Forschen für die Umwelt

Dr. Mark Auliya

Forschungsschwerpunkte

Herpetologie, Taxonomie, Tropenökologie (Afrika, Asien), internationaler Artenschutz

Wildtierhandel mit einem Fokus auf Reptilien Südostasiens, z.B. kommerzieller Hauthandel mit Python- und Waranarten, Lebendhandel für den internationalen Terrariummarkt

Autökologie des Netzpythons (Python reticulatus) und des Sunda-Gavials (Tomistoma schlegelii) in Indonesien

Aktuelles UFZ Projekt

Seit April 2010 an der Schnittstelle Wissenschaft/Politik im Projekt RACE (Risk Assessment of Chytridiomycosis to European amphibian diversity) > Risikoanalyse der Chytridiomykose für europäische Amphibien >> Teilvorhaben: Analyse des Politikkontextes und Science-Policy Dialog

Geplante UFZ Projekte

Auswirkung des internationalen Lebendhandels von Reptilien auf Wildpopulationen (Beispiele von WA und Nicht WA -Arten)

Erstellung von weiteren Reptilien-Bestimmungsführern (ausgewählte Artengruppen des südostasiatischen und melanesischen Raums) für Zollbehörden, Naturschutzorganisationen u.a.

Phylogeografie und Artenschutzgenetik (DNA Forensik) des Netzpythons (Python reticulatus) und Implikationen für den Gesetzesvollzug

Klimawandel - Krokodile – Torfsümpfe: Krokodilschutz = Klimaschutz

IUCN Mitgliedschaften

• IUCN/SSC Crocodile Specialist Group
• IUCN/SSC CSG - Tomistoma Task Force
• IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group
• IUCN/SSC Sea Snake Specialist Group

Beratende Funktionen

Referent für Artenschutz Zoll-Lehrveranstaltungen (Deutschland, Malaysia, Indonesien)

Mitarbeiter der IUCN Red List 2008 und 2010

Sachverständiger für das Washingtoner Artenschutzübereinkommen (CITES) – Sachgebiete Amphibien und Reptilien

Wissenschaftlicher Moderator in Fernseh-Naturdokumentionen

Publikationen (Auswahl)

Books and Chapters

• Auliya, M. (2007): An Identification Guide to the Tortoises and Freshwater Turtles of Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore and Timor Leste. TRAFFIC Southeast Asia, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.
• Bellosa, H., L. Dirksen & M. Auliya (2007): Faszination Riesenschlangen. – BLV Verlag, München, 160 pp.
• Auliya, M. (2006): Taxonomy, Life History and Conservation of Giant Reptiles in West Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo). ntv-Verlag, Münster, 432 pp.
• Auliya, M. (2008). Introduction aux Pythonidés. In: Pauwels, O. S. G. & J.-P. Vande Wegde (eds.). Reptiles du Gabon. Smithsonian Institution.

Reports

• Auliya, M. (2009). Conservation Status and Impact of trade on the Oriental Rat Snake Ptyas mucosa in Java, Indonesia. TRAFFIC Report, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. http://www.trafficj.org/publication/10_Conservation_Rat_Snake.pdf
• Auliya, M., B. Shwedick, R. Sommerlad, S. Brend & Samedi (2006): A short-term assessment of the conservation status of Tomistoma schlegelii (Crocodylia: Crocodylidae) in Tanjung Puting National Park (Central Kalimantan, Indonesia). A cooperative survey by the Orangutan Foundation (UK) and the Tomistoma Task Force, of the IUCN/SSC Crocodile Specialist Group, 36 pp. • http://tomistoma.org/pa_contents/free_downloads/Tomistoma2005_survey.pdf
• Auliya, M. (2003): Hot Trade in Cool Creatures – A review of the live reptile trade in the European Union in the 1990s with a focus on Germany. TRAFFIC Europe, Brussels, Belgium, 112 pp. www.traffic.org/species-reports/traffic_species_reptiles2.pdf

Peer reviewed papers

• Ismail A.K., S.A. Weinstein, M. Auliya, D.M. Sabardin, T.J. Herbosa, I.M. Saiboon & J. White (2009). A bite by the Twin-Barred Tree Snake, Chrysopelea pelias (Linnaeus, 1758). Clinical Toxicology. 1–5. DOI: 10.3109/15563650903550964
• Koch, A., M. Auliya, A. Schmitz, U. Kuch & W. Böhme (2007). Morphological Studies on the Systematics of South East Asian Water Monitor (Varanus salvator Complex): Nominotypic Populations and Taxonomic Overview. In: Advances in Monitor Research III. H.-G. Horn, W. Böhme and U. Krebs (Eds.). Mertensiella, 16: 109-180.
• Stuebing, R. B., M. R. Bezuijen, M. Auliya & H. K. Voris (2006): The current and historic distribution of Tomistoma schlegelii (The False Gharial) (Müller, 1838) (Crocodylia, Reptilia). Raffles Bull. Zool. 54(1): 181-197 http://www.fieldmuseum.org/research_collections/zoology/pdf/stuebing_etal_2006.pdf
• Murphy, J. C., H. K. Voris & M. Auliya (2005): A New Species of Enhydris (Serpentes: Colubridae: Homalopsinae) from the Kapuas River System, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Raffles Bull. Zool. 53(2): 271-275 http://www.fieldmuseum.org/research_Collections/zoology/pdf/murphy_voris_auliya_2005.pdf
• Auliya, M., P. Mausfeld, A. Schmitz & W. Böhme (2002): A Review of the Reticulated Python (Python reticulatus Schneider, 1801) with the description of two subspecies from Indonesia. Naturwissenschaften 89(5): 201-213.
• Rasmussen, A., M. Auliya & W. Böhme (2001): A new species of the snake genus Hydrophis (Serpentes: Elapidae) from a river in West Kalimantan (Indonesia, Borneo). Herpetologica 57: 23-32
• Auliya, M. & W. Erdelen (1999): A Field Study of the Water Monitor Lizard (Varanus salvator) in West Kalimantan, Indonesia - New Methods and Old Problems. Mertensiella 11: 247-266

