Hermann Mattes

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Hermann Mattes (* 1949 ) is a German biologist and was Professor of Animal Ecology at the University of Münster until 2015 .

Life

Hermann Mattes studied biology and chemistry at the University of Hohenheim from 1968 and worked there at the location research department in Ravensburg-Bavendorf . In 1978 the doctorate to Dr. rer. nat. with Friedrich-Karl Holtmeier at the University of Münster . He then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Ecology at the TU Berlin and from 1982 as a university assistant at the Institute for Geography at the University of Münster. In 1988 he completed his habilitation and received the Venia legendi for biogeography and landscape ecology. From 1988 he worked for a year as a research assistant at the ornithological station in Sempach , Switzerland, and from 1989 to 2015 he was Professor (C3) at the Institute for Landscape Ecology in the Geosciences Department of the University of Münster.

Act

Mattes mainly works on the ecology of bird communities and communities in forests. He examines the dispersal ecology and analyzes the changes in the area of ​​animals and works on biocenotic connections.

Fonts (selection)

  • The pine jay (Nucifraga caryocatactes (l.)) In the Engadine: studies on its ecology and function in the pine forest (Pinus cembra L.). (= Münster Geographical Works. Vol. 2). Schöningh, Paderborn 1978, ISBN 3-506-73202-1 ( dissertation , University of Münster, 1978).
  • The community of the common pine jay, Nucifraga caryocatactes (L.), and Swiss stone pine, Pinus cembra L., and their forest significance in the upper mountain forest level. Federal Institute for Forest Research, Birmensdorf 1982.
  • Studies on the ecology and biogeography of the bird communities of the larch-Swiss stone pine forest in the Engadin (= Münster Geographical Works. Vol. 30). Schöningh, Paderborn 1988, ISBN 3-506-73230-7 ( habilitation thesis , University of Münster, 1988).
  • (with Remo Maurizio and Wolfram Bürkli) The bird world in the Upper Engadin, Bergell and Puschlav. A nature guide to avifauna in an inner-alpine area. Swiss Ornithological Institute , Sempach 2005, ISBN 3-9523006-0-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mattes, Hermann (1949 -...) , entry in the authority file of Sudoc , accessed on 26 August 2012 found.
personal data
SURNAME Mattes, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist, animal ecologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1949