Scott Alan Mori

Scott Alan Mori (October 13, 1941, Janesville, Wisconsin – August 12, 2020) was a botanist and plant collector. He specialized in the systematics and ecology of neotropical Lecythidaceae[1] and Amazonian and Guianian floristics.[2]

Biography

Mori graduated in 1964 with a B.S. in biology and conservation from the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point and in 1968 with an M.S. in botany from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. There he received in 1974 his Ph.D. in botany with dissertation Taxonomic and Anatomic Studies of Gustavia (Lecythidaceae) under the supervision of Hugh H. Iltis. From 1969 to 1974 Mori was an instructor in botany and zoology at the University of Wisconsin Center System at Marshfield. From 1974 to 1975 he was a curator at the Summit Herbarium in the Panama Canal Zone. From 1975 to 1978 he was a research associate at the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) in the Bronx. From 1978 to 1980 he was a curator at Itabuna, Brazil's Herbário Centro de Pesquisas do Cacau[3] (Herbarium Cacao Research Center, which was founded in 1965).[4] At NYBG, he was an associate curator from 1980 to 1982, a curator from 1982 to 1995, the director of NYBG's Institute of Systematic Botany from 1995 to 2001, and Nathaniel Lord Britton Curator of Botany at the Institute of Systematic Botany from 1998 to 2014, when he retired as curator emeritus.[3]

During his career Mori collected about 28,000 botanical specimens, mostly from the Neotropics and with a focus on lianas and trees.[3] He was an adjunct professor at CUNY, Yale University, and Columbia University.[2] He wrote "130 scientific papers about plants and conservation, dozens of popular articles and blogs, and 12 books."[5]

Mori was heavily involved in the Flora Neotropica throughout the 1980s, as associate editor (1980-1983), co-editor (1984-1992) and executive director of the Organization for Flora Neotropica (1988-1993), during which time he was also chair of the Scientific Publications Committee at NYBG. ... With Iain Prance, Mori completed a monograph of Lecythidaceae for Flora Neotropica and has published studies of many species of the family found in central French Guiana and Amazonian regions, especially looking at the co-evolution of the plants and their pollinators and seed dispersers such as bats.[2]

In keeping with his conservation goals, Scott also spent a decade collecting and documenting plants in a remote area of rain forest in central French Guiana resulting in the publication of the two-volume Guide to the Vascular Plants of Central French Guiana. The book was awarded The Engler Medal in Silver from the International Association of Plant Taxonomy for the best publication in systematic botany in 2002. Due in part to the work of Scott and his collaborators, central French Guiana is now included within a large protected zone that comprises most of the southern part of French Guiana.[6]

Mori's 11 doctoral students include Brian Boom and John J. Pipoly III.[5] Mori was married to Carol A. Gracie, a botanist and photographer. She worked with him on botanical research projects in South America.[7] As part of the NYBG's ecotour program, the husband and wife team led dozens of botanical tours to many locations, including "the Amazon, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Galapagos, Hawaii, and various parts of Europe." Upon his death in 2020, Scott Mori was survived by his widow, a son, and two granddaughters, as well as step-children and step-grandchildren.[6]

