Siegfried Fink (born 1956, died 2023) was a German Forest ecologist with the main field of Forest botanic. Fink was professor forest-botanic at the
Universität Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.
Finks research group took care of the Forest-botanic-garden of
Freiburg
Freiburg im Breisgau or simply Freiburg is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, fourth-largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart, Mannheim and Karlsruhe. Its built-up area has a population of abou ...
. He and his were working on methods of forest botanic research (
microskopy and microbiology). The group was doing research on matrixes of wood-decomposing
fungi
A fungus (: fungi , , , or ; or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and mold (fungus), molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified as one ...
at different kind of woods in vivo an in vitro and other questions concerning the relation of fungus and trees.
He is the inventor of
transparent wood.
Publications
* Siegfried Fink (1999): ''Pathological and Regenerative Plant Anatomy.'' Buch. GEBRÜDER BORNTRAEGER, ISBN 978-3-443-14027-4
* Mark Schubert, Siegfried Fink (2008): ''Evaluation of
Trichoderma spp. as a biocontrol agent against wood decay fungi in urban trees''.
Biological control
Biological control or biocontrol is a method of controlling pests, whether pest animals such as insects and mites, weeds, or pathogens affecting animals or plants by using other organisms. It relies on predation, parasitism, herbivory, or o ...
45.1 (2008): 111–123.
* Siegfried Fink (2009): ''Hazard tree identification by visual tree assessment (VTA): Scientifically solid and practically approved''.
Arboricultural Journal 32.3 (2009): 139–155.
* Giuliana Deflorio, Siegfried Fink et al. (2008): ''Detection of incipient decay in tree stems with sonic tomography after wounding and fungal inoculation''."Wood Science and Technology 42.2 (2008): 117–132.
* Siegfried Fink (1992): ''Transparent wood–a new approach in the functional study of wood structure''. Holzforschung Nr. 46
References
21st-century German biologists
Academic staff of the University of Fribourg
1956 births
Living people
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