Louise H. Emmons

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Louise Hickok Emmons (born August 23, 1943 in Montevideo , Uruguay ) is an American mammal login . Her main research interests are the distribution and ecology of tropical mammals.

Life

Emmons was born in Montevideo as the daughter of a US diplomat. She spent most of her childhood with her father in Spain, Australia, Ireland and Malaysia before returning to the United States to graduate from high school in Vermont . A high school biology teacher nurtured Emmons' early passion for science and nature and helped her get a summer job as a research assistant at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory in Massachusetts, where her scientific career began. In 1965 she received her bachelor's degree from Sarah Lawrence College in Westchester County , New Yorkof Arts. After college, she spent three years as a laboratory assistant at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City before enrolling in the Graduate School of the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University in Ithaca , New York. During her studies, Emmons spent 25 months in Gabon , where she conducted field studies on tree squirrels for her doctoral thesis . In 1975 she received her PhD thesis Ecology and behavior of African rainforest squirrels. for Ph.D. PhD from Cornell University. She then received a one-year scholarship as a research fellow at the Center national de la recherche scientifique in France, of which she spent six months in Gabon and six months in Paris. After a brief stint at Pennsylvania State University , Emmons became a research fellow in the Mammalian Department of the Smithsonian Institution in 1981 .

Emmons studied the ecology and distribution of tropical mammals in many countries, including Gabon, Borneo, Peru, and Bolivia. From 1989 to 1997 she was a member of the Rapid Assessment Program of the nature conservation organization Conservation International , which aims to provide countries with biological information on the basis of which decisions can be made on the conservation of less explored regions. As part of this project, Emmons contributed to 14 field studies on tropical mammals.

Areas of interest of Emmons' taxonomic research are the high variety of tropical mammal communities as well as studies on the family of echimyidae (Echimyidae) of the New World. In further ecological studies she dealt with ocelots , tree squirrels , pointed squirrels and tassels . Her field research included a long-term study of the mammalian fauna of the forest-savanna ecosystems in the Noel Kempff Mercado National Park in Bolivia. The content of this study was the exploration of the communities of bats and ground-dwelling small mammals as well as the marking of maned wolves with GPS radio collars .

Emmons has contributed to over 100 scientific publications. In 1990 she published Neotropical Mammals: A Field Guide . In 2013 she wrote the sections on the African palm squirrel , the African miniature squirrel and the oil palm squirrel ( Protoxerus ) in The Mammals of Africa by Jonathan Kingdon . In 2015, together with James L. Patton , she wrote the family articles on Dasyproctidae , Abrocomidae and Echimyidae as well as on the generic article about the mole mice ( Juscelinomys ) in the work Mammals of South America Volume 2: Rodents . 2016 she wrote the chapter on family chinchilla rat (Abrocomidae) factory Handbook of the Mammals of the World, Volume 6: Rodents I .

Emmons wrote the first scientific descriptions of the species Juscelinomys guaporensis , Juscelinomys huanchacae , Pithecheirops otion , Phyllomys pattoni and Cuscomys ashaninka as well as the genera Pithecheirops , Cuscomys , Callistomys and Olallamys . In 2005 she transferred the redhead tree rat described by Joel Asaph Allen in 1899 to the newly created monotypical genus Santamartamys .

Dedication names and awards

In 1998 Guy Musser , Michael D. Carleton , Eric M. Brothers and Alfred L. Gardner named the Alfaro rice rat ( Euryoryzomys emmonsae ) from Brazil in honor of Louise Emmons.

In 2002 Emmons received the Outstanding Achievement Award for 30 years of work on the ecology of tropical and neotropical rainforests from the Society of Woman Geographers .

In 2008 she was made an honorary member of the Association of Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC).

literature

  • Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson: The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals . Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. ISBN 0-8018-9304-6 . P. 127.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Musser, GG, Carleton, MD, Brothers, EM and Gardner, AL 1998. Systematic studies of oryzomyine rodents (Muridae: Sigmodontinae): diagnoses and distributions of species formerly assigned to Oryzomys "capito". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 236: 1-376.
  2. ^ SWG: Outstanding Achievement. Retrieved July 25, 2020 (English).
  3. ↑ Honorary Fellow, ATBC 2008, Louise H. Emmons
personal data
SURNAME Emmons, Louise H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Emmons, Louise Hickok (full name); Emmons, Louise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mammal login of Uruguayan origin
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Montevideo , Uruguay