Karl-Ludwig Schuchmann

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Karl-Ludwig Schuchmann (born October 7, 1948 in Weiterstadt ) is a German ornithologist and conservationist.

Live and act

Between January 1970 and August 1979 Schuchmann studied sociology , political science , psychology and biology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

In the mid to late 1970s, he collected material for his doctoral thesis in the Caribbean. He corresponded u. a. with James Bond , who was considered an expert on the Caribbean avifauna at this time. During this time Schuchmann also met Bob Marley , who lived around the corner from him. In 1979 he received his doctorate at the Goethe University on the subject of the special position of the endemic hummingbird genus Trochilus in the Antilles .

From January 1980 until his retirement in December 2014, he was curator for ornithology at the Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig . From December 1987 to October 1993 he also worked as a lecturer and supervised doctoral theses in biology at the Goethe University. From May 1994 to December 2014 he gave lectures in organismic biology and imparted presentation techniques. His main research interests during this time were tropical ecology, animal-plant relationships and biogeography .

In spring 1988, he and colleagues from the Universidad del Valle in Cali were out and about in the superhumid rainforest in the southwest of Colombia to investigate the seasonal relationships between reproduction, moulting and food biology of birds in the west of the country as part of a three-year research project. As a result, he published z. B. together with Gertrud Schuchmann Wegert an article courtship behavior of the Guayana rock cock (Rupicola rupicola) . From March 1992, Alexander von Humboldt researched the interactions between hummingbirds and hummingbird flowers in the area of ​​the ZFMK station on the Río Anchicayá , Colombia. At that time, Heike Brieschke was in charge of the station. His investigations are carried out as part of a two-year priority program of the German Research Foundation with the aim of researching "mechanisms for maintaining tropical diversity".

From May 1889 to July 1989 he worked with Luis Felipe Baptista (1941-2000) as a visiting researcher at the California Academy of Sciences and studied the Anna's hummingbird . In May 1994 he became a professor with the right to teach and a member of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . Here he teaches organismic biology, evolutionary biology and paleontology . From 2012 to 2016 he was visiting professor at the Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia em Áreas Úmidas of the Federal University of Mato Grosso . Here he researched bioacoustics with the help of computer-aided analysis.

In 2009 he was a project manager in a team that used camera traps and direct observation to explore the terrestrial mammal fauna in the Brazilian Pantanal. The focus was on the research of the giant anteater . In 2011 he accompanied a project to record the biodiversity of migratory bird species , which was financed by the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico . Since 2014 he has been in charge of a project investigating the biogeography of endemic taxa of the Mata Atlântica and Amazonia. The project is supported by the Brehm Fund for International Bird Protection eV , a fund for research and breeding programs for highly endangered bird species from all over the world. Another project is research into the biodiversity of key taxa in the Pantanal with a database and method optimization, which is funded by the German Research Foundation.

When the Society for Tropical Ornithology began with a gathering primarily of bird lovers interested in the biology and keeping of hummingbirds in the Koenig Museum in Bonn in October 1980 , I was informed that a working group would be set up there, which was named "Working Group of Hummingbird Friends eV" in the Bonn Register of Associations in 1981 was registered. The driving force behind the association was Schuchmann.

Schuchmann was the editor of Tropical vertebrates in a changing world from the series Bonn zoological monographs . He also published books such as Kolibris - Keeping and Care , The Jamaica Hummingbirds - Trochilus polytmus and Trochilus scitulus or nectar birds. Biology, husbandry and care . For the fifth volume of the Handbook of the Birds of the World , he wrote the chapter on the hummingbirds.

First descriptions by Karl-Ludwig Schuchmann

Schuchmann described some species or subspecies that were new to science. He has with u. a. published together with Hans Edmund Wolters , Thomas Züchner , André-Alexander Weller , Iris Heynen and Eike Wulfmeyer . The new species and subspecies include chronological and a .:

species

The type of black- crowned nymph ( Thalurania nigricapilla ) described by Armando Valdes-Velasquez and himself is no longer recognized today. Rather, it is a synonym for a subspecies of the violet-crowned nymph ( Thalurania colombica subtropicalis Griscom , 1932).

Subspecies

Dedication names

In 1994, Kurt K. Günther named a three- toed terrestrial species Mirhipipteryx schuchmanni .

