Dr. Peter Giere

Tasks

• Curator of the Embryological Collection
• Head of the Collection Competence Centre within Science Programme ‘Collection Development and Biodiversity Discovery’

Research

• Development of a simplified procedure for testing the suitability of materials for scientific collections
• In search of the origins of diversity

Publications
(Selection)

Giere, P. and D.S. Eastman. 2000. River otters (Lontra canadensis) and humans: occurrence in a coastal urban habitat and reaction to increased levels of disturbance. pp. 107-125 in Griffiths, H.I., Hrsg. Mustelids in a modern world. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden.

Giere, P. 2002. Grundplanrekonstruktion und Ontogenese der Orbitotemporalregion der "Eulipotyphla" (Mammalia). Wissenschaft und Technik Verlag, Berlin.

Giere, P. and S. Jancke. 2010. Professor Georg Friedrich Paul Matschie. pp. 196-199 in Ferdinand Damaschun, Sabine Hackethal, Hannelore Landsberg, Reinhold Leinfelder, eds. Klasse, Ordnung, Art - 200 Jahre Museum für Naturkunde.Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Basilisken-Presse, Rangsdorf.

Giere, P., L. Möller, A. Hilger, A. Paulke, H. Riesemeier and M. Kuehbacher. 2010. Modern and classic approaches towards revealing the orbital mosaic in the common shrew Sorex araneus Linnaeus, 1758 (Soricidae, Lipotyphla, Mammalia). Zoosystematics and Evolution 86 (2): 343 – 350.

Jancke, S. and P. Giere. 2011. Patterns of otter Lutra lutra road mortality in a landscape abundant in lakes. European Journal of Wildlife Research 57(2): 373-381.