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TEDxGeneva - Ivan Löbl - Biodiversity Where Are We Going?

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2011 · Nonprofits & Activism

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TEDxGeneva -- Ivan Löbl

"Biodiversity: Where Are We Going?"

Named curator and head of the Department of Entomology of the Natural History Museum in Geneva in 1992, Ivan Löbl held this position until retiring in 1999. His studies focused on poorly known soil and mycophagous faunas and led to the discovery of several thousand previously unknown species. Löbl has published some 250 scientific papers.

Since then, he pursues taxonomic research and, together with A. Smetana, edit the Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. The project has been called as a "unvergleichbare Monumentalwerk", or "the most used reference work on beetles of the 21st century," and for which the two Editors received a medal of outstanding achievement by the Symposium Internationale Entomofaunisticum Europae Centralis, in 2007.


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