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Dennis Eugene Breedlove

January 01, 1970

Dennis Eugene Breedlove (September 14, 1939, Oakland, California – June 4, 2012) was an American botanist, herbarium curator, and plant collector. He is "best known for his collections and floristic studies in the Mexican state of Chiapas, and his ethnobotanical work in that state with various collaborators."[1][2]

Education and career edit

After graduating from St. Joseph Notre Dame High School in 1957,[3] Dennis Breedlove attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he graduated with an A.B. degree in 1962. In 1968 he graduated from Stanford University with a Ph.D.[1] His doctoral dissertation, entitled "The systematics of Fuchsia section Encliandra (Onagraceae)", was written under the supervision of Peter H. Raven.[4] After briefly working as a research botanist at the University of California Botanical Garden on the Berkeley campus,[1]

Breedlove became in 1969 an assistant curator at San Francisco's California Academy of Sciences herbarium.[5][6] For his entire career he was employed by the California Academy of Sciences, where he was promoted to associate curator, chaired the botany department, and retired as curator emeritus and a lifetime fellow.[5]

With the exception of brief collecting trips to Trinidad and the páramo in the Cordillera Oriental of Colombia, his field work was centered in western North America and northern Latin America. Research on plants of California and Nevada (especially in the Sweetwater Mountains on the border be-tween these states), Mexico (especially Chiapas, the Sierra Surutato in Sinaloa, and the peninsula of Baja California), and Guatemala led him on numerous collecting trips.[1]

In 1960, he began working with ethnographer, anthropologist, and linguist Robert M. Laughlin to compile a comprehensive ethnobotanical inventory of the plants known to the Tzotzils living in the municipality of Zinacantán in the highlands Chiapas.[5]

From hundreds of Tzotzil names for plant varieties they eventually identified 30 genera and 1,484 species, published in the volume The Flowering of Man: A Tzotzil Botany of Zinacantán (2000, previously published in 1993 as two volumes in Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology).[5]

In 1964, Breedlove (who could speak Tzeltal Mayan), Brent Berlin, and Peter H. Raven began 10 years of ethnobotanical research among the Tzeltals and other Maya peoples in the highlands of Chiapas.[7] Their 660-page book Principles of Tzeltal Plant Classification was published in 1974 with a paperback reprint in 2013.[8]

San Francisco Botanical Garden's Apulca pines, which can grow to over 45 meters, were grown from seed brought back to San Francisco by Breedlove in 1986.[9]

His more than 72,000 sets of collections consisted of vascular plants, bryophytes, lichens, fungi, insects, snails, and reptiles. He collected seeds of plants from higher elevations in Chiapas and Oaxaca that led to the establishment of the New World Cloud Forest at the San Francisco Botanical Garden. Some of the species that he brought back from Chiapas for cultivation (e.g., Deppea splendens, Magnolia sharpii, Symplocos hartwegii, and S. tacanensis) are now either very rare or presumed extinct in the wild.[10]

Deppea splendens[11] is a synonym of Csapodya splendens.[12]

In 1968, a species of lizard Anolis breedlovei (junior synonym of Anolis cuprinus) was named in honor of Dennis Breedlove.[13]

