Jörg Ganzhorn

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Jörg Ulrich Ganzhorn (born October 7, 1956 in Stuttgart ) is a German biologist and professor of animal ecology at the University of Hamburg .

Jörg Ganzhorn studied zoology, plant physiology, microbiology and geography at the University of Tübingen, Duke University and Michigan State University from 1976 to 1985. He then did his doctorate with Klaus Schmidt-Koenig (Tübingen) and Peter H. Klopfer (Duke Univ.) And then became a postdoc in Tübingen in the behavioral physiology department. In 1993 he became head of the Ethology and Ecology department at the German Primate Center in Göttingen and Maître de Conference at the Université d'Antananarivo, Madagascar. After a substitute professorship for ecology at the University of Marburg, he became head of the animal ecology and nature conservation department at the Institute for Zoology at the University of Hamburg in 1997.

Research priorities

Jörg Ganzhorn researches the ecology of mammals in different habitats in Madagascar. The aim of the work is, on the basis of an understanding of ecosystem processes, to develop sustainable nature conservation concepts in which economic development for the local population is compatible with the needs of Madagascar's flora and fauna.

Awards and honors

The lemur species Ganzhorns Mausmaki ( Microcebus Ganzhorni ) was named in his honor.

Memberships

Jörg Ganzhorn is a member of the IUCN Species Survial Commission and was Chair for Primates in Madagascar from 1996 - 2012.

Publications (selection)

  • Giuseppe Donati, Jörg Ganzhorn et al: Low Levels of Fruit Nitrogen as Drivers for the Evolution of Madagascar's Primate Communities . In: Scientific Reports . tape 7 , no. 1 , December 2017, ISSN  2045-2322 , p. 14406 , doi : 10.1038 / s41598-017-13906-y , PMID 29089504 , PMC 5663947 (free full text) - ( nature.com [accessed June 25, 2020]).
  • Joerg U. Ganzhorn, Summer J. Arrigo-Nelson, Valentina Carrai, Mukesh K. Chalise, Giuseppe Donati et al: The importance of protein in leaf selection of folivorous primates: Primate Leaf Selection . In: American Journal of Primatology . tape 79 , no. 4 , April 2017, p. e22550 , doi : 10.1002 / ajp.22550 ( wiley.com [accessed June 25, 2020]).
  • Ganzhorn, JU, PPI Lowry, GE Schatz, and S. Sommer. 2001. The biodiversity of Madagascar: one of the hottest biodiversity hotspot on its way out. Oryx 35: 346-348.
  • Jörg U. Ganzhorn, Lucienne Wilmé, Jean-Luc Mercier: Explaining Madagascar's Biodiversity. In I. Scales (Ed.) . 2014, doi : 10.13140 / 2.1.2996.8328 ( rgdoi.net [accessed June 25, 2020]).
  • Neudert, R., JU Ganzhorn, and F. Watzold. 2017. Global benefits and local costs - The dilemma of tropical forest conservation: A review of the situation in Madagascar. Environmental Conservation 44: 82-96.
  • L. Wilme: Biogeographic Evolution of Madagascar's Microendemic Biota . In: Science . tape 312 , no. 5776 , May 19, 2006, ISSN  0036-8075 , p. 1063-1065 , doi : 10.1126 / science.1122806 ( sciencemag.org [accessed June 25, 2020]).
  • AD Yoder, RM Rasoloarison, SM Goodman, JA Irwin, S. Atsalis, S. Ravosa, JU Ganzhorn: Remarkable species diversity in Malagasy mouse lemurs (primates, Microcebus) . In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . tape 97 , no. 21 , October 10, 2000, ISSN  0027-8424 , p. 11325–11330 , doi : 10.1073 / pnas.200121897 , PMID 11005834 , PMC 17199 (free full text) - ( pnas.org [accessed June 25, 2020]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birgit Kruse: Microcebus Ganzhorni: New species of monkey named after biologists at the University of Hamburg. University of Hamburg, press release from April 15, 2016 from Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on April 15, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Ganzhorn, Jörg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ganzhorn, Jörg Ulrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist and professor of animal ecology at the University of Hamburg
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart