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Revista del Museo de Antropologia, 2009 Frecuentemente en el registro arqueofaunístico de sitios arqueológicos ubicados en la vertiente occidental de la puna de Atacama, es posible diferenciar un conjunto de camélidos grandes y otro de menor tamaño. En general, el grupo de camélidos grandes ha
Isabel Cartajena Fasting
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Ecosphere, 2023 Prey often induce antipredator behaviors when balancing food acquisition against safety. The starvation–predation hypothesis (SPH) posits that, during food shortages, the risk of starvation requires prey to forego antipredator behavior to increase ...
Francisco J. Molina +5 more
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Cahiers des Amériques Latines, 2022 Vicuñas and salt flats have been part of the biocultural heritage of the people living on the Altiplano since immemorial times. In recent decades, both common pool resources have undergone a commodification process for the extraction of lithium and ...
Rodrigo Azócar, Gabriela Lichtenstein
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Revista Colombiana de Antropología, 2020 Este trabajo explora la percepción sobre las vicuñas de los pobladores del oeste tinogaste-ño (Catamarca, Argentina) del pasado reciente (siglos XIX y XX).
Juan Pablo Miyano, Norma Ratto
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Livestock and the functional habitat of vicuñas in Ecuador: a new puzzle
Ecosphere, 2018 Whether interactions between wildlife and livestock are competitive or facilitative is context dependent. Intermediary factors that explain how context (seasonal or regional characteristics of the ecological community) affects these interactions are ...
Brian E. McLaren +2 more
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Energy balance of pregnant vicuñas (Vicugna vicugna) in the Chilean High Andes
Austral Journal of Veterinary Sciences, 2019 Energy unbalance may be the cause of low fertility rates found in vicuñas. The objective of this study was to estimate the temporal variation of the nutritional status in pregnant vicuñas from a herd kept under captivity in the Chilean High Andes.
Cecilia Norambuena +4 more
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Mountain Research and Development, 2020 Andean pastoralism, like other pastoral systems around the world, is under stress due to climate change, land tenure regimes, pressures to become sedentary, difficulties in interacting with market-based economies, isolation, and youth emigration.
Bibiana Vilá +2 more
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The Puna Pastoralist System: A Coproduced Landscape in the Central Andes
Mountain Research and Development, 2021 In mountain socioecological systems, the interaction between nature and people is at the core of planning local long-term sustainable development strategies. Pastoralism is the main traditional socioeconomic livelihood in dryland mountains.
Yanina Arzamendia +6 more
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Austral Journal of Veterinary Sciences, 2020 Twenty-one vicuñas (Vicugna vicugna) from a Chilean breeding unit were tested to serovars Pomona, Canicola, Copenhageni, Ballum and Grippotyphosa of Leptospira interrogans using the microscopic microagglutination technique.
Cecilia Norambuena +4 more
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Ecología Austral, 2013 El interés sobre los saberes etnobiológicos de los pueblos originarios se ha incrementado en las últimas décadas. La evidencia científica señala que dichos conocimientos pueden contribuir a la conservación de la biodiversidad, la preservación de áreas ...
Ana C. Wawrzyk
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