André-Alexander Weller

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André-Alexander Weller (born January 30, 1968 in Bad Schlema ) is a German ornithologist , botanist and conservationist.

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Weller studied biology at the University of Konstanz from 1988 to 1994 . He wrote his diploma thesis Bioacoustic Investigations on Blackcaps (Sylvia atricapilla L.) at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Radolfzell . Between 1995 and 1998 he did his doctorate at the Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig . His dissertation was on biogeography, geographic variation and taxonomy of the genus Amazilia (Aves: Trochilidae) . Since 1999 he has been working as a research assistant at the museum u. a. as part of the German Research Foundation project biogeography and taxonomy of Andean hummingbirds . Since 2002 he has been secretary of the Brehm Fund for International Bird Protection eV , a fund that promotes research and breeding programs for highly endangered bird species from all over the world.

His ornithological research focuses on biogeography , evolution , taxonomy , systematics , morphology , ecology and hybridization of hummingbirds . In addition to ornithology, he also dealt with botanical questions. Even if his research focus is certainly ornithology, he has z. B. published in 2011 on vascular plants in the Canary Islands and Madeira .

Since 2012, he has been writing a report on research projects for the implementation of a national strategy on biological diversity for the Federal Ministry of Education and Research . From 2008 to 2014 he was editor-in-chief and since 2014 lecturer at Ornitología Neotropical .

Between 1993 and 1995 he took part in bird ringing campaigns at the ornithological station in Radolfzell, Lake Neusiedl and in a bird plan counting on Sylt . This was followed in 1997 by an internship with bird ringing in Mata dos Godoy . In 2007 he led an ornithological excursion in the Wagbach lowlands . Between 2007 and 2013 ornithological and natural history study trips to Tenerife , Mallorca , Madeira, the United Arab Emirates , Cyprus , Extremadura , Texel and the Rieselfeldern Münster followed . In a cooperation project with SPAY - Union for the Protection and Development of Hymettus Mountain , he monitored the bioacoustics of birds on the Hymettos in 2010 . In 2010 he conceptually supported the art & nature project Vogelflughafen Hamm . Between 2011 and 2013 he carried out botanical and ornithological excursions on the Siegniederung .

Between 1996 and 2009 he took part in numerous museum-related research trips. In 1996 he visited the Museu Nacional da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro , the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo and the Museu de Biologia Professor Mello Leitão in Santa Teresa for the Neotropical Ornithological Society . In 1996 and 2000 he visited the Natural History Museum at Tring as part of a grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG) . Between 1996 and 2004 he also traveled to the United States for the DFG . With visits to the American Museum of Natural History , the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences , the National Museum of Natural History , the Louisiana Museum of Natural History , the Louis Agassiz Museum of Comparative Zoology , the Field Museum of Natural History, and the Moore Laboratory of He was zoology at practically all the major natural history museums in the United States. In 2000 he visited the Instituto de Ciencias Naturales in Bogota and the Museo de Historia Natural in Lima . In 2001 it was the Natural History Museum in Bern and the Colección Ornitológica William H. Phelps in Caracas that he visited. The St. Petersburg Zoological Museum followed a year later, and the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2009 .

From 1999 to 2013 he chaired the Student Fund Committee of the Neotropical Ornithological Society . He has been a member of the Board of Directors in this company since 2008 .

First descriptions by André-Alexander Weller

Weller has described some species or subspecies that were new to science. He has with u. a. published together with Karl-Ludwig Schuchmann , Iris Heynen , Swen Christoph Renner , Eike Wulfmeyer , Alexander Cortés-Diago , Luis Alfonso Ortega and Luis Mazariegos-Hurtado . The new species and subspecies include chronological and a .:

species

  • Isabella snow pants ( Eriocnemis isabellae Cortes-Diago , Ortega , Mazariegos-Hurtado & Weller , 2007)

The Shiny Sun Angel ( Heliangelus splendidus ) and its subspecies Heliangelus splendidus pyropus , which Weller described in 2011, were rejected by the South American Classification Committee .

