- Title
- Nontimber forest products as ecological and biocultural keystone species
- Creator
- Shackleton, Charlie M
- Creator
- Ticktin, Tamara
- Creator
- Cunningham, Anthony B
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2018
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180388
- Identifier
- vital:43359
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10469-230422"
- Description
- Nontimber forests products (NTFPs) are the mainstay of rural livelihoods and local economies the world over. As such they are of interest to a wide disciplinary range of researchers and development and government agencies seeking to promote livelihoods, incomes, and ecologically sustainable practices. With the attention on the various human uses of NTFPs, their role and networks in the broader biological communities in which they are located are frequently overlooked. Harvesting of many NTFPs has effects not only at the organism and population scales, but also on co-occurring species, some of which may also be NTFPs. Thus, reduction or loss of one NTFP population or species in a specific area may have cascade effects on other NTFP species, including those used for cultural purposes. We illustrate the little appreciated importance of NTFPs in broader ecological and social systems by assessing and illustrating the importance of NTFP species as ecological or biocultural keystones in providing regulating and supporting ecological services to other species and cultural services to people. We present a number of examples where NTFP species act as keystones in ecological and cultural systems, including food, pollination and dispersal, animal health, nutrients, shelter and protection, and cultural symbolism, most of which have not been considered by NTFP researchers and practitioners. From these examples we distill six propositions regarding NTFPs and discuss the value of recognizing some NTFPs as biocultural keystones to acknowledge and highlight their roles at broader scales.
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (15 pages)
- Format
- Publisher
- Resilience Alliance
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Ecology and Society
- Relation
- Shackleton, C.M., Ticktin, T. and Cunningham, A.B., 2018. Nontimber forest products as ecological and biocultural keystone species. Ecology and Society, 23(4)
- Relation
- Ecology and Society volume 23 number 4 2018 1708-3087
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Rights
- Open Access
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RU DST/NRF SARChI for Interdisciplinary Science in Land and Natural Resource Use for Sustainable Livelihoods
RU Department of Environmental Science
Shackleton, Charles Michael (Distinguished Prof)
SDG 11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
SDG 02. Zero Hunger
SDG 03. Good Health and Well-Being
SDG 15. Life On Land
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