Tom Kirschey

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Tom Kirschey (born October 13, 1976 in Berlin) is a German author, herpetologist, conservationist and ecosystem restoration expert with focus on peatlands, tropical forests and temperate lakes. He is father of a daughter.

Life

1998-2003 he studied biology at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Since age 18 he served on several elected volunteer positions in German nature conservation organizations. like NABU (Naturschutzbund Deutschland), where he is employed in the Federal Headquarters since 2013 and since 2016 acts as the Head of the International Peatland and Southeast Asia Programme. Recently he became NABUs focal point for the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Before he was working as a freelance journalist and consultant for several foundations, institutions and NGOs, like the Michael Succow Foundation for Nature, the NABU International Foundation, the KfW German Development Bank, WWF Caucasus and Wetlands International. He is a member of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), the International Land Conservation Network (ILCN), the International Research Group on Charophytes (IRGC), the International Mire Conservation Group (IMCG), the Austrian Society of Herpetology (ÖGH), the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles (SSAR) and the Societas Europaea Herpetologica (SEH), where he is member of the Conservation Committee and served for two terms as a treasurer of the society between 2017 and 2022. He is also founding member of the Stichting Reptile and Amphibian Conservation Europe, a foundation registered in the Netherlands.

Scientific contributions

He is author and coauthor of a diversity of scientific and popular scientific articles, mainly on conservation and ecology, peatland restoration, amphibians, reptiles, amphibian pathogens and aquatic macrophytes and charophytes. He co-authored a guidebook on aquatic plants in Germany in German language and two guidebooks on amphibians on Java and in the Sumatran National Park Batang Gadis in Indonesian language. He was participant of the First International Expedition to the Ustjurt Plateau in Uzbekistan and to Caspian Islands in Azerbaijan both conducted by the Michael Succow Foundation, to Luzon and Mindoro by the Ateneo de Manila University and the 1st and 2nd NABU Biodiversity Assessment Expeditions to the Kafa Biosphere Reserve in Ethiopia.

Dedication name

In 2022, a pitviper from the Indonesian island of Simeulue was dedicated to him, and named Trimeresurus kirscheyi Vogel, David & Sidik 2022. http://www.taprobanica.org/~file/283_trimeresurus_hageni_taprobanica_11_2_2022_vogel_etal_54_83-68b6d-3349_1008.pdf?b

Contributions to nature conservation and environmental protection

In 2002 he was elected as chairman of the Brandenburg State Branch of NABU and re-elected in 2006 and 2009. He did not candidate for another term in 2012. His style of managing the organization and political activism was not undisputed. In the same period 2002-2012 he was member of the advisory board of the Stiftung Naturlandschaften Brandenburg, a foundation set-up to manage almost 16.000 hectares of former military training areas for conservation and advised the Brandenburg State Minister of Environment in the Council for Sustainable Development and Minister of Finances in the Council for Land Conversion. Today he is senior supervisor in landscape-scale ecosystem restoration projects in Europe and Asia, like LIFE Peat Restore, LIFE Multi Peat, the Project Ecosystem Restoration Licenses for Biodiversity Conservation in Indonesia and the Hutan Harapan Project both financed by the International Climate Initiative of the German Government. He also works for policy advisory and advocacy

Publications (selection)

• Leonas Jarasius, Jonathan Etzold, Laimdota Truus, Anna-Helena Purre, Jurate Sendzikaite, Liga Strazdina, Nerijus Zableckis, Mara Pakalne, Katarzyna Bociag, Mati Ilomets, Andreas Herrmann, Tom Kirschey, Raimo Pajula, Pawel Pawlaczyk, Izabela Chlost, Roman Cieslinski, Krzysztof Gos, Krisjanis Libauers, Zydrunas Sinkevicius, Leticia Jurema (2022): Handbook for Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Peatlands. Applications of direct and indirect methods by LIFE Peat Restore. Lithuanian Fund for Nature, 201 p. (ISBN 978-9986-570-22-6)

• Mara Pakalne, Jonathan Etzold, Mati Ilomets, Leonas Jarasius, Pawel Pawlaczyk, Katarzyna Bociag, Izabela Chlost, Roman Cieslinski, Krzysztof Gos, Krisjanis Libauers, Raimo Pajula, Anna-Helena Purre, Jurate Sendzikaite, Liga Strazdina, Laimdota Truus, Nerijus Zableckis, Leticia Jurema, Tom Kirschey (2021): Best Practice Handbook for Peatland Restoration and Climate Change Mitigation. Experiences from LIFE Peat Restore Project. University of Latvia, 184 p. (ISBN 978-9934-556-73-9)

• Farits Alhadi, Fajar Kaprawi, Amir Hamidy, Tom Kirschey (2021): Panduan Bergambar dan Identifikasi Amfibi Pulau Jawa. ARS & NABU, 213 p. (ISBN 978-3-9822269-9-6)

