Maren Gaulke

Maren Birgit Gaulke (born April 4, 1955 ) is a German herpetologist . Her research focus is the biology of monitor lizards , snakes and turtles .

Life

After studying geosciences and life sciences , Gaulke received his doctorate from Kiel University in 1988 . In the mid-1980s she began her field work in Southeast Asia and the Philippines , where she gained new insights into the ecology , ethology and trophic dependencies of tropical animals during her biological studies . This led to the first description of several new reptile species, including Cyclemys pulchristriata Fritz , Gaulke & Lehr , 1997 , Dendrelaphis flavescens Gaulke, 1994 , Gekko ernstkelleri Rösler , Siler , Brown , Demegillo & Gaulke, 2006 , Luperosaurus corfieldi Gaulke, Rösler & Brown, 2007 and Lycodon fausti Gaulke, 2002 . Her main interest is in the monitor lizards , of which she first described the species Varanus mabitang Gaulke & Curio , 2001 , Varanus palawanensis Koch , Gaulke & Böhme , 2010 , Varanus rasmusseni Koch, Gaulke & Böhme, 2010 and Varanus samarensis Koch, Gaulke & Böhme, 2010 . In 2017 she was part of the team that first described the Filipino frog species Sanguirana acai from the islands of Negros , Masbate and Panay .

Gaulke works as a consultant with national and international institutions on the status classification of endangered species and the establishment of protected areas. She is also an extraordinary employee at the Geobio Center of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Gaulke has published the books Natural Travel Guide Philippines (2002), Natural Travel Guide Australia (2007, with Alexander Volker Altenbach ), Water Dragons and Sailing Lizard (2008, with Heiko Werning ) and The Herpetofauna of Panay Island , Philippines (2011) as main author or co-author . She contributed chapters to the books Anoxia: Evidence for Eukaryote Survival and Paleontological Strategies (2012) by Alexander Volker Altenbach, Joan M. Bernhard and Joseph Seckbach and Varanoid Lizards of the World (2004) by Eric Pianka and R. Dennis King . In addition, her scientific contributions have appeared in several international journals, including Hamadryad , Zootaxa , Elaphe , Herpetozoa , Asiatic Herpetological Research , Salamandra and Copeia .

Dedication names

In 2008, Gernot Vogel and Johan van Rooijen named the bronze snake species Dendrelaphe marenae in honor of Maren Gaulke.

literature

• Short biography of Dr. Maren Gaulke In: Alexander Volker Altenbach, Joan M. Bernhard and Joseph Seckbach (Eds.): Anoxia: Evidence for Eukaryote Survival and Paleontological Strategies , Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology Volume 21, Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York, 2012 , ISBN 978-94-007-1896-8 (ebook), p. 591

Web links

• Literature by and about Maren Gaulke in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gernot Vogel & Johan van Rooijen: Contributions to a review of the Dendrelaphis pictus (Gmelin, 1789) complex - 2. the eastern forms. Herpetozoa 21 (1/2), 2008, pp. 3-29