Mark-Oliver Rödel

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Mark-Oliver Rödel (born December 22, 1965 in Balingen ) is a German herpetologist .

Life

From 1987 to 1993 Rödel studied biology at the University of Tübingen , specializing in special zoology , botany , parasitology and paleontology . In 1994 he graduated from the Department of Special Zoology at the University of Tübingen with the thesis Spawning strategies and swarming behavior of Phrynomantis microps (Peters, 1875) (Anura: Microhylidae: Phrynomerinae) in the Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire . In 1998 he was with the dissertation Kaulquappengesellschaften ephemeral savanna waters in West Africa at the Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology at the University of Wuerzburg to Dr. rer. nat. PhD. From 1998 to 1998 the postdoctoral phase took place at the University of Würzburg. From 2000 to 2005 he was project manager at the Institute for Zoology, Department of Ecology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . From 2005 to 2006 he was a research assistant at the chair for animal ecology and tropical biology at the University of Würzburg. In 2006 he received his first habilitation with the text Tropical Amphibian Communities: Taxonomy, Structure and Functionality along Habitat- and Disturbance Gradients . After a W2 professorship at the Chair of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology at the University of Würzburg from 2006 to September 2007, he completed his habilitation again in 2008 at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Since 2007 he has been a curator at the herpetological department at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin.

Rödel's research interests focus on the field of systematics and biodiversity research with a focus on phylogeny and taxonomy , faunistics and biogeography as well as community ecology. Rödel and his research group primarily study African amphibians and reptiles, particularly from West and Central Africa, but also from other regions of the world (Europe, Central and South America, Madagascar, Southeast Asia).

Rödel is one of the first to describe four reptile species, including two with William Roy Branch , and several frog species.

literature

  • Interview: Mark-Oliver Rödel In: Fabrizio Li Vigni: A Life for Reptiles and Amphibians , Edition Chimaira, 2013, ISBN 978-3-89973-199-6 , pp. 245–248

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of the species described by Rödel in Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference
personal data
SURNAME Rödel, Mark-Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German herpetologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Balingen