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The impacts of local networks on subsistence resilience and biodiversity in a low-lying Moluccan reef system between 1600 and the present

Using field data for the 1980s and historic material, I show how the central places of networks crucial for regional and long-distance trades in the Moluccas between 1600 and the present were often environmentally vulnerable volcanic islands and low-lying reefs. After reviewing existing data on haza...

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Autor principal: Ellen, Roy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6882759/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30187430
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-018-1091-2
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description Using field data for the 1980s and historic material, I show how the central places of networks crucial for regional and long-distance trades in the Moluccas between 1600 and the present were often environmentally vulnerable volcanic islands and low-lying reefs. After reviewing existing data on hazards, and evaluating the evidence for erosion and degradation, I suggest how resilience has been historically achieved through social and material exchanges between islands, accommodating the consequences of specific perturbations. Re-interpretation of published data shows how inter-island trade has re-organised patterns of biological interaction spatially and over the long term, helping us assess whether, in the face of climate-change effects, such areas are zones of robustness or of potential fragility.
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spelling pubmed-68827592019-12-12 The impacts of local networks on subsistence resilience and biodiversity in a low-lying Moluccan reef system between 1600 and the present Ellen, Roy Ambio Biodiversity Change and Human Adaptation Using field data for the 1980s and historic material, I show how the central places of networks crucial for regional and long-distance trades in the Moluccas between 1600 and the present were often environmentally vulnerable volcanic islands and low-lying reefs. After reviewing existing data on hazards, and evaluating the evidence for erosion and degradation, I suggest how resilience has been historically achieved through social and material exchanges between islands, accommodating the consequences of specific perturbations. Re-interpretation of published data shows how inter-island trade has re-organised patterns of biological interaction spatially and over the long term, helping us assess whether, in the face of climate-change effects, such areas are zones of robustness or of potential fragility. Springer Netherlands 2018-09-05 2019-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6882759/ /pubmed/30187430 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-018-1091-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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title The impacts of local networks on subsistence resilience and biodiversity in a low-lying Moluccan reef system between 1600 and the present
title_full The impacts of local networks on subsistence resilience and biodiversity in a low-lying Moluccan reef system between 1600 and the present
title_fullStr The impacts of local networks on subsistence resilience and biodiversity in a low-lying Moluccan reef system between 1600 and the present
title_full_unstemmed The impacts of local networks on subsistence resilience and biodiversity in a low-lying Moluccan reef system between 1600 and the present
title_short The impacts of local networks on subsistence resilience and biodiversity in a low-lying Moluccan reef system between 1600 and the present
title_sort impacts of local networks on subsistence resilience and biodiversity in a low-lying moluccan reef system between 1600 and the present
topic Biodiversity Change and Human Adaptation
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6882759/
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