Abstract In Central Western Argentina (CWA), the incorporation of cultigens by hunter-
gatherer populations has been much discussed. This paper explores the relationship …

The control of microbes in food has been as important to human societies as the
domestication of plants and animals. The direct or indirect management of microbes has …

While ethnobiology is a discipline that focuses on the local, it has an outstanding, but not yet
fully realized potential to address global issues. Part of this unrealized potential is that …

Social inequality is ubiquitous in contemporary human societies, and has deleterious social
and ecological impacts. However, the factors that shape the emergence and maintenance of …

Background and Aims: The rising global population has increased land demand due to the
increased need for agricultural and settlement spaces. Land ownership security …

Following the overall discussion on conceptual and methodological issues, it is essential to
start thinking about how to get data to evaluate patterns and processes in macroecology. We …

Macroecology is now a successful approach to investigate ecological patterns, providing a
way to look at the natural systems “from a distance.” This scientific perspective focuses on …

Even though the focus in this book is mainly on theoretical issues in macroecology, it may be
interesting to finish discussing some more applied issues. We start by thinking about Homo …

Land constitutes only 29.3% of planet Earth's surface area but harbors 86.1% of the global
biomass (Bar-On et al. 2018). Out of the 8.7 million species estimated to exist globally, 75 …

Aim Land ownership norms are well documented and play a central role in social–
ecological systems. Yet only recently has the spatial and temporal distribution of land …