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Scotti, Cadoni
Common lands are known for the management problems they experience as well for their unique contributions to local communities cultural heritage. Forest knowledge and management of the commons represents a relevant component of this heritage that is…
Type: Document
Year: 2007
Way
This essay examines the work of wildlife biologist Herbert Stoddard, who came to the longleaf pine-grassland forests of south Georgia in 1924 to study the bobwhite quail, and stayed to develop a method of land management that stressed ecological…
Type: Document
Year: 2007
Kaufmann, Binkley, Fulé, Johnson, Stephens, Swetnam
There are varying definitions of old-growth forests because of differences in environment and differing fire influence across the Intermountain West. Two general types of forests reflect the role of fire: 1) forests shaped by natural changes in…
Type: Document
Year: 2007
Johnston, Jacups, Vickery, Bowman
The spread of industrial civilizations has been particularly traumatic for the last remaining hunter-gatherer societies. Manifestations of this include expatriation from ancestral lands, sickness, poverty, and environmental degradation. Northern…
Type: Document
Year: 2007
García-Montero, Manjón, Pascual, Garcia-Abril
Most studies on Tuber melanosporum fail to supply statistical data on carpophore production and other quantitative data associated with truffle ecology, such as the development of its burns (truffle production sites). During 7 years, we studied 208…
Type: Document
Year: 2007
Orians, Milewski
Australia, the flattest, driest, and geologically oldest vegetated continent, has a uniquely high proportion of nutrient-poor soils. We develop a ''Nutrient-Poverty/Intense-Fire Theory,'' which postulates that most anomalous features of organisms…
Type: Document
Year: 2007
Natcher, Calef, Huntington, Trainor, Huntington, DeWilde, Rupp, Chapin
Although wildfire has been central to the ecological dynamics of Interior Alaska for 5000 yr, the role of humans in this dynamic is not well known. As a multidisciplinary research team, together with native community partners, we analyzed patterns…
Type: Document
Year: 2007
Zong, Chen, Innes, Chen, Wang, Wang
The adoption of cereal cultivation was one of the most important cultural processes in history, marking the transition from hunting and gathering by Mesolithic foragers to the food-producing economy of Neolithic farmers. In the Lower Yangtze region…
Type: Document
Year: 2007
Murphy, Abrams, Daniel, Yazzie
Ecological and social factors shaped old-growth forests of the western United States before Euro-American settlement, and will, in large part, determine their future. In this article, we focus on the social factors that affected the forest's…
Type: Document
Year: 2007
Murphy, Abrams, Daniel, Yazzie
Ecological and social factors shaped old-growth forests of the western United States before Euro-American settlement, and will, in large part, determine their future. In this article, we focus on the social factors that affected the forest's…
Type: Document
Year: 2007