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Biodiversity management comprises a broad spectrum of interactions between humans and different groups of organisms, plants, animals, macroscopic fungi, and microorganisms at populations and ecosystems levels. Such interactions have occurred for thousands of years in the world and currently are represented in human cultures disseminated throughout the planet, conforming valuable reservoirs of knowledge and experience that can support plans and actions for sustainable management and conservation of biodiversity. Domestication has been a particular expression of management, which, in the history of humanity led to farming and new forms of social organization and cultural history. Both management sensu lato and domestication require a deeper examination for theoretical and applied purposes.
This book provides a panorama of research perspectives and findings by a sample of specialists studying different groups of organisms at different scales with human groups inhabiting one of the most biocultural diverse regions of the world: the Neotropics. It summarizes information on different areas of the region, share visions and methodological experiences, enhances regional collaboration of research groups, and inspires routes to continue constructing an integral and more complete vision of the history of humans-biodiversity interactions in the Neotropics.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Alejandro Casas
is a Mexican researcher. He holds a Bachelor's & Master's degree in Biology from the National University of Mexico, Mexico, and a PhD in Plant Sciences from the University of Reading, UK. Since 1997 he has been a Senior Full-Time Researcher at the Institute of Research on Ecosystems and Sustainability (IIES), UNAM, Mexico. He is a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI), Mexico, with the highest level of recognition (level 3).
Dr. Casas's research interest is focused on: (1) ecology, culture and evolution of biodiversity under management and domestication, (2) ecosystem management and landscape domestication (3) ecology for sustainable management of biotic resources and ecosystems, (4) in situ management of genetic resources, and (5) ethnoecology and biocultural diversity. His research group has made theoretical contributions on evolutionary mechanisms in current processes of evolution, origins of agriculture and domestication, conservation of processes generating agrobiodiversity, and sustainable management of forest and agroforestry systems.
He has published 202 peer reviewed scientific articles, 14 books, 104 book chapters, 20 scientific notes, and 35 articles of science popularization. He has advised 70 research theses of undergraduate and postgraduate students. Dr. Casas has conformed research groups working on in situ management of biodiversity, biosafety, biodiversity conservation in arid and semiarid zones, agroforestry systems and agrobiodiversity, wild crop relatives. His research has been conducted in Mesoamerica, Andes and Amazonia.
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Biodiversity management comprises a broad spectrum of interactions between humans and different groups of organisms, plants, animals, macroscopic fungi, and microorganisms at populations and ecosystems levels. Such interactions have occurred for thousands of years in the world and currently are represented in human cultures disseminated throughout the planet, conforming valuable reservoirs of knowledge and experience that can support plans and actions for sustainable management and conservation of biodiversity. Domestication has been a particular expression of management, which, in the history of humanity led to farming and new forms of social organization and cultural history. Both management
sensu lato
and domestication require a deeper examination for theoretical and applied purposes.
This book provides a panorama of research perspectives and findings by a sample of specialists studying different groups of organisms at different scales with human groups inhabiting one of the most biocultural diverse regions of the world: the Neotropics. It summarizes information on different areas of the region, share visions and methodological experiences, enhances regional collaboration of research groups, and inspires routes to continue constructing an integral and more complete vision of the history of humans-biodiversity interactions in the Neotropics.
