Patricia Burrowes

Patricia A. Burrowes Gomez (born 1961) is an American biologist and herpetologist. She is a professor of biology at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus where she serves as principal investigator of the Amphibian Disease Ecology Lab. Burrowes specializes in amphibian population dynamics.

This article uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Burrowes and the second or maternal family name is Gomez.
Patricia Burrowes
Born1961 (age 58–59)
Alma materUniversity of Kansas (MA, PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsHerpetology
InstitutionsUniversity of Puerto Rico at Cayey
University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus
ThesisThe reproductive biology and population genetics of the cave-dwelling Puerto Rican frog, Eleutherodactylus cooki (1997)
Doctoral advisorWilliam E. Duellman

Early life and education

Burrowes was born in 1961. In 1986, during her graduate studies, Burrowes and her doctoral advisor William E. Duellman collected specimens in Colombia and co-wrote A new species of marsupial frog (Hylidae: Gastrotheca) from the Andes of Southern Colombia.[1] She completed a M.A. in systematics and ecology in 1987 at University of Kansas. Her graduate thesis was titled An ecological study of a cloud forest herpetofauna in southern Columbia.[2] Burrowes earned a Ph.D. in ecology and systematics in 1997 at University of Kansas. Her 1997 dissertation was titled The reproductive biology and population genetics of the cave-dwelling Puerto Rican frog, Eleutherodactylus cooki.[3]

Career and research

In 2003, Burrowes began working with amphibians in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.[1] She was a professor in the biology department at University of Puerto Rico at Cayey[1] and is currently a professor of biology at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus where she serves as principal investigator of the Amphibian Disease Ecology Lab.[4] Burrowes specializes in amphibian population dynamics.[5] In April 2019, Burrows and a team of student researchers published a study in Science about a mycosis causing a dramatic population decrease in at least 501 species of amphibians.[6]

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References
  1. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael & Grayson, Michael (2013). The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians. Pelagic Publishing. pp. 34–35. ISBN 978-1-907807-42-8.
  2. Burrowes, Patricia A (1987). An ecological study of a cloud forest herpetofauna in southern Columbia (Thesis). OCLC 17615454.
  3. Burrowes, Patricia A. The reproductive biology and population genetics of the cave-dwelling Puerto Rican frog, Eleutherodactylus cooki. OCLC 37654794.
  4. "People". burroweslab. Retrieved 2019-11-04.
  5. "EnvSci-UPRRP - Facultad del Programa Graduado". envsci.uprrp.edu. Retrieved 2019-11-04.
  6. "Una profesora y varios estudiantes de la UPR en Río Piedras participan en una investigación de impacto global". El Nuevo Dia (in Spanish). 2019-04-03. Retrieved 2019-11-05.
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