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Biocultural Diversity Conservation: A Global Sourcebook

Ethnobiology Letters, 2012
Review of Biocultural Diversity Conservation: A Global Sourcebook. Luisa Maffi and Ellen Woodley. 2010. Earthscan, London. Pp. 304. $57.95 (paperback). ISBN 978-1-84407-921-6.
Jose Martinez-Reyes
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In Vitro Technology in Plant Conservation: Relevance to Biocultural Diversity [PDF]

Plants, 2022
Plant diversity is critical to the functioning of human societies, and evidence shows that plant conservation success is driven by integrative approaches that include social and biological factors.
Verena Kulak, Sheri Longboat, Nicolas D. Brunet, Mukund Shukla, Praveen Saxena   +4 more
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Pollination as a biocultural process: integrating local ecological knowledge of family farmers in northern Argentinian Patagonia for inclusive conservation. [PDF]

J Ethnobiol Ethnomed
Pollination is a complex and biocultural significant ecological process, essential for the reproduction of cultivated and wild plants. In family farming, pollination is crucial due to the economic and cultural dependence on pollinators.
Grimaldi PA, Ladio A.
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Biocultural restoration in Hawaiʻi also achieves core conservation goals

Ecology and Society, 2020
Biocultural approaches to restoration have demonstrated multiple benefits for human communities, but the ecological benefits and trade-offs involved have received little attention.
Kawika B. Winter, Tamara Ticktin, Shimona A. Quazi   +2 more
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A Biodiversity Hotspot Losing Its Biocultural Heritage: The Challenge to Biocultural Conservation of Brazilwood (Paubrasilia echinata)

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2022
The biocultural heritage of a region is developed and adapted after centuries of interrelationships between humans and nature. The endangered brazilwood [Paubrasilia echinata (Lam.), E. Gagnon, H.C. Lima, and G.P.
Juan Gomes Bastos, L. Kury, N. Hanazaki, Rebeca Capozzi, V. Fonseca-Kruel   +4 more
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

Linking habitat preferences and fitness across scales for a relict bird species of the southern Andes [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Animals select their habitats from available resources in a way that should maximize fitness, and thus habitat preferences are generally predicted to be adaptive.
Tomás A. Altamirano, Fernando J. Novoa, Zoltan Von Bernath, Alejandra Vermehren, Kathy Martin, Rocío Jara, Edwin R. Price, Ricardo Rozzi, José Tomás Ibarra   +8 more
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Challenges for Social Participation in Conservation in the Biocultural Landscape Area in the Western Sierra of Jalisco

Land, 2022
The protection of biocultural heritage has generated alternative proposals for the conservation of rural areas. Varied organizations collaborate in a pioneering conservation model, the Biocultural Landscape (BL), where local participation is paramount ...
Oscar Alberto Maldonado Ibarra, Rosa María Chávez-Dagostino, Myrna Leticia Bravo-Olivas, Rosío T. Amparán-Salido   +3 more
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Towards Biocultural Conservation of Chilean Palm Landscapes: Expanding Perspectives from Historical Ecology

Land
The Chilean palm (Jubaea chilensis) is an endangered and culturally important species from central Chile. We studied the Ocoa palm landscape (OPL), which is currently part of a protected area that harbors the largest Chilean palm population where local ...
Constanza Urresty-Vargas, Emilia Catalán, Jorge Razeto, Fausto O. Sarmiento   +3 more
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Mapping the global distribution and conservation status of oases-ecosystems of pivotal biocultural relevance. [PDF]

PeerJ
Background Oases are azonal, highly productive, densely vegetated areas within drylands, often converted to agriculture, and characterized by significant biocultural diversity.
Hernández-Agüero JA, Falkenhahn M, Hetzer J, Wesche K, Zarfl C, Tockner K.   +5 more
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Biocultural approaches could aid convivial conservation

Conservation & Society, 2022
Mark R Herse
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