A5026249715- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Language and cultural evolution
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Categorization, perception, and language
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies
- Indigenous Cultures and History
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Indigenous Cultures and Socio-Education
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Land Rights and Reforms
- Latin American Cultural Politics
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
UNESCO
2023
Birds Canada
2021
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2011-2020
World Conservation Monitoring Centre
2020
University of Helsinki
2016
Éco-Anthropologie
2016
Musée de l'Homme
2016
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2016
Environmental Technologies (United States)
2014
Local knowledge has been proposed as a place-based tool to ground-truth climate models and narrow their geographic sensitivity. To assess the potential role of local in our quest understand better change its impacts, we first need critically review strengths weaknesses complementarity with scientific knowledge. With this aim, conducted systematic, quantitative meta-analysis published peer-reviewed documents reporting indicators (including both observations observed impacts on biophysical...
Abstract There have been calls for greater inclusion of Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) in applied ecosystems research ecological assessments. The Intergovernmental Science‐Policy Platform on Biodiversity Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Global Assessment (GA) is the first global scale assessment to systematically engage with ILK issues concern peoples communities (IPLC). In this paper, we review reflect how GA worked lessons learned. engaged critical evaluation synthesis existing evidence...
Hunters exhibit high skill across the life span, individuals vary substantially in skill, and age-related peaks sites.
Research on natural resource management suggests that local perceptions form the basis upon which many small-scale societies monitor availability and change in stock of common-pool resources. In contrast, this literature debates whether can be effective guiding sustainable With empirical evidence matter still highly limited, work explores role as drivers harvesting behavior a society Bolivian Amazonia. We conducted structured interviews to capture thatch palm (Geonoma deversa) amongst...
Among the different factors associated with change in traditional ecological knowledge, study of relations between cultural and knowledge has received scan inadequate scholarly attention. Using data from indigenous peoples an Amazonian society facing increasing exposure to mainstream Bolivian society, we analyzed relation proxied individual plant use change, individual- (n=484) village-level (n=47) measures attachment beliefs values. We found that both level detachment values village were...
Researchers have argued that the behavioral adaptations explain success of our species are partially cultural, is, cumulative and socially transmitted. Thus, understanding adaptive nature culture is crucial to understand human evolution. We use a cross-cultural framework empirical data purposely collected test whether culturally transmitted individually appropriated knowledge provides individual returns in terms hunting yields health and, by extension, nutritional status, proxy for success....
Cultural adaptation has become central in the context of accelerated global change with authors increasingly acknowledging importance understanding multilevel processes that operate as takes place. We explore explaining cultural by describing how leading to (mis)adaptation are linked through a complex nested hierarchy, where lower levels combine into new units organizations, functions, and emergent properties or collective behaviours. After brief review concept "cultural adaptation" from...
Integration into the market economy changes indigenous people's use of land and resources. We study one pathway leading to integration peoples economy: entrance nonindigenous lands inhabited by populations. analyzed data from a survey (n = 779) in 87 Tsimane' villages, an Amazonian society. assessed traders, loggers, cattle ranchers, highland colonist farmers, other villages settled parks, forest concessions, territories, private lands. Interactions were generally frequent, friendly, had...
Abstract Questions What is the relative importance of environmental variables and geographical distances to explain tree species turnover? Are these patterns consistent for different categories, i.e. all trees ( DBH ≥ 2.5 cm), large 10 small sensu lato < cm) stricto (strictly understorey species, cm)? Location Department B eni, olivia, southwestern A mazon. Methods total 55 0.1‐ha plots were inventoried in old‐growth terra firme forest seven sites. Composite soil samples from each plot...
Decisions on landscape management are often dictated by government officials based their own understandings of how should be used and managed, but rarely considering local peoples' the they inhabit. We use data collected through free listings, field transects, interviews to describe an Amazonian group hunter-horticulturalists, Tsimane', classify perceive importance different elements across ecological, socioeconomic, spiritual dimensions. The Tsimane' recognize nine folk ecotopes (i.e.,...
Wildlife hunting is an important economic activity that contributes to the subsistence of indigenous peoples and maintenance their cultural identity. Changes in peoples' ways life affect way they manage ecosystems resources around them, including wildlife populations. This paper explores relationship between change, or detachment from traditional culture, behaviour among Tsimane', group Bolivian Amazon. We interviewed 344 hunters 39 villages estimate degree change them. used multilevel...
Researchers have analysed whether school and local knowledge complement or substitute each other, but paid less attention to those two learning models use different cognitive strategies. In this study, we data collected among three contemporary hunter-gatherer societies with relatively low levels of exposure schooling yet high ecological test the association between i) ii) verbal working memory. Participants include 94 people (24 Baka, 25 Punan, 45 Tsimane') from whom information on 1)...