Annemarie Ohler

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Annemarie Ohler (born February 11, 1960 in Vorchdorf ) is an Austrian herpetologist and professor at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle .

Life

After graduating from the federal high boarding school in Traunsee Castle , Upper Austria , Ohler studied zoology , botany and biochemistry at the University of Vienna , where she wrote a dissertation in 1987 on the larval development of the pond frog ( Pelophylax kl. Esculentus ), a hybridogenic hybrid from the complex of forms the water frog ( Pelophylax ), was awarded a doctorate in philosophy. During her studies, she had a one-year research stay at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris , where she studied experimental embryology . In 1988 she obtained the Diplôme d'études approfondies (DEA) at the University of Paris VII . Since 2008 she has been a professor at the laboratory for reptiles and amphibians at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle.

Ohler is a specialist in the families of the Asian toad frogs (Megophryidae) and the real frogs (Ranidae), especially for species from tropical Asia and Africa. She works internationally with scientists from Southeast Asia and works together with international organizations for the protection of amphibian species. Ohler's bibliography comprises more than a hundred specialist articles.

In 2015 she published the children's book La vie des grenouilles together with Alain Dubois and in 2017 also with Dubois the work Évolution, extinction: le message des grenouilles .

First descriptions by Annemarie Ohler

Ohler was involved in the initial descriptions of the following families, genera and species:

literature

  • Interview: Annemarie Ohler In: Fabrizio Li Vigni: A Life for Reptiles and Amphibians , Edition Chimaira, 2013, ISBN 978-3-89973-199-6 , pp. 203–207

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personal data
SURNAME Ohler, Annemarie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian herpetologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Vorchdorf , Upper Austria