A5087058421- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Latin American Urban Studies
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Categorization, perception, and language
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Community Health and Development
- Biochemical and biochemical processes
- Silkworms and Sericulture Research
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Environmental and sustainability education
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Organic Food and Agriculture
Centre For Sustainable Urban Development
2023-2024
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
2017-2024
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2022-2024
Abstract The effects of climate change depend on specific local circumstances, posing a challenge for worldwide research to comprehensively encompass the diverse impacts various social-ecological systems. Here we use place-specific but cross-culturally comparable protocol document indicators and as locally experienced analyze their distribution. We collected first-hand data in 48 sites inhabited by Indigenous Peoples communities covering all zones nature-dependent livelihoods. documented...
Abstract Indigenous Peoples and local communities with nature-dependent livelihoods are disproportionately affected by climate change impacts, but their experience, knowledge needs receive inadequate attention in research policy. Here, we discuss three key findings of a collaborative consortium arising from the Local Indicators Climate Change Impacts project. First, reports environmental provide holistic, relational, placed-based, culturally-grounded multi-causal understandings change,...
Forest attributes and their abundances define the stand structural complexity available as habitat for faunal biodiversity; however, intensive anthropogenic disturbances have potential to degrade simplify forest stands. In this paper we develop an index of show how disturbances, namely fire, logging, livestock, combined presence, affect in a southern Global Biodiversity Hotspot. From 2011 2013, measured well presence 505 plots Andean zone La Araucanía Region, Chile. each plot, understory...
Rapid social-ecological changes such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and resource overexploitation are threatening food security, livelihoods, local knowledge of small-scale farmers worldwide. There has been a call from scientists, farmers, activists to identify promote the mechanisms for sustaining resilient farming livelihoods. We hypothesize that who more knowledgeable about in their environment current they might be prepared respond these disturbances. Our objective is understand...
Homegardens are coupled social-ecological systems that act as biodiversity reservoirs while contributing to local food sovereignty. These characterized by their structural complexity, involving management practices according gardener's cultural origin. Social-ecological processes in homegardens may filters of species' functional traits, and thus influence the species richness-functional diversity relationship critical agroecosystem components like beetles (Coleoptera). We tested beetle...
Abstract Current social-ecological changes affect territories and people’s livelihoods worldwide. Many of these have detrimental effects on small-scale agricultural systems, with concomitant negative consequences global local food security sovereignty. The objectives this study were to explore (i) knowledge (ii) the perceived drivers those occurring in a mountainscape an islandscape two Important Agricultural Heritage Systems southern South America, both located within Global Biodiversity...
Ethno-ornithological studies have shown the complexity of indigenous systems classification local biota. However, there is still a lack knowledge about etymology bird names used by peoples in many locations and phenomenological meaning these names. We conducted an extensive literature review Mapuche their etymologies. Because relative importance onomatopoeias as origin names, we compared proportion onomatopoeic different forest-dwelling worldwide. found 219 Mapuzugun for 92 species 135...
Capsule: Many protected forests at high elevations show higher endemic biodiversity than unprotected habitats low elevations. In seasonal ecosystems, however, harsh environmental conditions during winter may force individuals to move from degraded in lowlands.Aims: To examine how forest types and seasons affect avian diversity habitat-use guilds forests.Methods: Habitat surveys were conducted test type differences on species richness, relative abundances abundance of guilds.Results:...
Abstract While ethnobiology is a discipline that focuses on the local, it has an outstanding, but not yet fully realized potential to address global issues. Part of this unrealized universalistic approaches often do recognize culturally grounded perspectives and there are multiple challenges with scaling up place-based research. However, scalability paramount ensure intimate context-specific diversity human–environmental relationships understandings recognized in global-scale planning policy...
La araucaria (Araucaria araucana), o pewen en lengua mapuche, es un árbol nativo de Chile y Argentina con fuerte importancia cultural para las comunidades mapuche-pewenche del sur los Andes. Mediante el uso metodologías cualitativas técnicas etnográficas, se evaluaron distintos usos actuales aspectos económicos comerciales asociados al piñón, semilla la araucaria, una comuna cordillerana centro-sur Chile. Las prácticas locales relacionadas piñón dan cuenta intrínseca material esta semilla,...
(analítico)Presentamos una iniciativa y proponemos metodología transdisciplinaria para cultivar la memoria biocultural, basada en los procesos de participación materialización comunidades práctica (educativas). Presentamos el proyecto «Escuchando a abuelos», que buscó facilitar diálogos intergeneracionales tres escuelas mapuche (~ 90 niños niñas) Wallmapu, Chile. abuelos» utilizó las aves como protagonistas narrativas locales sobre territorio. Cocreamos un ciclo cinco pasos promover...
Human–wildlife conflicts involving protected predators are a major social and environmental problem worldwide. A critical aspect in such is the role of state institutions regarding predators’ conservation, how this construed by affected local populations. These interpretations frequently embodied conspiratorial rumours, sharing some common traits related to wild domestic categories, spatial ordering power relations. In southern Chile, one-year, multi-sited ethnographic study human–animal...
Dado que los impactos del cambio climático varían entre ecosistemas y sociedades, es difícil determinarlos con precisión. Basándonos en tres ejemplos de Sudamérica, exploramos algunas las múltiples evidencias diferentes sistemas conocimiento experiencias locales aportan al entendimiento sus impactos. En el archipiélago Chiloé (sur Chile) analizamos conexiones motores reportados por campesinas chilotas explicar la sequía agricultura. A multicausalidad, pueblo indígena tsimane’ (Amazonía...
Abstract The simplification of forest structural complexity, caused by anthropogenic land-use practices, is one the main threats to understory specialist birds. We examined association both single attributes and with density 4 bird species in Global Biodiversity Hotspot “Chilean Winter Rainfall-Valdivian Forests” South America. Between 2011 2013, we surveyed habitat conducted point counts 505 plots Andean temperate ecosystems Chile. In each plot, measured density, volume coarse woody debris...