Alberto R. Estrada

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Alberto Rafael Estrada Acosta (born September 3, 1953 in Havana ) is a Cuban biologist . His interests are zoology , ecology and wildlife management , in particular herpetofauna , avifauna and the bioacoustics of frogs .

Life

From 1970 to 1973 Estrada studied at the Instituto Preuniversitario Saúl Delgado in Havana. From 1974 he studied at the Facultad Obrera Julio Antonio Mella in Havana, where he graduated in 1975 with a Bachelor of Science. After studying for a doctorate from 1975 to 1981 at the Faculty of Biology at the University of Havana , he received his doctorate in zoology and animal biology.

From 1997 to 2015 Estrada lived and worked in Puerto Rico . From May 1998 to December 2003 he taught two semesters of conservation biology at the School of Environmental Affairs and several semesters of biology and environmental science at the School of Science and Technology at the Universidad Metropolitana in San Juan , Puerto Rico. From August 1999 to December 2004 he was a science teacher and private tutor at the Universidad Metropolitana. From 2004 until his retirement in July 2015, he was a science teacher at the Academia María Reina in Puerto Rico, where he taught biology, environmental science and physics.

Estrada has participated in several search expeditions for the Cuban Ivory Woodpecker, including 1985, 1986 and 1987 (the only two successful expeditions in collaboration with Lester L. Short , Jennifer FM Horne, George B. Reynard , Giraldo Alayón and Aimé Posada) and 1993 (with Martjan Lammertink ). During a US-American-Cuban herpetological expedition in 1990 he discovered a new anole species, which he first described in 1995 with S. Blair Hedges as Anolis alayoni . Other species described by Estrada are the Monte Iberia frog ( Eleutherodactylus iberia ), which is one of the smallest amphibians in the world, 16 other frog taxa from the genus of the Antilles whistling frogs ( Eleutherodactylus ), four other species of the genus Anolis and the earth boa - Species Tropidophis celiae , which he named after his wife Celia Puerta de Estrada.

Estrada has participated in various educational and research projects of the Centro de Conservación de Manatíes de Puerto Rico. This included catches, radio tracking and aerial photography of manatees .

Estrada has written more than fifty articles on amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals that have been published in peer-reviewed journals in Cuba, the United States, Europe, and Latin America. In addition, he wrote several newspaper articles about fauna in the Cuban and Puerto Rican press.

Estrada has published several books, including En busca del Carpintero Real en el oriente cubano (2014, also the English translation Looking for the Ivory-billed-Woodpecker in eastern Cuba ), Escribiendo sobre fauna en periódicos de Cuba y Puerto Rico: Writing about fauna in newspapers of Cuba and Puerto Rico (2015), Aves Acuáticas en Puerto Rico: Observando Aves en los Humedales (2015), Puerto Rico through my lens -I-: Images of San Germán (2016), Peces Costeros de Cuba (2016, with Orlando H. Garrido ), Etoecología de las Aves Terrestres cubanas (2017, with Orlando H. Garrido) and Tesoros en el cabo: La Cofradía del Tesoro de la Catedral de Mérida (2017).

Dedication names

In 1991 John Douglas Lynch named the subspecies Eleutherodactylus atkinsi estradai after Estrada. Its name can be found in the common English name of the Estrada's robber frog ( Eleutherodactylus melacara Hedges , Estrada & Thomas , 1992).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ S. Blair Hedges, Alberto R. Estrada, Richard Thomas: Three new species of Eleutherodactylus from eastern Cuba, with notes on vocalizations of other species (Anura: Leptodactylidae) . In: Herpetological Monographs . tape 6 , 1992, pp. 68-83 , doi : 10.2307 / 1466962 .
personal data
SURNAME Estrada, Alberto R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Estrada Acosta, Alberto Rafael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban biologist
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd September 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Havana , Cuba