1998. Climate change as the primary cause for pH shifts in a high alpine lake. Wat. Air. Soil Pollut. 104: 167-180.

Sommaruga-Wögrath S., Koinig K.A., Schmidt R., Sommaruga R., Tessadri R. and Psenner R. 1997. Temperature effects on the acidity of remote alpine lakes. Nature 387: 64-67.


Specialties of Karin Koinig:
  • Long term impact of climate and of atmospheric deposition on alpine lakes

  • Use of diatom as indicators for paleoenvironmental conditions

  • Lake-catchment interactions

  • Comparison of recent and historic environmental conditions

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