Josep Antoni Alcover

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Josep Antoni Alcover i Tomás (* 1954 in Caracas ) is a Spanish zoologist and paleontologist (mammals, birds).

He is at IMEDEA (Institut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avançats - Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies) in Esporles , 15 km from Palma de Mallorca. He is also associated with the Mammalian Department of the American Museum of Natural History .

Alcover is particularly concerned with the fauna of the Balearic and Canary Islands (and other islands in Macaronesia ), including extinct species. He also dealt with the first settlement of the Balearic Islands.

In 2012, together with colleagues, he identified the fossils of a scops owl (Otus mauli), which had been found by Harald Pieper in the early 1990s, probably as a result of the Portuguese settlement on Madeira .

Fonts

  • Els mamífers de les Balears, Palma de Mallorca: Moll 1979
  • with Salvador Moyà-Solà, Joan Pons-Moyà: Les Quimeres del Passat: els vertebrats fòssils del Plio-Quaternari de les Balears i Pitiüsest, Palma de Mallorca, 1981
  • with others: Life History of the Mallorcan Midwife Toad, Palma de Mallorca: Moll, 1984
  • Editor with H. Kuhbier, C. Guerau d'Arellano Tur: Biogeography and Ecology of the Pityusic Islands , Den Haag, Kluwer 1984
  • Published by: Ecologia de les illes, Palma de Mallorca, 1999
  • with M. Llabrés, L. Moragues (editors): Les Balears abans dels humans, Palma de Mallorca, Societat d Historia Naturel de les Balears, 2000
  • Editor: Proceedings of the International Symposium 'Insular Vertebrate Evolution: the Palaeontological Approach', September 16-19 2003, Palma de Mallorca, 2005
  • Bibliografia naturalística de les Balears i Pitiuses: llistat dels treballs publicats de 1974 a 1983, Palma de Mallorca, Institut d'Estudis Baleàrics 1986
  • with Enric Ballesteros, Joan J. Fornós: Història natural de l'Arxipèlag de Cabrera , Madrid, Mallorca 1993
  • with Damià Ramis, Jaume Coll, Miquel Trias The chronology of the first settlement of the balearic isles , Journal of Mediterranean Archeology , 15, 2002, 3–24
  • with A. Sans, M. Palmer The extent of extinction of mammals on islands , Journal of Biogeography, 25, 1998, 913-918
  • with B. Seguí, P. Bover Extinctions and local disappearances of vertebrates in the western mediterranean islands , in R. MacPhee (Ed.) Extinctions in Near Time , New York: Plenum 1999, 165-188

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paleontologists discover extinct species of scops owl , Sci News, March 24, 2012
  2. ↑ Juan Carlos Rando, Harald Pieper, Josep Antoni Alcover, Storrs Olson A new species of extinct fossil scops owl (Aves: Strigiformes: Strigidae: Otus) from the Archipelago of Madeira (North Atlantic Ocean) , Zootaxa 3182, 2012, 29–42
personal data
SURNAME Alcover, Josep Antoni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alcover i Tomás, Josep Antoni (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish zoologist and paleontologist (mammals, birds)
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Caracas