Geographic Distribution of Hunters in Relation to Ecological, Economic, and Social Factors

猎人的地理分布与生态、经济和社会因素的关系

• 批准号: 8719575
• 负责人: David Wilkie
• 金额: $ 7.36万
• 依托单位: University of Utah
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1988
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1988-02-01 至 1990-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8719575&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Geographic; Distribution; Hunters; Relation; Ecological

This award to the University of Utah will allow the investigator to do ethnographic and ecological research in the Ituri tropical forest of Zaire. The project will study pygmy hunter-gatherers to determine what cultural and ecological factors have promoted the establishment and perpetuation of two unique group-hunting strategies--bow and net hunting. The project will study the geographic distribution of the two types of hunters in relation to forest composition and the location and intensity of forest horticulture. The relative efficiency of bow and net hunting will be compared in various types of forest settings. The project will acquire field data which will be integrated with data from remote sensing (LANDSAT) sources, to accurately measure the ecological situation the hunters operate in. The focus will be to understand why net hunting has replaced bow hunting in some but not all pygmy groups, and to understand how each type of hunting fits into the environment. This research is important because hunting groups have a uniquely intensive knowledge of the forest environment. By studying the variation in their use of the various forest environments, with the precise and copious data available from remote sensing sources, the project will advance our knowledge of tropical hunting and of tropical forests. Increased knowledge of how the tropical forest functions will help us preserve it, in the long run.

这个奖项给犹他州的大学将允许 调查员在该地区进行人种学和生态学研究， 扎伊尔的伊图里热带森林。 该项目将研究俾格米人 狩猎采集者来决定 这两个因素促进了两个国家的建立和延续， 独特的群体狩猎策略弓网狩猎 的 项目将研究这两种类型的地理分布 森林组成和位置的关系， 森林园艺密度。 弓的相对效率 在不同类型的森林中， 设置. 该项目将获得实地数据， 与遥感（陆地卫星）来源的数据相结合， 准确测量猎人们经营的生态状况 in. 重点将是了解为什么净狩猎已取代 弓狩猎在一些，但不是所有的侏儒群体，并了解 每种狩猎方式如何适应环境 这项研究很重要，因为狩猎群体有一个 对森林环境的独特深入了解。 通过 研究他们对不同森林的使用差异 环境，与精确和丰富的数据可从 遥感资源，该项目将推进我们的知识， 热带狩猎和热带森林。 更多地知晓 热带森林的功能将帮助我们保护它， 长远来看