BALIKTANAW - Kasaysayan at Kalikasan Webinar: Dr. Emmanuel Ryan C. De Chavez
Channel: UPLB MNH
Date: 2021-07-14

Video recording of the Baliktanaw: Kasaysayan at Kalikasan Webinar (14 July 2021) on "Silip sa Kagahapon: Molluscan Research and Collections from the Spanish Period to the Present" by Dr. Emmanuel Ryan D. De Chavez, Curator for mollusks of the UPLB Museum of Natural History.

TALK SUMMARY

"The Philippines, the “Pearl of the Orient,” is one of the centers of molluscan biodiversity. As a tropical archipelago with 7,640 ancient continental and oceanic islands, the country is a unique natural laboratory for the speciation of these invertebrates. Mollusks, which includes snails, bivalves and cephalopods, have also been part of the lives of many Filipinos as a source of food, tools, ornaments, currency and medicine. In this talk, I will attempt to highlight some notable malacological stories across the various chapters of Philippine history. It will cover the pre-colonial malacoarchaeological discoveries in Palawan, Mindanao and Batanes, the expeditions taken (e.g., 𝘓𝘢 𝘍𝘢𝘷𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦), publications written (e.g., 𝘖𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘴 𝘔𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘰 𝘥𝘦 𝘭𝘢 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘤𝘪ó𝘯 𝘥𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘴 𝘥𝘦 𝘍𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘴) and species described by European malacologists (Hugh Cuming, Joaquin Gonzales Hidalgo, Jose Quadras, Lovell Augustus Reeve and Otto Franz von Möllendorff ) during the Spanish colonial period, the spectacular shell collections of Jose Rizal during his exile in Dapitan, the seminal works of Paul Bartsch and Leopoldo Faustino during the American period, the introduction of the invasive land snail, 𝘓𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘢 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢, during the Japanese occupation, and the development of the fields of mariculture (oysters and mussels), medical malacology (e.g., Schistosomiasis and 𝘖𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘢 snail researches of John Burch and Lydia Leonardo), toxinology (e.g., conotoxin studies by Baldomero Olivera Jr. and Lourdes Cruz), and systematics (e.g., conchology books of Foster Springsteen and Fely Leobrera, and Guido Poppe) in post-war Philippines. Finally, I will discuss how current malacological research is still relevant in addressing pressing environmental problems such as pollution and habitat destruction, and in further understanding the diversity patterns and evolutionary origins of our 𝘗𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘺 mollusks."

Baliktanaw: Kasaysayan at Kalikasan Webinar is a component of the University of the Philippines System/University of the Philippines Los Baños "Gahum sa Buut" Quincentennial Commemoration activities.

No copyright infringement intended. Music used during the start of the webinar is a material endorsed for sharing and promotion by the National Quincentennial Committee Philippines in activities which are contributory to the whole Quincentennial Commemorations in 2021.

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Arrangement: Joel Cruz
Conducted by: Maestro Jiovanni Tabada
Produced by: The Cebu Philharmonic Orchestra