Stefan Lötters

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Stefan Lötters (born November 3, 1969 in Menden ) is a German herpetologist . His main research interests are the poison dart frogs (Dendrobatidae).

Life

After graduating from high school in 1990, Lötters studied agricultural zoology, biology , geography , limnology and soil science at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , where he studied the habitat structures of the common toad and green toad in the southern Cologne Bay in 1997 graduated to a Masters in field research, remote sensing and GIS techniques . In April 1997, he went on to study for his doctorate at the Department of Geography at the same university, where he was awarded a doctorate in natural sciences in August 2000 with the dissertation Distribution and Diversity of Extant Amphibians, Reptiles, and Mammals in the Departamento Santa Cruz, Bolivia, with GIS (Dr. rer. nat.).

From October 2000 to April 2001, in cooperation with the iserundschmidt company in Bad Honnef, on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, he led a public relations campaign for the life sciences . In January 2001 he became editor of the magazine SALAMANDRA - German Journal of Herpetology , From May 2001 to May 2007 he worked as coordinator of the University of Mainz in the research project measuring and monitoring the change in amphibious diversity in East Africa as part of the BIOTA East Africa program . Since April 2002 he has been the scientific chairman of the AG Anuren of the German Society for Herpetology and Terrarium Science . In July 2005 he became a member of the International Herpetological Committee of the World Congress of Herpetology. From September 2005 to September 2007 Lötters was a postdoc at the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics at the Universiteit van Amsterdam . From April 2007 to November 2008 he was a board member of the International Society for the Study and Conservation of Amphibians (ISSCA).

Since October 2007 Lötters has been teaching as a private lecturer in the fields of biogeography and environmental sciences at the University of Trier . Since November 2007 he has been a member of the Amphibian Specialist Group of the World Conservation Union ( IUCN ). Since August 2008 he has been Vice President of the German Society for Herpetology and Terrarium Science.

In 2007 Lötters co-authored the books Poison Dart Frogs : Biology, Keeping, Species and A Fieldguide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of the Kakamega Forest and in 2016 the work Field Guide to Aposematic Poison Frogs (Dendrobatidae) of the Andean Countries. Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela .

First descriptions by Stefan Lötters

Stefan Lötters was involved in the following initial descriptions :

Dedication names

In 2011, Ignacio De la Riva , Santiago Castroviejo-Fisher , Juan Carlos Chaparro , Renaud Boistel and Jose M. Padial Lötters honored the toad species Atelopus loettersi from Peru in the species epithet .

literature

  • Interview: Stefan Lötters In: Fabrizio Li Vigni: A Life for Reptiles and Amphibians , Edition Chimaira, 2013, ISBN 978-3-89973-199-6 , pp. 160–163

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personal data
SURNAME Lötters, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German herpetologist
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd November 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Menden