Subspecies

Works (selection)

  • On types of trochilids in the Natural Museum, Tring. I. Amazilia sumichrasti Salvin, in relation to morphology and biogeography within the A. beryllina complex . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 118 , no. 4 , 1998, pp. 249-256 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • with Karl-Ludwig Schuchmann: Geographical variation in the southern distributional range of the Rufous-tailed Hummingbird, Amazilia tzacatl De la Llave , 1832: a new subspecies from Nariño, southwestern Colombia . In: Journal of Ornithology . tape 140 , no. 4 , 1999, p. 457-466 , doi : 10.1007 / BF01650990 .
  • On types of trochilids in The Natural History Museum, Tring II. Re-evaluation of Erythronota (?) Elegans Gould 1860: a presumed extinct species in the genus Chlorostilbon . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 119 , no. 3 , 1999, p. 197-202 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Biogeography, geographic variation and habitat preference in the Amazilia Hummingbird, Amazilia amazilia Lesson (Aves: Trochilidae), with notes on the status of Amazilia alticola Gould . In: Journal of Ornithology . tape 141 , no. 1 , 2000, pp. 93-101 , doi : 10.1007 / BF01651776 .
  • A new hummingbird subspecies from southern Bolivar, Venezuela, with notes on biogeography and taxonomy of the Saucerottia viridigaster-cupreicauda species group . In: Ornitologia Neotropical . tape 11 , no. 2 , 2000, pp. 143–154 ( ibiologia.unam.mx [PDF; 609 kB ]).
  • with Karl-Ludwig Schuchmann, Iris Heynen: Biogeography and taxonomy of the Andean hummingbird genus Haplophaedia Simon (Aves: Trochilidae), with the description of a new subspecies from Southern Ecuador . In: Ornithological Indicator . tape 39 , no. 1 , 2000, pp. 17–42 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  • On types of trochilids in the Natural History Museum, Tring III. Amazilia alfaroana Underwood (1896), with notes on biogeography and geographical variation in the Saucerottia saucerrottei superspecies . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 121 , no. 2 , 2001, p. 98-107 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • with Swen Christoph Renner: A new subspecies of Heliodoxa xanthogonys (Aves, Trochilidae) from the southern Pantepui highlands, with biogeographical and taxonomic notes . In: Ararajubo . tape 9 , no. 1 , 2001, p. 1-5 ( revbrasilornitol.com.br [PDF; 510 kB ]).
  • with Karl-Ludwig Schuchmann, Iris Heynen: Systematics and biogeography of the Andean genus Eriocnemis (Aves: Trochilidae) . In: Journal of Ornithology . tape 142 , no. 4 , 2001, p. 433-481 , doi : 10.1007 / BF01651342 .
  • First Confirmed Record of Agyrtria Versicolor (Trochilidae) for Peru . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 122 , no. 4 , 2002, p. 314-317 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • with Karl-Ludwig Schuchmann, Eike Wulfmeyer: Biogeography and taxonomy of Lafresnaya (Trochilidae), with a new subspecies from Colombia . In: Ornitologia Neotropical . tape 14 , 2003, p. 157–171 ( ibiologia.unam.mx [PDF; 578 kB ]). * with Karl-Ludwig Schuchmann: Biogeographic and taxonomic revision of the trainbearers Lesbia (Trochilidae), with the description of two new subspecies . In: Ornithological Indicator . tape 43 , no. 2 , 2004, p. 115-136 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  • A hummingbird species new to Peru: range extension for the Greenish Puffleg Haplophaedia aureliae . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 125 , no. 2 , 2005, p. 136-140 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • with Christiane Quaisser: Taxonomic identity of Trochilus verticalis W. Deppe, 1830 . In: Zoologische Mededelingen . tape 79 , no. 3 , 2005, p. 147–155 ( repository.naturalis.nl [PDF; 232 kB ]).
