Bruce D. Patterson (zoologist)

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Bruce D. Patterson (born August 18, 1952 in Coco Solo , Panama Canal Zone ) is an American Mammaloge at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago . His main research interests are rodents , bats and South American marsupials .

Life

Patterson came to the United States in 1954 . In 1974 he received his Bachelor of Science degree from St. Lawrence University in Canton , New York . In 1978 he graduated with a Master of Science degree from New Mexico State University in Las Cruces . In 1981 he was with the dissertation The mandibular morphology of grasshoppers and the niche variation hypothesis , led by host Atmar and Ralph James Raitt, Jr. for Ph.D. PhD from New Mexico State University.

Since 1988 he has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Illinois at Chicago and from 1991 to 2001 he was a visiting lecturer at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb . From 1993 to 2008 he was visiting professor at the Museo de Historia Natural of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima , Peru .

From 1981 to 1985 he was assistant curator and from 1985 to 1992 he was assistant curator at the Field Museum Natural History. From 1984 to 1985 he was a lecturer at Northwestern University in Evanston , Illinois . From 1986 to 1992 he was head of the mammals department at the Field Museum Natural History. From 1992 to 1996 he was a curator at the Field Museum Natural History. MacArthur has been the curator of zoology at the Field Museum Natural History since 1996 .

Patterson's research interests include biological diversification and the ecology , evolution and species protection of tropical mammals. Much of his work is based on samples taken from field work in South America and Africa. He also teaches and advises students and visiting scholars at the Field Museum, the University of Chicago, and the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Patterson has published several books, including in 1986 in collaboration with Lawrence R. Heaney the book Iceland biogeography of Mammals , in 1997 in collaboration with Steven M. Goodman , the book Natural change and human impact in Madagascar and in 2004 the work The Lions of Tsavo: exploring the legacy of Africa's notorious man-eaters , in which he deals with two man-eating lions during the construction of a bridge for the Uganda Railway on Tsavo in 1898. In 2012 the book Bones, clones, and biomes: The history and geography of recent neotropical mammals was published . In 2007 he was involved in the book Mammals of South America, Volume 1: Marsupials, Xenarthrans, Shrews, and Bats by Alfred L. Gardner . For the fifth volume of the Handbook of the Mammals of the World he wrote the chapter on the family of the mouse opossums (Caenolestidae) in 2015 and the chapter on the naked mole rat for the sixth volume in 2016 .

Patterson was the first descriptions of the man-Andean field mouse ( Abrothrix manni ) for Hershkovitz Andean field mouse ( Abrothrix hershkovitzi ), the Andean Opossummaus ( Caenolestes condorensis ) to Sangay Opossummaus ( Caenolestes sangay ) to Pearson's long-clawed mouse ( Geoxus annectens ) to Barbara's brush- tailed rat ( Isothrix barbarabrownae ), Platyrrhinus angustirostris , Platyrrhinus fusciventris , to the long- tongue tree mouse ( Rhagomys longilingua ), Sturnira bakeri and Sturnira burtonlimi .

Memberships

Patterson has served on the University of Chicago's Evolutionary Biology Committee since 1985 . In 1990 he was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London . From 1996 to 1998 he was President of the Society for the Study of Mammalian Evolution . From 1999 to 2000 he was Vice President and from 2002 to 2004 he was President of the American Society of Mammalogists . He has been Vice President of the American Association of University Professors since 2009 . He was also an editor or co-editor of the journals Journal of Mammalogy (1991-1994), Biodiversity Letters (1992-1997), Mastozoología Neotropical (1993-2002) and Publicaciones Especiales, Mastozoología Neotropical (1997-2003).

Honors and Dedication Names

1998 named Philip Hershkovitz the South American hustler genus of brucepattersonius by Bruce D. Patterson. In 2015, Patterson received the C. Hart Merriam Award from the American Society of Mammalogists for outstanding research.

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SURNAME Patterson, Bruce D.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mammal loge
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Coco Solo , Panama Canal Zone