Anthony B. Rylands

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Anthony Brome Rylands (* 1950 in Surrey , England ) is a British primatologist . His main research interests are the neotropical primates .

Life

From 1964 to 1969 Rylands attended Radley College in Radley near Abingdon-on-Thames . From 1970 he completed a bachelor's degree in zoology at Imperial College London , which he graduated with honors in 1973. From July 1976 to March 1986 Rylands was a research fellow at the ecological department of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA) in Manaus , Amazonas , where he discussed the biogeography , ecology and behavior of the Aripuanã marmoset ( Mico intermedius ) in Mato Grosso as well as the golden-headed lion tamarin ( Leontopithecus chrysomelas ) and the kuhl's marmoset ( Callithrix kuhlii ) did research in Bahia . These field studies formed the basis for his dissertation The Behavior and Ecology of Three Species of Marmosets and Tamarins (Callitrichidae, Primates) in Brazil. , with which he obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1982. PhD in behavioral ecology . From 1983 to 1986 Rylands was the coordinator of the collaborative project Biological Dynamics of Primates in Forest Fragments between the INPA and the WWF .

In 1986 Rylands joined the Faculty of the Institute for Life Sciences at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), where he was Professor of Vertebrate Zoology from 1991 to 2005. There he helped found the Master’s degree in Ecology, Conservation and Wildlife Management , the first of its kind in Brazil. He was a mentor of 23 master's and doctoral students and supervised 60 master's and doctoral programs. Rylands has worked with Conservation International since 1992 , initially as a research member in the program of the partner organization Conservação Internacional do Brasil and from 1999 to 2009 as director of the program for endangered species at the newly established Center for Applied Biodiversity Science in Washington, DC From 2000 to 2017 he was research group leader at Conservation International, where he held managerial positions at the Margot Marsh Biodiversity Foundation and the Primate Action Fund.

Rylands has been a member of the Primate Specialist Group (PSG) of the IUCN / Species Survival Commission since 1980 and has been its vice-chairman since 1996. He was the founder in 1993 and co-editor of the PSG's newsletter and magazine Neotropical Primates until 2005 and has been co-editor of Primate Conservation magazine since 1996 .

In 2000, Rylands was one of the first to describe the Acari marmoset ( Mico acariensis ).

Rylands book publications include The Status of Conservation Areas in the Brazilian Amazon (1991), Marmosets and Tamarins: Systematics, Behavior, and Ecology (1993), Lion Tamarins: Biology and Conservation (2002), Monkeys of the Guianas: Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana: Pocket Identification Guide (2008, with Russell Mittermeier ), South Asian Primates: Pocket Identification Guide (2008, with Russell Mittermeier), Indigenous Peoples and Conservation, From Rights to Resource Management (2010), Lémuriens de Madagascar (2014 , with Olivier Langrand and Russell Mittermeier), Monkeys of Peru: Pocket Identification Guide (2015, with Laura K. Marsh and Russell Mittermeier), All the World's Primates (2016, with Russell Mittermeier) and Back from the Brink: 25 Conservation Success Stories (2017, with Russell Mittermeier).

In 2013 Rylands was co-editor of the third volume in the Handbook of the Mammals of the World series on primates, alongside Russell Mittermeier and Don E. Wilson, and contributed to the family chapters on the marmosets (Callitrichidae), capuchin monkeys (Cebidae), sakia monkeys (Pitheciidae) , Spotted monkeys (Atelidae) and vervet monkeys (Cercopithecidae) He has also been co-editor of the Primates in Peril series since 2000 . The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates , a collaborative project between Conservation International and the IUCN / SSC Primate Specialist Group.

Dedication names

2014 named Laura K. Marsh, the primate Pithecia rylandsi from the genus of Sakis ( Pithecia ) in honor of Anthony B. Rylands.

literature

  • Karen B. Strier: Anthony Rylands In: International Encyclopedia of Primatology , John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017, pp. 1238-1239

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personal data
SURNAME Rylands, Anthony B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rylands, Anthony Brome (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British primatologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Surrey , England