Fridolin Zimmermann
Keywords : Habitat modelling Dispersal Camera-trapping Conservation Biology Carnivores
Country : Switzerland
Organization : KORA - Carnivore Ecology and Wildlife Management
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Email : f.zimmermann@kora.ch
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Biography :
PhD on Eurasian lynx in the Swiss Alps at the University of Lausanne and KORA (1998-2004).From 1995-2001field work during the Eurasian lynx radio-telemetry projects in the Jura Mts. and north-western Swiss Alps.Realization of lynx captures for several translocation programs.Since 2002 responsible for the lynx monitoring in Switzerland and for the GIS at KORA.Habitat modellingfor several large carnivores including Eurasian lynx (PhD), Brown bear in collaboration with WWF Switzerland, the Iberian lynx, as well as the Caucasus leopard and Amur tiger in collaboration with WWF Germany and IUCN Cat Specialist Group. Involved in the capacity building of young biologists in cat conservation. Other research interests are camera-trapping, photographic capture-recapture analyses, dispersal and the transfer of scientific results to practical conservation and management measures.