Human Ecology

Papers
(The median citation count of Human Ecology is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Converting Home Spaces into Food Gardens at the Time of Covid-19 Quarantine: all the Benefits of Plants in this Difficult and Unprecedented Period61
“We Became Rich and We Lost Everything”: Ethnobotany of Remote Mountain Villages of Abruzzo and Molise, Central Italy24
What Is Secondary about Secondary Tropical Forest? Rethinking Forest Landscapes23
Social Participation in Forest Restoration Projects: Insights from a National Assessment in Mexico21
Addressing Social-Ecological Systems across Temporal and Spatial Scales: a Conceptual Synthesis for Ethnobiology19
Socioeconomic Factors Determining Extraction of Non-timber Forest Products on the Slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania18
Biocultural Diversity Loss: the Decline of Native Stingless Bees (Apidae: Meliponini) and Local Ecological Knowledge in Michoacán, Western México17
The Rise and Fall of Wiñaymarka: Rethinking Cultural and Environmental Interactions in the Southern Basin of Lake Titicaca16
Farmers’ Perceptions as a Driver of Agricultural Practices: Understanding Soil Fertility Management Practices in Cocoa Agroforestry Systems in Cameroon15
Conservation through Traditional Knowledge: a Review of Research on the Sacred Groves of Odisha, India15
Traditional Uses of Medicinal Plants in Artuklu, Turkey13
Shifting Strategies between Generations in Sami Reindeer Husbandry: the Challenges of Maintaining Traditions while Adapting to a Changing Context13
It’s Our Fault: A Global Comparison of Different Ways of Explaining Climate Change13
Do Large-Scale Forestry Companies Generate Prosperity in Indigenous Communities? The Socioeconomic Impacts of Tree Plantations in Southern Chile12
Attitudes towards Wildlife Consumption inside and outside Hubei Province, China, in Relation to the SARS and COVID-19 Outbreaks12
Engaging Transformation: Using Seasonal Rounds to Anticipate Climate Change11
Clapping with Two Hands: Transforming Gender Relations and Zoonotic Disease Risks through Community Conversations in Rural Ethiopia11
The Development and Growth of Non-Governmental Conservation in Peru: Privately and Communally Protected Areas10
“Wisdom of the Elders” or “Loss of Experience” as a Mechanism to Explain the Decline in Traditional Ecological Knowledge: A Case Study on Awaji Island, Japan10
Secondary Forests and Agrarian Transitions: Insights from Nepal and Peru10
Landscape Engineering Impacts the Long-Term Stability of Agricultural Populations10
Ecosystem Service Provision by Secondary Forests in Shifting Cultivation Areas Remains Poorly Understood9
Most Cultural Importance Indices Do Not Predict Species’ Cultural Keystone Status9
Mechanisms and Causal Histories: Explanation-Oriented Research in Human Ecology9
Mothering the Orphaned Pup: The Beginning of a Domestication Process in the Upper Palaeolithic9
Social Dimensions in Designing and Managing Marine Protected Areas in Bangladesh9
Fire Suppression and the Wildfire Paradox in Contemporary China: Policies, Resilience, and Effects in Chinese Fire Regimes8
Land Use Changes Assessment using a triangulated framework: Perception Interviews, Land-Use/Land Cover Observation, and Spatial Planning Analysis in Tanjung Batu and Derawan Island, Indonesia8
Perceptions of Local Vulnerability and the Relative Importance of Climate Change in Rural Ecuador8
Large Differences in Livelihood Responses and Outcomes to Increased Conservation Enforcement in a Protected Area8
A Qualitative Study on How Perceptions of Environmental Changes are Linked to Migration in Morocco, Senegal, and DR Congo8
Where Policy and Culture Collide: Perceptions and Responses of Swidden Farmers to the Burn Ban in West Kalimantan, Indonesia8
Comparative Study of Territoriality across Forager Societies7
Revisiting Optimal Foraging Theory (OFT) in a Changing Amazon: Implications for Conservation and Management7
Eco-Symbiotic Complementarity and Trading Networks of Natural Resources in Nahua Communities in Mountain Regions of Mexico7
The Production and Destruction of Forests through the Lens of Landesque Capital Accumulation7
Land-use and Land-cover Changes in Pastoral Drylands: Long-term Dynamics, Economic Change, and Shifting Socioecological Frontiers in Baringo, Kenya7
