Verena Keller (biologist)

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Verena Elisabeth Keller (* 1956 in Bern ) is a Swiss biologist .

Life

Great crested grebe

Keller received his doctorate in 1988 from the University of Bern with a thesis on the adaptation of breeding grebes to breeding habitats used by humans as recreational areas .

She is responsible for international projects at the Swiss Ornithological Institute in Sempach . At the European Bird Census Council (EBCC) she is the chair of the Atlas Steering Committee (ASC) and thus the project manager of the European Breeding Bird Atlas (EBBA2), which will be published in 2020 .

Publications (selection)

  • On the question of the adaptation of breeding great crested grebes (Podiceps cristatus) to the conditions of their breeding habitat used by humans as a recreation area. Bern 1988 (dissertation, University of Bern, 1988).
  • Ramsar areas of Switzerland. Federal Office for the Environment, Forests and Landscape, Bern 1996.
  • Ramsar report Switzerland. A location assessment for the implementation of the Convention on Wetlands, especially as a habitat for waterbirds and waders, of international importance. Documentation service, Federal Office for the Environment, Forests and Landscape, Bern 1996.
  • Hans Huckebein & Co. - the corvidae family. Swiss Ornithological Institute, Sempach 1998.
  • with Niklaus Zbinden: The Swiss bird world at the turn of the century. Swiss Ornithological Institute, Sempach 2001.
  • with others: Red list of endangered species in Switzerland: breeding birds. Federal Office for the Environment, Forests and Landscape, Bern 2001.
  • with Marcel Burkhardt: Birds on the water. Swiss Ornithological Institute, Sempach 2003; 2nd, revised edition 2009.
  • with others: Red list breeding birds. Endangered species in Switzerland. Federal Office for the Environment, Bern 2010.
  • with Raffael Ayé, Werner Müller, Reto Spaar and Niklaus Zbinden: The priority bird species of Switzerland: Revision 2010. In: Ornithologischer Beobachter. Vol. 107 (2010), pp. 265-285 ( online ).
  • Switzerland as winter quarters for water birds. Swiss Ornithological Institute, Sempach 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Employees , website of the ornithological station Sempach, accessed on May 1, 2016.
  2. ↑ Contacts to EBBA2 coordination team , European Breeding Bird Atlas website , accessed May 1, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Keller, Verena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keller, Verena Elisabeth (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss biologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern