Human Ecology

Papers
(The median citation count of Human Ecology is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
In Memoriam: James M. Acheson25
The “Turning Point” for the Fall Goose Hunt in Eeyou Istchee: A Social-Ecological Regime Shift from an Indigenous Knowledge Perspective25
A New but Gloomy Picture: The First Photographic Evidence of Grey Wolf in Nowshera District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan16
Hunting, Monogamy, and Economics: Are Humans Like Wolves that Hunt Elephants and Whales?15
Assessing Impacts and Local Perceptions Following the Incidental Introduction of tilapia (Cichlidae: Cichliformes) in a Remote Inland Fishery in Papua New Guinea14
The Role of Cultural Fire Values among the Arhuaco, Tikuna, Uitoto, Pijao, and Embera-Chamí Indigenous Peoples of Colombia in Promoting Sustainable Forest Governance14
The Role of the Mangrove Ecosystem in Supporting the Resilience of Local Communities in Ouidah Municipality, Benin (West Africa)13
Perceptions of Multispecies Coexistence in Urban Environments in Brazil: A Convenience Sampling Method13
An Assessment of Small-scale Fisheries of the Paraná River Delta Through the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach13
The Population Dynamics of the Placebo Effect and Its Role in the Evolution of Medical Technology12
Dwindling Ethnobotanical Knowledge of Aconitum naviculare in the Trans-Himalayan Manang Valleys of Central Nepal10
The Anchors of Home: Understanding How Place Attachment Strengthens Well-being of Sri Lanka’s Migratory Fisher Communities10
Influence of Indigenous Herding Activities on the Spatio-temporal Distribution of Reindeer during the Summer-Autumn Period: Case from Yamal, Russia10
Hunters Who Haul with Dogs: Man’s Best-Friend or Woman’s Little Helper?10
Economic and Environmental Impacts of Land Consolidation on Rice Farm Performance in Vietnam9
Assessing the Impacts of Dam Construction on the Livelihoods of Swidden Farmers in Pinlaung, Southern Shan State, Myanmar9
The Mystery of Black Rice: Food, Medicinal, and Spiritual Uses of Oryza glaberrima by Maroon Communities in Suriname and French Guiana9
Pollination of the Mediterranean Fig Tree, Ficus Carica L.: Caprification Practices and Social Networks of Exchange of Caprifigs among Jbala Farmers in Northern Morocco9
Balancing Food Production and Farmer Welfare: Assessing the Impact of China’s Cropland De-grainization Rectification Policy9
Confronting Intrinsic Yield Variability: How Coffee Farmers Understand, Manage, and Cope with Crop Alternate Bearing9
Perception and Attitude Toward Sloth Bear Melursus ursinus: Understanding the Tribal Communities from Central Gujarat, India, Coexistence with Bears8
Modular Homes as a New Form of Accommodation to Tackle Homelessness: A Case Study From Cambridge, England8
A Deliberative Model for Preserving the Diversity of Lebanese Traditional Fermented Food and Beverages8
Exploring Partial Overlaps Between Knowledge Systems in a Brazilian Fishing Community8
Can Environmental Injustices be Addressed in Conservation? Settlement History and Conservation-Induced Displacement in the Case of Lyanshulu in the Zambezi Region, Namibia8
Impacts of Industrialization on Foraging in Peri-Urban Areas. Insights from Padua, NE Italy8
The Role of Quilombola Communities in Endemic Species Conservation in the Atlantic Forest: The Case of PES Juçara Program8
Following the White Vulture: Ethno-ornithology along the Flyway of the Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus)8
Agroforestry Distribution and Contributions in Ancient Hawaiian Agriculture8
The Role of Religiosity on Deontological Climate Message Acceptance: A U.S. Survey7
Joel Berger: Review of Extreme Conservation: Life at the Edges of the World7
A Social Network Analysis of Collaborative Rangelands Governance: The case of Borana Rangelands, Southern Ethiopia7
Declining Use of Totora (Schoenoplectus californicus subsp tatora) in Lake Titicaca7
Traversing the Southern Canadian Rocky Mountains: A Least Cost Path Analysis7
Late Holocene Environmental Changes and Human Subsistence in an Alluvial Landscape: A Case Study from the Pohansko Site on the Dyje (Thaya) River in Czechia7
Networks of Inclusive Exclusion: Social Capital and Resilient Rural Livelihoods in the Southern Great Plains (SGP)7
Fisher’s Resilience: Preparedness, Coping Capacity, and Adaptation Capacity in Surigao del Sur, Philippines7
Resource Competition and Settlement Distribution in Bronze Age Greece7
Niches, Interstitiality and Impoverishment. Pastoralism Among Afghan Kochi Refugees in Mansehra, Northwest Pakistan6
Multidecadal Ethnoarchaeological Comparisons of Livelihoods and Wild Meat Availability and Consumption in a Central African Rainforest Foraging and Farming Community6
Impacts of Slash-and-Burn Cultivation on the Soil and Vegetation of the Atlantic Forest in Southeastern Brazil6
Getting It Right in Rural Development Initiatives: The Importance of Livelihood Assets in Commercializing Family Farm Production in Brazil6
Priority Species and Management Approaches for Woody Species: A Case Study of Awach Sub-county, Gulu District, Uganda6
Are Stakeholders Aware of the Contributions of Ecosystem Services for Their Well-Being? A Case Study of a UNESCO Geopark Project in Brazil6
Introduction to the Research Collection “Mediterranean Biocultural Diversity”6
Environmental Considerations of Alternative Livelihoods for Women in Cocoa and shea Communities in Ghana6
Riverine People’s Knowledge of Climate Change in the Negro River, Brazilian Amazon6
Allium paradoxum from Asia to Europe: Ornamental, Invasive, Edible, and Medicinal6
Drifting Away from the Roots: Genderfluidity as Diola’s Mangrove Fishing Strategies in Three Island-Villages of Northern Guinea-Bissau6
Cross-cultural Perceptions of (In)Equity in Ecosystem Service Access: A Preliminary Comparison of Emergent Themes in Four Sites6
Arundo/Phragmites: Identification and Uses of Essential Plants in Mediterranean Civilizations6
Socio-cultural Factors Affecting Traditional Knowledge and the Cultural Significance of the Aromatic and Medicinal Plant, Boswellia dalzielii Hutch., in Burkina Faso5
The Justinianic Pandemic in the Iberian Peninsula5
The Evolution of Threats to Protected Areas During Crises: Insights from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Madagascar5
Impacts of Closed Season on Operations, Livelihood and Coping Strategies of Fishers5
Trajectories of Environmental Migrants: Understanding Migration Destinations of the Coastal Population in Kerala, India5
Deer and Humans in the Early Farming Communities of the Yellow River Valley: A Symbiotic Relationship5
Correction to: The Succession of Farmers’ Perceptions of Transitioning Landscapes – A Case Study of Agroforestry in the Middle Hills of Nepal5
Do Socioeconomic Factors Impact Non-Timber Forest Products-based Incomes? An Analysis Employing Structural Equation Modeling5
Risk, Reliability, and the Importance of Small-Bodied Molluscs across the Hawaiian Windward-Leeward Divide5
Deconstructing Ecosystem Service Conflicts through the Prisms of Political Ecology and Game Theory in a North-Western Mediterranean River Basin5
Can Socioeconomic Variables Influence Bird Hunting Activity in the Brazil's Semi-Arid Region?5
Cultural Homogenization Has Affected Palula Traditional Plant Foraging in Multilingual Chitral, Hindukush, NW Pakistan5
Bridging Knowledges and Practice: Understanding how Mangrove Swamp Rice Farmers Predict the Tides in Guinea-Bissau5
Cultural Forest Ecosystem Services of the Maniq Indigenous People in Southern Thailand5
Caves of Fortune? Gendered Labour Precarity and Securitisation Involving the ‘Wild’ Edible Birds’ Nest Trade in Kapuas Hulu, Indonesia5
