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Louise H. Emmons

Louise H. Emmons is a biology topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Louise H. Emmons rather than just read about it. In short: Louise H. Emmons is an American zoologist who studies tropical rainforest mammals, especially rodents.

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Reference excerpt

Louise H. Emmons is an American zoologist who studies tropical rainforest mammals, especially rodents. She has conducted fieldwork in Gabon, Sabah (Borneo), Peru, and Bolivia. Her best known work is the field guide, Neotropical Rainforest Mammals: A Field Guide, first published in 1990, with a second edition in 1997.

Education Louise Hickok Emmons earned her PhD from Cornell University in 1975 and wrote a thesis entitled, "Ecology and Behavior of African Rainforest Squirrels." She received a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in 1965.

Description of new taxa Louise H. Emmons described several new taxa of mammals:

three genera of spiny rats, Callistomys, in 1998, and Pattonomys and Santamartamys, in 2005. one genus and one species of abrocomid, Cuscomys ashaninka, in 1999. one species of spiny rat, Phyllomys pattoni, in 2002. two species of oryzomyine rodents, Oryzomys acritus, in 2005, and Oecomys sydandersoni, in 2009. one species of rat, Pithecheirops otion, in 1993. one species of didelphid marsupial, Monodelphis gardneri, in 2012. She also introduced the new taxon name Olallamys for a genus of spiny rats.

Taxonomic patronym In honor of Louise H. Emmons, one taxonomic patronym was given for a rodent with the species name emmonsae:

Euryoryzomys emmonsae, the Emmons's rice rat. Pampamys emmonsae, the Emmons's extinct spiny rat

Books 2002. Tupai: A field study of treeshrews in Borneo. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2000. Tupai: A field study of Bornean Treeshrews. Berkeley: University of California Press. Emmons, Louise H. and Feer, François. 1999. Mamíferos de los bosques húmedos de América tropical: Una guía de campo. Santa Cruz, Bolivia: Editorial F.A.N. Emmons, Louise H., Whitney, B., and Ross, D. 1998. Sounds of Neotropical rainforest mammals: An audio field guide. Ithaca: Cornell Laboratory of Natural Sounds. Emmons, Louise H. and Feer, François. 1997. Neotropical rainforest mammals: A field guide. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Emmons, Louise H. and Feer, François. 1990. Neotropical rainforest mammals: A field guide. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

References

External links Biography of Louise H. Emmons Louise H. Emmons publications indexed by Google Scholar Biography of Louise H. Emmons from the National Museum of Natural History.

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Louise H. Emmons

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Louise H. Emmons ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Louise H. Emmons

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In the classroom: Louise H. Emmons is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1943 births, 20th-century American non-fiction writers, 20th-century American women non-fiction writers, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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What is Louise H. Emmons in simple terms?

Louise H. Emmons is an American zoologist who studies tropical rainforest mammals, especially rodents.

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