Doyle Mckey
Biographic Data
| ID | 477 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Doyle Mckey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Doyle |
| FAMILY NAME | Mckey |
| SIGNATURE | MCKEY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7271-901X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 193 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
La notion d’environnement: Enjeux, écologie et politiques
The Maghreb region has recently experienced a fertility decline, the pace and continuity of which has varied by country: Algeria and Tunisia have seen a rebound followed by further decline, and Morocco a steady fall. These trajectories reflect lasting changes in marriage, contraception, and family norms, against a socio-economic backdrop of prolonged education and later labour market entry. These countries are likely to be facing a sustained peri…
Navigating human–plant reciprocity: Commercial harvesting by professionals of a medicinal plant fosters multi‐actor landscape management
Studies of human–nature relationships increasingly recognise not only nature's contributions to people but also the positive contributions of human practices to ecosystems. The concept of reciprocal contributions emphasises positive human–nature relationships. But trade‐offs between natural elements implies that human favouring of one element (e.g. via the protection of its habitat) can be detrimental to others. Discussing the concept of reciproc…
Reflections on the future of European ethnobiology
In recent years, ethnobiology has undergone significant transformation. A renewed research framework has emerged that prioritizes an ethics of care-one that emphasizes relationships, interdependence, and responsibility towards both human and non-human others throughout all stages of research. This paradigm shift, led largely by Indigenous scholars and researchers from the Global South, invites European ethnobiologists to critically reflect on how…
Social strategies to access land influence crop diversity in northwestern Morocco
Much evidence supports the ecological and agronomic benefits of diversity, of both crops and environments, for building resilience and sustainability in agroecosystems. Farmers' knowledge about crop diversity is well‐documented, but aside from studies on how farmers exchange seeds and knowledge through networks, the interactions of social factors and the diversity of crops and cultivated environments have been mainly overlooked. One factor receiv…
Historical Ecology in Amazonia
Soil animals and archaeological site formation processes, with a particular focus on insects
Archaeological sites are formed not only by human activities, but also by natural processes acting on sediments during their deposition and ever since. Translating archaeological data into inferences about human behavior requires taking these processes into account. Bioturbation is the most important of the many ways that soil animals affect site formation. Bioturbating animals are diverse; I focus on ants, termites, and earthworms, the most wide…
Semi-Domesticated Crops Have Unique Functional Roles in Agroecosystems: Perennial Beans ( Phaseolus dumosus and P. coccineus ) and Landscape Ethnoecology in the Colombian Andes
Semi-domesticated plants are good resources for agroecology, because they can survive without human intervention and can be managed together with non-domesticated plants. To explore the ecological know-how underlying farmer management of semi-domesticates at the landscape level, we compared how Yanacona Indigenous People in the southwestern Colombian Andes manage two semi-domesticated species of Phaseolus beans, both locally named cacha (Phaseolu…
Thinking outside the Continent and outside the Box: Cross-Continental Comparative Studies Can Enrich Studies of Pre-Columbian Raised-Field Agriculture
Despite an attempt at intercontinental synthesis by Denevan and Turner ( 1974 ) almost 50 years ago, studies of agricultural raised fields (RF) in the Neotropics and in Africa and New Guinea are separate research traditions, with almost no communication between them. Neotropical studies refer to “raised-field agriculture” and almost exclusively concern archaeological systems in wetlands. Studies in Africa and New Guinea refer to “mound” or “ridge…
Interpreting landscapes of pre-Columbian raised-field agriculture using high-resolution LiDAR topography
Extensive areas of seasonally flooded savannas in South America are covered with vestiges of pre-Columbian raised fields. The present-day state of these vestiges depends on both initial human agency and the balance between erosion and accumulation by soil organisms. We investigated the taphonomic determinants of mound-shaped raised fields in the Llanos de Mojos, Bolivia, using high-resolution digital terrain models produced by LiDAR mounted on an…
Archaeology and ethnography demonstrate a human origin for Amazonian Dark Earths
