Pub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-01-25DOI: 10.1007/s10745-025-00572-2
Charles A Emogor, Daniel J Ingram, Andrew Balmford, Robert J Fletcher, Diane Detoeuf, Ben Balmford, Dan O Agbor, Lauren Coad
Hunting wild animals for food and income, which is pervasive across tropical regions, drives biodiversity loss. Interventions to promote sustainable wild meat harvesting require information on hunter behavior. Here we monitored the hunting activities of 33 hunters in SE Nigeria over three years (1,106 hunter-months) to identify correlates of (a) the probability of initiating a hunting trip on any given day; (b) trip success - whether an animal was caught, and if so, how many; and (c) carcass price. We found a higher probability of initiating a trip during periods with bright moon phases and in peak agriculture season. Hunters were more likely to catch at least one animal when there was less rainfall and on shorter hunting trips. However, among successful trips, the number of animals caught increased with trip duration. Taken together, these results suggest hunters set themselves a minimum target of not returning empty-handed rather than optimally adjusting their hunting effort. Lastly, the carcass price per kilogram of a species' meat increased with its palatability but decreased with mass, with the fall in price observed to be greater for rarely caught, smaller-bodied animals than more frequently caught animals. Our results provide deeper insights into the behavioral plasticity of wild meat hunters.
Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10745-025-00572-2.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2025-01-13DOI: 10.1007/s10745-024-00554-w
Matthew J Jacobson, Alison L Gascoigne, Dominik Fleitmann
The Sasanian Empire (224-651 CE) has been given relatively little attention in research on climate-society interactions when compared to the neighboring Byzantine Empire, despite evidence of changing conditions and an agricultural economy that is theoretically vulnerable to droughts due to low annual precipitation. We review the available historical, archaeological, paleo-environmental, and paleo-climatic evidence to assess whether climatic conditions factored into periods of Sasanian growth and decline. We find evidence for drier conditions across Sasanian territories at the turn of the sixth century, a pattern that extends to the Aegean, Anatolia, and Central Asia. These same conditions contributed to a significant decline for the nearby Kingdom of Himyar but occurred alongside a period of expansion and intensification for the Sasanian Empire. We suggest that a combination of careful management of water infrastructure, including qanats, which can conserve water resources during dry periods, and land-use strategies that are both diverse and flexible, may have mitigated the worst impacts of this dry period. However, we note several weaknesses in the available data that still hinder confident interpretations of the potential impacts of climate change in the Sasanian Empire. Notably, there are gaps in the coverage of paleo-hydrological records and a complete lack of terrestrial paleo-temperature records in the region, as well as low resolution and high chronological uncertainties in the archaeological and paleo-environmental evidence.
Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10745-024-00554-w.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-20DOI: 10.1007/s10745-023-00465-2
F. Zorondo-Rodríguez, Nicolás A. Gómez-Fernández, Arthur Bondoux, Amanda Alfonso, Gabriela Carrasco-Oliva, Francisco Abasolo, Gloria Rodríguez-Gómez, Meredith Root-Bernstein, Claude A. Garcia
{"title":"Where Forest Policy and Social Support Collide: Perceptions and Knowledge of Landholders About Forest Management in Central Chile","authors":"F. Zorondo-Rodríguez, Nicolás A. Gómez-Fernández, Arthur Bondoux, Amanda Alfonso, Gabriela Carrasco-Oliva, Francisco Abasolo, Gloria Rodríguez-Gómez, Meredith Root-Bernstein, Claude A. Garcia","doi":"10.1007/s10745-023-00465-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-023-00465-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13192,"journal":{"name":"Human Ecology","volume":"96 19","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138954122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-20DOI: 10.1007/s10745-023-00464-3
R. Merven, C. Appadoo, F. B. V. Florens, P. Iranah
{"title":"Dependency on Mangroves Ecosystem Services is Modulated by Socioeconomic Drivers and Socio-Ecological Changes – Insights From a Small Oceanic island","authors":"R. Merven, C. Appadoo, F. B. V. Florens, P. Iranah","doi":"10.1007/s10745-023-00464-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-023-00464-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13192,"journal":{"name":"Human Ecology","volume":"12 15","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138994359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-16DOI: 10.1007/s10745-023-00454-5
T. I. Castillo, C. Baigún, M. Trimble
{"title":"An Assessment of Small-scale Fisheries of the Paraná River Delta Through the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach","authors":"T. I. Castillo, C. Baigún, M. Trimble","doi":"10.1007/s10745-023-00454-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-023-00454-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13192,"journal":{"name":"Human Ecology","volume":"43 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138967757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-16DOI: 10.1007/s10745-023-00467-0
Marcela Alvares Oliveira, H. E. El Bizri, T. Morcatty, Franciany Braga‐Pereira, Julia E. Fa, Malu Messias, Carolina Rodrigues da Costa Doria
{"title":"The Role of Religion, Wealth, and Livelihoods in the Hunting Practices of Urban and Rural Inhabitants in Western Amazonia","authors":"Marcela Alvares Oliveira, H. E. El Bizri, T. Morcatty, Franciany Braga‐Pereira, Julia E. Fa, Malu Messias, Carolina Rodrigues da Costa Doria","doi":"10.1007/s10745-023-00467-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-023-00467-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13192,"journal":{"name":"Human Ecology","volume":"20 s8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138967437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-13DOI: 10.1007/s10745-023-00455-4
V. Nazari, Sofia Belardinelli, A. Pieroni, R. Motti, A. Chiarucci, G. D. Bisol, Giorgio Vacchiano, Eugenio Bortolini, Massimo Mezzavilla, Luigi Garaffa, Dietelmo Pievani
{"title":"Biocultural Diversity in Italy","authors":"V. Nazari, Sofia Belardinelli, A. Pieroni, R. Motti, A. Chiarucci, G. D. Bisol, Giorgio Vacchiano, Eugenio Bortolini, Massimo Mezzavilla, Luigi Garaffa, Dietelmo Pievani","doi":"10.1007/s10745-023-00455-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-023-00455-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13192,"journal":{"name":"Human Ecology","volume":"176 S420","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139006180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-08DOI: 10.1007/s10745-023-00458-1
Muhammad Habib, Kazuhiro Harada
{"title":"Alternative Approach for the Inclusion of Local Communities in Forest Conservation with an Increased Local Livelihood Through Local NGOs Project of Arabica Coffee Plantations in Kerinci, Indonesia","authors":"Muhammad Habib, Kazuhiro Harada","doi":"10.1007/s10745-023-00458-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-023-00458-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13192,"journal":{"name":"Human Ecology","volume":"19 25","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138589202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-07DOI: 10.1007/s10745-023-00463-4
Qing-xiong Ba, Hong-Zen Wang, Mei-Hsiang Wang
{"title":"Agrobiodiversity, Social Institutions, and Indigenous Farming Practices: A Case Study of the Rukai in Wutai, Taiwan","authors":"Qing-xiong Ba, Hong-Zen Wang, Mei-Hsiang Wang","doi":"10.1007/s10745-023-00463-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-023-00463-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13192,"journal":{"name":"Human Ecology","volume":"31 16","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138594414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-06DOI: 10.1007/s10745-023-00457-2
Nittya S. M. Simard, T. Militz, J. Kinch, P. Southgate
{"title":"Consumption of Mollusks and Potential Utilization of Resulting Shell Wastes for Shellcraft within a Pacific Islands Context","authors":"Nittya S. M. Simard, T. Militz, J. Kinch, P. Southgate","doi":"10.1007/s10745-023-00457-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-023-00457-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13192,"journal":{"name":"Human Ecology","volume":"51 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138596221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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