Global localism: Recentering the research agenda for biodiversity conservation

Medley, Kimberly E.; Kalibo, Humphrey W.

doi:10.1111/j.1477-8947.2007.00137.x

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“…It is intuitively plausible that human communities that inhabit ecosystems rich in species also use a high number of species, and several studies have demonstrated just such a relationship (e.g., Begossi 1996, Salick et al 1999, Begossi et al 2002, Ladio and Lozada 2003, Ladio and Lozada 2004, Medley and Kalibo 2007, Thomas et al 2008, de la Torre et al 2009). Other studies have emphasized social, cultural, socioeconomic, and geographical factors as the main controllers of the number of species used by human communities (Ladio and Lozada 2001, Vandebroek et al 2004, Byg et al 2007).…”

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confidence: 99%

A Biodiversity Informatics Approach to Ethnobotany: Meta-analysis of Plant Use Patterns in Ecuador

Torre¹,

Cerón²,

Balslev³

et al. 2012

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ABSTRACT. We explored the relative importance of ecosystem diversity, socioeconomic, environmental, and geographical factors in determining the pattern and diversity of people's plant use in Ecuador, based on existing ethnobotanic investigations and a large database of georeferenced plant collections. For each of 40 communities, we determined the number of plants used and their distribution among 12 use categories. Plant species richness of the ecosystem surrounding each village was determined using herbarium data and rarefaction. Variation in socioeconomic, environmental, and geographical indicator variables at the community level was summarized using Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Data were then analyzed using multiple regression and ordination analysis. We found a significant positive relationship between the number of plant species used and ecosystem species richness, whereas socioconomic, environmental, and geographical factors had no significance. However, ordination analysis did show a clear link among these factors and plant use patterns, i.e., the relative importance of different use categories. Study communities were divided into two groups: 1) Andean and coastal communities with better access to public services and markets categorized by high scores in these use classes: medicinal, social, food additives, environmental, apicolous (of economic interest in apiculture), and toxic to nonvertebrates; and 2) Amazonian remote communities with high scores for these use classes: food, fuel, materials, vertebrate and invertebrate food, and toxic to vertebrates. Our findings suggest that economic and social development affects plant use patterns in a selective way. Some traditional uses will persist despite increased infrastructure development and habitat disturbance, whereas others that reflect subsistence strategies dependent on conserved natural habitats may soon disappear. The study incorporates more than 20 years of ethnobotanical research effort and a combined herbarium specimen database with more than 250,000 georeferenced records. As such, it provides a first example of how a biodiversity informatics approach can be used to take ethnobotanical analysis to new and larger scales.

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A Biodiversity Informatics Approach to Ethnobotany: Meta-analysis of Plant Use Patterns in Ecuador

Torre¹,

Cerón²,

Balslev³

et al. 2012

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“…First, there has been a recent call in primatology to not exclude nonhuman primates living in human-modified habitats from our analyses [Chapman & Peres, 2001;Fuentes, 2006a]. This mirrors a broader call in conservation biology for greater scholarly engagement in interdisciplinary studies of human-influenced ecosystems [Bawa et al, 2004], as well as for scholars to move beyond a false compartmentalization of pristine vs. human-modified habitats [Medley & Kalibo, 2007] toward deeper examinations of how human social, cultural, and economic systems intersect with the ecological system [Robinson, 2006]. Second, conservationists are increasingly recognizing a mismatch between scientific research on wildlife, such as primates, and the information conservation practitioners actually need to better achieve conservation [Meijaard & Sheil, 2007].…”

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confidence: 93%

Conserving social–ecological systems in Indonesia: human–nonhuman primate interconnections in Bali and Sulawesi

Riley

Fuentes

2010

American J Primatol

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An important question asked by primatologists and conservationists alike is: what is the relevance of primates and primate conservation for ecosystem conservation? The goal of this article is to contribute to this dialogue by advocating the use of a research perspective that focuses on the dynamics of human-nonhuman primate sympatry and interaction (i.e., ethnoprimatology) in order to better understand complex social-ecological systems and to inform their conservation management. This perspective/approach is based largely on the recognition that human primates are important components of all ecological systems and that niche construction is a fundamental feature of their adaptive success. To demonstrate the relevance of the human-nonhuman primate interface for ecosystem conservation, we provide examples from our research from two islands in the Indonesian archipelago: Bali and Sulawesi. In Bali, humans and long-tail macaques coexist in a system that creates favorable environments for the macaques. This anthropogenic landscape and the economic and ecological relationships between humans and monkeys on Bali provide insight into sustainable systems of human/nonhuman primate coexistence. In Lore Lindu National Park in Central Sulawesi, villagers and Tonkean macaques overlap in their use of both forest and cultivated resources. The finding that the Arenga pinnata palm is extremely important for both villagers and macaques points to a conservation management recommendation that may help protect the overall ecosystem; the cultivation and propagation of mutually important tree species at forest-agricultural ecotone as a means to curb crop raiding and to alleviate farmer's perceived need to clear additional forest.

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“…More recently, local communities have moved off of Mount Kisagau's slopes down to its base. Despite a century of uprootedness, residents' lexicons retain the words to name and to describe the productivity and utility of many mountain plants, including those in the highland forest (Medley and Kalibo 2006).…”

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Forest History in East Africa's Eastern Arc Mountains: Biological Science and the Uses of History

Conte¹

2010

BioScience

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¡n this article, I argue that conservation science in its role of advocate for the natural world could profitably draw from site-speciflc histories that integrate huntan and natural histories. Both fields analyze the dynamic interaction of structure and process. In East Africa's Eastern Arc Mountains, where forests contain high levels of species endemism and biological diversity, the prevailing historical paradigm from conservation science represents today's forests as surviving fragments of much larger forests. This view builds upon a century-long tradition of scientific scholarship that has developed theories for the evolution of Eastern Arc forests that encompass geological time scales. However, the relatively brief millennialscale land-use history of the mountains, insofar as it is currently understood, suggests that human manipulation of forest biota involved periods of deforestation and regeneration, as well as the introduction of exotic plants.

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Global localism: Recentering the research agenda for biodiversity conservation

Cited by 19 publications

References 41 publications

A Biodiversity Informatics Approach to Ethnobotany: Meta-analysis of Plant Use Patterns in Ecuador

A Biodiversity Informatics Approach to Ethnobotany: Meta-analysis of Plant Use Patterns in Ecuador

Conserving social–ecological systems in Indonesia: human–nonhuman primate interconnections in Bali and Sulawesi

Forest History in East Africa's Eastern Arc Mountains: Biological Science and the Uses of History

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