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DiversityEdible flowers (EFs) form a special group of food plants that serve a pivotal role in local food systems, both in their utilitarian value and cultural significance.
Qing Zhang +4 more
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Biocultural Community Protocols: Dialogues on the Space Within [PDF]
, 2015 This paper starts by explaining "the space within" -- the ethical grammar and code by which indigenous peoples use and steward nature. It then explains the inextricable links with nature demonstrated by a number of communities with which we have worked ...
Daniel Francis Robinson +2 more
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The visible and invisible drivers of biocultural loss in the Amazon
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract The Amazon is rapidly approaching an ecological tipping point driven by deforestation, forest degradation and global climate change. These are visible issues that receive increasing political and public attention. However, the accelerating biocultural loss in the Amazon, including the extinction of Indigenous languages, the disruption of ...
Torsten Krause +5 more
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Human–Nature Relationships in Defining Biocultural Landscapes: A Systematic Review
Ekológia (Bratislava), 2023 The growing interest of researchers in the topic of biocultural diversity has resulted in the research field expanding from its initial focus on places inhabited by indigenous communities to rural and then to urban landscapes.
Baránková Zuzana, Špulerová Jana
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Wilting wildflowers and bummed‐out bees: Climate change threatens US state symbols
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Species designated as state symbols in the United States carry cultural importance, embody historical heritage and maintain long‐standing linkages to Indigenous traditions. However, they are threatened by climate change and even face the risk of local or global extinction.
Xuezhen Ge +3 more
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Discover SustainabilityUnderstanding crop biocultural trait diversity is crucial for sustaining agricultural resilience and guiding recovery in conflict-affected farming systems.
Shushay Welderufael +4 more
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Climate variability as experienced by farmers. [K-2224-04] [PDF]
, 2015 The typical approach of estimating crop response to future climate scenarios may be inappropriate in the case of smallholder multi cropping rain-fed agriculture.
Leclerc, Christian +2 more
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Using childhood landscape memories to uncover the dynamics of Anthropocene in African Urbanscapes
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract This perspective provides a reflective account of our personal experiences as African professors and lecturers in diverse fields of environmental sciences encountering the urban Anthropocene. Here, we explain the nature of the unprecedented, potent and hidden changes in our lived environments.
Aliyu Salisu Barau +5 more
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Creative convergence: exploring biocultural diversity through art
Ecology and Society, 2017 Interdisciplinary approaches are necessary for exploring the complex research questions that stem from interdependence in social-ecological systems.
Jean L. Polfus +8 more
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Biokultursysteme und ihre Evolution [PDF]
, 2017 Here I present the general concept of biocultural systems. Biocultural systems are an alternative to related concepts such as bioeconomy, ecosystem services or agroecosystems.
Timaeus, J.
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