Derek W. Yalden
Derek William Yalden (born November 4, 1940 in Surrey , England , † February 5, 2013 in Forest of Dean , Gloucestershire , England) was a British zoologist . His main research interests were ornithology and mammalogy .
Life
Yalden received a Bachelor of Science degree from University College London in 1962 . In 1965 he was with the thesis A Contribution to the Functional Morphology of the Mammalian carpus under the direction of Percy M. Butler at Royal Holloway College for Ph.D. PhD. He then worked as an assistant professor and finally as a senior lecturer at the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Manchester , where he taught vertebrate zoology. 2005 retired after 40 years of service.
Yalden's projects included cataloging Ethiopia's mammal fauna and contributing to Jonathan Kingdon's encyclopedia Mammals of Africa , conservation ecology in the Peak District , including studies of moorland erosion and restoration, and studies of the ecology of golden plover , sandpipers , mountain hares , red-necked wallabies and the history of mammals and Birds in the UK, a Leverhulme Trust sponsored project to collect archaeological finds of birds and mammals in a database. Together with the Peakland Archaeological Society he worked from 1966 to 1990 in the development of Foxhole Cave in the Peak District.
From 1997 to 2013 Yalden was president of The Mammal Society and from 1980 to 2002 he edited its journal Mammal Review . He is the author or co-author of over 200 scientific publications. In collaboration with Dieter Kock and Malcolm J. Largen , he published the seven-part Catalog of the Mammals of Ethiopia from 1974 to 1996 .
Together with Rainer Hutterer , he described the shrew species Crocidura bottegoides and Crocidura harenna in 1990 .
Honors and Dedication Names
In 2010 Yalden was awarded the Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society of London . In 2013, the Derek Yalden Fund was set up to provide financial support for students from low income families to go on excursions while studying in Manchester. In 1977 the herpetologist Malcolm J. Largen named the frog species Leptopelis yaldeni after Yalden. 2003 Leonid A. Lavrenchenko honored Yalden in the species epithet of the Yalden rat ( Desmomys yaldeni ). Both species occur in Ethiopia.
Fonts (selection)
- The Lives of Bats , David and Charles, 1975
- with Robert E. Stebbings: Which Bat is it? A Guide to Bat Identification in Great Britain and Ireland , The Mammal Society, 1986
- with Priscilla Barrett (illustrator): The History of British Mammals , T&AD Poyser, Calton, 1999
- with Umberto Albarella: The History of British Birds , Oxford University Press, 2008
- with Stephen Harris: Mammals of the British Isles , The Mammal Society, 2008
- with Stephen Tapper: The Brown Hare , The Mammal Society, 2010
literature
- James Pearce-Higgins: Derek William Yalden (1940-2013) . British Birds. 106 (4) April 2013, 226-227. ISSN 0007-0335
- Peter Marren: Doctor Derek Yalden: Zoologist acclaimed as one of the finest of his generation In: The Independent, March 8, 2013, accessed August 21, 2020.
- W. Ian Montgomery, Pat Morris: Derek William Yalden (1940-2013) In: Mammal Review 43 (2013), pp. 167-170. doi : 10.1111 / mam.12007
- Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson: The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians . Pelagic Publishing, Exeter, 2013. ISBN 978-1-907807-41-1 , p. 238
Web links
- Obituary at The Mammal Society
- Literature by and about Derek W. Yalden in the WorldCat bibliographic database
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Yalden, Derek W. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Yalden, Derek William (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British zoologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 4th 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Surrey , England |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th February 2013 |
| Place of death | Forest of Dean , Gloucestershire , England |