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Conservation through Biocultural Heritage—Examples from Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]
Land, 2019 In this paper, we review the potential of biocultural heritage in biodiversity protection and agricultural innovation in sub-Saharan Africa. We begin by defining the concept of biocultural heritage into four interlinked elements that are revealed through
Anneli Ekblom +2 more
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Climate change threatens New Guinea’s biocultural heritage [PDF]
Science Advances, 2019 Climate-smart strategic expansion of protected area networks is essential to protect and reinforce biocultural traditions.
Rodrigo Cámara-Leret +2 more
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Northwest Native Plants: A Digital Space for Paleoethnobotanical Knowledges and Biocultural Heritage
Heritage, 2022 Biocultural heritage preservation relies on ethnobotanical knowledge and the paleoethnobotanical data used in (re)constructing histories of human–biota interactions.
Molly Carney +2 more
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Ixcatec ethnoecology: plant management and biocultural heritage in Oaxaca, Mexico. [PDF]
J Ethnobiol Ethnomed, 2016 Studying motives of plant management allows understanding processes that originated agriculture and current forms of traditional technology innovation. Our work analyses the role of native plants in the Ixcatec subsistence, management practices, native plants biocultural importance, and motivations influencing management decisions.
Rangel-Landa S +4 more
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Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2022 The biocultural heritage of a region is developed and adapted after centuries of interrelationships between humans and nature. The endangered brazilwood [Paubrasilia echinata (Lam.), E. Gagnon, H.C. Lima, and G.P.
Juan Gomes Bastos +4 more
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Not “just necessity”? Two-x-eco-cultural dilemmas and the ethnobiological importance of the informal grannies’ markets in Moldova [PDF]
Journal of Ethnobiology and EthnomedicineInformal food markets, particularly those managed by (elderly) women in post-communist Eastern Europe, represent a biocultural phenomenon of profound significance since globalisation and increasingly strict legal frameworks often threaten these ...
Andrea Pieroni +5 more
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Spiritual ecology and biocultural heritage
Travessias, 2020 Spiritual Ecology is seen as a set of spirituality practices linked to ecology, in the sense of internalizing ecological feelings and procedures that come to be seen, in this context, as religious mediation in the search for the sacred. It is expected to
Eraldo Medeiros Costa Neto
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Amazonian biocultural heritage under climate change
AbstractAmazonia harbors one fourth of the world’s plant diversity and over 300 Indigenous groups. So far, however, no study has assessed how climate change may simultaneously impact its biological and cultural heritage. To bridge this gap, we assembled a database on 5,833 utilized plant species and show that climate change will reduce more the ranges ...
Cámara-Leret R +2 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 +3 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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