Scientific Research

Scientists who have visited and/or made reasearches in Reserva Amaznica

Alwyn H. Gentry, USA

1945-1993: In Memoriam La trgica muerte de Alwin Gentry en 1993 fue una tremenda prdida para la botnica tropical y la conservacin Neotropical. Gentry, botanico de campo y restaurador del Jardn Botnico de Missouri, fue famoso por su conociemiento enciclopedico de plantas tropicales y por su inacabable y constate energa durante sus 25 aos de investigacin. The tragic death of Alwyn Gentry in 1993 was a tremendous loss to tropical botany and to Neotropical conservation. Gentry, a field botanist and senior curator at the Missouri Botanical Gardens, was famous for his encyclopedic knowledge of tropical plants, and for his unwavering, boundless energy. During his 25-year research career. A partir de 1990, Alwin H. Gentry visit muchas veces Reserva Amazonica Inkaterra, habiendo realizado la coleccin de muchas especies botnicas, muestras que se encuentran depositadas en el Jardn Botnico de Missouri, USA. Since 1990, Alwin Gentry visited several times Inkaterras Reserva Amazonica. He collect many botanical species and samples that can be found at the Missouri Botanical Garden, USA

Publications: One of Gentry's major feats was the completion of his 900-page Field Guide to the Families and Genera of Woody Plants of Northwest South America. This comprehensive guide is especially important because Gentry highlights vegetative characteristics (such as leaves, bark and odor) for identification, rather than relying on fruits and flowers alone. Gentry's exhaustive reference work will continue to serve as an invaluable tool for field researchers and conservationists. And his independent spirit will continue to inspire generations of botanists and conservationists. The Alwyn H. Gentry Bignoniaceaee Specimen Data Set During the later years of his scientific career, A. H. Gentry recorded his specimen determinations in a computerized database. This was done with a series of computers and database software with the assistance of a series of volunteers, students and staff of the Missouri Botanical Garden. While Gentry was careful of the determinations he made, he was often absent for lengthy periods, so much data was entered without supervision. Following his death, the computer database was examined, corrected, and added to TROPICOS, the Missouri Botanical Garden taxonomic database.

GENTRY, A. 1991. The Flora of Cuzco Amazonico. En: BIOTROP: Report on Biodiversity al Cuzco Amazonico Peru. Compiled by Duellman, W. Center for Neotropical Biological Diversity Museum of Natural History, The University of Kansas. MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 2001. Plantas Vasculares de la Reserva Ecolgica Cuzco Amaznico, Madre de Dios Peru. Field Guide to the Families and Genera of Woody Plants of Northwest South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru) Alwyn H. Gentry , Rodolfo Vasquez Field Guide to the Families and Genera of Woody Plants of Northwest South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru) Alwyn H. Gentry , Rodolfo Vasquez Four Neotropical Rainforests Alwyn H. Gentry Bignoniaceae Tecomeae Alwyn H. Gentry Field Guide to Woody Plants of Northwest South America Columbia, Ecuador, Peru Alwyn H. Gentry Lowland Dry Forests of Santa Cruz, Bolivia A Global Conservation Priority Louise H. Emmons , Alwyn H. Gentry, J. V. Remsen, Theodore A. Parker, Robin B. Foster