Transvalued Species in an African Forest
dc.contributor.author | Remis, Melissa J. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Hardin, Rebecca | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-06-01T21:26:16Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-06-01T21:26:16Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009-12 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | REMIS, MELISSA J.; HARDIN, REBECCA (2009). "Transvalued Species in an African Forest." Conservation Biology 23(6): 1588-1596. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/74497> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0888-8892 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1523-1739 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/74497 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=19604297&dopt=citation | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | We combined ethnographic investigations with repeated ecological transect surveys in the Dzanga-Sangha Dense Forest Reserve (RDS), Central African Republic, to elucidate consequences of intensifying mixed use of forests. We devised a framework for transvaluation of wildlife species, which means the valuing of species on the basis of their ecological, economic, and symbolic roles in human lives. We measured responses to hunting, tourism, and conservation of two transvalued species in RDS: elephants ( Loxodonta cyclotis ) and gorillas ( Gorilla gorilla ). Our methods included collecting data on encounter rates and habitat use on line transects. We recorded cross-cultural variation in ideas about and interactions with these species during participant observation of hunting and tourism encounters and ethnographic interviews with hunters, conservation staff, researchers, and tourists. Ecologically, gorillas used human-modified landscapes successfully, and elephants were more vulnerable than gorillas to hunting. Economically, tourism and encounters with elephants and gorillas generated revenues and other benefits for local participants. Symbolically, transvaluation of species seemed to undergird competing institutions of forest management that could prove unsustainable. Nevertheless, transvaluation may also offer alternatives to existing social hierarchies, thereby integrating local and transnational support for conservation measures. The study of transvaluation requires attention to transnational flows of ideas and resources because they influence transspecies interactions. Cross-disciplinary in nature, transvalution of species addresses the political and economic challenges to conservation because it recognizes the varied human communities that shape the survival of wildlife in a given site. Transvaluation of species could foster more socially inclusive management and monitoring approaches attuned to competing economic demands, specific species behaviors, and human practices at local scales. | en_US |
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dc.publisher | Blackwell Publishing Inc | en_US |
dc.rights | ©2009, Society for Conservation Biology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Biological Anthropology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Central Africa | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Conservation Anthropologies | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Conservation Management | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Cultural Anthropology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Ecotourism | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Gorilla Gorilla | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Loxodonta Cyclotis | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Transvalued Species | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Wildlife Trade | en_US |
dc.subject.other | ÁFrica Central | en_US |
dc.subject.other | AntropologÍA BiolÓGica | en_US |
dc.subject.other | AntropologÍA Cultural | en_US |
dc.subject.other | AntropologÍA De ConservaciÓN | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Comercio De Vida Silvestre | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Ecoturismo | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Especies Sobrestimadas | en_US |
dc.subject.other | GestiÓN De La ConservaciÓN | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Gorilla Gorilla | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Loxodonta Cyclotis | en_US |
dc.title | Transvalued Species in an African Forest | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | † Department of Anthropology and School of Natural Resources, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1107, U.S.A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | * Department of Anthropology, Purdue University, 700 W. State Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2059, U.S.A., email remis@purdue.edu | en_US |
dc.identifier.pmid | 19604297 | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/74497/1/j.1523-1739.2009.01290.x.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01290.x | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Conservation Biology | en_US |
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