Roger W. Hutchings

E-mail: rwhutch@umd.edu
Phone: 55 92 8111 3334
Fax:
Mail: Department of Entomology * 4112 Plant Sciences Building * University of Maryland * College Park, MD 20742-4454
 
 
Research Interests
* Diversity and distribution of amazonian butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera): Inventory and long term monitoring of communities

* Community dynamics of amazonian butterflies (Papilionoidea) and moths (Mimallonoidea)

* Taxonomy, systematics and phylogeny of the sack-bearer moths (Lepidoptera, Mimallonidae)

* Impacts of habitat change and forest fragmentation on insect and plant communities in the Amazon

* Amazonian tree diversity and community composition: Inventory and long term monitoring (Phytodemography)

* Diversity and distribution of amazonian mosquitoes: Inventory and long term monitoring of communities


PERMANENT ADDRESS:
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA)
Coordenação de Pesquisas em Ecologia (CPEC)
Caixa Postal 478
69011-970 Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
Telephone: 55 92 3643 1893
E-mail: rwhutch@inpa.gov.br

Visit the CNPq website in Brasil for a Full CV (in portuguese)
 
 
Education
* University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA (1996-present)
Ph.D. Candidate in Entomology (MCSE program)
Dissertation: Phylogeny and revision of the genera of sack-bearer moths (Lepidoptera: Mimallonidae).
Advisors: Charles Mitter (ENTM-UM) & Robert K. Robbins (NMNH/SI)

* Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia / Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus, AM, Brazil (1991)
M.Sc.in Ecology
Thesis: Dinâmica de Três Comunidades de Papilionoidea (Insecta:Lepidoptera) em Fragmentos de Floresta na Amazônia Central.
Advisor: Keith S. Brown Jr. (UNICAMP)

* Duke University, Durham, NC, USA (1980)
B.Sc. in Zoology
 
 
Representative Publications
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Hutchings, R.S.G., M.A.M.Sallum, R.L.M.Ferreira & R.W.Hutchings. 2005. Mosquitoes of the Jaú National Park and their potential importance in Brazilian Amazonia. Medical and Veterinary Entomology 19(4):428-441.
 

Hutchings, R.S.G., M.A.M.Sallum, R.L.M.Ferreira & R.W.Hutchings. 2005. O acervo de mosquitos (Diptera, Culicidae) de Nelson L. Cerqueira na Coleção de Invertebrados do Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brasil. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 49(1):15-28.
 

Rankin de Merona, Judy M. & R. W. Hutchings. 2001. Deforestation Effects at the Edge of an Amazonian Forest Fragment: Tree Mortality, Damage, and Recruitment. Ch.9 pp.107-120 In: Bierregaard,R.O., C.Gascon, T.E.Lovejoy & R.Mesquita (eds.) Lessons From Amazonia: The Ecology and Conservation of a Fragmented Forest, edited by ,. New Haven: Yale University Press.
 

Laurance,W.F., L.V.Ferreira, J.M. Rankin de Merona, S.G.Laurance, R.W.Hutchings & T.E.Lovejoy. 1998. Effects of Forest Fragmentation on Recruitment Patterns in Amazonian Tree Communities. Conservation Biology 12(2):460-464.
 

Laurance,W.F., L.V.Ferreira, J.M. Rankin de Merona & R.W.Hutchings. 1998. Influence of plot shape on estimates of Tree diversity and Community composition in Central Amazonia. Biotropica 30(4):662-665.
 

Brown, K.S., & R.W. Hutchings. 1997. Disturbance, Fragmentation, and the Dynamics of Diversity in Amazonian Forest Butterflies. Ch.7 pp.91-110 In: Laurance,W.F. & R.O.Bierregaard (eds.) Tropical Forest Remnants: Ecology, Management, and Conservation of Fragmented Communities. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 616 p.
 

Bierregaard,R.O., T.E.Lovejoy, V.Kapos, A.A.Santos &R.W.Hutchings. 1992. The Biological Dynamics of Tropical Rainforest Fragments. Bioscience 42(11):859-866.
 

Rankin de Merona,J.M, G.T.Prance, R.W.Hutchings, M.F.Silva, W.A.Rodrigues & M.E.Uehling. 1992. Preliminary results of a Large-Scale Tree Inventory of Upland Rain Forest in the Central Amazon. Acta Amazônica 22(4):493-534.
 

Rankin de Merona, Judy M., R.W.Hutchings & T.E.Lovejoy. 1990. Tree Mortality and Recruitment over a five year period in Undisturbed Upland Rain Forest of the Central Amazon. Ch.29 pp.573-584 In: Four Neotropical Forests, Gentry, A.H.(ed.),Yale University Press, New Haven, 627 p.
 

Sullivan,J.B., L.Pennell, B.Hutchison & R.W.Hutchings. 1983. Genetics and Evolution of the Hemocyanin Multigene - I. Genetic variability in Uca pugilator from Beaufort, NC. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 76:615-618.
 

Ayala,S.C. & R.W.Hutchings. 1974. Hemogregarines (Protozoa:Sporozoa) as zoogeographical tracers of Galapagos Island Lava Lizards and Marine Iguanas. Herpetologica 30(2):128-132.
 

 

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