Prof. Dr. Axel Hochkirch
Education and Employment
| June 2017 | Distinction as Associate Professor |
Feb 2009 | Habilitation in Biogeography |
Since March 2008 | Scientific Lab Manager at the Department of Biogeography, Trier University |
July 2007 | Habilitation in Ecology Title of the habilitation thesis: "Evolution, Maintenance and Conservation of Biodiversity: Case studies from Orthoptera" |
2001-2007 | Assistant Professorship at the University of Osnabrück, Division of Ecology |
2001 | Postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for Ecology and Evolution Biology (University of Bremen, IFOE) |
May 2001 | PhD thesis, University of Bremen (IFOE, Prof. Dr. D. Mossakowski) Title of the thesis: “A phylogenetic analysis of the East African Grasshopper genus Afrophlaeoba Jago, 1983” |
1999-2000 | Lectureship at the University of Applied Sciences, Bremen (ISTAB) |
1996-2001 | Freelancing biologist, environmental consultant (ecological expertises, mappings) and PhD student |
Sept. 1996 | Biology Diploma at the University of Bremen (IFOE). Title of the diploma thesis: “Habitat preferences of Acridoidea and Eumastacoidea in the East Usambara Mts., NE Tanzania” |
1990-1996 | Freelancing biologist, consultant for NGOs, landscape planning, authorities |
1990-1996 | Study of biology at the University of Bremen; subjects: zoology, ecology, botany, marine biology |
1989-1990 | Community service at BUND “Diepholzer Moorniederung" (Friends of the Earth - Germany) |
1976-1989 | Primary and Secondary school in Limburg / Lahn |
Editorial Boards
Associate Editor BMC Evolutionary Biology
Associate Editor Journal of Insect Conservation
Reviewer for Journals
Journals
Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins Bremen; Acta Ethologica; Acta Herpetologica; Acta Oecologica; Acta Zoologica; Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment; Analytical Letters; Animal Behaviour; Animal Biodiversity and Conservation; Animal Conservation; Annals of the Entomological Society of America; Applied Entomology and Zoology; Arthropod-Plant Interactions; Arthropod Structure and Development; Basic and Applied Ecology; Axios Review; Behavioral Ecology;Biologia; Biological Conservation; Biological Invasions; Biological Journal of the Linnean Society; Biology Letters; Biotropica; BMC Evolutionary Biology; Bulletin de la Société des naturalistes luxembourgeois; Bulletin of Entomological Research; Central European Journal of Biology; Conservation Genetics; Conservation Genetics Resources; Conservation Letters; Current Zoology; Ecography; Ecological Entomology; Ecological Indicators; Ecological Engineering; Ecological Modelling;Ecological Research; Ecology; Ecosystems;Ecotropica;Entomologie heute; Entomological News; Entomological Science; Environmental Entomology;European Journal of Entomology; Evolutionary Biology; Evolutionary Ecology; Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment; Functional Ecology; Genetica;Hereditas; Heredity; Insect Conservation and Diversity; Insect Science; Insect Systematics & Evolution; International Journal of Molecular Sciences; Journal for Nature Conservation; Journal of Animal Ecology; Journal of Applied Ecology; Journal of Biogeography; Journal of Evolutionary Biology; Journal of Insect Behavior; Journal of Insect Biodiversity; Journal of Insect Conservation; Journal of Insect Physiology;Journal of Insect Science;Journal of Orthoptera Research;Journal of the Entomological Research Society Ankara; Journal of Tropical Ecology; Journal of Zoology; Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research; Learning & Behavior; Micron; Mitteilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für allgemeine und angewandte Entomologie; Molecular Ecology; Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution; Natur und Landschaft; Nature Climate Change; Nature Communications; Nature Ecology & Evolution; Naturwissenschaften;Neotropical Entomology; Oecologia; Oikos; Pakistan Journal of Zoology; Physiological Entomology; Phytocoenologia; PLOS One; Population Ecology; Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B: Biological Sciences; River Research and Applications; Science Advances; Science of the Total Environment, Terrestrial Arthropod Reviews; The American Naturalist; The Canadian Entomologist; The Central Mediterranean Naturalist; The Science of Nature; Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle Grigore Antipa; Tropical Zoology; Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society; Zoology; Zoologischer Anzeiger; Zookeys; Zootaxa
Books
Zachos F.E. & J.C. Habel (2011): Biodiversity Hotspots. Springer, Berlin
Habel J.C. & T. Assmann (2010): Relict Species - Phylogeography and Conservation Biology. Springer, Berlin
Settele J., Margules C., Poschlod P. & K. Henle (1996): Species Survival in Fragmented Landscapes. Kluwer, Dordrecht
Grant Reviewer for:
DFG (German Research Foundation)
SNF (Swiss National Science Foundation)
ESF: FP7 ERA-NET (BiodivERsA)
COST (European Co-operation in the Field of Science and Technology)
Leibniz Association
Baden-Württemberg Stiftung
Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU)
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Czech Science Foundation
Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung
Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour
Deutscher Akademischer Auslandsdienst (DAAD)
Memberships |
| IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) |
| European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) |
| Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) |
| Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft (DZG) |
| Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik (GfBS) |
| Gesellschaft für Ökologie (GfÖ) |
| Gesellschaft deutschsprachiger Odonatologen (GdO) |
| Orthopterist’s Society (OS) |
| Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft (DO-G) |
| Deutsche Gesellschaft für allgemeine und angewandte Entomologie (DGaaE) |
| Deutsche Gesellschaft für Tropenökologie (gtö) |
| Deutsche Gesellschaft für Orthopterologie (DGfO) |
| Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein zu Bremen (NWV) |
| Zoologische Gesellschaft Frankfurt (ZGF) |
| Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) |
| Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND) |
| Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) |
