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Assessing forest products usage and local residents' perception of environmental changes in peri-urban and rural mangroves of Cameroon, Central Africa [PDF]

, 2011
BackgroundDeforestation is one of the most ubiquitous forms of land degradation worldwide. Although remote sensing and aerial photographs can supply valuable information on land/use cover changes, they may not regularly be available for some tropical ...
Nfotabong-Atheull, A., Din, N., Koum, L.G.E., Satyanarayana, B., Koedam, N., Dahdouh-Guebas, F.   +5 more
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Grasping at water: a gap‐oriented approach to bridging shortfalls in freshwater biodiversity conservation

Biological Reviews, Volume 100, Issue 5, Page 1970-1993, October 2025.
ABSTRACT Freshwater biodiversity is the fastest declining part of the global biota, threatened by multiple stressors including habitat loss and fragmentation, climate change, invasive species, water pollution, and abstraction by humans. A multitude of recent agenda‐setting publications have pointed out key objectives and goals for addressing this ...
Charles B. van Rees, Juergen Geist, Angela H. Arthington   +2 more
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The Role of Local Governments in Supporting Social Forestry Implementation in Indonesia: A Social Network Analysis and Evidence from Eastern Indonesia

Forest and Society
Social forestry has become an integral part of Indonesia's efforts to balance economic development, conservation of natural resources, and the well-being of local communities.
Sari Rahayu, Niken Sakuntaladewi, Bugi Kabul Sumirat, Tri Sulistyati Widyaningsih, Tri Rizkiana Yusnikusumah, Nurhaedah Muin, Achmad Rizal Hak Bisjoe   +6 more
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We Probably Thought That Would Be True: Perceiving Complex Emotional States in Nonhumans

Ethnobiology Letters, 2014
Review of:Do Fish Feel Pain? Victoria Braithwaite. 2010. Oxford University Press, New York. Pp. 256. $35.00 (hardcover). ISBN 9780199551200.How Animals Grieve. Barbara J. King. 2013. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. Pp. 208, 7 halftones.
Raymond Pierotti, Cynthia Annett
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Theoretical reflections on ethnobiology in the third millennium [PDF]

, 2015
Com en d'altres camps de l'activitat científica, l'etnobiologia s'ha diversificat considerablement al tombant del nou mil·lenni. A pesar dels esforços fets durant els últims anys, la disciplina encara dóna la impressió de trobar-se en la necessitat d ...
D'Ambrosio, Ugo
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Plants and traditional knowledge: An ethnobotanical investigation on Monte Ortobene (Nuoro, Sardinia) [PDF]

, 2009
Background Most of the traditional knowledge about plants and their uses is fast disappearing as a consequence of socio-economic and land use changes.
Maria Adele Signorini, Maddalena Piredda, Piero Bruschi, BF Benz, SE Shackleton, S Zent, I Camarda, AD Atzei, M Ballero, M Ballero, M Ballero, M Ballero, A Bruni, F De Martis Murranca, MC Loi, MT Palmese, A Maxia, AD Atzei, C Lombardini, S Pignatti, MA Signorini, J Tardìo, A Begossi, A Pieroni, B Berlin, S Atran, A Pieroni, J Tardìo, F Rovinetti, M Pardo-De-Santayana, G Lodi, F Camangi, M Ansaldi, RE Uncini Manganelli, G Giachetti   +34 more
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Farmers' social identity and crop genetic diversity. The G x E x S model [PDF]

, 2012
A better knowledge of factors organizing crop genetic diversity in situ increases the efficiency of diversity analyses and conservation strategies, and requires collaboration between social and biological disciplines.
Coppens D'Eeckenbrugge, Géo, Leclerc, Christian   +1 more
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Fataluku medicinal ethnobotany and the East Timorese military resistance [PDF]

, 2007
RefereedBackground: An ethnobotanical study of medicinal and poisonous plants used by the East Timor resistance was undertaken in the Lautem District of East Timor to study medicinal plant use in the region.
Collins, Sean WM, Martins, Xisto, Mitchell, Andrew, Teshome, Awegechew, Arnason, John T.   +4 more
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ETHNOBIOLOGY IN FOUR PHASES

Journal of Ethnobiology, 2007
I recognize four phases of ethnobiology: I, II, III, and IV. Ethnobiology I begins well before the formal naming of ethnobiology as a scholarly endeavor at the end of the 19th century. This initial phase has been widely characterized, albeit over simply, as essentially utilitarian.
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Ex-situ Documentation of Ethnobiology [PDF]

, 2014
Migrant speakers of endangered languages living in urban centers in developed countries represent a valuable resource through which these languages may be conveniently documented.
Lahe-Deklin, Francesca, Si, Aung
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