Lawrence R. Heaney

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Lawrence Richard Heaney (born December 2, 1952 in Washington, DC ) is an American mammalogist , ecologist and biogeographer . His main research interests are the mammals of the Philippines.

Life

From June 1967 to June 1971, Heaney was an assistant and museum technician in the Department of Mammals at the Smithsonian Institution. From June 1971 to September 1971, Heaney worked as a collector for the Delaware Museum of Natural History. From June 1972 to June 1975 he was a curatorial and research fellow at the University of Minnesota. From June 1973 to August 1975 he was a field and research assistant at the Smithsonian Institution. In June 1975, Heaney received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Minnesota. From August 1975 to May 1979 he was a curatorial assistant, teaching and research assistant at the University of Kansas. In May 1978 he graduated with a Master of Arts from the University of Kansas and in October 1979 a Ph.D. PhD. From September 1979 to August 1986, he was an assistant professor in the biological department and assistant curator in the mammalian department at the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan. He was a Research Fellow from 1986 to 1988 and has been a research fellow at the Smithsonian Institution since 1988. Since 1991 he has been a research fellow at the American Museum of Natural History. He has been a curator since 1988 and head of the mammalogical department of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago , Illinois since 2002 .

The species described by Heaney include the Tawi-Tawi wood rat , the Palawan mountain squirrel , the Dinagat bark rat , the Dinagat rat hedgehog and the nine Apomys species Apomys aurorae , Apomys banahao , Apomys brownorum , Apomys iridensis , Apomys iridensis , Apomys minganensis , Apomys camiguinensis , Apomys lubangensis and Apomys sierrae .

In 2008 Heaney and his colleague Danilo S. Balete succeeded in rediscovering the black-tailed Luzon tree rat ( Carpomys melanurus ) on the Pulag on Luzon , a rodent that was thought to be lost for 112 years.

Dedication names

In 1996, Pedro C. Gonzales and Robert S. Kennedy named the Panay bark rat ( Crateromys heaneyi ) in honor of Lawrence R. Heaney. In 1997 Colin Groves dedicated the subspecies Prionailurus bengalensis heaneyi of the Bengal cat from the Philippine island of Palawan to him .

Works (selection)

  • Mammals of Dinagat and Siargao islands, Philippines, 1982
  • Relationships of pocket gophers of the genus Geomys from the Central and Northern Great Plains, 1983
  • Systematics of Oriental pygmy squirrels of the genera Exilisciurus and Nannosciurus (Mammalia, Sciuridae), 1985
  • Island biogeography of mammals, 1986
  • Vanishing treasures of the Philippine rain forest, 1998
  • Frontiers of biogeography: new directions in the geography of nature, 2004
  • The mammals and birds of Camiguin Island, Philippines, a distinctive center of biodiversity, 2006
  • Discovering diversity: studies of the mammals of Luzon Island, Philippines, 2011
  • The Mammals of Luzon Island. Biogeography and Natural History of a Philippine Fauna, 2016

literature

  • Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson: The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore MD 2009, ISBN 978-0-8018-9304-9 , p. 182.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LiveScience: Cloud Rat Rediscovered after 112 Years
  2. ↑ Pedro C. Gonzales & Robert S. Kennedy: New Species of Crateromys (Rodentia: Muridae) from Panay, Philippines. Journal of Mammalogy 77 (1), 1996: pp. 25-40 doi : 10.2307 / 1382706
  3. ↑ Colin Groves: Leopard-cats, Prionailurus bengalensis (Carnivora: Felidae) from Indonesia and the Philippines, with the description of two new species. Journal of Mammals, 62, 1997: p. 330-338
personal data
SURNAME Heaney, Lawrence R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heaney, Lawrence Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mammalologist, ecologist, and biogeographer
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd December 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC