Georgi Issidorowitsch Schenbrot

Georgi Issidorowitsch Schenbrot ( Russian Георгий Исидорович Шенброт ; born October 19, 1950 in Moscow ), also known internationally as Georgy I. Shenbrot or less commonly as Gregory I. Shenbrot , is a Russian mammaloge . His research focus is the family of jerboa (Dipodidae).

Life

In 1972 Schenbrot obtained a master’s degree from Lomonosov University in Moscow . In 1980 he was with the dissertation Сравнительная экология тушканчиков пустынь Турана: диссертация ... кандидата биологических наук (Comparative ecology of the gerbils in the desert of Turan) at the same university for PhD doctorate. From 1972 to 1974 he conducted research at the Institute of Biology and Pedology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Vladivostok , Primorsky Krai . From 1977 to 1977 he was a research fellow at the Institute of Medical Parasitologist and Tropical Diseases of the Ministry of Health of the Soviet Union. From 1977 to 1984 he worked for the Nature Conservation Institute of the Soviet Ministry of Agriculture. From 1984 to 1992 he was a senior scientist at the Institute for Evolutionary Morphology and Animal Ecology in Moscow. Since 1992 he has been a research assistant at the Ramon Science Center of the Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Mitzpe Ramon . In 1996 Schenbrot received a research grant for Israel.

Schenbrot is a member of the American Society of Mammalogists , the Zoological Society of Israel, and the IUCN Species Survival Commission research group for small mammals . From 1978 to 1992 he was a member of the commission that published the Red Lists of Endangered Species in the Soviet Union.

In 1992, Schenbrot published the study Кладистический подход к анализу филогенетических отношений тушканчикообразных (Rodentia, of Dipadodidae) rodetic analysis. Due to the reproductive morphology of the males, the coronal structure of the molars and the anatomy of the bullae , the superfamily Dipodoidea was split into the families Allactagidae, Dipodidae, Sminthidae and Zapodidae. With the exception of the Allactagidae family, this classification was adopted from the Handbook of the Mammals of the World in 2017 . Schenbrot wrote the chapter on jerboa (Dipodidae) together with Johan Michaux. Other publications by Schenbrot are Spatial Ecology of Desert Rodent Communities (1995), An Atlas of the Geographic Distribution of the Arvicoline Rodents of the World (Rodentia, Muridae: Arvicolinae) (2005) and Jerboas: Mammals of Russia and Adjacent Regions (2008) .

Schenbrot is one of the first to describe the pale three- toed gerbil ( Salpingotus pallidus ), the Mongolian thick-tailed gerbil ( Stylodipus sungorus ) and the Negev white-toothed shrew ( Crocidura ramona ). He also described the agamen species Phrynocephalus golubewii from Turkmenistan in 1990 .

Web links

• Bibliography by Georgi Issidorowitsch Schenbrot (Russian)
• Short biography at Prabook