Danilo S. Balete

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Danilo S. Balete (* 1960 in Luzon , Philippines ), also known as Danny Balete , is a Filipino zoologist and biologist. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Balete ".

Life

Balete grew up in the Bicol region of Luzon. From 1984 to 1988 he studied at the University of the Philippines in Los Baños , where he obtained a Bachelor of Science in zoology. In 1989 he joined the Philippine Mammal Project at the Field Museum of Natural History . He spent eight months a year as an expedition leader in the rainforest and about four months with a research team at the Field Museum of Natural History.

From 1992 he completed a biology degree at the invitation of Lawrence R. Heaney at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), where he graduated in 1995 with a Master of Science.

In 2000 he began a 15-year long-term study of the mammals on the island of Luzon. The project team, which consisted of Filipino and US scientists, included Balete Lawrence R. Heaney from the Field Museum of Natural History, Mariano Roy Duya and Melizar Duya from the University of the Philippines, Sharon Jansa from the University of Minnesota, and Eric Rickart from Natural History Museum of Utah and Scott Steppan of Florida State University . Of 56 non-flying mammal species, 52 are endemic to Luzon and 28 mammal species were newly discovered during this study. 57 bat species are also found on Luzon. In 2008, Balete and Heaney succeeded in rediscovering the black-tailed Luzon tree rat ( Carpomys melanurus ) on the Pulag on Luzon , a rodent that was believed to be lost for 112 years. In 2016 he published a book on the mammals of Luzon with Lawrence R. Heaney and Eric A. Rickart called The Mammals of Luzon Island. Biogeography and Natural History of a Philippine Fauna .

From 2002 to 2013, Balete was a research fellow at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. From 2003 to 2013 he was a research fellow at the National Museum of the Philippines .

From 2008 to 2009 Balete was a lecturer at the University of the Philippines, Diliman Campus, Quezon City .

In addition to several rodent species, including Archboldomys musseri , Crunomys suncoides , aurorae apomys , apomys Banahao , apomys brownorum , apomys iridensis apomys magnus , apomys minganensis , apomys lubangensis , sierrae apomys , apomys zambalensis , Batomys uragon , Rhynchomys Banahao , Rhynchomys isarogensis , Rhynchomys labo and Rhynchomys Mingan Balete described the four lizard species Brachymeles lukbani , Parvoscincus boyingi , Parvoscincus hadros and Parvoscincus igorotorum . Balete's research also focuses on the native Rafflesia .

Balete is a member of the Haribon Foundation , the largest conservation organization in the Philippines.

Dedication names

In 2006, Julie F. Barcelona, ​​Mary Ann O. Cajano and Annalee S. Hadsall described the Rafflesia species Rafflesia baletei , which was discovered in 1991 by Balete on the Isarog volcano in the Bicol region.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deutsche Welle: Cloud rats of the sky islands: 28 new mammal species found in the Philippines from July 19, 2016, accessed on November 16, 2016
  2. ↑ Lawrence R. Heaney, Danilo S. Balete, Mariano Roy Duya, Melizar V. Duya, Sharon Jansa, Eric A. Rickart and Scott Steppan: Doubling diversity: a cautionary tale of previously unsuspected mammalian diversity on a tropical oceanic island Frontiers of Biogeography , 8 (2), e29667, 2016
  3. ↑ LiveScience: Cloud Rat Rediscovered after 112 Years
  4. ↑ a b Rickart, EA, Heaney, LR, Balete, DS & Tabaranza, Jr., BR (1998) A review of the genera Crunomys and Archboldomys (Rodentia, Muridae, Murinae) with descriptions of two new species from the Philippines. Fieldiana Zoology new series, 89, 1-24.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g Heaney, LR, Balete, DS, Rickart, EA, Duya, MRM, Duya, MV, Veluz, MJ, VandeVrede, L. & Steppan, SJ (2011) Seven new species and a new subgenus of forest mice (Rodentia: Muridae: Apomys) from Luzon Island. Fieldiana Life and Earth Sciences, 2, 1-60.
  6. ↑ a b Lawrence R. Heaney, Danilo S. Balete, Maria Josefa Veluz, Scott J. Steppan, Jacob A. Esselstyn, Andrew W. Pfeiffer, and Eric A. Rickart: Two new species of Philippine forest mice (Apomys, Muridae, Rodentia) from Lubang and Luzon Islands, with a redescription of Apomys sacobianus Johnson, 1962 Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 126 (4): 395-413. 2014
  7. ↑ Balete, DS, Rickart, EA, Heaney, LR & Jansa, SA (2015) A new species of Batomys (Muridae, Rodentia) from Luzon Island, Philippines. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 128, 22-39.
  8. ↑ a b Balete, DS, Rickart, EA, Rosell-Amball, RGB, Jansa, S. and Heaney, LR 2007. Descriptions of two new specis of Rhynchomys Thomas (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae) from Luzon Island, Philippines. Journal of Mammalogy 88 (2): 287-301.
  9. ↑ a b Eric A. Rickart, Danilo S. Balete, Robert M. Timm, Phillip A. Alviola, Jacob A. Esselstyn, Lawrence R. Heaney: Two new species of shrew-rats (Rhynchomys: Muridae: Rodentia) from Luzon Island , Philippines. Journal of Mammalogy, 2019
  10. ↑ Siler, CD; DS Balete; AC Diesmos and RM Brown 2010. A New Legless Loam-swimming Lizard (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae: Genus Brachymeles) from the Bicol Peninsula, Luzon Island, Philippines. Copeia 2010 (1): 114-122
  11. ↑ a b c Brown, RM et al. 2010. Species boundaries in Philippine montane forest skinks (Genus Sphenomorphus): three new species from the mountains of Luzon and clarification of the status of the poorly known S. beyeri, S. knollmanae, and S. laterimaculatus. Scient. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas (42): 1-27
  12. ^ Julie F. Barcelona, ​​Mary Ann O. Cajano and Annalee S. Hadsall: Rafflesia baletei, Another New Rafflesia (Rafflesiaceae) from the Philippines. Kew Bulletin. Vol. 61, No. 2 (2006), pp. 231-237
personal data
SURNAME Balete, Danilo S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Balete, Danny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Filipino zoologist and biologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH in Luzon , Philippines