(Decapoda Brachyura Ocypodidae)(Construction and signaling function of the sand pyramid of the rider crab Ocypode saratan Forsk).
Linsenmair has made a decisive contribution to the establishment and promotion of the research areas of tropical ecology and biodiversity.
[1] As the only biologist in the National Committee for Global Change Research, he was significantly involved in the development of the concept for the BMBF program BIOLOG-BIOTA.
In the 1980s, Linsenmair developed plans to build a permanent ecological research station in the savannah of the Ivory Coast.
Due to bureaucratic hurdles imposed by offices, authorities and ministries, collecting all the signatures from the 20 bodies took nine years;[2] construction work on the research station did not begin until 1999.
In addition to the occurrence and behavior of individual animal species, he examined global change, the spread of deserts and the loss of biodiversity.
Just a few weeks later, the First Ivorian Civil War began in Ivory Coast, which raged directly at Linsenmair's station.
[2] In 2010, after almost two years of planning and construction, the new information center on biodiversity was opened by Karl Eduard Linsenmair and Robert Foro in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, in which the collected knowledge will now be made available to the general public.
Karl Eduard Linsenmair became president of the Gesellschaft für Tropenökologie (Society for Tropical Ecology) (gtö) in 1990, and has been an elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 1997 and of the Academia Europaea since 1998.