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Collectors of the UNC Herbarium
Gary Perlmutter
b. 16 December 1966
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Gary Perlmutter
June 2006
Photo byWilliam Harvey
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Gary Perlmutter was born and raised in
Ventura, California, and received his B.S. in Zoology from Humboldt
State University in Arcata, California, 1991. During his late
high school and college career, he worked on numerous ecological
projects from participating in the California Condor Recovery
Program in Ventura, to studying megafauna in central Africa as
part of the Semliki Research Expedition, to documenting relictual
amphibian populations in northwestern California with the US Forest
Service.
Following college, Gary returned to his hometown and embarked
in a career in environmental monitoring and compliance, working
in analytical laboratories and field sampling wastewater and gas
in the oilfields of southern California. As a side project he
studied the reproductive ecology of the Laurel Sumac, Malosma
laurina (Anacardiaceae), describing the breeding system of
this functionally dioecious shrub. He also briefly measured the
growth patterns of a local fern.
It was during this time that Gary became interested in lichens,
but didn’t fully embark on this field until moving to Raleigh,
North Carolina in 2003. In the following year Gary enrolled in
the North Carolina Botanical Garden’s Native Plant Certificate
program to study the lichen diversity of the local forests. He
first compiled a checklist of lichens for North Carolina from
a literature review, then inventoried the lichens of the NC Piedmont
through Herbarium surveys. Gary is currently field surveying NC
state parks as well as Mason Farm and other NCBG-managed lands.
Now employed with the North Carolina Division of Air Quality,
Gary is surveying the city parks of Raliegh for effects of air
pollution using lichen communities on trees in addition to his
service as a compliance inspector.
The University of North Carolina Herbarium (NCU) is Gary’s
primary repository of specimens collected since 1999, now numbering
over 800. Other herbaria to which he has deposited specimens include
DUKE, FH, MSC, NY, PH and the private herbaria of Bernard de Vries
of Saskatchewan, Canada, and the Humboldt Field Research Institute
in Maine. With the initial collection of 25 reference specimens
from Santa Barbara and Ventura, California, Gary first reviewed
NCU’s existing collection to which he incorporated Piedmont
specimens into the newer collection. Gary is also databasing his
collection, albeit in a system separate from the one used for
the vascular plants.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Perlmutter, G.B. 2007. A preliminary checklist
of lichens at Fort Macon State Park, North Carolina, USA. Evansia
24(1): in press.
---. 2006. Lichen inventory of the North Carolina Piedmont. Castanea
71(4): 282-294.
---. 2006a. Flakea papillata in North America.
The Bryologist 109(4): 566-569.
--- and D.N. Greene. 2005. Corrections and additions to the North
Carolina lichen checklist. Evansia 22(4): 126-137.
---. 2005. Lichen checklist for North Carolina, USA. Evansia
22(2): 51-77.
---. 2006b. Observations of frond growth and development in Pentagramma
triangularis subsp. triangularis (Pteridaceae) of
southern California. Madroño 53(1): 60-64.
---. 2004. Aspects of reproductive biology in the sexually dimorphic
shrub Malosma laurina (Anacardiaceae). Madroño
51(3): 292-299.
---. 1998. Sex morph descriptions of Malosma laurina
(Anacardiaceae), a polygamous species. Phytologia
85(1): 74-79.
---. 1997. Reproductive response to fire by the laurel sumac,
Malosma laurina (Anacardiaceae). Madroño
44(3): 300-304.
---. 1993. Preliminary studies on the distribution of native mice
on Santa Catalina Island. Pp. 429-432 in F.G. Hochberg (ed.) Third
California Islands Symposium: Recent Advances in Research on the
California Islands. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History: Santa
Barbara, CA. 661 pp. ISBN 0-936494-05-0.
---. 1992. Environmental factors influencing roost arrival of
Black-crowned Night-Herons. Journal of Field Ornithology
63(4): 462-465.
---. 1985. Working with condors. Western Tanager, Los
Angeles Audubon Society 51 (10): 4-5.
  
Curriculum North Carolina UNC
In Ecology Botanical Garden Biology Department
University of North Carolina
Herbarium
CB# 3280, Coker Hall
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280
phone: (919) 962-6931
fax: (919) 962-6930
email: herbarium@bio.unc.edu
Last Updated: 20 February 2007
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