People

Camilla Wellstein is head of the research area Analysis and Management of Mountain Ecosystems and member of the governing body of the Competence Center for Economic, Environmental and Social Sustainability, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano. She collaborated with international networks in H2020 projects on biodiversity and the impact of climate change and management on ecosystems. She combines organism biology with ecosystem ecology through experimental, monitoring and modeling approaches. She is currently studying vegetation dynamics, endemic species, plant functional traits and the diversity of grassland and forest ecosystems in the Italian Alps.