• Lara Shirin Bienkowski, Robin Simon Stephan, Tom Kirschey, Ria Saryanthi (2021): Population density of Tarsius supriatnai along a forest degradation gradient in Popayato-Paguat landscape (Gorontalo Province, Sulawesi). – In: Dmitry Telnov, Maxwell V.L. Barclay, Olivier S.G. Pauwells (editors): Biodiversity, Biogeography and Nature Conservation in Wallacea and New Guinea Volume IV. pp.: 431-442. (ISBN 978-9984-9768-9-1)

• Wouter Beukema, Jesse Erens, Vanessa Schulz, Gwij Stegen, Annemarieke Spitzen-van der Sluys, Tariq Stark, Arnoud Landelout, Thierry Kinet, Tom Kirschey, Marie Poulain, Claude Miaud, Sebastian Steinfartz, An Martel, Frank Pasmans (2021): Landscape epidemiology of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans: reconciling data limitations and conservation urgency. Ecological Applications 31 (5): DOI:10.1002/eap.2342.

• Yulia Kharanzhevskaya, Anton Maloletko, Anna Sinyutkina, Marek Giełczewskic, Tom Kirschey, Robert Michałowski, Dorota Mirosław-Świątek, Tomasz Okruszko, Paweł Osuch, Paweł Trandziuk, Mateusz Grygoruk (2020): Assessing mire-river interaction in a pristine Siberian bog-dominated watershed - Case study of a part of the Great Vasyugan Mire, Russia. Journal of Hydrology 590. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022169420307757

• Fajar Kaprawi, Farits Alhadi, Amir Hamidy, Bobby Nopandry, Tom Kirschey, Jarian Permana (2020): Panduan Lapangan Amfibi Di Taman Nasional Batang Gadis Sumatera Utara. ARS/NABU, 185 p. (ISBN 978-3-9822269-0-3)

• Hendrik Müller, Tom Kirschey (2020): Amphibians of the Kafa Biosphere Reserve. – In: NABU (ed.): NABU’s Follow-up Biodiversity Assessment at the Kafa Biosphere Reserve. NABU. pp.: 70-85. (ISBN 978-3-925815-31-7)

• Knut Kaiser, Silke Oldorff, Carsten Breitbach, Christoph Kappler, Martin Theuerkauf, Tobias Scharnweber, Manuela Schult, Mathias Küster, Christof Engelhardt, Ingo Heinrich, Michael Hupfer, Grit Schwalbe, Tom Kirschey, Oliver Bens (2018): A Submerged Pine Forest from the Early Holocene in the Mecklenburg Lake District, northern Germany. Boreas 47 (3): DOI:10.1111/bor.12314.

• Jurate Sendzikaite, Laimdota Truus, Liga Strazdina, Leonas Jarasius, Andreas Herrmann, Raimo Pajula, Tom Kirschey, Nerijus Zableckis, Mara Pakalne, Zydrunas Sinkevicius, Romas Pakalnis (2018): First Data on Application of GEST Approach in the Baltic Region: Vegetation Mapping of Pilot Peatlands.- In: N.A. Zelenkevich, Dmitry G. Grummo, O.V. Sozinov, D.Yu. Zhilinsky,, R.V. Tsvirko,, S.G. Rusetsky (eds.): Vegetation of Peatlands. Materials of the 3rd International Scientific Seminar. National Academy of Sciences Belarus. pp.: 115-119.

• Larissa Kupriyanova, Tom Kirschey, Wolfgang Böhme (2017): Distribution of the Common Viviparous Lizard, Zootoca vivipara (Lichtenstein, 1823) (Squamata: Lacertidae) in Central Europe and Re-Colonization of the Baltic Sea Basin: New Karyological Evidence. Russian Journal of Herpetology 24 (4): 311-317.

• Silke Oldorff, Volker Krautkrämer, Tom Kirschey (2017): Pflanzen im Süßwasser. Franckh Kosmos, 288 p.

• Silke Oldorff, Tom Kirschey (2017): Benthivorous fishes interaction with submerged vegetation – a simple exclosure experiment. Rostocker Meeresbiologische Beiträge 27: 63-80.

• Tom Kirschey (2017): Herpetofauna (Amphibia, Reptilia) at the Kafa Biosphere Reserve. – IN: NABU (ed.): NABU’s Biodiversity Assessment at the Kafa Biosphere Reserve. NABU. pp.: 190-205. (ISBN 978-3-925815-30-0)

• Silke Oldorff, Hans-Jürgen Spieß, Arno Waterstraat, Tom Kirschey (2015): Die Makrophytenvegetation des Großen Fürstenseer Sees und des Hinnensees. Forschung und Monitoring im Müritz-Nationalpark 4: 149-178.

• Susanne Böll, Benedikt R. Schmidt, Michael Veith, Norman Wagner, Dennis Rödder, Cathrin Weimann, Tom Kirschey, Stefan Lötters (2013): Anuran amphibians as indicators of changes in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems following GM crop cultivation: a monitoring guideline. BioRisk 8: 39-51.

• Boris Tuniyev, Sako Tuniyev, Tom Kirschey, Konrad Mebert (2011): Notes on the Dice Snake (Natrix tessellata) from the Caucasian Isthmus. Mertensiella 18: 343-356.

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