Eduardo Hugo Rapoport (July 3, 1927 - May 16, 2017
) was an Argentinian
ecologist and emeritus professor at
Universidad Nacional del Comahue
The National University of Comahue ( es, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, UNCNavarro, Fernando A. ''. Tremédica, Asociación Internacional de Traductores y Redactores de Medicina y Ciencias Afines/UNCoPortal de Prensa de la Uncoma, Universidad ...
. He is widely known for his fundamental work on
soil biology,
biological invasions, and
urban ecology
Urban ecology is the scientific study of the relation of living organisms with each other and their surroundings in an urban environment. An urban environment refers to environments dominated by high-density residential and commercial buildings ...
and, in particular, for his contributions to the biogeography (see
Rapoport's rule).
Eduardo Rapoport studied at the
National University of La Plata (1953–1956) and obtained his
doctoral degree in 1956. He subsequently worked at
Universidad Nacional del Sur (1956–1966), in the
Venezuela ''Instituto de Zoología Tropical'' (1967–1971), in ''Fundación Bariloche'' (1971–1978), at the
Instituto Politécnico Nacional in
México (1978–1983), as a
UNESCO expert in 1974 and, finally, at the
Universidad Nacional del Comahue
The National University of Comahue ( es, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, UNCNavarro, Fernando A. ''. Tremédica, Asociación Internacional de Traductores y Redactores de Medicina y Ciencias Afines/UNCoPortal de Prensa de la Uncoma, Universidad ...
in
Bariloche
San Carlos de Bariloche, usually known as Bariloche (), is a city in the province of Río Negro Province, Río Negro, Argentina, situated in the foothills of the Andes on the southern shores of Nahuel Huapi Lake. It is located within the Nahuel ...
.
Honours
*1986 Honorary member of the
Ecological Society of America
*1990
TWAS Prize
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Summary
Agricultural Sciences
Biology
Chemistry
Earth Sciences
Engineering Sciences
Mathematics
Medical Sc ...
Winner, biology
* Three
genera
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and twelve species of
invertebrate animals have been named ''rapoporti'' in his honour.
Selected publications
*Rapoport, E.H. (1957
Population studies on three species of Cladocera Nature 179: 637-638.
*Rapoport, E.H. & Rapoport, Osvaldo 1958
Elementary biological functions and the concept of living matter. Acta Biotheoretica 13: 1-28.*Deboutteville, Delamare & Eduardo Rapoport, eds. (1962–1963) Biologie de l'Amérique Australe. Études sur la Faune du Sol. vols. 1-2. Éditions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. Vol. 1, 657 pp., 1962; vol. 2, 399 pp., 1963. (Reviewed i
Science 16 October 1964: 389-390.
*Rapoport, E.H. & Cangioli, G. 1963. Herbicides and the soil fauna. Pedobiologia 2: 235-238.
*Rapoport, E.H. & Sanchez, L. 1963. On the epineuston or the superaquatic fauna.
Oikos 14 (1): 96-109
JStor*Rapoport, E.H. 1971. The geographical distribution of Neotropical and Antarctic
Collembola. Pacific Insects Monographs, 25: 99-118.
*Rapoport, E.H. & Sanchez, L. 1968. Effect of organic fungicides on the soil microfauna. Pedobiologia 7: 317-322.
*Rapoport, E.H. 1969.
Gloger's Rule and pigmentation of
Collembola. Evolution 23: 622-626
JStor*Rapoport, E. H. (1975). Areografía. Estrategias Geográficas de las Especies. Fondo de Cultura Económica, México.
*Rapoport, E. H. (1982). Areography. Geographical Strategies of Species. Translated by B. Drausal. Pergamon Press, Oxford.
*Reca, A. & Rapoport, E.H. 1975. Wire-gauze size and the efficiency of the
Berlese-Tullgren's funnels. Pedobiologia 15: 330-335.
*Rapoport, E.H., Ezcurra, E. & Drausal, B. 1976. The distribution of plant diseases: A look into the biogeography of the future. Journal of Biogeography 3 (4): 365-372
JStor*Rapoport, E.H. 1976. Species transported by man: A different kind of pollution? Monitoring and Assessment Research Centre, Univ. London, Rep. W.2.3.: 1-100.
*Ezcurra, E., Rapoport, E.H., & Marino, C.R. 1978. The geographical distribution of insect pests. Journal of Biogeography 5 (2): 149-157
JStor*Rapoport, E.H.& Ezcurra, E. 1979. Natural and man-made biogeography in Africa. A comparison between birds and phytopathogens. Journal of Biogeography 6 (4): 341-348
JStor*Grigera, D. & Rapoport, E.H. 1983. Status and distribution of the
European hare in South America. Journal of Mammalogy, 64 (1): 163-164
JStor*Rapoport, E.H., Borioli, G., Monjeau, J.A., Puntieri, J.E., & Oviedo, R.D. 1986. The design of nature reserves. A simulation trial for assessing specific conservation value. Biological Conservation 37: 269-290.
*Rapoport, E.H. 1993. Remarks on marine and continental biogeography: an areographical viewpoint. Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences 343: 71-78
JStor*Rapoport, E.H. & Drausal, B.S. 2001. Edible plants. In:
Simon Levin
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(ed.), Encyclopedia of Biodiversity Vol. II: 375-382. Academic Press.
*Rapoport, E.H. 2000
Remarks on the biogeography of land invasions Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 73 (2): 367-380.
*Pauchard, A., Cavieres, L., Bustamante, P. & Rapoport, E. 2004
Increasing the understanding of plant invasions in southern South America. Biological Invasions 6 (2): 255-257.
References
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Argentine ecologists
Argentine scientists
Academic staff of Universidad Nacional del Sur
Academic staff of the National University of Comahue
TWAS laureates
1927 births
2017 deaths