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More-than-human conservation, models from the pluriverse: the example of biocultural diversity conservation from knowledge systems of the Maya Ixil in the Maya Ixil Territory

Global Social Challenges Journal
Central to the more-than-human form of biocultural diversity conservation linked to Maya Ixil practising and living tiichajil and its txaa norms is a more-than-human identity that animates agency beyond the human.
Gina D’Alesandro
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Local knowledge as a tool for prospecting wild food plants: experiences in northeastern Brazil

Scientific Reports, 2021
This study aims to provide a simple framework to identify wild food plants with potential for popularization based on local knowledge and perception. To this end, we also characterized the distribution of this knowledge in the socio-ecological system. We
Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros, Gabriela Maria Cota dos Santos, Déborah Monteiro Barbosa, Laílson César Andrade Gomes, Élida Monique da Costa Santos, Rafael Ricardo Vasconcelos da Silva   +5 more
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Priority areas for conservation based on endemic vascular plant species and their biocultural attributes: a case study in Sinaloa, Mexico

Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad
Endemic vascular plants are one of the main biodiversity indicators used to propose priority conservation areas. The richness of endemic species and corrected and weighted endemism are the most frequently used criteria, while anthropogenic or ...
Juan Fernando Pío-León, Guadalupe Munguía-Lino, Jesús Guadalupe González-Gallegos, Martha González-Elizondo   +3 more
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Domestic carnivore interactions with wildlife in the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve, Chile: husbandry and perceptions of impact from a community perspective [PDF]

PeerJ, 2018
Background Hundreds of millions of domestic carnivores worldwide have diverse positive affiliations with humans, but can provoke serious socio-ecological impacts when free-roaming.
Elke Schüttler, Lorena Saavedra-Aracena, Jaime E. Jiménez   +2 more
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Sub-Antarctic Freshwater Invertebrate Thermal Tolerances: An Assessment of Critical Thermal Limits and Behavioral Responses

Insects, 2020
Physiological thermal limits of organisms are linked to their geographic distribution. The assessment of such limits can provide valuable insights when monitoring for environmental thermal alterations.
Javier Rendoll-Cárcamo, Tamara Contador, Peter Convey, James Kennedy   +3 more
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Integrating biocultural conservation and sociocultural valuation in the management of sacred forests: What values are important to the public?

People and Nature, 2023
The need to recognise plural values and integrate these into policy design has long been of interest in nature conservation. However, we also need to understand whether and how different values are prioritised among diverse stakeholders.
E. Ihemezie, J. A. Albaladejo-García, Lindsay C. Stringer, M. Dallimer   +3 more
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Bird conservation status and cultural values in Indigenous Mexican communities: towards a bioculturally informed conservation policy

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2022
Background We summarize comparative ethnoornithological data for ten Mexican Indigenous communities, an initial step towards a comprehensive archive of the avian diversity conserved within Mexico’s Indigenous territories. We do so by counting highlighted
Graciela Alcántara-Salinas, Eugene S. Hunn, María Elena Ibáñez-Bravo, Elda Miriam Aldasoro-Maya, Noé Flores-Hernández, Juan Antonio Pérez-Sato, Natalia Real-Luna, Rafael Arturo Muñoz-Márquez Trujillo, Diana Lope-Alzina, Jaime Ernesto Rivera-Hernández   +9 more
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L’avenir de la conservation des plantes cultivées à la ferme : intérêt des approches bioculturelles de la conservation

Droit et Cultures, 2023
The article focuses on the modernist framework of crop diversity conservation as it was set up in the early 20th century. It shows and analyses its effects, particularly on the category of on-farm conservation that unfolded in the late 1980s.
Benjamin Coudurier, Fabien Girard, Ingrid Hall   +2 more
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Civic Reporting Indicators and Biocultural Conservation: Opportunities and Challenges for Sustainable Tourism

Sustainability, 2023
Citizen science (CS) within sustainable tourism is an underutilized tool for biocultural conservation. The aims of this research integrate conceptual and applied approaches to situate post-positivist and interpretive paradigms within CS and sustainable ...
Julia R. Branstrator, C. T. Cavaliere, J. Day, K. Bricker   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Nest-site selection and breeding success of passerines in the world’s southernmost forests [PDF]

PeerJ, 2020
Background Birds can maximize their reproductive success through careful selection of nest-sites. The ‘total-foliage’ hypothesis predicts that nests concealed in vegetation should have higher survival.
Rocío Fernanda Jara, Ramiro Daniel Crego, Michael David Samuel, Ricardo Rozzi, Jaime Enrique Jiménez   +4 more
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