Archaeological research provides clear evidence that the widespread formation of Amazonian Dark Earths (ADEs) in tropical lowland South America was concentrated in the Late Holocene, an outcome of sharp demographic growth that peaked towards 1000 BP. In their recent paper, however, Silva et al. propose that the high fertility of ADE is not of anthropic origin but instead the result of alluvial deposition starting in the Middle Holocene (8200-4200…
Making the most of grasslands and heathlands: Unearthing the links between soil paring-and-burning, plaggen cultivation, and raised-field agriculture
Compared to traditional (pre-industrial) forest-based agricultural systems, traditional agriculture as practiced in grasslands and heathlands has been neglected, both by agronomists and by ethnoecologists. Examining the diversity of soil-preparation techniques used to cultivate grasslands and heathlands, and the farming systems, both past and present, in which they are enmeshed, opens up unexplored vistas in comparative agriculture. Techniques an…
Les systèmes agricoles du passé peuvent-ils inspirer la transition écologique: Plaisirs et périls d’une archéologie appliquée
L’archéologie a un rôle unique à jouer dans la conception de la transition vers des modes de vie plus durables. Cependant, elle a jusqu’à présent eu peu d’impact dans les discussions sur les stratégies capables de faire face aux grands défis sociétaux : comment assurer la sécurité alimentaire, s’adapter au changement climatique, bâtir des systèmes agricoles résilients ? Le présent article explore les raisons qui sont à l’origine de cette situatio…
Agricultural innovation and environmental change on the floodplains of the Congo River
Climate-driven environmental changes bring new risks but also opportunities to populations living along the world's major rivers. Based on ethnoecological fieldwork, in this paper we examine how people living in the cuvette centrale of the Congo basin have adopted flood-recession agriculture on islands in the Congo River, taking advantage of a secular shift since the 1980s in the hydrological regime of the Congo River. Analyses of the hydrologica…
Paysages bioculturels et biomimétisme à un niveau écosystémique
In a wide range of environments —but which all have in common the scarcity of some key resource that is crucial for life— there have emerged ecosystems that show remarkably regular spatial patterns in the distribution of vegetation, in topography, or both. These patterns have been shown to result from the activities of organisms that can be classed as “ecosystem engineers.” In these constraining environments, “engineer” organisms, acting in conce…
Cerritos, tolas, tesos, camellones y otros montículos de las Tierras Bajas de Sudamérica
Se analizan los paisajes producidos por la ocupación humana pré-histórica en las tierras bajas de Amazonia y del Cono Sur; evaluando sus similitudes y relaciones con montículos de origen natural. Se describen aspectos específicos de cada escenario y se interpreta el proceso cultural de formación de estos asentamientos con montículos, a partir de información reciente. Se exponen aspectos de otras ingenieras ambientales implementadas por especies a…
Farmer seed networks make a limited contribution to agriculture? Four common misconceptions
Seed exchange networks for agrobiodiversity conservation. A review
Peer Reviewers
Pre-Columbian agricultural landscapes, ecosystem engineers, and self-organized patchiness in Amazonia
The scale and nature of pre-Columbian human impacts in Amazonia are currently hotly debated. Whereas pre-Columbian people dramatically changed the distribution and abundance of species and habitats in some parts of Amazonia, their impact in other parts is less clear. Pioneer research asked whether their effects reached even further, changing how ecosystems function, but few in-depth studies have examined mechanisms underpinning the resilience of …
Late Holocene Neotropical agricultural landscapes: Phytolith and stable carbon isotope analysis of raised fields from French Guianan coastal savannahs
Domestication and Diversity in Manioc (Manihot esculentaCrantz ssp.esculenta, Euphorbiaceae)
Recent work reviewed here offers new insights into the evolution of manioc (Manihot esculenta) under domestication and contributes to current scientific efforts aimed at documenting forms of environmental management, local knowledge systems, and cultural practices that enhance genetic diversity. This work shows that human and natural selection jointly shape manioc diversity through (1) the overall cultivation system, which is highly adapted to en…
Genetic Diversity of Traditional South American Landraces of Cassava (Manihot Esculenta Crantz): An Analysis Using Microsatellites
Heterogeneity in Ethnoecological Knowledge and Management of Medicinal Plants in the Himalayas of Nepal: Implications for Conservation
