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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, Karen J. Esler, Anthony B. Cunningham   +2 more
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Biocultural Diversity Conservation: A Global Sourcebook [PDF]

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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Biocultural conflicts: understanding complex interconnections between a traditional ceremony and threatened carnivores in north Kenya

Oryx, 2023
Biological and cultural diversity are inextricably linked and rapidly eroding worldwide. As a response, many conservation efforts foster synergies between cultural and biological diversity agendas through biocultural approaches.
Miquel Torrents-Ticó, Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, Daniel Burgas, Job Guol Nasak, Mar Cabeza   +4 more
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Mountain Graticules: Bridging Latitude, Longitude, Altitude, and Historicity to Biocultural Heritage

Geographies, 2022
The interdependence of biological and cultural diversity is exemplified by the new conservation paradigm of biocultural heritage. We seek to clarify obsolescent notions of nature, whereby cultural construction and identity markers of mountain communities
Fausto O. Sarmiento, Nobuko Inaba, Yoshihiko Iida, Masahito Yoshida   +3 more
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Biocultural diversity and crop improvement. [PDF]

, 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 ...
Gepts, Paul
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Methodological strategies to access the biocultural diversity in periurban homegardens of La Plata (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Bonplandia, 2020
The study of homegardens is an important subject in ethnobotany, as they are the expression of local botanical knowledge, and preserve significant biocultural diversity.
Ana Paula Castello, Julio A. Hurrell, María L. Pochettino   +2 more
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From local landscapes to international policy: contributions of the biocultural paradigm to global sustainability

Global Sustainability, 2019
Nature and culture are intricately linked and the rapid loss of both biological and cultural diversity around the globe has led to increasing concerns about its effects on sustainability.
Juliana Merçon, Susanne Vetter, Maria Tengö, Michelle Cocks, Patricia Balvanera, Julieta A. Rosell, Bárbara Ayala-Orozco   +6 more
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Time Travel Within the History of Ethnobotany

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Currently, science is increasingly being influenced by artificial intelligence (AI) [...]
Raivo Kalle, Renata Sõukand
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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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Justice for biodiversity: an X‐curve transformation pathway for a sustainable future

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, EarlyView.
Decades of conservation action have failed to stem biodiversity loss, stimulating heated debates over which conservation strategies are the most effective. Do we focus on preserving sufficient wilderness, maintaining services from nature for societal well‐being, or protecting vulnerable socioecologies from injustice?
Camille PA Venier‐Cambron
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