Alternative Conservation Paradigms and Ecological Knowledge of Small-Scale Artisanal Fishers in a Changing Marine Scenario in Argentina7
Domestication Through Dingo Eyes: An Australian Perspective on Human-Canid Interactions Leading to the Earliest Dogs7
Natural or Semi-natural Landscape Features as Indicator of Biocultural Value: Observations from Slovakia7
Stakeholder Values Inform Indigenous Peoples’ Governance and Management of a Former National Park in New Zealand7
The Social and Cultural Importance of Keeping Wild Birds as Pets in an Ethnic Community in Guiyang City, China7
Linking Fisher Perceptions to Social-Ecological Context: Mixed Method Application of the SES Framework in Costa Rica7
Three decades of pastoralist settlement dynamics in the Ethiopian Omo Delta based on remote sensing data7
"The Mangrove is Like a Friend": Local Perspectives of Mangrove Cultural Ecosystem Services Among Mangrove Users in Northern Ecuador7
A Deliberative Model for Preserving the Diversity of Lebanese Traditional Fermented Food and Beverages6
Measuring Small Island Disaster Resilience Towards Sustainable Coastal and Fisheries Tourism: The Case of Guimaras, Philippines6
How the Nonhuman World Influences Homeowner Yard Management in the American Residential Macrosystem6
Tracing Extremes across Iconic Desert Landscapes: Socio-Ecological and Cultural Responses to Climate Change, Water Scarcity, and Wildflower Superblooms6
Socioeconomic Drivers of Hunting Efficiency and Use of Space By Traditional Amazonians6
Seeing the Quiet Politics in Unquiet Woods: A Different Vantage Point for a Future Forest Agenda6
The Charmed Circle: Mobility, Identity and Memory around Mount Mayon (Philippines) and Gunung Awu (Indonesia) Volcanoes6
Naturalized Violence: Affective Politics of China’s “Ecological Civilization” in Xinjiang6
Vulnerability of the Açaí Palm to Climate Change6
Constraints on Rice Cultivation in Eastern Madagascar: Which Factors Matter to Smallholders, and Which Influence Food Security?6
Modelling the Routes of Seasonal Transhumance Movement in North Neuquén (Patagonia)6
Perceived Wellbeing Effects of Ecosystems in Finland6
Knowledge Integration and Good Marine Governance: A Multidisciplinary Analysis and Critical Synopsis6
Understanding Factors that Shape Exposure to Zoonotic and Food-Borne Diseases Across Wild Meat Trade Chains5
How Do Local Folks Value Wild Meat, and Why It Matters? A Study in the Democratic Republic of Congo5
SARS-CoV 2 (Covid-19) Heterogeneous Mortality Rates across Countries May Be Partly Explained by Life Expectancy, Calorie Intake, and Prevalence of Diabetes.5
Discourses on Rewilding: the Case of Feral Goats in Mallorca5
A New but Gloomy Picture: The First Photographic Evidence of Grey Wolf in Nowshera District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan5
A Combination of Cultural Values and Economic Benefits Promote Tolerance Towards Large Mammals in a Hotspot of Human-Wildlife Conflicts in Eastern India5
Travois Transport and Field Processing: the Role of Dogs in Intermountain and Plains Food Transport5
Which Ecosystem Services Are Really Integrated into Local Culture? Farmers' Perceptions of the Columbian and Venezuelan Páramos5
The Record of Dogs in Traditional Villages of the Mid-Fraser Canyon, British Columbia: Ethnological and Archaeological Evidence5
Perceptions of Risks Related to Climate Change in Agroecosystems in a Semi-arid Region of Brazil5
Cultural Group Selection and the Evolution of Reindeer Herding in Norway5
Inuit and Local Knowledge on the Marine Ecosystem in Ilulissat Icefjord, Greenland5
The Disconnect Between Knowledge and Perceptions: A Study of Fishermen’s Local Ecological Knowledge and Their Perception of the State of Fisheries and How These Are Managed in the Dominican Republic5
Culturally modified trees and forest structure at a Kawésqar ancient settlement at Río Batchelor, western Patagonia5
A Value-Based Approach in Managing the Human-Geosphere Relationship: the Case of Lake Turgoyak (Southern Urals, Russia)5
The Role of Social Capital in Water Reservoirs Governance: Evidence from Northern Iran4
Determinants of Smallholder Maintenance of Crop Diversity in Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains4
Ethnographic Observations on the Role of Domestic Dogs in the Lowland Tropics of Belize with Emphasis on Crop Protection and Subsistence Hunting4
Artisanal Fisher Knowledge and Attitudes Concerning Compressor Fishing in a North-Eastern Brazilian Marine Protected Area4
