F. Gary Stiles

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F. Gary Stiles

Frank Garfield "Gary" Stiles III (born November 7, 1942 in Portland , Maine ), often F. Gary Stiles , is an American ornithologist and botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " FGStiles ".

Life

His father Frank Garfield Stiles Jr. married his mother Aileen Hurd on June 29, 1936 in Providence. From 1960 to 1964 graduated Stiles at Amherst College , a biology degree , which he described as Bachelor with the evaluation magna cum laude graduated. From 1964 he studied zoology at the University of California, Los Angeles , where he in 1970 with a thesis on food supply and the annual cycle of the Anna hummingbird for Ph.D. received his doctorate. From 1973 to 1989 Stiles was a professor at the Universidad de Costa Rica . In 1990 he moved to Bogotá , where he works as a curator for ornithology and as a professor at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia .

The research interests of Stiles include the ecology and morphology of hummingbirds , especially the wing morphology and flight habits of these birds, of which he had caught and measured 3000 specimens from 140 species by 2005. He also focuses on the pollination of plants by birds, on the taxonomy and distribution of Neotropical birds, plant phenology and bird protection . In 2001, Stiles and scientists from the Natural History Museum in London and the Universidad Nacional de Colombia founded the BioMap project to collect data and classify the Colombian avifauna. 230,000 copies were recorded by 2005. The results are used in the record of bird distribution in Colombia as well as in bird conservation decision making.

Stiles was involved in several first descriptions of bird taxa from Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela, including the Cundinamarca ant pitta ( Grallaria kaestneri ) in 1992 , the Chiribiquete emerald hummingbird ( Chlorostilbon olivaresi ) in 1996 and the Colombian vireo ( Vireo masteri ), in 1999 Foggy owl ( Glaucidium nubicola ), in 2002 in the subspecies Cistothorus apolinari hernandezi of the Apolinarzwönigs and in 2017 in Tatamátapaculo ( Scytalopus alvarezlopezi ). His first botanical descriptions include some heliconia taxa , including Heliconia colgantea and Heliconia trichocarpa .

In 1989 he published the book A Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica together with Alexander Frank Skutch and the illustrator Dana Gardner . In 1992 he published the study On the Biology of Five Species of Swifts (Apodidae, Cypseloidinae) in Costa Rica .

Dedication names and honors

In 1991 Allan Robert Phillips named the subspecies Vireo magister stilesi des Yucatánvireos after F. Gary Stiles. However, there are doubts about the validity of this subspecies. In 2005 the Stilestapaculo ( Scytalopus stilesi ) was named in honor of Stiles. In 1982 Walter John Emil Kress named Heliconia stilesii in his honor. Marisol Amaya and Lars Peter Kvist dedicated the Gesneria family Columnea stilesiana to him in 2015 . In 2003, Stiles received the Eisenmann Medal from the Linnaean Society of New York . In 2005 he was honored with the Parker / Gentry Award donated in 1996 by the Field Museum of Natural History .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Heliconia taxa of Costa Rica. Keys & descriptions . In: Brenesia . No. 15 , 1979, ISSN  0304-3711 , pp. 1-150 .
  • Notes on the natural history of Heliconia (Musaceae) in Costa Rica . In: Brenesia . No. 15 , 1979, ISSN  0304-3711 , pp. 151-180 .
  • Further data on the genus Heliconia (Musaceae) in northern Costa Rica . In: Brenesia . No. 18 , 1980, ISSN  0304-3711 , pp. 147-154 .
  • with Dana Gardner, Alexander Frank Skutch: A Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica . Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca, New York 1990, ISBN 0-8014-9600-4 .
  • with Manuel Marín: On the biology of five species of swifts (Apodidae, Cypseloidinae) in Costa Rica . In: Proceedings of the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology . tape 4 , no. 5 , 1992, pp. 287–349 (English, researchgate.net [PDF; 24.0 MB ]).
  • with Paula Caycedo Rosales: A new subspecies of Apolinar's Wren (Cistothorus apolinari. Aves: Troglodytidae). an endangered Colombian endemic / Una nueva subespecie de soterrey de Apolinar (Cistothorus apolinari, Aves: Troglodytidae), un endemismo colombiano en peligro . In: Caldasia . tape 24 , no. 1 , 2002, ISSN  0366-5232 , p. 191-199 ( revistas.unal.edu.co ).
  • with Vítor de Queiroz Piacentini , James V. Remsen, Jr .: A brief history of the generic classification of the Trochilini (Aves: Trochilidae): the chaos of the past and problems to be resolved . In: Zootaxa . tape 4269 , no. 3 , 2017, p. 396-412 , doi : 10.11646 / zootaxa.4269.3.4 .
  • with James V. Remsen, Jr. , Jimmy Adair McGuire: The generic classification of the Trochilini (Aves: Trochilidae): Reconciling taxonomy with phylogeny . In: Zootaxa . tape 4353 , no. 3 , 2017, p. 401-424 , doi : 10.11646 / zootaxa.4353.3.1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brown University, Brown Alumni Monthly, Vol. 43, no.9, Providence, RI, 1943, p. 24
  2. ^ Brown University, Brown Alumni Monthly, Vol. 37, no. 3, Providence, RI, 1936, p. 82
personal data
SURNAME Stiles, F. Gary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stiles, Frank Garfield Gary III (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ornithologist and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Portland , Maine