Awards and honors

Selected publications

Articles
  • Prance, Ghillean T.; Mori, Scott A. (1978). "Observations on the Fruits and Seeds of Neotropical Lecythidaceae". Brittonia. 30 (1): 21–33. doi:10.2307/2806452. JSTOR 2806452. S2CID 31234002.
  • Mori, Scott A.; Boom, Brian M.; Prance, Ghillean T. (1981). "Distribution Patterns and Conservation of Eastern Brazilian Coastal Forest Tree Species". Brittonia. 33 (2): 233–245. doi:10.2307/2806330. JSTOR 2806330. S2CID 85238627.
  • Mori, Scott A.; Boom, Brian M.; De Carvalho, André M.; Dos Santos, Talmón S. (1983). "Southern Bahian moist forests". The Botanical Review. 49 (2): 155–232. doi:10.1007/BF02861011. S2CID 39878879.
  • Mori, Scott A.; Boom, Brian M.; De Carvalho, Andre M.; Dos Santos, Talmon S. (1983). "Ecological Importance of Myrtaceae in an Eastern Brazilian Wet Forest". Biotropica. 15 (1): 68–70. doi:10.2307/2388002. JSTOR 2388002.
  • Mori, Scott A.; Pipoly, John J. (1984). "Observations on the Big Bang Flowering of Miconia minutiflora (Melastomataceae)". Brittonia. 36 (4): 337–341. doi:10.2307/2806595. ISSN 0007-196X.
  • Funk, Vicki Ann; Mori, Scott A. (1989). "A bibliography of plant collectors in Bolivia" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Botany (70); 20 pages
  • Mori, Scott A.; Becker, Peter (1991). "Flooding Affects Survival of Lecythidaceae in Terra Firme Forest Near Manaus, Brazil". Biotropica. 23 (1): 87–90. doi:10.2307/2388692. JSTOR 2388692.
  • Plotkin, Mark; Famolare, Lisa, eds. (1992). "The Brazil nut industry-past, present, and future by Scott A. Mori". Sustainable harvest and marketing of rain forest products. pp. 241–251.
  • Knudsen, J. T.; Mori, S. A. (1996). "Floral Scents and Pollination in Neotropical Lecythidaceae". Biotropica. 28 (1): 42–60. doi:10.2307/2388770. JSTOR 2388770.
  • Morton, Cynthia M.; Mori, Scott A.; Prance, Ghillean T.; Karol, Ken G.; Chase, Mark W. (1997). "Phylogenetic Relationships of Lecythidaceae: A Cladistic Analysis Using RBCL Sequence and Morphological Data". American Journal of Botany. 84 (4): 530–540. doi:10.2307/2446029. JSTOR 2446029. PMID 21708605.
  • De Oliveira, Alexandre A.; Mori, Scott A. (1999). "A central Amazonian terra firme forest. I. High tree species richness on poor soils". Biodiversity and Conservation. 8 (9): 1219–1244. doi:10.1023/A:1008908615271. S2CID 22428775.
  • Kennelly, E.J.; Baggett, S.; Nuntanakorn, P.; Ososki, A.L.; Mori, S.A.; Duke, J.; Coleton, M.; Kronenberg, F. (2002). "Analysis of thirteen populations of Black Cohosh for formononetin". Phytomedicine. 9 (5): 461–467. doi:10.1078/09447110260571733. PMID 12222669.
  • Lobova, T. A.; Mori, S. A.; Blanchard, F.; Peckham, H.; Charles-Dominique, P. (2003). "Cecropia as a food resource for bats in French Guiana and the significance of fruit structure in seed dispersal and longevity". American Journal of Botany. 90 (3): 388–403. doi:10.3732/ajb.90.3.388. PMID 21659132. (See Cecropia.)
  • Gonzalez, Mailyn Adriana; Baraloto, Christopher; Engel, Julien; Mori, Scott A.; Pétronelli, Pascal; Riéra, Bernard; Roger, Aurélien; Thébaud, Christophe; Chave, Jérôme (2009). "Identification of Amazonian Trees with DNA Barcodes". PLOS ONE. 4 (10): e7483. Bibcode:2009PLoSO...4.7483G. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007483. PMC 2759516. PMID 19834612.
  • Cardoso, Domingos; Särkinen, Tiina; Alexander, Sara; Amorim, André M.; Bittrich, Volker; Celis, Marcela; Daly, Douglas C.; Fiaschi, Pedro; Funk, Vicki A.; Giacomin, Leandro L.; Goldenberg, Renato; Heiden, Gustavo; Iganci, João; Kelloff, Carol L.; Knapp, Sandra; Cavalcante De Lima, Haroldo; Machado, Anderson F. P.; Dos Santos, Rubens Manoel; Mello-Silva, Renato; Michelangeli, Fabián A.; Mitchell, John; Moonlight, Peter; De Moraes, Pedro Luís Rodrigues; Mori, Scott A.; Nunes, Teonildes Sacramento; Pennington, Terry D.; Pirani, José Rubens; Prance, Ghillean T.; De Queiroz, Luciano Paganucci; et al. (2017). "Amazon plant diversity revealed by a taxonomically verified species list". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114 (40): 10695–10700. doi:10.1073/pnas.1706756114. PMID 28923966. S2CID 7553581.

Books

References
  1. "Scott A. Mori (1941–2020)". NYBG (New York Botanical Gardent).
  2. "Mori, Scott A." JSTOR Global Plants.
  3. "Scott A. Mori, CV" (PDF). New York Botanical Garden.
  4. Mori, Scott A.; Silva, Luiz Alberto Mattos (1979). "The Herbarium of the "Centro de Pesquisas do Cacau" at Itabuna, Brazil". Brittonia. 31 (2): 177–196. doi:10.2307/2806174. ISSN 0007-196X. JSTOR 2806174. S2CID 34746280.
  5. Boom, Brian (March 26, 2015). "A Salute to Scott Mori". Personalities in Science.
  6. "Obituary. Scott Mori". GazetteXtra. August 28, 2020.
  7. "book tour talk on Spring Wildflowers of the Northeast by Carol Gracie" (PDF). Ecological Landscaping Association. April 2013.
  8. "The David Fairchild Medal for Plant Exploration" (PDF). National Tropical Botanical Garden.
  9. Naczi, Robert F. C. (2008). "Scott A. Mori—Recipient of the 2007 Asa Gray Award". Systematic Botany. 33 (1): 1–4. doi:10.1600/036364408783887447. ISSN 0363-6445. S2CID 85876386.
  10. IPNI.  S.A.Mori.
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