Terrestrial Cetartiodactyla

Author Biography

Luca Corlatti is Senior Wildlife Ecologist at the Stelvio National Park (Italy) and Affiliate Professor of Wildlife Ecology at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (Germany). He obtained a MSc in Forest and Environmental Sciences at the University of Padua (Italy) in 2006. After research experiences in Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Austria and Scotland, in 2013 he obtained a PhD in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Siena (Italy). In 2016 he was recipient of a Marie Curie-Skłodowska Postdoctoral Fellowship in Behavioral Ecology at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (Germany); between 2017 and 2021 he held a Postdoc position with the Chair of Wildlife Ecology and Management at the University of Freiburg. His research interests primarily focus on the ecology, behavior and management of mountain-dwelling ungulates. He is Associate Editor of Mammalian Biology and Wildlife Biology, and member of the Caprinae Specialist Group of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Frank E. Zachos is head of the Mammal Collection at the Natural History Museum Vienna, Austria, affiliated lecturer at the University of Vienna and affiliated professor at the Department of Genetics at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa. He studied biology, history of science and philosophy in Kiel and Jena, Germany, and received his PhD in zoology in 2005. In 2009, he completed his habilitation for zoology and evolutionary biology. His main research topics comprise the intraspecific biodiversity, phylogeography, population genetics and conservation of mammals and birds, with a particular focus on red deer and other ungulates. He also has a long-standing interest in species concepts and the species problem as well as other theoretical and philosophical issues in evolutionary biology and systematics. He was the editor-in-chief of the journal Mammalian Biology from2007 to 2021, and he is currently the editor of the Mammalia series within the Handbook of Zoology.