Natural or Semi-natural Landscape Features as Indicator of Biocultural Value: Observations from Slovakia5
Understanding Factors that Shape Exposure to Zoonotic and Food-Borne Diseases Across Wild Meat Trade Chains5
From Plate To Planet: Reconstructing the Sustainable Food System of an Early Bronze Age Society5
Camels and the Last Nomadic Pastoralists of Anatolia (Türkiye)5
The Role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Managing the Collection of Non-Timber Forest Products in Limpopo, South Africa: A Community-Based Resource Governance Approach5
The Hybridisation, Resilience, and Loss of Local Knowledge and Natural Resource Management in Zambia5
Ethno-ornithology, Hunting and Conservation of Wild Birds in Kashmir Himalayas, India5
C. Margaret Scarry, Dale L. Hutchinson, and Benjamin S. Arbuckle, Editor. Ancient Food Ways: Integrative Approaches to Understanding Subsistence and Society. Gainesville, Florida. University Press of 4
The Effects of Oil Rig Decommissioning on the Livelihoods of Fishermen: Lessons from the Saltpond Oil and Gas Field, Ghana4
Amitav Ghosh. The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis. Chicago. The University of Chicago Press 2021. ISBN 9780226815459, Price $25.00 (Cloth). 339 Pages4
Ripples of Change: Introduced Fish, Ethnic Minority Farmers, and Lively Commodity Chains in Upland Vietnam4
Masks Versus Cattle: The Ecology of an African Art Form4
Who’s Responsible?: Public Ascriptions of Responsibility for Endangered Species Conservation in Arkansas, USA4
Toward Understanding Composite Heritage Through a Historical Ecology Approach: Filling Cultural Gaps and Strengthening Legal Systems in China’s Special Economic Zones4
A Baseline Study of A’chik Homegardens in North-East India: Structure, Composition and Utilization4
Communal Land Use in the Yungas of Jujuy and Salta Provinces (Argentina): Transhumance and Edible Plants in Valle Colorado4
Can Disparate Shared Social Values Benefit the Conservation of Biodiversity in Hong Kong’s Sacred Groves?4
Contemporary Hunting Practices in a Mosaic Landscape of Tropical Forests and Plantations in West Kalimantan, Indonesia4
Can Substitutes Reduce Future Demand for Wildlife Products: A Case Study of China’s Millennial Generation4
Risk Perception and Implementation of Mitigation Measures By Populations Living Near Volcán De Colima, Mexico4
After the Fire: Potential Impacts of Fire Exclusion Policies on Historical Cherokee Culture in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, USA4
Interaction between Knowledge and Experience in Using Wild Edible Plants in Two Biosphere Reserves in Japan4
Editor’s Note on the 50th Anniversary of Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal4
Untangling Biocultural and Socioeconomical Drivers of African Plum Tree (Dacryodes edulis) Local Nomenclature Along a Rural-Urban Gradient in Central Cameroon4
Barley, Grapevines, Domestic Animals, and People: Changing Agricultural Practices On the Island of Pantelleria, Sicily3
Cultural Resilience in the Face of globalization: Lessons from the Penan of Borneo3
Dynamic Interplay of Culture, Nature, and Industry: Unraveling the Historical Non-Equilibrium Mosaic of Demarcation Woody Plant Diversity in Upland Field Landscapes of Eastern Japan3
Correction to: Introduction to the Research Collection “Mediterranean Biocultural Diversity”3
Local Knowledge, Perceptions, and Uses of the Potentially Conflict-Generating Plant Species, Moringa oleifera Lam.: A case Study in Limpopo Province, South Africa3
Socioecological and Dietary Change from 2001 to 2015 in Rural West Java, Indonesia3
Energy Conservation Behaviors, Climate Change Attitudes, Income, and Behavioral Plasticity3
Eroding Traditional Ecological Knowledge. A Case Study in Bolivia3
