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Biocultural Diversity: Innovating in Research For Conservation [PDF]

, 2016
Author's translation of: Nemogá GR. Diversidad biocultural: innovando en investigación para la conservación. Acta biol. Colomb. 2016; 21(1) Supl:S311-319.
Nemogá, Gabriel R.
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Humans are not unique: difficult birth is common in placental mammals

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human childbirth is widely presumed to be uniquely difficult and dangerous compared to birth in other mammals. Tight fetopelvic proportions can result in obstructed labour and contribute to high rates of maternal and neonatal mortality. Ideas summarised under the ‘obstetrical dilemma’ have contributed to this assumption by explaining difficult
Nicole D. S. Grunstra
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Analysis of plant science higher education reveals mixed provision which falls short of delivering national priorities

JSFA reports, Volume 5, Issue 3, Page 78-90, March 2025.
Abstract Background Many reports from the UK government and other organisations highlight a need for a plant aware workforce, and some enumerate specific areas of plant science where there is a skills shortage. We have undertaken a systematic analysis of the content of degree programmes that advertise as teaching plant biology to determine if the UK ...
Sarah Trinder, Thomas Heaven, Matteo Luberti, Sophie Read, Adam Scanlon, Chris Gauntner, Alec Forsyth, Alison C. Foster   +7 more
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Stakeholder Analysis for Climate Change Adaptation: A Case Study from the Living Lab Schouwen-Duiveland, The Netherlands

Land
Extreme climate events like droughts and floods are creating urgent challenges for sectors such as Agriculture or water management. Effective adaptation requires stakeholder collaboration, supported by stakeholder analysis (SA) methods, which are still ...
Monika Suškevičs, Joost Swiers, Julia Prakofjewa, Renata Sõukand, Baiba Prūse   +4 more
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Indigenous and local knowledge in biocultural approaches to sustainability: a review of the literature in Spanish

Ecosystems and People, 2023
Biocultural approaches are gaining attention for coping with current sustainability challenges. These approaches recognize that biological and cultural diversity are inextricably linked.
Leonie Burke, Isabel Díaz-Reviriego, David P. M. Lam, Jan Hanspach   +3 more
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BioCultural Landscapes per la rigenerazione innovativa dei territori di montagna [PDF]

, 2016
Simplification of agricultural systems, farmland abandonment, uncontrolled urbanization, together with global scale drivers, determine fast and unpredictable phenomena of hydrogeological instability, biodiversity decline and identity loss.
BAIAMONTE, Giuseppe, BAZAN, Giuseppe, Cancellieri, A, SCHICCHI, Rosario   +3 more
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Foodways in transition: food plants, diet and local perceptions of change in a Costa Rican Ngäbe community [PDF]

, 2016
Background Indigenous populations are undergoing rapid ethnobiological, nutritional and socioeconomic transitions while being increasingly integrated into modernizing societies. To better understand the dynamics of these transitions, this article aims
A Constenla, A Constenla, A Cronquist, A Karkotis, A Pastrana, A Steward, AK Romney, B Horna, BL Gordon, BM Popkin, C Albala, C Borge, C Borge, C Camacho, C Sierra, DL Hazlett, E Méndez, F Carbonell, F Montero, GJ Martin, GP Nabhan, H Border, H Castaneda, H Castañeda, H Newing, H Pérez, HV Kuhnlein, Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos-Costa Rica (INEC), J Baltodano, J Fox, J Koshear, J Smith, JA Camacho-Zamora, JE Staller, JP Madriz, L Maffi, LG Joly, LG Joly, M Altrichter, M Kappelle, M Quinlan, ME Zaldivar, N Blaikie, N Ross, N Vliet van, Ngäbe’s Traditional Doctors’ Council, PD Young, PJ Pelto, PK Virtanen, R Bernard, R Ellen, R Uauy, Rajindra K. Puri, RMT Dahlgren, S Zent, SC Weller, SC Weller, SP Borgatti, T Johns, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), U D’Ambrosio, Ugo D’Ambrosio, V Reyes-García   +62 more
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Social Determinants of Spinal Pathology in Adolescents From Urban Centers in the Post‐Medieval Netherlands (1650–1850 CE)

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The study of trauma in individuals undergoing growth and development remains an understudied area of research but can provide unique insights into the lived experiences and social identities of young people in the past. This study examines vertebral compression fractures and Schmorl's nodes in children and adolescents (1–20 years at death ...
Meghan D. Langlois, Rachel Schats, Sarah Burrow, Megan B. Brickley   +3 more
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Unraveling reciprocal relations between farm trees and people for biocultural conservation in Myanmar’s Central Dry Zone

Ecosystems and People
A deeper understanding of human-nature reciprocity is required for transformative change to safeguard biodiversity. In the face of widespread loss of farmland biodiversity and ecosystem services, evidence on how farm trees provide multiple benefits to ...
Khant Sandar Htet, Laura Kmoch, Tobias Plieninger   +2 more
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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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