Publications (selection)

  • Sexual characteristics, habitat and brutal biological observations of Coeligena ceoeligena ferruginea (Chapman 1917) (Aves: Trochilidae) . In: Senckenbergiana biologica . tape 58 , no. 3/4 , 1977, p. 137–141 ( researchgate.net [PDF; 14.6 MB ]).
  • Allopatric speciation in the hummingbird genus Trochilus . In: Ardea . tape 66 , 1978, pp. 156-172 .
  • Notes on the Rufous-capped Thornbill Chalcostigma ruficeps, a new hummingbird species for Colombia . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 98 , no. 4 , 1978, p. 115-116 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Hummingbirds - keeping and care . Biotropic-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 978-3-922465-00-3 .
  • with Dagmar Schmidt-Marloh, Hans Bell: Energetic investigations in a tropical hummingbird (Amazilia tzacatl) . In: Journal of Ornithology . tape 120 , no. 1 , 1979, p. 78-85 , doi : 10.1007 / BF01647344 .
  • with Dagmar Schmidt-Marloh: Metabolic and Thermal Responses to Heat and Cold in Streamertail Hummingbirds (Trochilus polytmus and Trochilus scitulus, Trochilidae) . In: Biotropica . tape 11 , no. 2 , 1979, p. 123-126 , doi : 10.2307 / 2387787 .
  • The Jamaican hummingbirds - Trochilus polytmus and Trochilus scitulus. Biotropic-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-922465-00-6 ( researchgate.net [PDF; 9.3 MB ]).
  • Ecology and evolution of the trochilid fauna on the oceanic islands of the Caribbean Sea . In: Bonn zoological contributions . tape 31 , no. 3-4 , 1980, pp. 289–309 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  • with Roland Prinzinger , Kristine Krüger: Metabolism-weight relationship in 17 humming-bird species at different temperatures during day and night . In: Experientia . tape 37 , no. 12 , 1981, p. 1307-1309 , doi : 10.1007 / BF01948378 ( researchgate.net [PDF; 252 kB ]).
  • with Hermine Jakob: Energy expenditure of an incubating tropical hummingbird under laboratory conditions . In: Gerfaut . tape 71 , no. 2 , 1981, p. 227-233 ( researchgate.net [PDF; 3.8 MB ]).
  • with Hans Edmund Wolters: A new subspecies of Serinus estherae (Carduelidae) from Sulawesi . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 102 , no. 1 , 1982, pp. 12-14 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • with Kristine Krüger, Roland Prinzinger: Torpor and metabolism in hummingbirds . In: Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Physiology . tape 73 , no. 4 , 1982, pp. 679-689 , doi : 10.1016 / 0300-9629 (82) 90275-4 .
  • with Kristine Krüger, Roland Prinzinger: Comparative studies on torpor in hummingbirds (lecture at the 93rd annual meeting of the DOG (1981) in Melk) . In: Journal of Ornithology . tape 123 , no. 3 , 1982, pp. 335-356 , doi : 10.1007 / BF01644370 .
  • with Roland Prinzinger, Kristine Krüger: Torpor in hummingbirds . In: Bonn zoological contributions . tape 4 , no. 1-3 , 1983, pp. 273–277 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  • with Gertrud Schuchmann Wegert: Notes on the displays and mounting behavior in the Purple-throated Carib hummingbird (Eulampis jugularis) . In: Bonn zoological contributions . tape 35 , no. 4 , 1984, pp. 273-277 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • To the food spectrum of the Loris . In: Trochilus . tape 5 , 1984, pp. 45-48 .
  • Two hummingbird species, one a new subspecies, new to Bolivia . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 104 , no. 1 , 1984, p. 5-7 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Proceedings of the International Symposium on African Vertebrates, Systematics, Phylogeny and Evolutionary Ecology: a symposium held at the Zoological Research Institute and Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, May 15-18, 1984 . Self-published, Bonn 1985, ISBN 978-3-925382-00-0 .
  • with Roland Prinzinger: Respiration frequency and tidal volume in resting hummingbirds during daytime . In: Journal of Ornithology . tape 126 , no. 1 , 1985, pp. 107-108 , doi : 10.1007 / BF01640449 .
  • with Gertrud Schuchmann Wegert: Elven hummingbirds . In: Trochilus . tape 7 , 1986, pp. 3-7 .
  • with Gertrud Schuchmann Wegert: Courtship behavior of the Guayana rock cock (Rupicola rupicola) . In: Trochilus . tape 7 , 1986, pp. 114-118 .
