Richard Schodde

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Richard Schodde (born September 23, 1936 in Adelaide , South Australia ) is an Australian ornithologist and botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Schodde ".

Life

From 1958 to 1959 Schodde worked at the State Herbarium of South Australia in Adelaide . He studied at the University of Adelaide , where he obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in 1960 and in 1970 with the dissertation A monograph of the family Atherospermataceae R. Br. For Ph.D. received his doctorate. From April 1960 he worked as a botanist for the Land Research and Regional Survey department of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in Papua New Guinea . In 1970 he was a founding curator and until 1998 he was director of the Australian National Wildlife Collection (ANWC) at the Department of Wildlife and Ecology at CSIRO. He then became a research assistant there . From 1970 to 2000, Schodde conducted surveys on avifauna and vegetation , which were instrumental in establishing Kakadu National Park in 1981 and designating the Wet Tropics of Queensland as Australia's first UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988. Overall, the surveys led by Schodde led to the collection of nearly 50,000 samples and a further 15,000 samples of cryopreserved tissue for molecular studies. Today, this collection is considered to be the most comprehensive and most effective research on the Australian avifauna worldwide.

Schodde published more than 150 articles, books and brochures on the systematics, biogeography and evolutionary history of the Australasian birds and he developed a biodiversity concept for the protection of the Australian bird world. Richard Schodde was a corresponding member of the American Ornithologists' Union , Chairman of the Standing Committee on Ornithological Nomenclature, and the International Ornithological Committee . In 1974 and 1990 he organized symposia on the origin and evolutionary spread of Australian birds at the International Ornithological Congresses in Canberra and Christchurch . For the books Nocturnal Birds of Australia (1981, with Ian J. Mason ) and for The Fairy Wrens (1982) Schodde was awarded the Whitley Medal.

Together with Leslie Christidis , Schodde introduced the bird families Eulacestomatidae , Ifritidae , Melampittidae , Oreoicidae , Rhagologidae and the subfamily Lamproliinae . The latter became a family in 2016 and contains the three genera Eutrichomyias , Chaetorhynchus and Lamprolia .

In 2009 he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) by Queen Elizabeth II .

Dedication names

In 1996, Ian J. Mason named the subspecies Scythrops novaehollandiae schoddei of the grimacing cuckoo in honor of Richard Schodde. In 2019 the subspecies Nesoptilotis leucotis schoddei of the black-throated honey eater was named after Schodde.

Fonts (selection)

  • Interim list of Australian songbirds: Passerines. RAOU: Melbourne, 1975
  • Nocturnal Birds of Australia. (with Ian J. Mason, illustrated by Jeremy Boot). Lansdowne Editions: Melbourne, 1980
  • The Fairy-Wrens. a Monograph of the Maluridae. (illustrated by Richard Weatherly). Lansdowne Editions: Melbourne. ISBN 0-7018-1051-3 , 1982
  • A Review of Norfolk Island Birds: Past and Present. (with Peter J. Fullagar and Neil Hermes). ANPWS Special Publication No.8, 1983
  • Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds. (Co-editor of the 2nd edition with Sonia Tidemann). Reader's Digest Sydney. ISBN 0-949819-99-9 , 1988
  • Zoological Catalog of Australia: Aves (Columbidae to Coraciidae) v. 37. 2. (with Ian J. Mason). CSIRO Publishing. ISBN 0-643-06037-5 , 1997
  • CSIRO List of Australian Vertebrates: A Reference with Conservation Status. (with Malcolm Stanger, Mark Clayton, Ian J. Mason and John C. Wombey). CSIRO Publishing. ISBN 0-643-06256-4 , 1998
  • The Directory of Australian Birds: Passerines. A taxonomic and zoogeographic atlas of the biodiversity of birds of Australia and its territories. (with Ian J. Mason). CSIRO Publishing. ISBN 0-643-06456-7 , 1999
  • Proceedings of the 23rd International Ornithological Congress, Beijing, August 2002. (Ed.). Acta Zoologica Sinica, Vol 52, Supplement. Science Press: Beijing, 2006
  • The Encyclopedia of Birds. A Complete Visual Guide. (with Fred Cooke). Fog City Press. ISBN 1-74089-355-7 , 2006

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personal data
SURNAME Schodde, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian ornithologist and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Adelaide , South Australia