Prof. Dr. Klaus Henle
Head of the Department 1992-2020
Helmholtz Centre for
Environmental Research - UFZ
Department of Conservation Biology
Permoserstraße 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany
Phone: +49 341 6025 1270
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Short-CV
- 1983: MSc in biology, University of Stuttgart-Hohenheim, Germany. Thesis: Comparative ecology and demography of three Yugoslavian populations of the Italian wall lizard (Podarcis sicula campestris BETTA, 1857) (Reptilia: Lacertidae)
- 1988: PhD, Australian National University, Canberra. Thesis: Population ecology and life history of a lizard community in arid Australia
- 1998: Habilitation in Zoology, University of Mainz, Germany. Thesis: Contributions of animal ecology to methodological, conceptual, and theoretical advances in conservation biology
- 2012: Professorship, University of Leipzig
- 1989: Postdoc, Institute of Landscape Planning and Ecology, University of Stuttgart
- Since 1992: Head, Department Semi-natural Landscapes (renamed Department of Conservation Biology in 2003), Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Germany
Other current Professional Activities (selection)
- Editor-in-chief: Nature Conservation
- Governing Board of Section Field Herpetology of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde
- Founding and Honorary Member Australian Capital Territory Herpetological Association
- Ecological Society of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
- Societas Europaea Herpetologica
- Society for Conservation Biology
- Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles
- International Reviewer, Earth Sciences and Engineering Program, Georgian National Science Foundation
Main research interests
- Population ecology of vertebrates
- Effects of habitat fragmentation, climate change and other drivers on biodiversity
- Scaling and monitoring approaches in conservation biology
- Herpetology
- Floodplain ecology
- Conservation biology of species