Robert Terry Chesser

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Robert Terry Chesser (born August 26, 1960 in Atlanta , Georgia ), often R. Terry Chesser , is an American ornithologist at the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and at the Smithsonian Institution .

Life

Chesser is the son of Robert "Don" and JoAnne Chesser, née Suber. After graduating from Marist Catholic High School in Atlanta, Robert Terry Chesser spent two years at Davidson College in Davidson , North Carolina before returning to Atlanta. In June 1982, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Georgia State University . After graduating, he worked at the Atlanta Builders' Exchange for several years. He developed an interest in ornithology through a course in adult education taught by Joe Greenberg at Emory University and after a few years decided to do a PhD in zoology . In January 1988 he married Susan Griffin and in August 1989 they moved to Baton Rouge . In 1995 he was under the direction of James V. Remsen with the dissertation Biogeographic, Ecological, and Evolutionary Aspects of South American Australasian migration, with Special Reference to the Family Tyrannidae at the Louisiana State University for Ph.D. PhD. From 1995 to 1997 he conducted research with a Chapman - postdoctoral scholarship at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City . From 2002 to 2004 he was responsible for maintaining the Australian National Wildlife Collection of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO). Since 2005 he has served as a curator in the bird department of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History and as a zoologist on the United States Geological Survey.

Chesser's research focuses on bird systematics, evolution, and biogeography . His focal points include the systematics and evolution of the potters' birds (Furnariidae) and other screeching birds , the South American biogeography, especially of the Andes and Amazon regions , the biogeography and ecology of the South American migratory birds , the coevolution of the pigeon tribus Phabini and their feather lice, the systematics and biogeography the Laufhühnchen (Turnicidae) which phylogeography and migration patterns Australian water birds as well as the system and Biogeographie a variety of other Australian and Australasian bird and mammal groups.

Since 2007, Chesser has been co-editor of the supplementary editions to the Check-List of North American Birds of the American Ornithological Society (until 2016 American Ornithologists' Union) alongside James V. Remsen, Douglas F. Stotz and Irby Lovette .

Chesser was involved in the first descriptions of the genera Certhiasomus , Geocerthia , Pseudasthenes , Tarphonomus , Drymotoxeres , and Isleria . 2016 he led the substitute names Asthenes wyatti phelpsi for a subspecies of Strichelrückencanasteros one since the 1977 by William Henry Phelps, Jr. introduced scientific name Asthenes wyatti perijanus by an assembly of the genera Schizoeaca and Asthenes was no longer available. In the same publication Phelps junior described the Perija thistle tail ( Schizoeaca perijana , today Asthenes perijana ). Since the species group name Schizoeaca perijana took precedence over the name Asthenes wyatti perijanus , this has become a secondary junior homonym according to Articles 24.1 and 57.7 of the International Rules for Zoological Nomenclature .

Dedication names

In 2006 the feather louse Myrsidea chesseri from Ghana , which parasitizes in the plumage of the yellow-throated hairbulb ( Criniger barbatus ), was named after Robert Terry Chesser.

literature

  • Robert Terry Chesser: Biogeographic, Ecological, and Evolutionary Aspects of South American Austral Migration, with Special Reference to the Family Tyrannidae. Dissertation from Louisiana State University, 1995 (with a brief CV on page 332)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elizabeth Derryberry, Santiago Claramunt, R. Terry Chesser, Alexandre Aleixo, Joel Cracraft, Robert G. Moyle, Robb T. Brumfield: Certhiasomus, a new genus of woodcreeper (Aves: Passeriformes: Dendrocolaptidae). Zootaxa 2416, 2010, pp. 44-50
  2. ↑ R. Terry Chesser, Santiago Claramunt, Elizabeth P. Derryberry, Robb T. Brumfield: Geocerthia, a new genus of terrestrial ovenbird (Aves: Passeriformes: Furnariidae) Zootaxa 2213, 2009, pp. 64-68
  3. ↑ Elizabeth Derryberry, Santiago Claramunt, Kelly E. O'Quin, Alexandre Aleixo, R. Terry Chesser, JV Remsen Jr., Robb T. Brumfield: Pseudasthenes, a new genus of ovenbird (Aves: Passeriformes: Furnariidae). Zootaxa 2416, 2010, pp. 61-68
  4. ^ R. Terry Chesser, Robb T. Brumfield: Tarphonomus, a new genus of ovenbird (Aves: Passeriformes: Furnariidae) from South America. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 120 (3), 2007, pp. 337-339. doi : 10.2988 / 0006-324X (2007) 120 [337: TANGOO] 2.0.CO; 2
  5. ↑ Santiago Claramunt, Elizabeth P. Derryberry, R. Terry Chesser, Alexandre Aleixo, Robb T. Brumfield: Polyphyly of Campylorhamphus, and Description of a New Genus for C. pucherani (Dendrocolaptinae) - Polifilia de Campylorhamphus y la Descripción de un Nuevo Género para C. pucherani (Dendrocolaptinae). The Auk, Vol. 127, No. 2, April 2010, pp. 430-439
  6. ↑ Gustavo A. Bravo, R. Terry Chesser, Robb T. Brumfield: Isleria, a new genus of reply (Aves: Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae). Zootaxa 3195, 2012, pp. 61-67
  7. ↑ William H. Phelps, Jr .: Una nueva especie y dos nuevas subespecies de aves (Psittacidae, Furnariidae) de la Sierra de Perijá cerca de la divisoria Colombo-Venezolana. Bol. Soc. Venez. Cienc. Nat. 33, 1977, pp. 43-53
  8. ^ R. Terry Chesser: A replacement name for Asthenes wyatti perijanus Phelps 1977. Zootaxa 4067 (5), 2016, pp. 599-599
  9. ↑ Kevin P. Johnson & Roger D. Price: Five new species of Myrsidea Waterston (Phthiraptera: Menoponidae) from bristlebills and greenbuls (Passeriformes: Pycnonotidae) in Ghana Zootaxa 1177, 2006, pp. 27-37
personal data
SURNAME Chesser, Robert Terry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chesser, R. Terry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Atlanta , Georgia