Thomas Valqui

Thomas Holger Valqui Haase (* May 1966 in Lima , Peru ), mostly Thomas Valqui in publications, is a Peruvian ornithologist . His research focus is the avifauna of Peru.

Life

Valqui is the son of Holger Gustavo Valqui Casas and Ana Maria Haase Goldkuhle. After completing elementary school and high school, he graduated from the German School Alexander von Humboldt Lima in 1986 . In 1992, he earned the Bachelor Accounts and 1997, the engineer - Diploma in Forest Science at the Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina in Peru. From 1985 he completed a master's degree in ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton University in New Jersey , which he completed in October 1998. From 2000, followed by a doctoral program at the Louisiana State University , where he in May 2009 with a thesis Phylogeogaphy of Nothoprocta Tinamous and the the Phylogeny of the Tinamidae headed by V. James Remsen and Robb T. Brumfield for Ph.D. received her PhD in life sciences .

From March 2016 to February 2019, Valqui was an associate professor and since March 2019 he has been a full professor of wildlife and national parks at the Faculty of Forest Sciences at the Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina. He has participated in studies on the taxonomy , conservation , altitude adaptation and biogeography of wild birds and he has participated in projects certified by the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica (CONCYTEC), including on the subject of “Mathematical models of biodiversity, examples and applications with data from the Peruvian Amazon, with a special focus on bird communities ”.

In 2006, Valqui was one of the founding members of the Center for Ornithology and Biodiversity (Centro de Ornitología y Biodiversidad, CORBIDI), an association for conservationists and bird watchers in Lima, where he has been president since 2007.

In 2004 Valqui published Where to Watch Birds in Peru . In the same year he was co-author of the publication Aves de las Nubes - Birds of the Clouds . In 2005 he published the book Perú: Edén natural de aves in collaboration with John Patton O'Neill and Charles A. Munn III .

Valqui was the first descriptions for Junintapaculo ( gettyae Scytalopus ), for rubella rotary swing tyrant ( Cnipodectes super rufus ), the Black eyewear Buschammer ( Atlapetes melanopsis ) to the subspecies Sciaphylax castanea centunculorum of Napoameisenvogels and subspecies Heliangelus regalis johnsoni the Blue Sun nymph involved. In 2001, a team of researchers from Louisiana State University, including Valqui, succeeded in rediscovering the white- masked ant bird ( Phytis castaneus ), a species previously only known from the 1937 holotype .

literature

• Thomas Holger Valqui Haase: Phylogeogaphy of Nothoprocta Tinamous and the the Phylogeny of the Tinamidae , dissertation at Louisiana State University, 2009 (with a short biography on page 86)

Web links

• Curriculum Vitae on the CONCYTEC website (Spanish)
• Official website of CORBIDI (Spanish)
• Interview with Thomas Valqui about his work (Spanish)
• Literature by and about Thomas Valqui in the WorldCat bibliographic database