NATAMST 90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Understory, Herbaceous Plant, Paiute
3 Oct 2018
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- m. kat anderson & michael j. moratto. Sustainability: defined in terms of conserving cultural as well as biological diversity. Ecological vacuum or disequilibrium in sierra nevada from departure of native. Relevance of native american environmental history to sierra nevada. Created recent evolutionary modifications in flora through human selection for certain traits. Instigators of ecosystemic change with varying degrees of intensity. Objective is to investigate and understand native cultural processes that drove biological diversity and shaped ecosystem states & to unravel ecological principles embedded in ancient land-management systems. The study of native american land-management practices. Traditional knowledge of former abundances, composition, density, and quality of plant & animal species extends to time periods before advent of governmental land management. West side: maidu, konkow, nisenan, northern sierra miwok, central. Sierra miwok, southern sierra miwok, foothill yokuts, western mono, and. East side: northern paiute, washoe, and owens valley paiute.
