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Article Category: Obituary
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Online Publication Date: 24 Jul 2024

Angel Chua Alcala (1929–2023): A Pioneer of Community-Led Marine Resource Management and the Premier Filipino Herpetologist

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Page Range: 300 – 304
DOI: 10.1643/t2024052
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Copyright: © 2024 by the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
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Angel Alcala 1929–2023.


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Angel Alcala (far left, standing) leading a herpetological expedition in 1955 in Philippine rainforest.


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Angel Alcala examining herpetological specimens with his supervisor, Walter Brown (foreground), at Stanford University in the 1960s.


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Angel Alcala in front of the newly established Silliman University Marine Laboratory in 1978.


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Angel Alcala conferred as a National Scientist of the Philippines by President Benigno S. Aquino in May 2014.


Contributor Notes

 College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia; ORCID: 0009-0005-0623-6625; Email: garry.russ@jcu.edu.au
 Marine Science Institute, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and KU Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
 Silliman University—Angelo King Center for Research and Environmental Management, Dumaguete City, Philippines
 ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity, University of the Philippines Los Baños, College 4031, Laguna, Philippines
 Centre for Coastal Research, Department of Natural Sciences, University of Agder, 4630 Kristiansand, Norway
 Institute of Marine Research, Flødevigen, Nye Flødevigveien 20, 4817 His, Norway
 Zoological Society of London, ZSL-Philippines, La Paz, Iloilo City, Philippines
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