Department of Primatology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
phone: +49 (341) 3550 - 200
fax: +49 (341) 3550 - 299
Tenekwetche Sop, PhD
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Department of Primatology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
Germany
phone: +49 341 3550 209
email: tenekwetche_sop@[>>> Please remove the brackets! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Profile
I am an ecologist and GIS analyst, with extensive knowledge in biodiversity conservation, sustainable use and management of biodiversity, impacts of land-use change on biodiversity and ecosystems services, restoration of degraded ecosystems, ethnobotany and tree population dynamics of key multipurpose species in West Africa.
My background includes a PhD and a Master in Ecology from the University of Hamburg, a Master degree in Botany from the University of Cocody in Côte d’Ivoire and a BSc in Biological Sciences from the University of Ouagadougou, in Burkina Faso.
My desire to work at the science-policy interface led me to join the MPI-EVA in April 2014, as Data manager of the IUCN SSC A.P.E.S database (http://apesportal.eva.mpg.de)
My main duties include:
- Data request, acquisition, storage and analysis to inform policy on great ape conservation
- Trend analysis of great ape populations in the frame of the IUCN SSC periodic assessment
- Data/metadata management and analysis (data quality assurance; data integration, standardization and normalization
- Extensive communication with the IUCN SSC SGA, conservation organizations, researchers and policy makers
- Reporting, networking and outreach activities
- Contribution to scientific papers
Regional expertise
West, Central and Southern Africa
Languages skills
French, English, German, Pidgin-English, Bamougoum, Bassa, Bambara (work in progress)
Memberships in scientific organizations
- African Forest Forum (AFF)
- DesertNet International
- German Society of Botany (Deutsche Botanische Gesellschaft e.V)
- International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS)
- Forestry Research Network Association in Sub-Saharan Africa (FORNESSA)
- Cameroon Ethnobotany Network (CEN)
- Member of Group on Earth Observations – Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO – BON), Working Group no III: Terrestrial Ecosystems Change