A5083315511- Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Plant and animal studies
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies
- Plant Diversity and Evolution
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Forest ecology and management
- Categorization, perception, and language
- Indigenous Health and Education
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Agricultural and Food Sciences
- Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
- Banana Cultivation and Research
- Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- Language and cultural evolution
- Rural Development and Agriculture
- Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
Tulane University
2015-2025
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
1991
New York Botanical Garden
1985-1987
Historical ecology is a new interdisciplinary research program concerned with comprehending temporal and spatial dimensions in the relationships of human societies to local environments cumulative global effects these relationships. contains core postulates that concern qualitative types human-mediated disturbance natural effect on species diversity, among other parameters. A central term used historical situate behavior agency environment landscape, as derived from geography, instead...
Abstract: Quantitative data are presented on the use of trees in terra firme dense forest by four indigenous Amazonian groups: Ka'apor and Tembe, both Tupi‐Guarani‐speaking groups Brazil; Panare, a Cariban‐speaking group Venezuela; Chácobo, Panoan‐speaking Bolivia. In each case, an ethnoecological inventory was conducted 1‐hectare parcel forest. All at least 10 centimeters diameter breast height (DBH) were marked, botanical specimens collected Specimens to informants gather use. Based these...
Cultural Forests of the Amazon is a comprehensive and diverse account how indigenous people transformed landscapes managed resources in most extensive region tropical forests world. Until recently, scholars scientists, as well general public, thought had minimum impact on forests, once considered to be total wildernesses. William Balee's research, conducted over span three decades, shows more complicated truth. In , he argues that people, past present, have time again profoundly nature into...
The knowledge systems and practices of Indigenous Peoples local communities play critical roles in safeguarding the biological cultural diversity our planet. Globalization, government policies, capitalism, colonialism, other rapid social-ecological changes threaten relationships between their environments, thereby challenging continuity dynamism Local Knowledge (ILK). In this article, we contribute to “World Scientists' Warning Humanity,” issued by Alliance World Scientists, exploring...
Our first objective was to describe species richness, relative density, frequency, dominance, importance, and family importance in the two study sites for all individuals ≥10 cm dbh. second show how adaptations of some ecologically most important these offer support hypothesis that liana forest is not a primary type, but rather anthropogenic
Behaviorally modern human beings have lived in Amazonia for thousands of years. Significant dynamics species turnovers due to human-mediated disturbance were associated with the ultimate emergence and expansion agrarian technologies prehistory. Such disturbances initiated primary secondary landscape transformations various locales Amazon region. Diversity these can be understood by accepting initial premise contingency, expressed as unprecedented agency history. These effects accessed...
Cet article a pour objet de clarifier la nature des rapports entre certaines societes indigenes du passe et biodiversite regionale en Amazonie. Des donnees recentes montrent effet que le complexe agroforestier cultures contribue renforcer cette diversite, au moins dans domaine vegetal. La demonstration repose sur une comparaison forets « anthropogeniques » primaires region phytogeographique dite pre-Amazonie ». Elle souleve deux problemes cruciaux: celui l'extension savoir ecologique lie aux...
Indigeneidade se refere às maneiras tradicionais de conhecimento do mundo, imersas em culturas pequena escala. Pode ser detectada transformações primárias da paisagem, onde enriquecimento espécies resultaram melhorias ambientais, não degradação. Paisagens são encontros pessoas e lugares. torna-se relevante para as paisagens como final isolamento Europa a redução dos “outros” não-ocidentais novos sistemas subordinação, escravidão, classificação suas terras terra nullius. Essas paisagens,...
Understanding how the traits of lineages are related to diversification is key for elucidating origin variation in species richness. Here, we test whether richness among trees from all major biogeographical settings lowland wet tropics. We explore mortality rate, breeding system and maximum diameter richness, either directly or via associations with range size, 463 genera that contain tropical forest trees. For Amazonian genera, also mean species-level size. Lineages higher rates—faster...
Traditional ethnobiological knowledge (tek) in Amazonia can be elucidated by comparative study within a language family. Some of thistek has been more resistant to change than certain elements from other cultural domains, such as kinship and politics. Although muchtek nevertheless eroded over time, the Tupí-Guaraní family shows evidence for retention oftek concerning not only many domesticated semidomesticated plants but also wild resources. In particular, that evidently retained complexes...
For more than three decades, major efforts in sampling and analyzing tree diversity South America have focused almost exclusively on trees with stems of at least 10 2.5 cm diameter, showing highest species the wetter western northern Amazon forests. By contrast, little attention has been paid to patterns drivers largest canopy emergent trees, which is surprising given these dominant ecological functions. Here, we use a machine learning approach quantify importance environmental factors apply...
Abstract The Napo River basin, which is situated within the Upper Amazon archaeological region, one of most speciose forests in Greater Amazonia. Standard thinking scholarship and science holds that these are essentially pristine because any Indigenous impacts past would have been minimal, seedbanks nearby, natural reappeared after humans left, died out, or dispersed. Inventory research 2019 on three ridgetop Waorani territory inside Curaray basin (which drains to right margin River) a...
Studies about relationships between people and landscapes have shown that local communities can affect the abundance of plant species useful to humans, which raises question how landscape management processes might modify in a forested area. We addressed this issue based on perception biological evidence. This study was undertaken Araripe National Forest, protected area sustainable use natural resources Brazil. Our results showed studied experienced modifications caused by processes. For...