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Tipo: Artigo
Título: Non-Lévy Mobility Patterns of Mexican Me’Phaa Peasants Searching for Fuel Wood
Autor(es): Souza, Og de
Miramontes, Octavio
Hernández, Diego
Ceccon, Eliane
Abstract: We measured mobility patterns that describe walking trajectories of individual Me’Phaa peasants searching for and collecting fuel wood in the forests of “La Montaña de Guerrero” in Mexico. These 1-day excursions typically follow a mixed pattern of nearly-constant steps when individuals displace from their homes towards potential collecting sites and a mixed pattern of steps of different lengths when actually searching for fallen wood in the forest. Displacements in the searching phase seem not to be compatible with Lévy flights described by power-laws with optimal scaling exponents. These findings, however, can be interpreted in the light of deterministic searching on heavily degraded landscapes where the interaction of the individuals with their fuel wood-scarce environment produces alternative searching strategies than the expected Lévy flights. These results have important implications for future management and restoration of degraded forests and the improvement of the ecological services they may provide to their inhabitants.
Palavras-chave: Lévy flights
Human mobility
Deterministic walks
Me’Phaa
Fuel wood
Ecological restoration
Foraging Mexico
Editor: Human Ecology
Tipo de Acesso: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
URI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-012-9465-8
http://www.locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/23363
Data do documento: Abr-2012
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