Carrying Capacity of the African Tropical Rainforest

为了找出森林居民如何在不枯竭的情况下可持续地利用森林资源，我们进行了一系列关于非洲热带雨林承载能力的实地调查。我们调查了资源利用活动、土地利用系统、动植物资源的民族科学知识和森林居民的人口动态，其中包括两组狩猎采集者，如巴卡人和卡卡人，以及一些刀耕火种的园艺家和一些砍伐和焚烧的园艺家，以及喀麦隆南部和刚果北部的一些自然或人工种植的食物资源的生产力。1994年至1996年，喀麦隆南部以干燥类型的热带雨林为主，刚果北部以更潮湿的热带雨林为主。此外，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调查。我们正在根据这些数据审查非洲雨林的容量。

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.