Irby Lovette
Irby John Lovette (born June 16, 1969 ) is an American ornithologist and ecologist .
Life
Lovette grew up in Northern California . In 1992 he received a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College in biology . In 1999 he won the dissertation Historical processes in the radiation of passerine birds: Phylogenetic Approaches to the study of avian diversification at the University of Pennsylvania under the direction of Robert Ricklefs for Ph.D. PhD in biology . From 2000 to 2001 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Tropical Research in San Francisco , California . From 2001 to 2007 he was an assistant professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University in Ithaca , New York . From 2006 to 2009 he was director of postgraduate courses in ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell University.
In 2001, he became curator of genetic resources at the Cornell Museum of Vertebrates and director of the Fuller Evolutionary Biology program at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology . He has been director of the museum since 2018.
Since 2007 he has been Associate Director of Academic Affairs at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. Since 2014 he has been a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University.
Lovette's research is concerned with the generation and use of phylogenetic information for comparative studies of the evolutionary and diversification patterns of ecological and behavioral traits , with the use of genomic information for the study of individual distribution of gene flow at the population level, hybridization and speciation, and generation of genetic information relevant to conservation and management issues.
Since 2007, Lovette has co- edited the supplementary editions of the American Ornithologists' Union's Check-List of North American Birds alongside James V. Remsen , Douglas F. Stotz and Robert Terry Chesser . In 2015 he was co-editor of Bird Families of the World, An Invitation to the Spectacular Diversity of Birds, alongside David W. Winkler and Shawn M. Billerman . In 2016, he and John W. Fitzpatrick published the Handbook of Bird Biology , which was voted one of the twelve best ornithological books of the year by Forbes Magazine .
2013 Lovette established the new family Mitrospingidae, whose genera Mitrospingus , Lamprospiza and Orthogonys were previously assigned to the Tangaren family . In the same year he introduced the monogeneric family Nesospingidae for the breast spot island tangars ( Nesospingus speculiferus ) and the family Spindalidae for the genus of the striped head tangars ( Spindalis ). In 2014, in collaboration with Alexis FLA Powell, F. Keith Barker, Scott M. Lanyon , Kevin J. Burns and John Klicka, he established the monotypical genus Anumara for the Forbesi ( Anumara forbesi ).
literature
- Curriculum Vitae (as of 2014)
Web links
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lovette, Irby |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lovette, Irby John (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American ornithologist and ecologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 16, 1969 |