Anthropogenic landscape in southeastern Amazonia: Contemporary impacts of low-intensity harvesting and dispersal of Brazil nuts by the Kayapó indigenous people

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Ribeiro, Maria Beatriz N ^a   Jerozolimski, Adriano ^b   De Robert, Pascale ^c,d   Salles, Nilson V ^b   Kayapó, Biribiri ^b   Pimentel, Tania P ^a   Magnusson, William E ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b Associação Floresta Protegida AFP   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^d MUSEU PARAENSE EMÍLIO GOELDI   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; ARTICLE; BOLIVIA; BRAZIL; BRAZIL NUT; COLOMBIA; FRENCH GUIANA; GUYANA; HARVESTING; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERU; PLANT GROWTH; SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDLING; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VENEZUELA; BERTHOLLETIA; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISPERSAL; PLANT SEED; POPULATION GROUP;

BERTHOLLETIA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; PLANT DISPERSAL; POPULATION GROUPS; SEEDLING; SEEDS;

EID: 84904324023     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0102187     Document Type: Article

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