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Caatinga revisited: ecology and conservation of an important seasonal dry forest. [PDF]

ScientificWorldJournal, 2012
Besides its extreme climate conditions, the Caatinga (a type of tropical seasonal forest) hosts an impressive faunal and floristic biodiversity. In the last 50 years there has been a considerable increase in the number of studies in the area. Here we aimed to present a review of these studies, focusing on four main fields: vertebrate ecology, plant ...
de Albuquerque UP, de Lima Araújo E, El-Deir AC, de Lima AL, Souto A, Bezerra BM, Ferraz EM, Maria Xavier Freire E, Sampaio EV, Las-Casas FM, de Moura GJ, Pereira GA, de Melo JG, Alves Ramos M, Rodal MJ, Schiel N, de Lyra-Neves RM, Alves RR, de Azevedo-Júnior SM, Telino Júnior WR, Severi W.   +20 more
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Future aspects of insects’ ingestion in Malaysia and Indonesia for human well-being and religion regulation

Future Foods, 2023
Current trends have demonstrated increasing interest in maintaining and improving the state of human well-being. Natural resources, mainly plants, have been constantly used and studied for producing food and pharmaceutical products with beneficial ...
Nurul Syazwani Ahmad Sabri, Muhammad Imran Firdaus Kamardan, Shi Xuan Wong, Nadia Farhana Azman, Fazrena Nadia Md Akhir, Nor'azizi Othman, Norkumala Awang, Yutaka Kuroki, Hirofumi Hara   +8 more
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Utilização alimentícia e medicinal de Pachymerus nucleorum Fabricius (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae) no Brasil

Entomology Beginners, 2022
Após a primeira edição do Congresso Brasileiro de Insetos Alimentícios e Tecnologias Associadas e II Simpósio Brasileiro de Antropoentomofagia (INSETEC), percebeu-se a necessidade de enaltecer os insetos comestíveis do Brasil.
Gabriel Vannozzi Brito, Eraldo Medeiros Costa-Neto   +1 more
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Uncovering Ethnoentomological Knowledge: A Semantic Analysis of Hyponyms of Insects in Bagobo Language

, 2023
: Many insects discovered in nature have names given by indigenous groups of people, which replicate their culture and environment. It is vital to keep records of these insect terminologies and introduce them to the community's younger generations. This study explored the Bagobo- Tagabawa ethnoentomology through linguistic analysis and phenomenology ...
Hernan, Jenny T., Tarusan, Mary Ann E.
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Cricket singing means rain: semiotic meaning of insects in the district of Pedra Branca, Bahia State, northeastern Brazil

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2006
This paper deals with the semiotic meanings which are given both to the appearance and/or behavior of insect species according to the ethnoentomological knowledge of the inhabitants of the village of Pedra Branca, Bahia State, Brazil. Data were collected
Eraldo M. Costa Neto
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Insects as food and feed: European perspectives on recent research and future priorities [PDF]

, 2016
This paper discusses the current state and priorities of Europe-based research on insects as food and feed, based on presentations at a workshop held in December 2015, and discussions that followed.
Doberman, D, Doberman, D, Forkes, AD, Forkes, AD, House, J, House, J, Josephs, J, Josephs, J, McBride, A, McBride, A, Mueller, A, Mueller, A, Payne, C, Payne, C, Quilliam, R, Quilliam, R, Soares, S, Soares, S   +17 more
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Multi-dimensionality and variability in folk classification of stingless bees (Apidae: Meliponini) [PDF]

, 2015
Background: Not long ago Eugene Hunn suggested using a combination of cognitive, linguistic, ecological and evolutionary theories in order to account for the dynamic character of ethnoecology in the study of folk classification systems.
A Begossi, A Tversky, AE Izquierdo, AJG Morse, AK Romney, B Berlin, B Berlin, B Berlin, CE Reboratti, CH Brown, CH Brown, CH Brown, CJ Brown, CK Starr, D Santos-Fita, DA Posey, DA Posey, E Dinerstein, E Hunn, E Rosch, E Rosch, E Rosch, EM Costa Neto, F Zamudio, F Zamudio, F Zamudio, F Zamudio, F Zamudio, FA Silveira, Fernando Zamudio, G Forth, G Schiavoni, IJ Davidson-Hunt, J Tournon, JA Crespo, JLC Cifuentes-Honrubia, JM Nolan, JS Boster, JS Boster, JS Boster, JS Mourão, JW Bentley, K Demps, K Lenko, K Ohmagari, MC Robbins, MV Cebolla-Badie, NJ Turner, Norma I. Hilgert, PM Gardner, RE MacLaury, RH Bernard, S Atran, SG Newmaster, SR Witkowski, T Hays, T Hays, T Hays, TN Headland, U Sutrop, V Reyes-García   +60 more
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Aspectos ecoetnoentomológicos e socioeconômicos da atividade apícola no município de Cuité-PB

Revista Principia, 2018
Bees play a key role in the pollination process of several plant species. There are approximately 20 thousand species of bees described, among them, those of the genus Apis are the ones that stand out the most in pollination and that is why they are so ...
Joédson Rocha Dantas, Frederico Campos Pereira, Luciano Pacelli Medeiros Macedo   +2 more
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Evolution and Devolution of Knowledge: A Tale of Two Biologies [PDF]

, 2004
Anthropological inquiry suggests that all societies classify animals and plants in similar ways. Paradoxically, in the same cultures that have seen large advances in biological science, citizenry's practical knowledge of nature has dramatically ...
Atran, Scott, Medin, Douglas, Ross, Norbert   +2 more
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Medicinal use of insects in the county of Pedra Branca, Santa Terezinha, Bahia, Brazil [PDF]

Biotemas, 2005
This paper deals with the use of insects as medicinal resources by inhabitants of the county of Pedra Branca, which is located in the interior of Bahia State, northeastern Brazil.
Josué Marques Pacheco, Eraldo Medeiros Costa Neto   +1 more
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