Risk, Reliability, and the Importance of Small-Bodied Molluscs across the Hawaiian Windward-Leeward Divide4
Fruits of the Veld: Ecological and Socioeconomic Patterns of Natural Resource Use across South Africa4
Fraternal Polyandry and Land Ownership in Kinnaur, Western Himalaya4
Participatory injustice in Mexico’s Readiness process to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD +)4
Need-Based Transfers Enhance Resilience to Shocks: An Agent-Based Model of a Maasai Risk-Pooling System4
Self-Portraits of Personal Exposure to Air Pollution: on where and when People Are Exposed, and on why it Is Difficult to Avoid4
Divergent Trajectories of BMI over Age for Adult Baka Pygmy People and their Sympatric Non-Pygmy Populations4
Mapping Social Values of the Sigatoka River Estuary, Nadroga-Navosa Province, Viti Levu, Fiji4
Demographic Crises of Different Climate Phases in Preindustrial Northern Hemisphere4
Correction to: Converting Home Spaces into Food Gardens at the Time of Covid-19 Quarantine: all the Benefits of Plants in this Difficult and Unprecedented Period4
Exploring Partial Overlaps Between Knowledge Systems in a Brazilian Fishing Community4
Changes in Sharing and Participation are Important Predictors of the Health of Traditional Harvest Practices in Indigenous Communities in Alaska4
Conservation and Indigenous Subsistence Hunting in the Peace River Region of Canada4
Humans and Dogs of Mountainous Inner Asia: Sensory Collaboration and Personhood4
Diversity and Adaptation in Local Forest Governance in Yunnan, China4
Integrated Participatory Approach Reveals Perceived Local Availability of Wild Edible Plants in Northwestern Kenya4
Correction to: Land Use Changes Assessment using a triangulated framework: Perception Interviews, Land-Use/Land Cover Observation, and Spatial Planning Analysis in Tanjung Batu and Derawan Island, Ind3
Contemporary Pastoralism in the Dhofar Mountains of Oman3
Gender-based Decision Making in Marketing Channel Choice – Evidence of Maize Supply Chains in Southern Ethiopia3
An Integrated Assessment of Social-ecological Resilience in Me´Phaa Indigenous Communities in Southern Mexico3
Divergence and Convergence in Traditional Plant-Based Medicinal Practices of Haitian Migrants in Montreal, Miami and Cayenne3
Cultivating Decline: Agricultural Modernization Policy and Adaptive Resilience in the Yangzi Delta3
Getting It Right in Rural Development Initiatives: The Importance of Livelihood Assets in Commercializing Family Farm Production in Brazil3
Social Memory in the Mekong’s Changing Floodscapes: Narratives of Agrarian Communities’ Adaptation3
Local Perceptions in the Implementation of the Sembrando Vida Program in Southern Mexico3
Indigenous Knowledge, Aspiration, and Potential Application in Contemporary Fire Mitigation in Southwest Australia3
Bridging Traditional and Scientific Knowledge of Climate Change: Understanding Change Through the Lives of Small Island Communities3
Encouraging Drawing in Research with Children on Marine Environments: Methodological and Epistemological Considerations3
Evaluating Support for Clouded Leopard Reintroduction in Taiwan: Insights from Surveys of Indigenous and Urban Communities3
“Their Markers as they Go”: Modified Trees as Waypoints in the Dena’ina Cultural Landscape, Alaska3
The Population Dynamics of the Placebo Effect and Its Role in the Evolution of Medical Technology3
Local Ecological Knowledge, Catch Characteristics, and Evidence of Elasmobranch Depletions in Western Ghana Artisanal Fisheries3
A Modest Suggestion: Baking Using Sourdough - a Sustainable, Slow-Paced, Traditional and Beneficial Remedy against Stress during the Covid-19 Lockdown3
The Sea Swallowed our Houses and Rice Fields: The Vulnerability to Climate Change of Coastal People in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa3
Understanding Changes for Forest-Dependent Communities in Upland Laos3
The Multiple Faces of the Marmot: Associations with the Plague, Hunting, and Cosmology in Mongolia3
Hunters Who Haul with Dogs: Man’s Best-Friend or Woman’s Little Helper?3
Can Substitutes Reduce Future Demand for Wildlife Products: A Case Study of China’s Millennial Generation3
Linking Up: The Role of Institutions and Farmers in Forage Seed Exchange Networks of Southeast Asia3
Deconstructing Ecosystem Service Conflicts through the Prisms of Political Ecology and Game Theory in a North-Western Mediterranean River Basin3
