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Scientific Research

Scientists who have visited and/or madereasearches in Reserva Amaznica

Alwyn H. Gentry, USA1945-1993: In Memoriam

La trgica muerte de Alwin Gentry en 1993 fue una tremenda prdida para la botnica tropical y laconservacin Neotropical. Gentry, botanico de campo y restaurador del J ardn Botnico deMissouri, fue famoso por su conociemiento enciclopedico de plantas tropicales y por su inacababley 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 MissouriBotanical Gardens, was famous for his encyclopedicknowledge of tropical plants, and for his unwavering,boundless energy. During his 25-year research career.

A partir de 1990, Alwin H. Gentry visit muchas vecesReserva Amazonica Inkaterra, habiendo realizado lacoleccin de muchas especies botnicas, muestras que seencuentran depositadas en el J ardn Botnico de Missouri,USA.

Since 1990, Alwin Gentry visited several times InkaterrasReserva Amazonica. He collect many botanical species andsamples 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 andGenera of Woody Plants of Northwest South America. This comprehensive guide is especiallyimportant because Gentry highlights vegetative characteristics (such as leaves, bark and odor) foridentification, 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 hisindependent spirit will continue to inspire generations of botanists and conservationists.

The Alwyn H. Gentry Bignoniaceaee Specimen Data SetDuring the later years of his scientific career, A. H. Gentry recorded his specimen determinations ina computerized database. This was done with a series of computers and database software withthe assistance of a series of volunteers, students and staff of the Missouri Botanical Garden. WhileGentry was careful of the determinations he made, he was often absent for lengthy periods, somuch data was entered without supervision. Following his death, the computer database wasexamined, corrected, and added to TROPICOS, the Missouri Botanical Garden taxonomicdatabase.

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GENTRY, A. 1991. The Flora of Cuzco Amazonico. En: BIOTROP: Report on Biodiversity al CuzcoAmazonico 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 CuzcoAmaznico, 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 VasquezField Guide to the Families and Genera of Woody Plants of Northwest South America

(Colombia, Ecuador, Peru)

Alwyn H. Gentry , Rodolfo VasquezFour Neotropical Rainforests

Alwyn H. Gentry

Bignoniaceae Tecomeae

Alwyn H. GentryField Guide to Woody Plants of Northwest South America Columbia, Ecuador, Peru

Alwyn H. GentryLowland 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