Jochen Martens

Jochen Martens (born 1941 in Jena)

Life Jochen Martens grew up in Jena, Weimar, Berlin, Bonn Bad-Godesberg, and Stuttgart. From 1962 to 1967, he studied biology and chemistry at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, earning his doctorate in 1968 under Rudolf Braun on an arachnological topic. In 1969/70, Martens spent 15 months in Nepal on a post-doctoral fellowship from the DAAD. Since 1971, he has been an assistant at the Institute of Zoology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, where he habilitated in 1975 on an ornithological topic. Martens defined the Tembrock's "Regiolect" more precisely, introduced the term "Mikrolekt" (2000), and thereby narrowed down the overly diverse term "dialect."

Travels alt=Journeys undertaken by Jochen Martens according to continents/ countries. Arrows indicate the first travels to the respective countries. Jochen Martens' travels by continents/countries. Arrows indicate the first journeys to respective countries. Jochen Martens' extensive travel for research purposes took him to 27 countries. He undertook 40 research trips within Europe and 40 more to Asia and New Zealand, spending a total of 2631 days and 9% of his life on expeditions. and flower biology.

The 1978 volume Spinnentiere, Arachnida: Weberknechte, Opiliones in the series Die Tierwelt Deutschlands is still considered a standard work, a "benchmark for publications on Opiliones worldwide" Jochen Martens is credited with ending the "dark age of harvestman research and initiating the era of 'opilionological enlightenment'". the Ornithological Society in Bavaria, and the Verein Thüringer Ornithologen. He is also an honorary associate of the Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden in the ornithology team.

Since the 1980s, Jochen Martens has been a fellow of the International Ornithologists' Union (IOU).

In 1984, Jochen Martens was a founding member of the Oriental Bird Club (OBC), in which he remains a member to this day.

Since the early 1990s, Jochen Martens has been a member of the Berlin Circle of Editors and Contributors of the Atlas of Palearctic Birds. To continue this atlas project, the Erwin Stresemann Society for Palearctic Avifaunistics was founded in 1994, with Jochen Martens serving as president from 1997 to 2014 and as vice president from 2015 to 2021.

In 2005, the German Ornithologists' Society awarded Jochen Martens the Ornithologists' Prize for his research in Asia and his lifetime achievements.

In 2006, Hainan Normal University in Haikou, China, awarded Jochen Martens the title of Visiting Professor.

Described taxa List of animal genera, species, and subspecies described by Jochen Martens. The list comprises 297 taxa.