  • with Roland Prinzinger in Humberto Alvarez López; Gustavo Kattan; Carolina Murcia: The function of torporin Trochilidae in Memorias, III Congreso de Ornitología Neotropical: Cali, Colombia, 30 de noviembre-4 de diciembre 1987 . Sociedad Vallecaucana de Ornitología, Sección Colombiana del Consejo Internacional para la Preservación de las Aves: Universidad del Valle, Cali 1987, p. 115-119 .
  • with Roland Prinzinger: Energy metabolism, nocturnal torpor, and respiration frequency in a Green Hermit (Phaethornis guy) . In: Journal of Ornithology . tape 129 , no. 4 , 1988, pp. 489 , doi : 10.1007 / BF01644492 .
  • with Elisabeth Fritsch: The Musculus splenius capitis of hummingbirds (Trochilidae) . In: The Ibis . tape 13 , 1988, pp. 124-132 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1474-919X.1988.tb00962.x .
  • Release of Gaping in Hummingbirds (Trochilidae) . In: The Wilson Bulletin . tape 101 , no. 3 , 1989, pp. 477–481 ( sora.unm.edu [PDF; 305 kB ]).
  • Little known Mexican hummingbirds . In: Trochilus . tape 11 , 1990, pp. 100-101 .
  • with Tina Schäfer-Balz, Roland Prinzinger ,: Energy metabolism, respiratory quotient and breathing parameters in two convergent small bird species: The fork-tailed sunbird Aethopyga christinae (nectariniidae) and the chilean hummingbird Sephanoides sephanoides (Trochilidae) . tape 17 , no. 2 , 1992, p. 71-79 , doi : 10.1016 / 0306-4565 (92) 90001-V .
  • Habitats - life forms hummingbirds . In: Biology in Our Time . tape 23 , no. 3 , 1993, p. 197–206 , doi : 10.1002 / biuz.19930230322 .
  • with Luiz Dos Anjos, Ralf Andréas Berndt: Avifaunal composition, species richness, and status in the Tibagi River Basin, Parana . In: Ornitologia Neotropical . tape 8 , no. 2 , 1997, p. 145–173 ( ibiologia.unam.mx [PDF; 2.9 MB ]).
  • with Thomas Züchner: Coeligena violifer albicaudata (Aves, Trochilidae): a New Hummingbird Subspecies from the Southern Peruvian Andes . In: Ornitologia Neotropical . tape 8 , no. 2 , 1997, p. 247–253 ( sora.unm.edu [PDF; 504 kB ]).
  • with Luiz Dos Anjos: Biogeographical affinities of the avifauna of the Tibagi River Basin, Parana drainage system, southern Brazil . In: Ecotropica . tape 3 , 1997, p. 43-65 ( researchgate.net ).
  • Nectar birds. Biology, husbandry and care. Landbuch Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Hanover 1991, ISBN 978-3-7907-0833-2 .
  • with Christoph Hinkelmann : Phylogeny of the hermit hummingbirds (Trochilidae: Phaethornithinae) . In: Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment . tape 32 , no. 3 , 1997, p. 142-163 , doi : 10.1080 / 01650521.1997.9709616 .
  • with Martin Heindl: biography, geographic variation and taxonomy of the Andean hummingbird genus Chalcostigma Reichenbach, 1854 . In: Messages from the Zoological Museum in Berlin . tape 73 , 1997, pp. 131–153 ( researchgate.net [PDF; 2.6 MB ]).
  • with André-Alexander Weller: Geographical variation in the southern distributional range of the Rufous-tailed Hummingbird, Amazilia tzacatl De la Llave , 1832: a new subspecies from Nariño, southwestern Colombia . In: Journal of Ornithology . tape 140 , no. 4 , 1999, p. 457-466 , doi : 10.1007 / BF01650990 .
  • with André-Alexander Weller, Iris Heynen: Biogeography and taxonomy of the Andean hummingbird genus Haplophaedia Simon (Aves: Trochilidae), with the description of a new subspecies from Southern Ecuador . In: Ornithological Indicator . tape 39 , no. 1 , 2000, pp. 17–42 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  • with Olaf Jahn, Mark B. Robbins, Patricio Mena Valenzuela, Paul Coopmans, Robert Sterling Ridgely: Status, ecology, and vocalizations of the Five-colored Barbet Capito quinticolor in Ecuador, with notes on the Orangefronted Barbet C. squamatus . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 120 , no. 1 , 2000, pp. 16-22 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • with Swen Christoph Renner: Biogeography of cis-Andean brilliant hummingbirds (Heliodoxa sp.) . In: Journal of Ornithology . tape 142 , no. 2 , 2001, p. 211 , doi : 10.1007 / BF01651790 .