The effects of mid-to-late Pliocene climatic fluctuations on the habitat and distribution of early hominins3
Resettling at the Precipice: Deepening Vulnerabilities in Disaster Recovery from Upland Sulawesi3
Farmer Attitudes On Climate Change, Farming Practices, and Livelihood Threats, and the Impact to Conservation in the Kasigau Wildlife Corridor, Kenya3
Traditional Fire Knowledge for Peatland Management in Indonesia: Practices by Communities Near Padang Sugihan Wildlife Sanctuary3
Alejandro Frid: Changing Tides: An Ecologist’s Journey to Make Peace with the Anthropocene. New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, BC, 2020, (ISBN 9780865719095), Price 19.99 USD (Softcover), xv + 13
The Adoption of Farmer-managed Natural Regeneration in Dogonkiria, Niger3
COVID-19 and Revenues of Women in Agribusiness: Insights from Benin3
A Tribute to Andrew P. Vayda on his 90th Birthday this December3
Nomadic Pastoralism in Western Himalaya: A Journey through History, Politics, Development, and the Fall of Gaddi Pastoralists3
A Comparison of Early-European Settlement and Present-Day Species Mingling Patterns in the Eastern Deciduous Forest, USA3
Sociodemographic Factors and Individuals’ Interactions with Forest Succession Drive Variations in the Knowledge and Selection of Plants3
Re-storying the Roles of Animals in Cultural Burning3
Bram Büscher: The Truth about Nature: Environmentalism in the Era of Post-truth Politics and Platform Capitalism. University of California Press, Oakland. 2021. ISBN: 978-0-520-37145-3 (Paper), ISBN: 3
Whose Knowledge Counts? Unpacking the Uneven Geographies and Politics of Knowledge Co-Production in IPBES3
Designing Biodiversity Management Strategies at the Community Level: Approaches Based on Participatory Action Research3
Knowledge of Wildlife, Hunting, and Human-felid Interactions in Maya Forest Communities of the Northern Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico3
Marine sense. The Sea beyond Explicit Knowledge3
Understanding the Rights of Nature: Working Together Across and Beyond Disciplines3
Community-Based Wildlife Conservation on Pastoral Lands in Kenya: A New Logic of Production with Implications for the Future of Pastoralism3
Navigating between Promises and Realities of Transdisciplinary Research for Environmental Conservation3
Raising Awareness of Plant Biodiversity and Combating Zoocentrism with Citizen Science: A Case Study of Undergraduate Students Pursuing Animal-Related Degrees in Northeast Brazil3
Soil’s Role in People’s Lives: Findings from a Brazilian Afro-Peasant Community3
Integrated Participatory Approach Reveals Perceived Local Availability of Wild Edible Plants in Northwestern Kenya3
Coastal Forest Fisheries, Estuarine Livelihoods, and Human Well-being in Southern Puerto Rico3
Land-System Changes and Migration Amidst the Opium Poppy Collapse in the Southern Highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico (2016-2020)3
A Natural Disaster Framed Common Pool Resource Game Yields No Framing Effects Among Mongolian Pastoralists3
Do Gendered Social Roles Drive Knowledge Variation in Local Medical Systems?3
Chelsea Fisher: Rooting in a Useless Land- Ancient Farmers, Celebrity Chefs, and Environmental Justice in Yucatán3
The Sea Swallowed our Houses and Rice Fields: The Vulnerability to Climate Change of Coastal People in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa2
Knowledge and Access to Medicinal and Aromatic Plants by Women from the Maghrebi Diaspora in Marseille2
Cultural Taboos and Sustainable Resource Management: A Case Study of the Aneuk Jamee Tribe in Aceh, Indonesia2
Can Forest Fire Cognizance Garner Community Support for Fire Prevention? Evidence from the Sal Forest of Northern India2
Encouraging Drawing in Research with Children on Marine Environments: Methodological and Epistemological Considerations2
