Education

Ph.D.: Cornell University, 1975
B.A.: Sarah Lawrence College, 1965

Research Interests

Louise Emmons studies the ecology of tropical mammals, and has worked in Gabon, Madagascar, Borneo, Papua New Guinea, and ten countries of the New World tropics. Her current research includes a systematic revision of Echimyine rodents of South America and a long term study of the mammal faunas at the savanna-forest interface in Parque Nacional Noel Kempff Mercado, Bolivia (in its tenth year).  The latter includes radio-telementry studies of maned wolves, as well as community studies of small terrestrial mammals and bats.  Local university students participate in the research in Bolivia. Her previous work included many mammal surveys for biological inventories with Conservation International's Rapid Assessment Program, and studies of an array of mammals, from treeshrews to brush-tailed porcupines and ocelots.  She is currently an Adjunct Scientist of the Division of Mammals, Smithsonian Institution, a scientific advisor to the Amazon Conservation Association (Washington, DC), and on the editorial boards of Neotropical Fauna and Environment and Mammalia.

Recent Publications

Kerr, S. F., L. H. Emmons, P. C. Melby, L. Chang, L. E. Perez, M. Villegas and R. Miranda. 2006. Leishmania amazonensis infections in Oryzomys acritus and Oryzomys nitidus from Bolivia. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 75: 1069-1073.

Emmons, L. H., P. Chatelet, L. Cournac, V. Vilca, L. F. del Aguila and M. A. Dubois. 2006. Seasonal Change in Leaf-area Index at Three Sites Along a South American Latitudinal Gradient. Ecotropica, 12(2): 87-102.

Emmons, L. H., V. Chavez, N. Rocha, B. Phillips, I. Phillips, L. F. del Aguila and M. Swarmer. 2006. The Non-flying Mammals of Noel Kempff Mercado National Park (Bolivia). Rev. Boliviana Ecol. Conserv. Ambient., 15: 23-46. [Available on line]

Emmons, L. H., M. Swarner, A. Vargas-Espinoza, M. Tschapka, H. Azurduy and E. K. V. Kalko. 2006. The Forest and Savanna Bat Communities of Noel Kempff Mercado National Park (Bolivia). Rev. Boliviana Ecol. Conserv. Ambient., 15: 47-57. [Available on line]

Emmons, L. H., Roly Peña F., S. Angulo A., and M. J. Swarner. 2005. Bathing behavior of giant anteaters (Myrmecophaga tridactyla). Edentata 6: 41-43 (2004 issue published in 2005).

Emmons, L. H. 2005. A revision of the arboreal Echimyidae (Rodentia: Echimyidae, Echimyinae); with descriptions of two new genera. Pp. 247-309, in: E. A. Lacey and P. Myers (eds.), Mammalian Diversification: From chromosomes to phylogeography. Berkeley: University Of California Press. [Available on line]

Deem, S. L., and L. H. Emmons. 2005. Exposure of free-ranging maned wolves (Chrysocyon brachyurus) to infectious and parasitic disease agents in the Noël Kempff Mercado National Park, Bolivia. J. Zoo and Wildlife Medicine, 36: 192-197.

Emmons, L. H., and J. L. Patton. 2005. A new species of Oryzomys (Rodentia: Muridae) from Eastern Bolivia. American Museeum Novitates, 3478: 1-26.

Emmons, L. H., S. L. Deem, M. Rodden, and J. E. Maldonado. 2004. The secret wolf. Zoogoer, 33(6): 14-21.

Vargas-Espinoza, A., L. F. Aguirre, M. J. Swarner, L. H. Emmons, And M. Teran. 2004. Distribución de Vampyrum spectrum en Bolivia y comentarios sobre su estado de conservación. Ecología en Bolivia, 39: 46-51.

Trolle, M., and L. H. Emmons. 2004. A record of a dwarf brocket from lowland Madre de Dios, Peru. Deer News, 19: 2-5.

Emmons, L. H., and M. A. Dubois. 2003. Leaf-Area Index Change Across River-Beach Successional Transects in S. E. Peru. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 19: 473-477.