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Mark Scherz
PeerJ Author & Reviewer
310 Points

Contributions by role

Author 135
Preprint Author 35
Reviewer 140

Contributions by subject area

Taxonomy
Zoology
Biodiversity
Conservation Biology
Animal Behavior
Evolutionary Studies
Biogeography

Mark D. Scherz

PeerJ Author & Reviewer

Summary

I am an Assistant Professor of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of Copenhagen and Curator of Herpetology at the Natural History Museum of Denmark. I work on evolution and systematics, focussing especially on the herpetofauna of Madagascar.

Biogeography Evolutionary Studies Taxonomy Zoology

Past or current institution affiliations

University of Copenhagen
Universität Konstanz
Universität Potsdam

Work details

Assistant Professor of Vertebrate Zoology, Curator of Herpetology

University of Copenhagen
September 2021
Natural History Museum of Denmark

PhD Student

Zoologische Staatssammlung München
October 2013 - June 2019

PostDoc

Universität Konstanz
October 2019 - October 2020
Department of Biology

Postdoc/PI

Universität Potsdam
January 2021 - August 2021
Evolutionary Genomics

Identities

@markscherz

Websites

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PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 1
  • Preprints 1
  • Reviewed 4
February 7, 2017
Off the scale: a new species of fish-scale gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Geckolepis) with exceptionally large scales
Mark D. Scherz, Juan D. Daza, Jörn Köhler, Miguel Vences, Frank Glaw
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2955 PubMed 28194313
June 30, 2017 - Version: 1
Taxonomy is not beholden to its dependencies: a rebuttal to Garnett and Christidis (2017)
Morgan D. Jackson, Mark D. Scherz, Scott Zona
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3060v1

Signed reviews submitted for articles published in PeerJ Note that some articles may not have the review itself made public unless authors have made them open as well.

March 11, 2020
Acoustic divergence in advertisement calls among three sympatric Microhyla species from East China
Zhi-Qiang Chen, You-Fu Lin, Yun Tang, Guo-Hua Ding, Yan-Qing Wu, Zhi-Hua Lin
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8708 PubMed 32201644
March 3, 2020
Evolutionary history of the Cameroon radiation of puddle frogs (Phrynobatrachidae: Phrynobatrachus), with descriptions of two critically endangered new species from the northern Cameroon Volcanic Line
Václav Gvoždík, Tadeáš Nečas, Matej Dolinay, Breda M. Zimkus, Andreas Schmitz, Eric B. Fokam
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8393 PubMed 32175182
October 4, 2018
A new limestone-dwelling species of Micryletta (Amphibia: Anura: Microhylidae) from northern Vietnam
Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Tan Van Nguyen, Tang Van Duong, Vladislav A. Gorin, Jian-Huan Yang
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5771 PubMed 30310757
March 30, 2017
Mountain colonisation, miniaturisation and ecological evolution in a radiation of direct-developing New Guinea Frogs (Choerophryne, Microhylidae)
Paul M. Oliver, Amy Iannella, Stephen J. Richards, Michael S.Y. Lee
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3077 PubMed 28382230