Selected publications edit

Articles edit

  • Berlin, B.; Breedlove, D. E.; Raven, P. H. (1966). "Folk Taxonomies and Biological Classification". Science. 154 (3746): 273–275. Bibcode:1966Sci...154..273B. doi:10.1126/science.154.3746.273. PMID 17810308. S2CID 35687186.
  • Raven, Peter H.; Kyhos, Donald W.; Breedlove, Dennis E.; Payne, Willard W. (1968). "Polyploidy in Ambrosia dumosa (Compositae: Ambrosieae)". Brittonia. 20 (3): 205. doi:10.2307/2805443. ISSN 0007-196X. JSTOR 2805443. S2CID 45526759.
  • Breedlove, D. E.; Ehrlich, P. R. (1968). "Plant-Herbivore Coevolution: Lupines and Lycaenids". Science. 162 (3854): 671–672. Bibcode:1968Sci...162..671B. doi:10.1126/science.162.3854.671. PMID 17736044. S2CID 35240344.
  • Breedlove, Dennis E.; Heckard, Lawrence R. (1970). "Gentrya, a New Genus of Scrophulariaceae from Mexico". Brittonia. 22 (1): 20. doi:10.2307/2805718. ISSN 0007-196X. JSTOR 2805718. S2CID 186230885.
  • Raven, P. H.; Berlin, B.; Breedlove, D. E. (1971). "The Origins of Taxonomy". Science. 174 (4015): 1210–1213. Bibcode:1971Sci...174.1210R. doi:10.1126/science.174.4015.1210. PMID 17806924. S2CID 52827153.
  • Ehrlich, Paul R.; Breedlove, Dennis E.; Brussard, Peter F.; Sharp, Margaret A. (1972). "Weather and the "Regulation" of Subalpine Populations". Ecology. 53 (2): 243–247. doi:10.2307/1934077. JSTOR 1934077.
  • Beattie, A. J.; Breedlove, D. E.; Ehrlich, P. R. (1973). "The Ecology of the Pollinators and Predators of Frasera Speciosa". Ecology. 54 (1): 81–91. doi:10.2307/1934376. JSTOR 1934376.
  • Berlin, Brent; Breedlove, Dennis E.; Raven, Peter H. (1973). "General Principles of Classification and Nomenclature in Folk Biology". American Anthropologist. 75: 214–242. doi:10.1525/aa.1973.75.1.02a00140.
  • Berlin, E.A.; Jara A., V.M.; Berlin, B.; Breedlove, D.E.; Duncan, T.O.; Laughlin, R.M. (1993). "Me' winik: Discovery of the biomedical equivalence for a Maya ethnomedical syndrome". Social Science & Medicine. 37 (5): 671–678. doi:10.1016/0277-9536(93)90106-E. ISSN 0277-9536. PMID 8211281.
  • Dolinger, Peter M.; Ehrlich, Paul R.; Fitch, William L.; Breedlove, Dennis E. (1973). "Alkaloid and Predation Patterns in Colorado Lupine Populations". Oecologia. 13 (3): 191–204. doi:10.1007/BF00360510. PMID 28308576. S2CID 23976476.

Books edit

  • Breedlove, Dennis E.; Laughlin, Robert M. (1993). "Flowering of Man: A Tzotzil Botany of Zinacantán, Volume I". Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology (35): 1–706. doi:10.5479/si.00810223.35.1.
  • Breedlove, Dennis E.; Laughlin, Robert M. (1993). "Flowering of Man: A Tzotzil Botany of Zinacantán, Volume II". Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology (35): 1–706. doi:10.5479/si.00810223.35.2. ISSN 0081-0223.
The standard author abbreviation Breedlove is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[14]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d Daniel, Thomas F.; Almeda, Frank (2012). "Dennis Breedlove, an Appreciation". Taxon. 61 (5): 1137–1139. doi:10.1002/tax.615036. ISSN 0040-0262.
  2. ^ Knobloch, Irving W. (1982). "Flora of Chiapas. Part I: Introduction to the Flora of Chiapas.Dennis e. Breedlove". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 57 (3): 334–335. doi:10.1086/412871.
  3. ^ . Saint Joseph Notre Dame, SJND News. March 12, 2014. Archived from the original on November 21, 2020. Retrieved November 16, 2020.
  4. ^ Breedlove, Dennis Eugene (1968). The systematics of Fuchsia section Encliandra (Onagraceae). Stanford University Libraries (Thesis). (See Fuchsia.)
  5. ^ a b c d "Breedlove, Dennis Eugene". JSTOR Global Plants.
  6. ^ Raven, Peter H.; Berlin, Brent; Breedlove, Dennis E. (1971). "The origins of taxonomy". Science. 174 (4015): 1210–1213. Bibcode:1971Sci...174.1210R. doi:10.1126/science.174.4015.1210. JSTOR 1732886. PMID 17806924. S2CID 52827153.
  7. ^ "Friends/BG Co-sponsor Breedlove Talk" (PDF). Botanical Garden Quarterly, University of California Berkeley. 1 (2): 5. Fall 1977.
  8. ^ Berlin, Brent; Breedlove, Dennis E.; Raven, Peter H. (11 September 2013). Principles of Tzeltal Plant Classification: An Introduction to the Botanical Ethnography of a Mayan-Speaking, People of Highland, Chiapas. Academic Press. ISBN 9781483220987; pbk reprint of 1974 original{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  9. ^ "Featured Plant: Pinus pseudostrobus var. apulcensis". San Francisco Botanical Garden.
  10. ^ Bartholomew, Bruce (Fall 1977). "Plants from the mountains of Mexico" (PDF). Botanical Garden Quarterly, University of California Berkeley. 1 (2): 1 & 7.
  11. ^ "Our Work, Deppea splendens". California Academy of Sciences.
  12. ^ "Deppea splendens". The Plant List.
  13. ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Breedlove", p. 38).
  14. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Breedlove.