Integrating scientific and local knowledge to address environmental conflicts: the role of academia2
Michael R. Dove: Bitter Shade: The Ecological Challenge of Human Consciousness2
Gillian G. Tan: Pastures of Change: Contemporary Adaptations and Transformations among Nomadic Pastoralists of Eastern Tibet2
Multifaceted Livelihood Relations of Local Communities with the Indian Sundarbans Mangroves2
Plant Names Encode Tašlḥit Knowledge of Morocco’s High Atlas Landscapes2
Synergies and Trade-offs Between Cultural and Natural Values of Sacred Sites – a Case Study of Ancient Burial Mounds in Central Europe2
Relationships between local soil classification and parametric suitability indexes in a community of colonizers in the Alto Beni region of Bolivia2
Invasion Adaptation: A Socio-ecological Assessment of Cherry Growers’ Adaptation Potential to Spotted Wing Drosophila2
Our Neighbor the Beaver: Anthropomorphism to Facilitate Environmental Mediation in Rural France2
Correction to: Integrated Participatory Approach Reveals Perceived Local Availability of Wild Edible Plants in Northwestern Kenya2
Community Perception and Management of Ecosystem Services in a Protected Area in Kashmir Himalaya2
Age and Gender-Related Variation in Plant and Animal Naming Ability in the Soliga/Solega Community of Southern Karnataka, India2
Living with Fire: Agricultural Burning by Quechua Farmers in the Peruvian Andes2
Correction to: Editor’s Note on the 50th Anniversary of Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal2
Preliminary Trend Analysis of International Wildlife Trade in Ghana in Relation to Global Zoonotic Disease Outbreaks2
The Circulation of Yersinia pestis in Central Eurasia before and during the First Plague Pandemic (Second to Eighth Century CE): Palaeogenetic and Historical Evidence and Sociopolitical, Ecological, a2
The Importance of Churpe and Tsampa for Sustaining Human Communities in the Spiti Valley of Himachal Pradesh2
Consequences of COVID-19 on the Reindeer Husbandry in Norway: a Pilot Study Among Management Staff and Herders2
The Role of Religion, Wealth, and Livelihoods in the Hunting Practices of Urban and Rural Inhabitants in Western Amazonia2
Think Globally, Act Locally? Evaluating Boston Climate Projects’ Community Engagement2
Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Large Mammal Hunting in a Changing Swidden System of Arunachal Pradesh, India2
How the Enga Cope with Frost in the 21st Century: Food Insecurity, Migration, and Development in the Papua New Guinea Highlands2
Local Perceptions in the Implementation of the Sembrando Vida Program in Southern Mexico2
Using the Constitutionality Framework to Understand Alliances, Collective Action, and Divisions Between Indigenous and Peasant Communities in the Chaco Salteño2
The Climatic Resilience of the Sasanian Empire2
High Public Good Values for Ecosystem Service Attributes of on-farm Quinoa Diversity Conservation in Peru2
Meaning-making as Empowerment: Technology Discourses in the Anti-fracking Movement in Bulgaria2
Avifaunal Salience Correlates with Conservation Interest in the Indigenous Nuer Community, Western Ethiopia2
What Will the Future Bring? – Socio-Economic Challenges to Herder Households in the Great Gobi B Strictly Protected Area in Mongolia2
The Succession of Farmers’ Perceptions of Transitioning Landscapes – A Case Study of Agroforestry in the Middle Hills of Nepal2
Shanti Gamper-Rabindran: America’s Energy Gamble: People, Economy and Planet2
“Our Plants are Slowly Dying here, Just Like us”: Coping with Pollution in Turkey’s “Cancer Valley”1
Correction to: Age and Gender-Related Variation in Plant and Animal Naming Ability in the Soliga/Solega Community of Southern Karnataka, India1
Analyzing Farmers’ Behavior in the Adoption of Paid Digital Extension Service: Experimental Evidence of Rice Advice in Nigeria1
