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Biographical Information about Pierre
Jolivet. Pierre Jolivet, a
Frenchman by birth, was previously
entomologist at the Royal Institute of
Natural Sciences in Brussels, Belgium, from 1950 to 1957. He then spent
most of his life abroad travelling as project director and entomologist in
various entomological and plant
protection projects for the UN specialized agencies, including FAO and WHO. He
visited most of the tropical countries of
SE Asia , Papua-New Guinea, Australia , Africa and Latin America doing research or teaching
in various universities, and participated
to many tropical research expeditions. Dr. Jolivet was for a short while
entomologist at the Museum of Natural History, Paris (1962) and scientific director
of the Environmental Unit (EID) in Montpellier, France with a research job at
the zoological department of the university (1971-1972). Dr. Jolivet special interest all his
life rested on leaf-beetles taxonomy and mostly biology, plant-insect
relationships, ant-plants, and the study of several Sporozoa, parasitic of
Insects, of the order Gregarina (Apicomplexa). Pierre Jolivet has
written twenty-three books, some dealing with topics like Ants and Plants,
Carnivorous Plants, Insect and Man, Host-Plants of the Chrysomelidae, others in
collaboration with several specialists, like the series of 5 volumes on the
Biology of Chrysomelidae. Recently, a book on the biology of leaf-beetles in
French summarize the knowledge accumulated on the family. Another one on the
same topic, but completely different; in English (Biology of the Leaf Beetles ) with another specialist
was published in England: Pierre Jolivet obtained his Ph.D.
from the antique and historical Sorbonne in Paris in 1954, just one year before
the splitting of Paris University into 12 separate entities. Recently, he made several trips in New Caledonia and surroundings looking for archaic beetles and Gondwana links. |
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