External links edit

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January 01, 1970
dennis, eugene, breedlove, september, 1939, oakland, california, june, 2012, american, botanist, herbarium, curator, plant, collector, best, known, collections, floristic, studies, mexican, state, chiapas, ethnobotanical, work, that, state, with, various, coll. Dennis Eugene Breedlove September 14 1939 Oakland California June 4 2012 was an American botanist herbarium curator and plant collector He is best known for his collections and floristic studies in the Mexican state of Chiapas and his ethnobotanical work in that state with various collaborators 1 2 Contents 1 Education and career 2 Selected publications 2 1 Articles 2 2 Books 3 References 4 External linksEducation and career editAfter graduating from St Joseph Notre Dame High School in 1957 3 Dennis Breedlove attended the University of California Santa Barbara where he graduated with an A B degree in 1962 In 1968 he graduated from Stanford University with a Ph D 1 His doctoral dissertation entitled The systematics of Fuchsia section Encliandra Onagraceae was written under the supervision of Peter H Raven 4 After briefly working as a research botanist at the University of California Botanical Garden on the Berkeley campus 1 Breedlove became in 1969 an assistant curator at San Francisco s California Academy of Sciences herbarium 5 6 For his entire career he was employed by the California Academy of Sciences where he was promoted to associate curator chaired the botany department and retired as curator emeritus and a lifetime fellow 5 With the exception of brief collecting trips to Trinidad and the paramo in the Cordillera Oriental of Colombia his field work was centered in western North America and northern Latin America Research on plants of California and Nevada especially in the Sweetwater Mountains on the border be tween these states Mexico especially Chiapas the Sierra Surutato in Sinaloa and the peninsula of Baja California and Guatemala led him on numerous collecting trips 1 In 1960 he began working with ethnographer anthropologist and linguist Robert M Laughlin to compile a comprehensive ethnobotanical inventory of the plants known to the Tzotzils living in the municipality of Zinacantan in the highlands Chiapas 5 From hundreds of Tzotzil names for plant varieties they eventually identified 30 genera and 1 484 species published in the volume The Flowering of Man A Tzotzil Botany of Zinacantan 2000 previously published in 1993 as two volumes in Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology 5 In 1964 Breedlove who could speak Tzeltal Mayan Brent Berlin and Peter H Raven began 10 years of ethnobotanical research among the Tzeltals and other Maya peoples in the highlands of Chiapas 7 Their 660 page book Principles of Tzeltal Plant Classification was published in 1974 with a paperback reprint in 2013 8 San Francisco Botanical Garden s Apulca pines which can grow to over 45 meters were grown from seed brought back to San Francisco by Breedlove in 1986 9 His more than 72 000 sets of collections consisted of vascular plants bryophytes lichens fungi insects snails and reptiles He collected seeds of plants from higher elevations in Chiapas and Oaxaca that led to the establishment of the New World Cloud Forest at the San Francisco Botanical Garden Some of the species that he brought back from Chiapas for cultivation e g Deppea splendens Magnolia sharpii Symplocos hartwegii and S tacanensis are now either very rare or presumed extinct in the wild 10 Deppea splendens 11 is a synonym of Csapodya splendens 12 In 1968 a species of lizard Anolis breedlovei junior synonym of Anolis cuprinus was named in honor of Dennis Breedlove 13 Selected publications editArticles edit Berlin B Breedlove D E Raven P H 1966 Folk Taxonomies and Biological Classification Science 154 3746 273 275 Bibcode 1966Sci 154 273B doi 10 1126 science 154 3746 273 PMID 17810308 S2CID 35687186 Raven Peter H Kyhos Donald W Breedlove Dennis E Payne Willard W 1968 Polyploidy in Ambrosia dumosa Compositae Ambrosieae Brittonia 20 3 205 doi 10 2307 2805443 ISSN 0007 196X JSTOR 2805443 S2CID 45526759 