Venezuela: Yanomami Mobility And Its Effects On The Forest Landscape

Venezuela: Yanomami Mobility And Its Effects On The Forest Landscape Maurice Seiji Tomioka Nilsson, and Philip Martin Fearnside, 2011   The Yanomami are a hunter-gatherer and gardener people with high mobility, which influences the regeneration of forest in agricultural clearings. Increasing contact with the wider Brazilian and Venezuelan societies may lead to sedentarization. Population groups and clearings were mapped in the Yanomami Land in Brazil using four mosaics of Landsat images...

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