Historical Species Richness and Present-Day Land Use and Ownership in the Midwestern United States1
A Sacred Tree in the Boreal forest: A Narrative About a Sámi Shaman, her Tree, and the Forest Landscape1
The Influence of Nonhuman Assemblage Interactions on Small Farmers’ Perceptions of Weather in Oregon: A Social Network Analysis1
The Rise of Vancouver and the Collapse of Forage Fish: A Story of Urbanization and the Destruction of an Aquatic Ecosystem on the Salish Sea (1885–1920 CE)1
A Family Systems Theory Approach to Hunters’ Chronic Wasting Disease-Related Perceptions and Behaviors1
An Integrated Assessment of Social-ecological Resilience in Me´Phaa Indigenous Communities in Southern Mexico1
Relationships Between the Use of Medicinal Plants and Animals and Sociodemographic Factors in Brazil: a Systematic Review1
Selection Processes of Herbal Medicinal Resources used for Treating COVID-19 Symptoms in Salvaterra, Marajó, Pará, Brazil1
Soil Fertility Depletion is not a Credible Mechanism for Population Boom/Bust Cycles in Early Agricultural Societies1
Medicinal Plant Use Among the Congolese (Democratic Republic of Congo) Community in Belgium1
Special Issue on Dogs – Introduction1
The Politics of Indigenous Environmental Knowledge in Vietnam1
Correction to: Participatory injustice in Mexico’s Readiness process to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD +)1
Indicators of Socio-Environmental Equity and Sustainability in Ibero-American Cities: A Variable Weighting Approach1
Learning from Positive Deviance in Gender and Fisheries: A Case Study in Solomon Islands1
Biocultural Diversity in Italy1
An ethnogeomorphic case study of conservation practices in Southeast Brazil1
Correction to: The “Turning Point” for the Fall Goose Hunt in Eeyou Istchee: A Social-Ecological Regime Shift from an Indigenous Knowledge Perspective1
Sustainable Transhumance Practices in European Landscapes. A Comparative Study1
The Future of Swidden in the Asian Highlands: Insights from a Village in Upper Siang, Arunachal Pradesh, India1
Modernization, Education, and Fish Supply Chain Performance of Akit Isolated Tribe: The Role of Trust as Mediator1
Editor’s Note on Special Issue1
Beyond Animal Husbandry: The Role of Herders Among the Wayuu of Colombia1
“People Gathered by Sorghum”: Cultural Practices and sorghum Diversity in Northern Ethiopia1
The Influence of Land Use Alternatives on Traditional Ohlone Floristic Resources1
An Initial Assessment of Community Values, Rules, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Mount Hermon, Lebanon: Key Perspectives towards Biocultural Conservation1
Local Ecological Knowledge, Catch Characteristics, and Evidence of Elasmobranch Depletions in Western Ghana Artisanal Fisheries1
Do Community Perceptions of Forest Management and Conservation Vary Across Wealth Groups? The Case of the Kilosa REDD + Initiative in Tanzania1
Can Coral Reef Restoration Programmes Facilitate Changes in Environmental Attitudes? A Case Study on a Rural Fisher Community in North Bali, Indonesia1
A Note on the Transition of Editorship1
Snake Conservation Attitudes in The Philippines, A Global Biodiversity Hotspot1
Exploring Community Perceptions and Attitudes toward Protected Areas in Myanmar: The Role of Socio-Spatial Factors in Conservation Support1
The Disconnect Between Knowledge and Perceptions: A Study of Fishermen’s Local Ecological Knowledge and Their Perception of the State of Fisheries and How These Are Managed in the Dominican Republic1
Resilience and Coping Strategies in Rural South Africa during the COVID-19 Lockdown: A Study of Livelihoods, Food Security, and Socioeconomic Determinants1
Impact of Landuse and Landcover Changes on Population Dynamics in Flood-prone Majuli Island, Assam, India1
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