Breedlove D E Ehrlich P R 1968 Plant Herbivore Coevolution Lupines and Lycaenids Science 162 3854 671 672 Bibcode 1968Sci 162 671B doi 10 1126 science 162 3854 671 PMID 17736044 S2CID 35240344 Breedlove Dennis E Heckard Lawrence R 1970 Gentrya a New Genus of Scrophulariaceae from Mexico Brittonia 22 1 20 doi 10 2307 2805718 ISSN 0007 196X JSTOR 2805718 S2CID 186230885 Raven P H Berlin B Breedlove D E 1971 The Origins of Taxonomy Science 174 4015 1210 1213 Bibcode 1971Sci 174 1210R doi 10 1126 science 174 4015 1210 PMID 17806924 S2CID 52827153 Ehrlich Paul R Breedlove Dennis E Brussard Peter F Sharp Margaret A 1972 Weather and the Regulation of Subalpine Populations Ecology 53 2 243 247 doi 10 2307 1934077 JSTOR 1934077 Beattie A J Breedlove D E Ehrlich P R 1973 The Ecology of the Pollinators and Predators of Frasera Speciosa Ecology 54 1 81 91 doi 10 2307 1934376 JSTOR 1934376 Berlin Brent Breedlove Dennis E Raven Peter H 1973 General Principles of Classification and Nomenclature in Folk Biology American Anthropologist 75 214 242 doi 10 1525 aa 1973 75 1 02a00140 Berlin E A Jara A V M Berlin B Breedlove D E Duncan T O Laughlin R M 1993 Me winik Discovery of the biomedical equivalence for a Maya ethnomedical syndrome Social Science amp Medicine 37 5 671 678 doi 10 1016 0277 9536 93 90106 E ISSN 0277 9536 PMID 8211281 Dolinger Peter M Ehrlich Paul R Fitch William L Breedlove Dennis E 1973 Alkaloid and Predation Patterns in Colorado Lupine Populations Oecologia 13 3 191 204 doi 10 1007 BF00360510 PMID 28308576 S2CID 23976476 Books edit Breedlove Dennis E Laughlin Robert M 1993 Flowering of Man A Tzotzil Botany of Zinacantan Volume I Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology 35 1 706 doi 10 5479 si 00810223 35 1 Breedlove Dennis E Laughlin Robert M 1993 Flowering of Man A Tzotzil Botany of Zinacantan Volume II Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology 35 1 706 doi 10 5479 si 00810223 35 2 ISSN 0081 0223 The standard author abbreviation Breedlove is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name 14 References edit a b c d Daniel Thomas F Almeda Frank 2012 Dennis Breedlove an Appreciation Taxon 61 5 1137 1139 doi 10 1002 tax 615036 ISSN 0040 0262 Knobloch Irving W 1982 Flora of Chiapas Part I Introduction to the Flora of Chiapas Dennis e Breedlove The Quarterly Review of Biology 57 3 334 335 doi 10 1086 412871 The Legacy of Botanist Dennis Breedlove 57 San Francisco s MesoAmerican Cloud Forest Saint Joseph Notre Dame SJND News March 12 2014 Archived from the original on November 21 2020 Retrieved November 16 2020 Breedlove Dennis Eugene 1968 The systematics ofFuchsiasectionEncliandra Onagraceae Stanford University Libraries Thesis See Fuchsia a b c d Breedlove Dennis Eugene JSTOR Global Plants Raven Peter H Berlin Brent Breedlove Dennis E 1971 The origins of taxonomy Science 174 4015 1210 1213 Bibcode 1971Sci 174 1210R doi 10 1126 science 174 4015 1210 JSTOR 1732886 PMID 17806924 S2CID 52827153 Friends BG Co sponsor Breedlove Talk PDF Botanical Garden Quarterly University of California Berkeley 1 2 5 Fall 1977 Berlin Brent Breedlove Dennis E Raven Peter H 11 September 2013 Principles of Tzeltal Plant Classification An Introduction to the Botanical Ethnography of a Mayan Speaking People of Highland Chiapas Academic Press ISBN 9781483220987 pbk reprint of 1974 original a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint postscript link Featured Plant Pinus pseudostrobus var apulcensis San Francisco Botanical Garden Bartholomew Bruce Fall 1977 Plants from the mountains of Mexico PDF Botanical Garden Quarterly University of California Berkeley 1 2 1 amp 7 Our Work Deppea splendens California Academy of Sciences Deppea splendens The Plant List Beolens Bo Watkins Michael Grayson Michael 2011 The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press xiii 296 pp ISBN 978 1 4214 0135 5 Breedlove p 38 International Plant Names Index Breedlove External links edit nbsp Data related to Dennis Breedlove at Wikispecies Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Dennis Eugene Breedlove amp oldid 1220885676, wikipedia, wiki, 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