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“Is This Edible Anyway?” The Impact of Culture on the Evolution (and Devolution) of Mushroom Knowledge

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Mushrooms are a ubiquitous and essential component in our biological environment and have been of interest to humans around the globe for millennia. Knowledge about mushrooms represents a prime example of cumulative culture, one of the key processes in human evolution.
Andrea Bender, Åge Oterhals
wiley   +1 more source

Governing maximum reindeer numbers in Fennoscandia [Elektronisk resurs]

open access: yes, 2022
This chapter examines the complexities and challenges in state governance of the maximum permitted number of reindeer in Finland, Norway and Sweden. The common findings regarding the three countries are that (1) maximum permitted numbers of reindeer set ...
Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Direct Interaction Between Roe Deer and Mountain Hare, a Case of Interference Encounter Competition?

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 6, June 2026.
Here, we report on a case of direct interaction between a roe deer doe and a mountain hare recorded by a camera trap in Tydal Municipality, Norway, suggestive of direct interference competition. The roe deer doe is following and displacing the mountain hare for at least 2 min and 29 s, including a 19 s active phase.
Simen Pedersen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reindeer Herding and History in the Mountains of Southern Sápmi

open access: yesCurrent Swedish Archaeology, 2002
During the summers of 1998-2000 four Saami villages in southern Sapmi carried out a survey of traditional reindeer herding sites. Reindeer herding of today engages a small Saami minority, but the reindeer herders are important as bearers of Saami ...
Britta Wennstedt Edvinger
doaj   +1 more source

Warming summers limit reindeer grazing, weakening herbivory pressure in the mountain tundra

open access: yesEcography, Volume 2026, Issue 6, June 2026.
Climate change is predicted to alter species interactions by exposing ecosystems to increasingly frequent and intense warm spells. In the mountain tundra, grazing by large herbivores, particularly reindeer, can limit shrub expansion and preserve Arctic plant diversity.
Marianne Stoessel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mental health problems among the Swedish reindeer-herding Sami population [Elektronisk resurs] : in perspective of intersectionality, organisational culture and acculturation

open access: yes, 2011
The overall objective of the thesis was to investigate aspects of mental health among Swedish Sami reindeer herders and to deepen the understanding of the experience of the living conditions of young Sami reindeer-herding men.
Salander Renberg, Ellinor,   +3 more
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Central planning, market and subsistence from a tundra perspective: Field experience with reindeer herders in the Kola Peninsula

open access: yesRangifer, 2002
This paper is based on field experience in the tundra camp of a reindeer-herding brigade with mixed ethnic background (Komi, Sami, Nenets, Russians) belonging to the ex-Sovkhoz of Krasnoschelie.
Dessislav Sabev
doaj   +1 more source

Impacts of reindeer grazing on phosphorus sorption and nutrient availability in a tundra site

open access: yesOikos, Volume 2026, Issue 6, June 2026.
Reindeer Rangifer tarandus, a large circumpolar herbivore, can influence whether nitrogen (N) or phosphorus (P) is the primary limiting nutrient in tundra plant communities. Specifically, findings from a site in northern Scandinavia suggest that under conditions where reindeer grazing stimulates inorganic N availability, grazing may drive ecosystems ...
Jerzy Szejgis   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reindeer talk : Sámi reindeer herding and nature management

open access: yes, 2006
The objects of study are the Wilderness Area Planning Projects in North Western Lapland (Finland). They are examined as cases of implementing nature management in practice adapting the global ideas of environmentalism and national objectives and ...
Heikkilä, Lydia
core  

Development of Reindeer Herding in the North of Yakutia in 1990-ies: Quantitative Indicators

open access: yesНаучный диалог, 2017
The article, prepared with the financial support of Russian State Scientific Foundation (RGNF) within the project No. 17-11-14003, the attempt is made to characterize the general situation of reindeer herding in the first post-Soviet period on the basis ...
Y. M. Sannikova
doaj   +1 more source

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