Carrying Capacity of the African Tropical Rainforest

为了找到森林居民可持续利用森林资源而不枯竭的方法，我们对非洲热带雨林的承载能力进行了一系列实地调查。我们调查了森林居民的资源利用活动、土地利用系统、植物和动物资源的民族科学知识以及森林居民的人口动态，包括两个狩猎采集群体，例如，1994年至1996年，在喀麦隆南部以干燥型雨林为主，北方刚果以较潮湿型雨林为主的地区，一般被称为俾格米人的巴卡人和阿卡人以及一些刀耕火种的园艺者群体和一些自然或种植食物资源的生产力。除上述项目外，我们还于1996年对生活在喀麦隆南部的巴卡狩猎采集者的身体和生理状况进行了研究。我们正在这些数据的基础上研究非洲雨林的容量。

Aiming to find out the ways in which forest dwellers can sustainably use forest resources without their depletion, we conducted a series of field surveys concerning the carrying capacity of the African tropical rainforest.We investigated resource-using activities, land-use systems, ethnoscientific knowledges of plant and animal resources and population dynamics of forest dwellers including two groups of hunter-gatherers, e.g.the Baka and the Aka generally known as pygmies and some groups of slash-and-burn horticulturalists and productivity of some natural or cultivated food resources in southern Cameroon where a drier type of rainforests predominants and northern Congo where a more humid type of rainforests predominants from 1994 to 1996. Besides above items, we researched the physical and physiological condition of the Baka hunter-gatherers living in south Cameroon in 1996. We are examining the capacity of the african rainforest based on these data.