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A geomorphometric analysis of Holocene Halimeda bioherms in the northern Great Barrier Reef was undertaken by combining high‐resolution 3D LiDAR bathymetry and 2D sub‐bottom profile datasets. The three bioherm morphotypes (termed annulate, reticulate and undulate) vary significantly in their surface topography, internal structure, volume, slope ...
Mardi A. McNeil +4 more
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A political ecological research orientation elucidates the effects of Miskito wage work in the Honduran lobster export industry. Miskito wage labor conserves local rain forest by displacing agricultural deforestation pressure into wages.
David J. Dodds
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Cartography, territory, property: postcolonial reflections on indigenous counter-mapping in Nicaragua and Belize [PDF]
The attention given to indigenous peoples' use of maps to make claims to land and rights of self-government raises the question: what exactly it is that these maps do?
Bryan, Joe, Wainwright, Joel
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"El tigre y la paloma": Una entrevista con Brooklyn Rivera
En Managua, el 23 de agosto del 2009, la antropóloga Laura Herlihy entrevistó al líder de Yatama y diputado en la asamblea nacional de Nicaragua, Brooklyn Rivera.
Laura Hobson de Herlihy
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Food sharing networks in lowland Nicaragua:An application of the social relations model to count data [PDF]
Previous research on food sharing in small-scale societies provides support for multiple evolutionary hypotheses, but evolutionary anthropologists have devoted relatively little attention to the broader relational context of inter-household transfers of ...
Koster, Jeremy M., Leckie, George
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Test of Precipitation, Compensation and Monday Effect Hypotheses on Group Hare Trapping Effort
Live trapping in combination with translocation of wild animals is an important tool in wildlife management, but drivers of human trapping activity are poorly understood. Here we test three hypotheses that have been proposed to describe and explain temporal variation in group hunting‐trapping effort.
Jan Hušek +2 more
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Socioecological Approaches for Combining Ecosystem‐Based and Customary Management in Oceania
This paper summarizes various integrated methodological approaches for studying Customary Management for the purpose of designing hybrid CM‐Ecosystem‐Based Management (EBM) systems in Oceania. Using marine conservation in the Western Solomon Islands as an example, the paper illustrates various interdisciplinary human ecological methods that can assist ...
Shankar Aswani, Robert J. Toonen
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Este artículo examina la manera en que un catequista católico miskito percibe las fiestas de Santo Domingo, un evento que debe ser comprendido como un ritual que enfatiza la humillación del santo, la perturbación de símbolos sagrados y la regeneración ...
Neisy Theodore Schwartz, Mark Jamieson
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Geochemistry and petrology of three granitoid rock cores from the Nicaraguan Rise, Caribbean Sea : implications for its composition, structure and tectonic evolution [PDF]
The Nicaraguan Rise is a major submarine structure of poorly known origin. Its lithologies have been studied from dredge hauls and land outcrops on the Greater Antilles and Central America and its structure from geophysical data. In this paper we present
Kamenov, G. +3 more
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Abstract Cultural and natural values form the core of World Heritage designation. Properties displaying both values, however, comprise a fraction of inscriptions (currently c. 3%) to the World Heritage List. In 1992, when that fraction stood at c. 5%, adoption of the popular ‘cultural landscapes’ category of cultural heritage in 1992 was therefore ...
Ryan J. Rabett
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