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Ecocultural or Biocultural? Towards Appropriate Terminologies in Biocultural Diversity [PDF]
Biology, 2022 Biocultural diversity has made notable contributions that have furthered our understanding of the human culture-nature interrelationship. However, the usage of the term ‘biocultural’ is not unique to biocultural diversity.
F. Merlin Franco
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Biocultural diversity and crop improvement. [PDF]
Emerg Top Life Sci, 2023 Biocultural diversity is the ever-evolving and irreplaceable sum total of all living organisms inhabiting the Earth. It plays a significant role in sustainable productivity and ecosystem services that benefit humanity and is closely allied with human cultural diversity.
Gepts P.
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Biocultural Diversity in Italy
Human Ecology, 2023 AbstractAs an initial step in more extensive research into the links between biological and cultural diversity in present-day Italy, we reviewed Biocultural Diversity studies that explore the relationship between biological and cultural patterns of diversity to determine whether any direct causal relationships or common drivers could be inferred.
Eugenio Bortolini +2 more
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Biocultural diversity: a Mongolian case study [PDF]
Ecology and Society, 2019 Although conceptual frameworks describing biodiversity and cultural keystone species have been widely accepted over the past 15 years, there remains a need for an overarching framework that covers the various components of biocultural diversity.
Barbara C. Seele +2 more
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Diversity and Biocultural Invention
TechnophanyIn non-modern biocultures, contextual human technicity has played a key role in shaping the behaviors and the morphology of non-human species, which in return has simultaneously modulated human morphology and behavior: behavior affords behavior. Studies
Eduardo Makoszay Mayén
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Biocultural Diversity in the Southern Amazon [PDF]
Diversity, 2009 Recent studies in Amazonia historical ecology have revealed substantial diversity and dynamic change in coupled natural human systems. In the southern Amazon, several headwater basins show evidence of substantial pre-Columbian landscape modification ...
Michael Heckenberger
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A global index of biocultural diversity
Ecological Indicators, 2005 Abstract The relationships between biological and cultural diversity are drawing increasing attention from scholars. Analyses of these relationships are beginning to crystallize around the concept of biocultural diversity, the total variety exhibited by the world's natural and cultural systems. Here, we present the first global measure of biocultural
Jonathan Loh, David Harmon
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Time Travel Within the History of Ethnobotany [PDF]
PlantsCurrently, science is increasingly being influenced by artificial intelligence (AI) [...]
Raivo Kalle, Renata Sõukand
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Homogenisation of Biocultural Diversity: Plant Ethnomedicine and Its Diachronic Change in Setomaa and Võromaa, Estonia, in the Last Century [PDF]
Biology, 2022 Renata Sõukand +2 more
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Diversity and distribution of the Huastec Mayan medicinal plants: hotspots for bioprospecting and conservation [PDF]
Biodiversity Data JournalThe multi-ethnic biocultural region Huasteca in Mexico has a variety of practices, including the use of traditional plant-based medicine. Here, we analyse the diversity and distribution of the medicinal plants used by the Tenek culture, to identify ...
Madeleyne Cupido +4 more
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