The Succession of Farmers’ Perceptions of Transitioning Landscapes – A Case Study of Agroforestry in the Middle Hills of Nepal3
A Re-Assessment of the Role of Dogs (Canis familiaris) in Early Aotearoa New Zealand3
Humans and Vultures: Sociocultural and Conservation Perspective in Northern India2
Indigenous Ontologies: Gullah Geechee Traditions and Cultural Practices of Abundance2
How Managing for Chestnut Honey in Turkey Salvages Trees and Lifeways under Increasing Exotic Pest and Disease Pressure2
Effectiveness of the Yangambi Biosphere Reserve in Reducing Deforestation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo2
Relict Plant Communities at Prehispanic Sites in Oaxaca, Mexico: Historical Implications2
Hunting as a Source of Local and Traditional Ecological Knowledge among Campesinos in Nicaragua2
Understanding Growth and Malnutrition in Baka Pygmy Children2
Matching Local Knowledge and Environmental Change with Policy Changes in Rangeland Tenure2
Examining the Consistency of Folk Identifications of Trees to Implement Community-Based Biodiversity Monitoring2
Pastoralist Dilemmas: Where to Go and When to Move, or with Whom to Talk?2
Hunting and Trade of Columbidae in Northeast Brazil2
Gender, Environmental Change, and Migration Aspirations and Abilities in Tangier and Tinghir, Morocco2
Divergence in Nutritional Intake and Physical Activity Patterns Among Households in a Village of Ethnic Minorities in Northern Laos at the Initial Stage of Health Transition2
Coupled Demographic Dynamics of Herds and Households Constrain Livestock Population Growth in Pastoral Systems2
Conceptualizing Community-based Environmental Peacebuilding in Cesar, Colombia2
A Murder of Crows: Culling Corvids in Northern Cyprus2
Fighting Insurgency, Ruining the Environment: the Case of Forest Fires in the Dersim Province of Turkey2
Livestock Management Within a Traditional Agrosilvopastoral System in Northern Minas Gerais, Brazil: A Model for Reconciling Livelihoods and Conservation at a Time of Environmental Change2
Cultural Resilience in the Face of globalization: Lessons from the Penan of Borneo2
The Fire Management Dilemma in the Brazilian Amazon: Synthesizing Pathways of Causality across Five Case Studies in the State of Pará2
The Milpa Game: a Field Experiment Investigating the Social and Ecological Dynamics of Q’eqchi’ Maya Swidden Agriculture2
Blue Food Sovereignty Benefits Social-Ecological Resilience: A Case Study of Small-Scale Fisheries Co-Management and Mariculture in Samoa2
Pre-Columbian Mounds Harbor Distinctive Forest Communities in the Southern Campos of American Pampas2
Strengthening Environmental Management and Local Planning in Indigenous Communities Through Hydrological Connectivity Analysis2
Challenging the State: Devolutionary Tenure Transitions for Saving and Expanding Forests2
Adaptations of Pre-Columbian Manioc Storage Techniques as Strategies to Adapt to Extreme Climatic Events in Amazonian Floodplains2
Medicinal Plants and Health Sovereignty in Badakhshan, Afghanistan: Diversity, Stewardship, and Gendered Knowledge2
Energy Conservation Behaviors, Climate Change Attitudes, Income, and Behavioral Plasticity2
Can Socioeconomic Variables Influence Bird Hunting Activity in the Brazil's Semi-Arid Region?2
Local Knowledge, Perceptions, and Uses of the Potentially Conflict-Generating Plant Species, Moringa oleifera Lam.: A case Study in Limpopo Province, South Africa2
Coexistence with Large Carnivores in Relation to Livestock Depredation in the Eastern Serengeti Ecosystem, Tanzania2
Managing Wolves is Managing Narratives: Views of Wolves and Nature Shape People’s Proposals for Navigating Human-Wolf Relations2
Knowledge of Wildlife, Hunting, and Human-felid Interactions in Maya Forest Communities of the Northern Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico2
The Rise of Vancouver and the Collapse of Forage Fish: A Story of Urbanization and the Destruction of an Aquatic Ecosystem on the Salish Sea (1885–1920 CE)1
Plant Names Encode Tašlḥit Knowledge of Morocco’s High Atlas Landscapes1
An ethnogeomorphic case study of conservation practices in Southeast Brazil1
Thirty Years of Agrarian Change at an Upper Elevation Village in Western Nepal1
Sociocultural Factors Shaping Responses to Wildlife Crop-Raiding in Communities Adjacent to Protected Areas in Southern Tanzania1
