Roger Dajoz

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Roger Dajoz (born August 22, 1929 in Paris - † March 10, 2019 in the 17th arrondissement , Paris) was a French biologist , ecologist and entomologist and professor at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle .

Life

Dajoz graduated as a student in 1954, the Agrégation in biology at the École normal supérieure Lettres et sciences humaines in Saint-Cloud . From 1955 to 1961 he was a teacher at the Lycée Marcelin-Berthelot in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés and then taught as a senior scientific assistant in comparative vertebrate anatomy and entomology at the scientific faculty of the Sorbonne . After his promotion to Doctor Dajoz was established in 1962 as Deputy Director of the Department of General Ecology appointed on Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. After his retirement in 1985, Dajoz did long study visits to Arizona , California and Texas .

As an entomologist, Dajoz studied various aspects ( systematics , ecology, biogeography ) of two groups of beetles: saproxyl species, i. H. Species inhabiting dead wood and species of the ground fauna, which mainly belong to the families of ground beetles and black beetles . In this context, he carried out studies in various institutions or on site, including in Italy , Portugal , Yugoslavia , Greece , Romania , Bulgaria , the Canary Islands and North America . During his investigations, he also devoted himself to various questions of forest entomology and ecology.

Dajoz was a member of the Société entomologique de France . He published more than 200 papers on ecology, biology and entomology, including the first scientific descriptions of the species Esarcus visitsi (1964), Esarcus franzi (1964), Esarcus inexpectatus (1964), Derolathrus insularis (1973), Sarothrias indicus (1978), Paha guadalupensis (1984), Salebius hirsutus (1988), Uleiota texana (1989), Trechus alinae (1990), Trechus apache (1990), Narthecius arizonicus (1992), Calosoma dawsoni (1997), Cercyon arizonicus (1997), Rhadine albamontana (1998), Dyschirius chiricahuae (2004), Dyschirius owen (2004), Dyschirius soda (2004), Anillinus nantahala (2005), Dyschirius wayah (2005) and Trechus rivulis (2005).

Dajoz was married to Aline Langevin, an English teacher and granddaughter of the French physicist Paul Langevin . They had two daughters, Isabelle Dajoz, biologist and professor at the University of Paris VII , and Hélène Dajoz, professor of mathematics .

Dedication names

Colin Johnson named 1974 the South African beetle Corti Carina dajozi from the family of Moder beetles in honor of Roger Dajoz.

Fonts (selection)

  • La vie dans les fonds marins, coll. "Savoir et Connaître" , 1958
  • Que sais-je? : Les insecticides , 1959
  • Catalog des coléoptères de la Forêt de la Massane, Masson , 1965
  • Ecologie et biologie des Coléoptères xylophages de la hêtraie , 1966
  • Précis d'écologie , 1970
  • Dynamique des populations , 1974
  • Coléoptères Colydiidae et Anommatidae de la Jaune paléarctique , 1977
  • Insectes Coléoptères: Colydiidae et Cerylonidae - Faune de Madagascar , 1980
  • Éléments pour une histoire de l'écologie: la naissance de l'écologie moderne au XIXème siècle , 1984
  • Les Insectes et la forêt: rôle et diversité des Insectes dans le milieu forestier , 1998
  • Les Coléoptères Carabidés et Tenebrionidés , 2002

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personal data
SURNAME Dajoz, Roger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French biologist, ecologist and entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 2019
Place of death 17th arrondissement , Paris