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Introduction
Current research interests:
Local knowledge of natural resources.
Change in land use and public policies in the Natural Protected Areas of southeastern Mexico and its repercussions on local knowledge.
Environmental history of southeastern Mexico.
Methods:
Ethnobiology. Political ecology. Human ecology.
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El territorio de Quintana Roo, México desde 1902 (fecha de creación), ha sido artífice de una gama de acontecimientos que han repercutido en la apropiación, uso y manejo de los bienes comunes naturales que tienen en su interior. Es por ello, que el presente artículo se aboca a analizar cuáles han sido las variaciones políticas, socioculturales, eco...
Una buena parte de la costa norte de Campeche fue decretada como Reserva de la Biosfera Los Petenes (RBLP) en 1999, principalmente para proteger el ecosistema único de los petenes. Su Plan de Manejo abarca ampliamente aspectos ecológicos pero no tanto los históricos. Este artículo profundiza en la historia ambiental de la región. Se
hizo una extens...
Las Áreas Naturales Protegidas son territorios que poseen una importancia principalmente biológica, ya sea por preservar especies clave, hábitats restringidos, o conjuntos de ecosistemas, aunque también pueden resguardar complejos arqueológicos. En la mayoría de ellas se encuentran inmersas poblaciones humanas que hacen uso del entorno, muchas vece...
En la península de Yucatán se han registrado múltiples iniciativas de proyectos y programas para el rescate de la meliponicultura, es decir, la crianza de la abeja nativa comúnmente conocida como abeja melipona (Melipona beecheii). Un estudio etnográfico en la Reserva de la Biosfera de Los Petenes en Campeche, México, registró la reivindicación de...
Hunting is an activity that mankind has developed since its emergence as a species. At present, there is a conjunction between local knowledge with respect to hunters’ prey, such as the habitat they occupy, breeding seasons, and even eating habits. Added to this is the social and cultural part of the hunt, represented by the types of hunting that c...
Hunting is an activity that mankind has developed since its emergence as a species. At present, there is a conjunction between local knowledge with respect to hunters’ prey, such as the habitat they occupy, breeding seasons, and even eating habits. Added to this is the social and cultural part of the hunt, represented by the types of hunting that c...
El presente trabajo revela diferentes criterios y metodologías para el ejercicio de
evaluación de proyectos de gestión ambiental. Aunado a la carencia de instrumentos de
evaluación que incorporen indicadores de impacto de la dimensión biocultural, se constata la tendencia a privilegiar una valoración mercantilista de proyectos, incidiendo en la ges...
El presente trabajo revela diferentes criterios y metodologías para el ejercicio de evaluación de proyectos de gestión ambiental. Aunado a la carencia de instrumentos de evaluación que incorporen indicadores de impacto de la dimensión biocultural, se constata la tendencia a privilegiar una valoración mercantilista de proyectos, incidiendo en la ges...
Through traditional productive practices, local knowledge, a belief system (praxis-corpus-cosmos), and language, components of their biocultural heritage, the Mayan-Yucatecan communities preserve a close co-evolutionary relationship with their territories. However, frequently socio-productive public policy programs provoke interruptions in the trad...
Rural communities immersed in protected natural areas have local ecological knowledge of the species that exist in their environment, which could be closely related to the management that can be provided to the area. In this sense, the involvement of communities is extremely important in conservation, since they are the ones that make use of the na...
Of the Mexican population, 46% live in coastal states, and most of them fish or are connected to economic activities around fisheries. In 2014, Mexico obtained revenues of US$387,574,351 from fisheries. Fishing drives development and strengthened in a sustainable form will support millions of families, but a correct instrumentation of public polici...
En el presente artículo se analizan las disputas territoriales en tres países de América Latina,
las cuales tienen que ver fundamentalmente con un proceso de reestructuración capitalista
en el campo, el debate de la cuestión agraria entre un sistema agroindustrial concentrador y
excluyente, y los procesos de resistencia de los pueblos indígenas, ca...
We documented the presence and abundance of spider species (Arachnida: Araneae) on young trees of Swietenia macrophylla, Ceiba pentandra and Cordia dodecandra found in an experimental plantation. Surveys of spider abundance and species identity conducted twice during the growing season indicated marked differences in web-building spider assemblages...
RESUMEN En México, muchas comunidades rurales se caracterizan por aprovechar los recursos naturales como principal fuente de trabajo. La etnoecología analiza la manera en que las comunidades indígenas y sociedades campesinas tradicionales comprenden y explican su kosmos, corpus y praxis, aportando bases teóricas para entender sus formas de uso y ma...
From the perspective of environmental history, based on a thorough and complementary review
of the existing literature as well as oral history, this article offers a historical review of the
different land-uses in Eastern Yucatán State throughout 100 years. The purpose of this review is to
identify and describe the different economic and social eve...
