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MEANINGS OF WATER FOR THE FAKCHA LLAKTA INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY OF OTAVALO, ECUADOR [PDF]
Ambiente & Sociedade, 2018 Water is a multidimensional element for the indigenous communities of the Andean highlands. The Kichwa community Fakcha Llakta, of Otavalo, Ecuador has a close relationship with the existing water bodies in their territory. However, traditional knowledge
CARMEN AMELIA TRUJILLO +3 more
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 1, Page 353-364, January 2026.Cassava is a lifeline for millions of people across the tropics, but its productivity is at risk from a disease called Cassava Bacterial Blight (CBB). In this study, we explore how the everyday practices of farmers exchanging cassava cuttings—a long‐standing tradition—can shape how the disease spreads and evolves in the Colombian Caribbean.
Darío Pérez +7 more
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Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, Volume 35, Issue 12, December 2025.ABSTRACT The neotropical otter Lontra longicaudis (Olfers, 1818) is a semi‐aquatic carnivore from the Mustelidae family with a piscivorous habit that interacts with riverine populations because of fishing resources, and this relationship is often negative, especially in the Amazon where fishing represents an important activity for several communities ...
Dayse Souza Marques +4 more
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The “Guamúchil” cultivation in a Mexican cultural landscape: A wild food source for people and birds
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2022 Indigenous management of biocultural resources can influence behavior of non-target animals. Hence, identifying shared resources between indigenous communities and fauna is essential to understand the ecological relationships that occur within cultural ...
Rubén Ortega-Álvarez +2 more
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The Problem of Scale in Indigenous Knowledge: a Perspective from Northern Australia [PDF]
, 2009 Over the last decade, indigenous knowledge has been widely touted by researchers and natural resource managers as a valuable contributor to natural resource management and biodiversity conservation.
Wohling, Marc
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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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Construction of an Yucatec Maya soil classification and comparison with the WRB framework [PDF]
, 2010 Background Mayas living in southeast Mexico have used soils for millennia and provide thus a good example for understanding soil-culture relationships and for exploring the ways indigenous people name and classify the soils of their territory. This paper
Francisco Bautista, J Alfred Zinck
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Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 40, Issue 6, Page 1070-1096, August 2025.ABSTRACT The first high‐resolution reconstruction of the vegetation and environmental changes during the last ca 13 300 cal a BP in the central part of the Kola Peninsula (NW Russia) was reconstructed based on sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) metabarcoding on sediment core Co1410 from Lake Imandra.
Anastasia Poliakova +5 more
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Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo, 2007 O conhecimento indígena sobre a pedodiversidade é o objeto principal da etnopedologia. Nesse sentido, a tradição agrícola e cultural dos índios Uapixana, do tronco lingüístico Aruaque, em Roraima, constitui relevante acervo imaterial de valor ...
José Frutuoso do Vale Jr. +2 more
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Ethnobotany: A new discipline [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2006 The beginnings of ethnobotanical investigations, viewed through the prism of time, are deemed to belong to the first explorers and adventurers of the Old Continent.
Grubišić Ivana
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