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Biocultural diversity: a Mongolian case study [PDF]
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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Biocultural diversity and crop improvement. [PDF]
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 Conservation: A Global Sourcebook
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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Biocultural homogenization is a wicked problem that implies the loss of biological and cultural diversity at different scales. It is promoted by globalized one-dimensional ways of thinking that ignore the biophysical and cultural singularities of the ...
Manuela Méndez-Herranz +3 more
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Mexico’s Biocultural Diversity in Peril
Introduction: Places with high species diversity have high linguistic diversity, whereas areas with low species diversity tend to have low linguistic diversity. Objective: To characterize the intriguing relationship between biological and cultural diversity, a correlation that has been discussed at a global scale, but here tested for the first time in ...
Vidal, Omar, Brusca, Richard-C.
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Diversity and Biocultural Invention
In 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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Support Indigenous food system biocultural diversity [PDF]
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Argumedo, Alejandro +4 more
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Biocultural Diversity in the Southern Amazon [PDF]
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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Landscape and biocultural diversity [PDF]
With the convention on biological diversity (CBD) office in UNEP acting as global focal point for biodiversity, and UNESCO acting as global focal point for cultural diversity, the two institutions launched in 2010 the Joint Programme on the Links between Biological and Cultural Diversity (JP-BiCuD) to strengthen the linkages between biological and ...
AGNOLETTI, MAURO, Rotherham, Ian D.
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Biocultural Calendars Across Four Ethnolinguistic Communities in Southwestern South America
Since the mid‐20th century, the so‐called Great Acceleration (sensu Steffen et al., 2007, https://doi.org/10.1579/0044-7447(2007)36[614:TAAHNO]2.0.CO;2) has amplified processes of ecosystem degradation, extinction of biological species, displacement of ...
Ricardo Rozzi +6 more
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