The effects of producer diversity on predators have received little attention in arboreal plant communities, particularly in the tropics. This is particularly true in the case of tree diversity effects on web-building spiders, one of the most important groups of invertebrate predators in terrestrial plant communities. We evaluated the effects of tr...
Through traditional productive practices, local knowledge, a belief system (praxis-corpus-cosmos), and language, components of their biocultural heritage, the Mayan-Yucatecan communities preserve a close co-evolutionary relationship with their territories. However, frequently socio-productive public policy programs provoke interruptions in the trad...
Con base en la experiencia en investigación para las Áreas Naturales Protegidas de México de los autores de este trabajo, investigadoras e investigadores adscritos a instituciones de educación superior y a centros de investigaciones, se analizaron las citas bibliográficas de los trabajos publicados para cada región administrativa en las que la Comi...
La mayor parte del territorio nacional así como las Áreas Naturales Protegidas (ANPs) están sujetas a presiones y transformaciones que modifican sus entornos por actividades sociales y productivas, de las cuales, han aportado beneficios a algunos sectores de la población mientras que por otro lado han representado una pérdida de oportunidades y de...
las mujeres de celestún están conscientes de su papel en la vida económica y social en su comunidad, particularmente como fuente de ingreso, pues su aporte económico representa un fuerte apoyo al mantenimiento familiar y en algunos casos son el principal sostén. saben que si bien su actividad no es tan importante económicamente para la comunidad, c...
Trough this study we make known the ecotourism services providers (boatmen) and a public officer perception towards the impact of ecotourism programs implemented by the federal government on their living conditions, on an individual and a social level. This research was made through the political ecology approach and semi-structured interviews in o...
Trough this study we make known the ecotourism services providers (boatmen) and a public officer perception towards the impact of ecotourism programs implemented by the federal government on their living conditions, on an individual and a social level. This research was made through the political ecology approach and semi-structured interviews in o...
http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-7925.2015v28n3p143
In this paper, we reflect on the local knowledge about the European honey bee Apis mellifera scutellata, namely its biology, behavior, social structure, communication, and the relationships that these organisms maintain with the environment and their natural enemies. We also discuss the impacts tha...
Landscapes are heterogeneous mosaics of habitats. In Yucatan, Mexico, these landscapes have been modified by different historical events, both natural and of human origin, such as the extensive cultivation of hemp mainly distributed in the area where deciduous forest dominated. The aim of this study was to determine the diversity and spatial and te...
Las áreas naturales protegidas (ANP), al igual que la mayor parte del territorio nacional, están sujetos a presiones que modifican su entorno para atender actividades productivas que han beneficiado a algunos sectores de la población y para otros han representado pérdida de oportunidades y recursos naturales. La ANP Reserva de la Biósfera Pantanos...
A recent innovation instrumented for the Dengue Prevention and Control program in Mexico is the use of the premises condition index (PCI) as an indicator of risk for the vector Aedes aegypti infestation in dengue-endemic localities of Mexico. This paper addresses whether further improvements for the dengue control program could be made if the preva...
We report new distribution records of two tarantula species from the genus Brachy-pelma (Simon 1891) within the Peninsula of Yucatan: B. vagans (Ausserer 1875) and B. epicureanum (Chamberlin 1925). B. vagans distribution is confirmed for the Mexican state of Yucatan. We also provide zoogeographical information from specimens deposited in the Colecc...
Arthropods are the most bio-diverse animal group known. Because of their adaptive abilities they are found in practically all corners of the earth and play a central role in human ecology. Since ancient times people have formed complex relationships with members of this phylum, and they are present in ways that are both harmful and helpful in our...
We tested the hypothesis that coffee systems with organic management have higher spider diversity by comparing a control (rainforest area) and two coffee systems, one with organic and the other with conventional management. Spiders were sampled every two weeks over three months during the dry season and three months during the rainy season in 2000....
The behavior of the nocturnal spider Acanthepeira stellata (Walckenaer, 1805) as predator of chafer beetles in an agricultural parcel located in the south of San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas is described.
This paper presents an assessment of spider diversity in a complex landscape of southern Mexico. Eighteen different habitats were identified, measured and mapped across this fragmented landscape. Habitat types were characterized by measuring various features, including number of plant forms, tree cover and litter depth. Each month from February to...
This paper presents an assessment of spider diversity in a complex landscape of southern Mexico. Eighteen different habitats were identified, measured and mapped across this fragmented landscape. Habitat types were characterized by measuring various features, including number of plant forms, tree cover and litter depth. Each month from February to...
Despite the importance of native pollinators in agricultural systems, little is known about the potential competitive interactions among them or the way they exploit crops' floral resources. This study determines the temporal use of floral resources by, and interspecific interactions between, native bees and Apis mellifera L. (Hymenoptera: Apidae)...
Sinantropic scorpions in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.