An Archaeological Perspective on Rural Development and Rural Poverty1
Designing Biodiversity Management Strategies at the Community Level: Approaches Based on Participatory Action Research1
“Our Plants are Slowly Dying here, Just Like us”: Coping with Pollution in Turkey’s “Cancer Valley”1
Humanity’s Fundamental Environmental Limits1
After the Fire: Potential Impacts of Fire Exclusion Policies on Historical Cherokee Culture in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, USA1
Social-Ecological Change on the Mongolian Steppe: Herder Perceptions of Causes, Impacts, and Adaptive Strategies1
Influence of Indigenous Herding Activities on the Spatio-temporal Distribution of Reindeer during the Summer-Autumn Period: Case from Yamal, Russia1
The Role of Religiosity on Deontological Climate Message Acceptance: A U.S. Survey1
Consumption of Mollusks and Potential Utilization of Resulting Shell Wastes for Shellcraft within a Pacific Islands Context1
Note from the Editor1
A Heritage Without Boundaries: Nature-Culture Synergies in and around Norwegian Protected Landscapes1
Cross-cultural Perceptions of (In)Equity in Ecosystem Service Access: A Preliminary Comparison of Emergent Themes in Four Sites1
Firewood and Energy Sovereignty on Navajo Nation1
Ensuring Food and Nutritional Security in the Arid Climate of Rajasthan, India: Culturally Rich Foods of the Thar Desert – The Case of Panchkutta1
Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Large Mammal Hunting in a Changing Swidden System of Arunachal Pradesh, India1
Niches, Interstitiality and Impoverishment. Pastoralism Among Afghan Kochi Refugees in Mansehra, Northwest Pakistan1
Deer and Humans in the Early Farming Communities of the Yellow River Valley: A Symbiotic Relationship1
Does Wealth Predict Health Among Dogs in a Protected Area?1
Community Perception and Management of Ecosystem Services in a Protected Area in Kashmir Himalaya1
Eroding Traditional Ecological Knowledge. A Case Study in Bolivia1
In Memoriam1
A Natural Disaster Framed Common Pool Resource Game Yields No Framing Effects Among Mongolian Pastoralists1
Drivers of Land-Use Change in Agroforestry Landscapes of Southern Mexico1
How the Enga Cope with Frost in the 21st Century: Food Insecurity, Migration, and Development in the Papua New Guinea Highlands1
The Influences of Traditional Shifting Cultivation on Soil Properties and Vegetation in the Bago Mountains, Myanmar1
The Village, the Elephant, and the State: Land Access and Vulnerability in Rural Botswana1
Strategies Steering Intensification Pathways of Farmers in Central Malawi1
Tracey Harris, the Tiny House Movement: Challenging our Consumer Culture1
A Comparison of Early-European Settlement and Present-Day Species Mingling Patterns in the Eastern Deciduous Forest, USA1
Risk Perception and Implementation of Mitigation Measures By Populations Living Near Volcán De Colima, Mexico1
Consequences of COVID-19 on the Reindeer Husbandry in Norway: a Pilot Study Among Management Staff and Herders1
Hmong Medicinal Plant Knowledge Transmission and Retention in Social Modernity1
The Potential of Oyster Nuts (Telfairia pedata) for Environmental Conservation and Food Security in Tanzania: A Review1
Using the Constitutionality Framework to Understand Alliances, Collective Action, and Divisions Between Indigenous and Peasant Communities in the Chaco Salteño1
Joel Berger: Review of Extreme Conservation: Life at the Edges of the World1
Beyond Animal Husbandry: The Role of Herders Among the Wayuu of Colombia1
Untangling Biocultural and Socioeconomical Drivers of African Plum Tree (Dacryodes edulis) Local Nomenclature Along a Rural-Urban Gradient in Central Cameroon1
The Politics of Indigenous Environmental Knowledge in Vietnam1
The Moral and Ethical Baseline of Marine Socio-Ecological Values: the Case of Recreational and Artisanal Fishing in NW Mediterranean Coastal Waters (Catalonia, Spain)1
On the Demise of Makkalice: Conservation Enclosure and the loss of a wealth-redistributing Harvest System in South Sulawesi, Indonesia1
Can Disparate Shared Social Values Benefit the Conservation of Biodiversity in Hong Kong’s Sacred Groves?1
Understanding the Rights of Nature: Working Together Across and Beyond Disciplines1
Cultural Forest Ecosystem Services of the Maniq Indigenous People in Southern Thailand1
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