Otto Huber (born 1944 in Bischofswiesen, Bavaria, Germany) is an Italian ecologist known for his work on the botany, phytogeography and conservation of the neotropics.
[1][3] Born in Germany, Huber grew up and studied in Merano, Italy, and graduated from the State University of Rome in the fields of Botany and Ecology (1971).
While in Rome in 1966 he was given an offer to travel to Venezuela for a year to carry out field work in the newly created Estación Biológica de los Llanos in Calabozo (Guárico state).
Huber's fields of scientific interest include the flora and phytogeography of the neotropics and the vegetation of Venezuela's non-forest biomes but he has also taken part in systematic research in the Humiriaceae family with José Cuatrecasas.
From its beginning in 1977 he has maintained an intimate link with the Ministry of Environment of Venezuela (MARNR) and has been leader of two of their research projects to study the tepui ecosystem.