Samuel T. Turvey

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Samuel Thomas Turvey (born April 1977 in Lohja , Finland ) is a British zoologist .

Life

After graduating from the Bristol Grammar School Turvey gained the Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Biological Sciences at St John's College of the University of Oxford . In the same year he began studying geosciences at the University of Oxford under the scholarship programs of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) , where he received his Ph.D. received his doctorate. During his studies, Turvey took part as an entomologist and photographer between December 2001 and January 2002 on a botanical-zoological expedition from the University of Oxford to New Caledonia . From 2002 to 2003 he completed a Banks Alecto Research Fellowship of the Royal Society for postdoctoral researchers at the University of Canterbury , New Zealand . From 2004 to 2006 he worked at the Institute of Zoology of the Zoological Society of London on a Leverhulme Trust grant . From 2006 to 2009, he completed a postdoctoral research fellowship from the NERC at the Institute of Zoology.

Turvey's work focuses on both historical and current anthropogenic impacts on biodiversity . His projects include studying the size and dynamics of extinction waves in the New Pleistocene and Holocene, and the conservation management of some of the world's most endangered animal species. He studies the late Quaternary extinction waves caused by humans, their geographical, taxonomic and ecological patterns, their causes, their duration and their effects on ecosystems, as well as the development of protection strategies for today's threatened species.

This research mainly focused on the reconstruction of early human ecosystems and on the chronology and dynamics, as well as sensitivity and resilience patterns that were studied by vertebrate extinctions in prehistoric and historical eras in evolutionarily innovative and ecologically fragile island systems such as the Caribbean and in little continental regions such as East Asia show a high proportion of today's species loss.

In addition to studying previous extinction waves, Turvey uses a variety of data sources, from historical archives to local ecological knowledge, to create a robust information base that can be used for effective conservation management. In 2006, Turvey was part of a team of scientists investigating the disappearance of the Chinese river dolphin . In 2009 he published the book Witness to Extinction: How We Failed to Save the Yangtze River Dolphin . In the same year he published the book Holocene Extinctions . From 2012 Turvey conducted surveys of sightings of the Saola with Vietnamese colleagues . This study was published in the Journal of Applied Ecology in 2015 . In 2018, Turvey wrote the chapter on the family of Schlitzrüssler (Solenodontidae) in the eighth volume of the Handbook of the Mammals of the World .

Turvey was one of the first to describe the recent gibbon species Hoolock tianxing , the extinct rodent species Megalomys georginae and Pennatomys nivalis , the subspecies Plagiodontia aedium ssp. bondi des Cuvier-Zagutis and the extinct tortoise species Chelonoidis marcanoi from the Dominican Republic .

In January 2006, Turvey was a co-founder, alongside Jonathan Baillie , of the Zoological Society of London's EDGE of Extinction program, which is concerned with conservation and research programs on the world's most threatened mammals, birds, amphibians and corals

Turvey was awarded the Linnaeus Medal for 2019 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Samuel T. Turvey, Cao Tien Trung, Vo Dai Quyet, Hoang Van Nhu, Do Van Thoai, Vo Cong Anh Tuan, Dang Thi Hoa, Kouvang Kacha, Thongsay Sysomphone, Sousakhone Wallate, Chau Thi Thanh Hai, Nguyen Van Thanh, Nicholas M. Wilkinson: Interview-based sighting histories can inform regional conservation prioritization for highly threatened cryptic species Journal of Applied Ecology 2015, 52, 422–433 doi: 10.1111 / 1365-2664.12382
  2. ^ EDGE of Existence
personal data
SURNAME Turvey, Samuel T.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Turvey, Samuel Thomas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Lohja , Finland