Anthony S. Cheke

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Anthony Stephen Cheke (born August 21, 1945 ) is a British biologist, ecologist and ornithologist .

Cheke studied in Oxford in the 1960s and then did research as an animal and plant ecologist in Thailand, Japan, Corsica, Ethiopia and the Ivory Coast and on the Mascarene Islands ( Mauritius , Réunion , Rodrigues ). A book was created from the study of the endangered bird life of the Mascarene Islands from 1973 to 1975 and 1978. From the mid-1990s, he came back to the subject, which led to a joint book with Julian Pender Hume . From 1982 to 2011 he had a full-time bookstore (Dodo Books) in Oxford. In particular, he dealt with the extinct dodo .

Dedication names

In 1984 the subspecies Phelsuma abbotti chekei of the Seychelles day gecko was named after Cheke. In 2019, Julian Hume named the extinct rale species Dryolimnas chekei from Mauritius after Anthony Cheke.

Fonts

  • Co-author of DR Stoddard (Editor) Biogeography and Ecology of the Seychelles Islands (Monographiae Biologicae) , Springer, 1984
  • with Julian Hume Lost Land of the Dodo - an ecological history of the Mascarene Islands , A & C Black Publ., 2008
  • Co-author of AW Diamond (Editor) Studies of Mascarene Island Birds , Cambridge University Press 1987, 2009

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