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Parallels and discrepancies between non‐native species introductions and human migration

open access: yesBiological Reviews, Volume 100, Issue 3, Page 1365-1395, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Biological invasions and human migrations have increased globally due to socio‐economic drivers and environmental factors that have enhanced cultural, economic, and geographic connectivity. Both processes involve the movement, establishment, and spread of species, yet unfold within fundamentally different philosophical, social and biological ...
Danish A. Ahmed   +38 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Model of Mountain Social‐Ecological Systems to Catalyze Multi‐Actor Collaborations Toward Sustainability

open access: yesEarth's Future, Volume 13, Issue 4, April 2025.
Abstract Addressing sustainability challenges in mountain regions where human activities strongly overlap requires multi‐actor collaboration and interdisciplinary methods. Yet, such collaborative processes need to account for the existence of diverse representations of mountain social‐ecological systems amongst actors.
H. Cristofari   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The house is coming from inside the call

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 1, Page 208-219, March 2025.
Abstract You are reading the first sentence of this essay. In fact, outside of this abstract and a brief introduction, there are only first sentences in this essay, all collected from anthropology monographs and articles. Anthropology is a promiscuous discipline, but there are only about half a dozen ways to begin an anthropology essay.
Lachlan Summers
wiley   +1 more source

Challenging elite environmentalism: Stories from Brazil and India

open access: yesGeo: Geography and Environment, Volume 12, Issue 1, January‐June 2025.
Abstract Elite environmentalism is inspired by Malthusian overpopulation scenarios, advocating for authoritarian action through top‐down conservation policies and celebrating ecomodernist climate adaptation/mitigation projects. In doing so, hegemonic mainstream environmentalism (HME) fails to address its colonial, authoritarian, saviorist foundations ...
Ritodhi Chakraborty, Aline Carrara
wiley   +1 more source

The Indigenous Range of the Tiger (Panthera tigris)

open access: yesDiversity and Distributions, Volume 31, Issue 1, January 2025.
ABSTRACT Aim Indigenous range maps are fundamental documents in biogeography, phylogeny and conservation. We define the indigenous range of a species as ecoregions (or parts of ecoregions) where the species was likely found before humans became a major factor shaping the species' distribution, beginning at a time when the geographical alignment of the ...
Eric W. Sanderson   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Habitat Occupancy of the Critically Endangered Chinese Pangolin (Manis pentadactyla) Under Human Disturbance in an Urban Environment: Implications for Conservation

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 14, Issue 12, December 2024.
This study analyzed detection probability and habitat occupancy of Chinese Pangolin using single‐season occupancy modeling. The number of termites mounds increases detection probability, while Human Disturbance Index (HDI) decreases the habitat occupancy.
Asmit Subba   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ethnonyms and Other-Nyms: Linguistic Anthropology among the Thangmi of Nepal

open access: yesProceedings of the Ninth Seminar of the IATS, 2000. Volume 9: Territory and Identity in Tibet and the Himalayas, 2002
This article situates the Thangmi ethnic group of Dolakhð and Sindhupðlcok districts of eastern Nepal in the ongoing multidisciplinary debate on territory and identity in Tibet and the Himalayas. To date, this regional discussion has focused on issues of
Ma Cambridge, Mark Turin
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Crossing and Questioning Boundaries: Five Influential Books in Mahayana/East Asian Buddhism

open access: yes
Religious Studies Review, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 333-336, June 2025.
Matthew Mitchell
wiley   +1 more source

Optimal foraging on the roof of the world: Himalayan langurs and the classical prey model.

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2009
K. Sayers   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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