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Natural capital must be defended: green growth as neoliberal biopoliticsBackgroundOpen access copy available |
Smallholder bargaining power in large-scale land deals: a relational perspectiveBackgroundOpen access copy available |
Limits to Indigenous Participation: The Agta and the Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park, the PhilippinesBackgroundOpen access copy available |
Co-managers or co-residents? Indigenous peoples’ participation in the management of protected areas: a case study of the Agta in the PhilippinesBackgroundOpen access copy available |
Comparing Inductive and Deductive Modeling of Land Use Decisions: Principles, a Model and an Illustration from the PhilippinesBackgroundOpen access copy available |
The system dynamics of forest cover in the developing world: Researcher versus community perspectivesBackgroundOpen access copy available |
Between a rock and a hard place: The burdens of uncontrolled fire for smallholders across the tropicsBackgroundThe growing prevalence of uncontrolled tropical landscape fires significantly threatens tropical forests and causes substantial social and economic burdens. These burdens continue to be largely overlooked in favor of aggregate-scale losses like climate change and biodiversity, despite the severe local impacts on smallholder farming communities across the forested tropics. Furthermore, people often unfairly portray smallholders as the primary culprits of fire contagion due to their customary fire-based agricultural practices. This narrative is rooted in colonial-era condemnations. Open access copy available |
Community perceptions of long-term mangrove cover changes and its drivers from a typhoon-prone province in the PhilippinesBackgroundOpen access copy available |
The use of non-wood forest products by migrants in a new settlement: Experiences of a Visayan community in Palawan, PhilippinesBackgroundIn the early 20th century, Palawan, historically a sparsely populated island of the Philippines, became a “frontier,” attracting migrants from other Philippine islands who sought land ownership. Previous studies of migration to Palawan focused on the difficulties of converting forests to farmland and the subsequent hunger these migrants experienced. Despite coming from agricultural backgrounds, the predominantly Visayan migrants in Dumanguena, a village located south of the Palawan capital, Puerto Princesa, had to learn new skills related to the collection and use of non-wood forest products (NWFPs) in their new environment. Open access copy available |
Basin-Wide Effects of Game Harvest on Vertebrate Population Densities in Amazonian Forests: Implications for Animal-Mediated Seed DispersalBackgroundTropical forest ecosystems depend heavily on animal-plant interactions, particularly seed dispersal by vertebrates. However, widespread hunting in the Amazon has led to a significant decline in populations of many vertebrate species, especially large-bodied frugivores that are crucial for dispersing seeds of large-seeded plant species. While some vertebrate species are more sensitive to hunting than others, the cumulative impact of hunting across the Amazon basin remains poorly quantified. This study seeks to understand how subsistence hunting affects vertebrate populations and, by extension, the ecological services they provide, especially seed dispersal. Open access copy available |