Präsentationen (Auswahl)

• Invited Speaker: Conservation Science Forum – WWF Malaysia; “Tomistoma schlegelii, an overlooked macro-vertebrate and flagship species of a unique wetland ecosystem, the peat swamp forests in SE Asia”, September 12, 2008, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
• Invited Workshop speaker: Tomistoma Task Force Workshop, “A short-term assessment of the conservation status of Tomistoma schlegelii (Crocodylia: Crocodylidae) in Tanjung Puting National Park (Central Kalimantan, Indonesia)”, March 23-27, 2008, Pattaya, Thailand
• Invited Workshop leader: Reptile Identification, October 3-5, 2007, Singapore Zoo
• Invited Workshop speaker: Refining Non-Detriment Finding Tools for the Trade of the Oriental Rat Snake (Ptyas mucosa) in Java (Indonesia), August 15, 2007, Bogor, Indonesia
• Invited Seminar speaker: Einblicke in aktuelle Forschungsarbeiten: Artenschutz in den Tropen: Gattungen Python und Varanus“ - Gastvortrag im Semi-Block: Evolution und Formenvielfalt der Amphibien und Reptilien, im Zoologischen Forschungsinstitut & Museum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK), Bonn, January 26 – February 6, 2004
• An introduction – Turtle species covered within proposals at the 12th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES (CoP 12), 3-15 November 2002 in Santiago, Chile; Press conference at WWF-Germany; October 15, 2002, Frankfurt, Germany
• The Live Reptile Trade in the European Union – Annual meeting of the German Society for Herpetology, Amphibian and Reptile Husbandry (DGHT); September 22, 2002, Bad Orb, Germany
• Status and distribution of the False Gharial (Tomistoma schlegelii) – Annual meeting of the Zoological Society for the Conservation of Species and Populations (ZGAP); April 13-14, 2002, “Allwetterzoo”, Münster, Germany
• Crocodylus raninus – a valid taxon? – Annual meeting of the AG-Crocodiles; May 18-20, 2001, Königswinter, Germany
• Trade and use of Indonesian reptiles - Working Group for Nature and Species Conservation in the Tropics (AK NAT, Arbeitskreis für Natur- und Artenschutz in den Tropen), May 6, 2000, Boppard, Germany
• Exotics in Germany – The trade with live reptiles; Press conference at WWF- Germany, March 27, 2000, Frankfurt, Germany.
• The European Union Trade with Live Reptiles - Preliminary results - Bundesamt für Naturschutz, BfN (The Federal Agency for Nature Conservation), July 15, 1999, Bonn, Germany
• Invited Seminar speaker: Forschungen an Reptilien in Indonesien: a) Ergebnisse aus einem Forschungs- und Entwicklungsvorhaben b) Nutzung von indonesischen Reptilien c) Weiterer Forschungsbedarf - Bundesamt für Naturschutz, BfN, (The Federal Agency for Nature Conservation), February 17, 2000, Bonn, Germany
• Invited Seminar speaker: Preliminary results of the study, “The European Union Trade with Live Reptiles“ – Annual TRAFFIC-Europe staff meeting; March 25-26, 1999, Brussels, Belgium
• Zur Populationsbiologie, Ökologie und Taxonomie des Netzpythons (Python reticulatus) in West-Kalimantan (Borneo, Indonesien); DGHT-Jahres-Tagung, September 10-14, 1997, Dormagen, Germany
• Eine Herpetozönose eines tropischen Sumpf-Auwaldes in West-Kalimantan (Borneo, Indonesien). DGHT-Jahres-Tagung, September 10-14, 1997, Dormagen, Germany
• The ecology of the water monitor (Varanus salvator) in West-Kalimantan, Indonesia. World Congress of Herpetology, in Prague, Czech Republic, August 10, 1997
• Preliminary results of the Indonesian project, “Status, Population Biology and Conservation of the Water Monitor (Varanus salvator), the Reticulated Python (Python reticulatus), and the Blood Python (Python curtus) in Sumatra and Kalimantan, Indonesia“. Workshop in Jakarta, Indonesia; November 23, 1996

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