Oral History Reveals Landscape Ecology in Ecuadorian Amazonia: Time Categories and Ethnobotany among Waorani People1
Oral History Reveals Landscape Ecology in Ecuadorian Amazonia: Time Categories and Ethnobotany among Waorani People1
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10.1007/s12231-015-9330-y
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发表时间：
2016-03
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2.6
通讯作者：
M. G. Zurita-Benavides;P. Jarrín-V.;M. Rios
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作者：
M. G. Zurita-Benavides;P. Jarrín-V.;M. Rios
口述历史揭示了厄瓜多尔亚马逊地区的景观生态学：Waorani人的时间类别和民族植物学。厄瓜多尔亚马逊地区的Waorani口述历史揭示了传统生态知识有助于了解这一人类群体的自然环境。当Waorani人解释景观时，他们确定了某些因其文化和实用价值而突出的元素，因为这些元素是过去和现在定居点的产物。定居在努希诺河河岸的两个家庭群体的口述历史和管理做法有助于汇集一个名为"瓦奥拉尼时间类别"的分析工具。这四个时间类别进行了分析，与植物区系组成的基础上形成的矩阵收集在12个森林斑块，其中要么有或缺乏社会历史的522种植物。这项研究的目的是研究瓦奥拉尼口述历史如何记录一些亚马逊森林斑块的生态动态。多元统计方法的使用使得确定管理和非管理森林地块之间的植物多样性、均匀性和丰富性差异成为可能，从而揭示了人类对亚马逊河流域特定地点的影响。这项研究证实，它是重要的，在民族植物学的社会历史和景观生态与定量统计解释，因为它允许一个人类群体与一个特定的森林的关联。
Oral History Reveals Landscape Ecology in Ecuadorian Amazonia: Time Categories and Ethnobotany among Waorani People.Waorani oral history in Ecuadorian Amazonia reveals that traditional ecological knowledge contributes to the understanding of the natural environment of this human group. When the Waorani interpret the landscape, they identify certain elements that stand out for their cultural and practical value, as these are products of past and present settlements. The oral history and management practices, by two family clusters settled at the riverbanks of the Nushiño River, contributed to assembling an analytical tool called “Waorani time categories.” These four time categories were analyzed with floristic composition based on a matrix formed by 522 plant species collected at 12 forest patches, which either had or lacked social history. The aim of this research was to examine how Waorani oral history records the ecological dynamics of some Amazonian forest patches. The use of multivariate statistical methods made establishing differences in plant diversity, evenness, and richness between managed and unmanaged forests plots possible, thus revealing human impact at specific places in Amazonia. This research confirms that it is important to intertwine social history and landscape ecology in ethnobotany with quantitative statistical interpretation, because it permits the association of a human group with a particular forest.