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People and Natural Resources in the Caatinga

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The interaction of people with the natural environment is ancient. Humans have great power to transform the natural environment and to interfere with the food chain and the processes that enable the renewal of populations of other species. The needs and demands for subsistence and economic growth convert natural systems to social-ecological systems. This chapter aims to highlight the findings of studies on the interactions of human populations with animal and plant resources in the Caatinga. In this type of ecosystem, seasonal and inter-annual variations in the rainfall pattern and the unpredictability of the total annual rainfall as well as the length of each season and the occurrence of interrupting events in the duration of each season in time and space have great influences on ecosystem functioning and the life dynamics of human populations. The collection of forest products and the hunting of wild animals of the Caatinga generate transformations in habitat conditions and often diversify the types of forest microhabitats. This ultimately affects not only the life cycle of resource use but also the dynamics of other species and over the medium- and long-term, the sustainability of human practices and the dynamics of the entire social-ecological system. Thus, we discuss the role of people in ecological processes and identify gaps that need to be filled for a change in perception and the integration of humans in ecological studies.

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The authors are grateful to ‘Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior’ (CAPES), ‘Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico’ (CNPq), and ‘Fundação de Amparo à Ciência e Tecnologia do Estado de Pernambuco’ (FACEPE) for the financial support of the studies cited and to CNPq for the Productivity in Research Fellowships to the authors. The authors also thank the managers of the experimental station of IPA de Caruaru-Pernambuco and the experimental station of Raso da Catarina, Bahia, for their logistical support in conducting these studies. Dr. A. Leyva helped us with some English translation and editing of the manuscript. Thanks also to Global Science Books (copyright owner) for permission to reuse some material published previously in the journals Function Ecosystem Community and Bioremediation, Biodiversity and Bioavailability. Special thanks to the researchers and friends who allowed us to use their photos, John Philip Medcraft, Alexandre Vasconcellos, and Wedson Medeiros Silva Souto; and to Kleber Vieira for his assistance with the figures.

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Albuquerque, U.P., Araújo, E., de Castro, C.C., Alves, R.R.N. (2017). People and Natural Resources in the Caatinga. In: Silva, J.M.C., Leal, I.R., Tabarelli, M. (eds) Caatinga. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68339-3_11

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