  • with André-Alexander Weller, Iris Heynen: Systematics and biogeography of the Andean genus Eriocnemis (Aves: Trochilidae) - In memoriam Dr. Luis F. Baptista (1941-2000) . In: Journal of Ornithology . tape 142 , no. 4 , 2001, p. 433-481 , doi : 10.1007 / BF01651342 .
  • with Swen Christoph Renner: The Fawn-breasted Brilliant Heliodoxa rubinoides, a hummingbird species new to Bolivia . In: Bulletin of The British Ornithologists' Club . tape 121 , no. 4 , 2001, p. 252-255 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • with Yoshika Oniki Willis , Edwin O'Neill Willis, Tomás de Aquino Sigrist, Gerard Baudet: Roosting site of the Sombre Hummingbird Campylopterus cirrochloris (Trochilidae) in southern Bahia, Brazil . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 121 , no. 4 , 2001, p. 256-257 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • with André-Alexander Weller, Eike Wulfmeyer: Biogeography and taxonomy of Lafresnaya (Trochilidae), with a new subspecies from Colombia . In: Ornitologia Neotropical . tape 14 , 2003, p. 157–171 ( ibiologia.unam.mx [PDF; 578 kB ]).
  • with André-Alexander Weller: Biogeographic and taxonomic revision of the trainbearers Lesbia (Trochilidae), with the description of two new subspecies . In: Ornithological Indicator . tape 43 , no. 2 , 2004, p. 115-136 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  • with Bernd P. Freymann: Postnatal Growth Rates of Hummingbirds: Review and New Records . In: The Wilson Journal of Ornithology . tape 120 , no. 4 , 2008, p. 884-887 .
  • with André-Alexander Weller: Re-evaluation of Agyrtria brevirostris Lesson (Aves, Trochilidae), with notes on its taxonomic status and relationships to A. chionopectus Gould and A. versicolor Vieillot . In: Zoosystematics and Evolution . tape 85 , no. 1 , 2009, p. 143-149 , doi : 10.1002 / zoos.200800020 .
  • with Armando Valdes-Velasquez: A new species of hummingbird (Thalurania; Trochilidae, Trochilinae) from the Western Colombian Andes . In: Ornithological Indicator . tape 48 , no. 2 , 2009, p. 247-253 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  • Tropical vertebrates in a changing world (=  Bonn zoological monographs . No. = 57 ). Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-925382-61-1 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • with André-Alexander Weller, Todor Dimitrov Ganchev, Olaf Jahn, Marinêz Isaac Marques: Recording of resident and migratory bird species in the Pantanal of Brazil. Pantanal - the hub of bird migration between the hemispheres of the New World . In: Born to fly . tape 31 , no. 1 , 2013, p. 3–5 ( brehm-fonds.de [PDF; 5.9 MB ]).
  • with André-Alexander Weller, Dietmar Jürgens: Biogeography and taxonomy of racket-tail hummingbirds (Aves: Trochilidae: Ocreatus): evidence for species delimitation from morphology and display behavior . In: Zootaxa . tape 4200 , no. 1 , 2016, ISSN  1175-5326 , p. 83-108 , doi : 10.11646 / zootaxa.4200.1.3 .
  • with Paolo Ramoni ‐ Perazzi, André-Alexander Weller, Irma Alejandra Soto ‐ Werschitz, Marcelo Passamani: Niches and radiations: A case study on the Andean Sapphire ‐ vented Puffleg (Eriocnemis luciani) and Coppery ‐ naped Puffleg (E. sapphiropygia) (Aves , Trochilidae) . In: Journal of Avian Biology . November 12, 2019, doi : 10.1111 / jav.02242 .

literature

  • Society of Friends and Supporters of the Museum Alexander Koenig-Bonn: From the research departments . In: Animal and Museum . 1988, p. 76 .
  • Kurt K. Günther: The Tridactyloidea fauna of Colombia (Orthoptera, Caelifera) . In: German Entomological Journal . tape 41 , no. 1 , 1994, p. 1-56 , doi : 10.1002 / mmnd.19940410102 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Permit: James Bond, ornithologist Interview with Karl-Ludwig Schuchmann in the world on Sunday from December 8, 2002
  2. ↑ The special position of the endemic hummingbird genus Trochilus in the West Indies in the UB Frankfurt
  3. ↑ a b Karl-L. Schuchmann CV at Research Gate
  4. ^ Society of Friends and Patrons of the Museum Alexander Koenig-Bonn, p. 76.
  5. ↑ Prof. Dr. Karl-Ludwig Schuchmann at the Alexander Koenig Zoological Research Museum
  6. ↑ Kurt K. Günther, p. 1.
personal data
SURNAME Schuchmann, Karl-Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schuchmann, Karl-L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Weiterstadt