Robert A. Villa
| Disciplines | Biogeography, Communications, Ethnobiology, Natural History, Performing Arts |
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| Regions | Alamos, Borderlands, Gran Desierto, Sky Islands, Urban Centers |
| Website | http://tumamoc.arizona.edu/people/robert-anthony-villa |
| Affiliation | Tucson Herpetological Society | The Desert Laboratory at Tumamoc Hill |
| cascabel1985@gmail.com | |
| @faunus_sonorensis | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0009-0009-4986-628X |
| Google Scholar | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wvf67W4AAAAJ&hl=en |
| About | I’m a proud Spanish-speaking Tucsonan deeply in love with the Sonoran region—studying, exploring, and documenting it’s biological and cultural diversity (often with violin in tow) most of my 34 years (2020). I’m interested in the concept of bio-cultural awareness, specializing in amphibians, reptiles, plants/horticulture, ethnoecology, and regional gastronomy. I’ve consulted for and assisted in the production of literature and video in the Sonoran region, and published in academic and popular outlets. I currently preside Tucson Herpetological Society, assist with ongoing developments at the Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill, and grow plants (the result of an unexpected apprenticeship and friendship under the tutelage of renowned plantsman and ecologist Mark A. Dimmitt in 2011). I consider myself a follower in the footsteps of Sonoran naturalist explorers such as Howard Scott Gentry, Paul Martin, Charles Lowe, Tom Van Devender, Mark Dimmitt, and others, documenting and espousing the land where north and south embrace. |
