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Impacts of Slash-and-Burn Cultivation on the Soil and Vegetation of the Atlantic Forest in Southeastern Brazil
Conflicts among transnational enterprises, full protection conservation units, and slash-and-burn agriculturalists have historically centered on...
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Coastal Forest Fisheries, Estuarine Livelihoods, and Human Well-being in Southern Puerto Rico
Estuaries and coastal forests, including the coastal fisheries they support, are among the most biodiverse and productive ecosystems on Earth. In...
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Functional connectivity supported by forest conservation in urban sprawl landscape in São Paulo, Brazil
The rapid transformation of natural environments is driven by urban sprawl for a growing human population, mainly characterized by peri-urbanization...
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First Archaeological Excavations Along the Atlantic Ocean Coastline of the Democratic Republic of Congo: The Iron Age Sites at Muanda
AbstractThis article reports on new archaeological data obtained in 2018 from the coastal region of the Kongo Central province of the Democratic...
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Pre-Columbian Mounds Harbor Distinctive Forest Communities in the Southern Campos of American Pampas
Located in the southern Campos of the Pampa biome, Uruguay is one of the least forested countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. In the eastern...
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Archaeological Research in the Canary Islands: Island Archaeology off Africa’s Atlantic Coast
Island archaeology is a well-established field within the wider discipline, but African contributions to it remain scarce. The Canary Islands are...
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A Comparison of Early-European Settlement and Present-Day Species Mingling Patterns in the Eastern Deciduous Forest, USA
Mingling indices describe whether an individual tree is more likely to grow near others of the same or different species. We examined whether changes...
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Drivers of vulnerability to climate change and adaptive responses of forest-edge farming households in major agro-ecological zones of Nigeria
An understanding of forest communities’ risk factors for climate variation, adaptation trajectories, and how agroecological differences shape their...
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Forest and Agricultural Dynamics in the Haouz Plain Over the Last Millennium: Archaeobotanical and Isotopic Research at Aghmat (Morocco)
Over the last millennium, the town of Aghmat (Morocco) has undergone major socio-economic changes, raising the question of how these transformations...
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Land Cover Change in a Ghanaian Sacred Forest
Sacred natural sites can be defined as any place in nature possessing a unique spiritual significance to peoples and communities. This chapter...
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The Onset of Deep-Water Fishing in Southern Brazil
Coastal fisheries contributed substantially to population growth and complex forms of social organisation in eastern South America in pre-European...
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Livelihood transitions and social wellbeing on the Atlantic Forest Coast of Brazil
Globalised change is driving transitions in small-scale tropical fisheries away from natural resource-based livelihoods towards wage labour that...
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Traditional Erva-mate Production Systems: How Historical Ecology and Environmental History Can Inform Local and Global Approaches to Ecosystem Restoration
Family farmers who continue to use traditional erva-mate agroforestry production systems in the Iguaçu River valley in Southern Brazil have a unique...
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Part Two. The Maternal ≠ {Mother + Child}: Relational Ontology and the Mattering of Black Lives (Planetary Futures)
This chapter proposes that the 25 million slaves exported from subSaharan Africa and trafficked in and across the Atlantic brought with them a...
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Charcoal Production, Social Invisibility and the Genesis of a Landscape in the Pedra Branca Massif (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
The association of different approaches, such as Environmental Archaeology, Anthracology, Historical Ecology, Plant Ecology, and Landscape...
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Spitzkloof A Rockshelter, South Africa
Spitzkloof A Rockshelter (28.863° S, 17.077° E) is currently located 30 km due south of the Orange River and 30 km inland from the Atlantic Ocean, in...
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A spatially explicit model of European colonization timing on the American ecosystems based on foundation dates of cities
Based on the foundation dates of cities, we developed a spatial model of European colonization timing for the Americas, a major social-ecological...
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The Impact of Magdalenian Hunter-Gatherers on Their Environment
Anthropological and ethnographic research has shown the influence of climate and resource distribution on hunter-gatherer lifestyle. As a result, an...
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Ancient Transformation, Current Conservation: Traditional Forest Management on the Iriri River, Brazilian Amazonia
Legislation governing strict-protection nature reserves in Brazil in principle precludes human habitation, but virtually all Amazon reserves are...
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Creation of Cultural Landscapes – Decision-Making and Perception Within Specific Ecological Settings
This chapter starts with a theoretical introduction to the concept of the creation and perception of cultural landscapes. Niche construction theory...