  • with Alexander Cortés-Diago, Luis Alfonso Ortega, Luis Mazariegos-Hurtado: A new species of Eriocnemis (Trochilidae) from southwest Colombia . In: Ornitologia Neotropical . tape 18 , no. 2 , 2007, p. 161–170 ( sora.unm.edu [PDF; 480 kB ]).
  • Revision of the Amethyst-throated Sunangel (Heliangelus amethysticollis): A new subspecies from sounthern Peru . In: Ornitologia Neotropical . tape 20 , no. 4 , 2009, ISSN  1075-4377 , p. 609-618 .
  • with Karl-Ludwig Schuchmann: Re-evaluation of Agyrtria brevirostris Lesson (Aves, Trochilidae), with notes on its taxonomic status and relationships to A. chionopectus Gould and A. versicolor Vieillot . In: Zoosystematics and Evolution . tape 85 , no. 1 , 2009, p. 143-149 , doi : 10.1002 / zoos.200800020 .
  • New records and noteworthy range extensions of vascular plants from the Canary Islands and Madeira . In: Bocagiana . No. 234 , 2011, ISSN  0523-7904 , p. 1–11 ( publications.cm-funchal.pt [PDF; 338 kB ]).
  • Geographic and age-related variation in the Violet-throated Sunangel (Heliangelus viola, Trochilidae): evidence for a new species and subspecies . In: Ornitologia Neotropical . tape 22 , no. 4 , 2011, p. 601–614 ( sora.unm.edu [PDF; 2,3 MB ]).
  • with Karl-Ludwig Schuchmann, Todor Dimitrov Ganchev, Olaf Jahn, Marinêz Isaac Marques: Recording of resident and migratory bird species in the Pantanal of Brazil. Pantanal - the hub of bird migration between the hemispheres of the New World . In: Born to fly . tape 31 , no. 1 , 2013, p. 3–5 ( brehm-fonds.de [PDF; 5.9 MB ]).
  • Between vineyards and steppe lakes: nature at Lake Neusiedl . In: Born to fly . tape 32 , no. 1 , 2014, p. 8–14 ( brehm-fonds.de [PDF; 2.9 MB ]).
  • The great orchestra of animals. In: Born to fly . tape 32 , no. 1 , 2014, p. 14–16 ( brehm-fonds.de [PDF; 2.9 MB ]).
  • Bird of the year 2015. The hawk - the secret city hunter. In: Born to fly . tape 32 , no. 1 , 2014, p. 16 ( brehm-fonds.de [PDF; 2.9 MB ]).
  • Remarkable vascular plant finds in and around Bonn . In: Floristic Newsletters . tape 48/49 , no. 1 , 2015, p. 53–56 ( researchgate.net [PDF; 2.3 MB ]).
  • with Karl-Ludwig Schuchmann, Dietmar Jürgens: Biogeography and taxonomy of racket-tail hummingbirds (Aves: Trochilidae: Ocreatus): evidence for species delimitation from morphology and display behavior . In: Zootaxa . tape 4200 , no. 1 , 2016, ISSN  1175-5326 , p. 83-108 , doi : 10.11646 / zootaxa.4200.1.3 .
  • with Paolo Ramoni ‐ Perazzi, Karl ‐ Ludwig Schuchmann, Irma Alejandra Soto ‐ Werschitz, Marcelo Passamani: Niches and radiations: A case study on the Andean Sapphire ‐ vented Puffleg (Eriocnemis luciani) and Coppery ‐ naped Puffleg (E. sapphiropygia) (Aves , Trochilidae) . In: Journal of Avian Biology . November 12, 2019, doi : 10.1111 / jav.02242 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Proposal (544) to South American Classification Committee: Recognize newly described Heliangelus splendidus
personal data
SURNAME Weller, André-Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ornithologist, botanist and conservationist
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Schlema