Ghimire, S., D. McKey and Y. Aumeeruddy-Thomas 2004. Heterogeneity in ethnoecological knowledge and management of medicinal plants in the himalayas of nepal: implications for conservation. Ecology and Society 9(3): 6. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-00708-090306
Germination Ecology of Cassava (Manihot Esculenta Crantz, Euphorbiaceae) in Traditional Agroecosystems: Seed and Seedling Biology of a Vegetatively Propagated Domesticated Plant 1
Wild yams revisited: Is independence from agriculture possible for rain forest hunter-gatherers
Domestication and Diversity in Manioc (Manihot esculentaCrantz ssp.esculenta, Euphorbiaceae)
Recent work reviewed here offers new insights into the evolution of manioc (Manihot esculenta) under domestication and contributes to current scientific efforts aimed at documenting forms of environmental management, local knowledge systems, and cultural practices that enhance genetic diversity. This work shows that human and natural selection jointly shape manioc diversity through (1) the overall cultivation system, which is highly adapted to en…
Farmer seed networks make a limited contribution to agriculture? Four common misconceptions
Late Holocene Neotropical agricultural landscapes: Phytolith and stable carbon isotope analysis of raised fields from French Guianan coastal savannahs
Heterogeneity in Ethnoecological Knowledge and Management of Medicinal Plants in the Himalayas of Nepal: Implications for Conservation
Ghimire, S., D. McKey and Y. Aumeeruddy-Thomas 2004. Heterogeneity in ethnoecological knowledge and management of medicinal plants in the himalayas of nepal: implications for conservation. Ecology and Society 9(3): 6. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-00708-090306
Genetic Diversity of Traditional South American Landraces of Cassava (Manihot Esculenta Crantz): An Analysis Using Microsatellites
Germination Ecology of Cassava (Manihot Esculenta Crantz, Euphorbiaceae) in Traditional Agroecosystems: Seed and Seedling Biology of a Vegetatively Propagated Domesticated Plant 1
Cerritos, tolas, tesos, camellones y otros montículos de las Tierras Bajas de Sudamérica
Se analizan los paisajes producidos por la ocupación humana pré-histórica en las tierras bajas de Amazonia y del Cono Sur; evaluando sus similitudes y relaciones con montículos de origen natural. Se describen aspectos específicos de cada escenario y se interpreta el proceso cultural de formación de estos asentamientos con montículos, a partir de información reciente. Se exponen aspectos de otras ingenieras ambientales implementadas por especies a…
Making the most of grasslands and heathlands: Unearthing the links between soil paring-and-burning, plaggen cultivation, and raised-field agriculture
Compared to traditional (pre-industrial) forest-based agricultural systems, traditional agriculture as practiced in grasslands and heathlands has been neglected, both by agronomists and by ethnoecologists. Examining the diversity of soil-preparation techniques used to cultivate grasslands and heathlands, and the farming systems, both past and present, in which they are enmeshed, opens up unexplored vistas in comparative agriculture. Techniques an…
Interpreting landscapes of pre-Columbian raised-field agriculture using high-resolution LiDAR topography
Extensive areas of seasonally flooded savannas in South America are covered with vestiges of pre-Columbian raised fields. The present-day state of these vestiges depends on both initial human agency and the balance between erosion and accumulation by soil organisms. We investigated the taphonomic determinants of mound-shaped raised fields in the Llanos de Mojos, Bolivia, using high-resolution digital terrain models produced by LiDAR mounted on an…
Agricultural innovation and environmental change on the floodplains of the Congo River
Climate-driven environmental changes bring new risks but also opportunities to populations living along the world's major rivers. Based on ethnoecological fieldwork, in this paper we examine how people living in the cuvette centrale of the Congo basin have adopted flood-recession agriculture on islands in the Congo River, taking advantage of a secular shift since the 1980s in the hydrological regime of the Congo River. Analyses of the hydrologica…
Food selection by black colobus monkeys (Colobus satanas) in relation to plant chemistry
Black colobus monkeys (Golobus salanas) in the Douala-Edea Reserve, a rain-forest on the coast of Cameroon, have been shown to avoid young and mature leaves of most of the common plants in their habitat and to feed disproportionately heavily on leaves of rare plants. The proportion of leaves in the diet was low compared to most colobines studied, and the monkeys spent over half their feeding time eating seeds. Patterns of food selection were anal…
Wild yams revisited: Is independence from agriculture possible for rain forest hunter-gatherers
Germination Ecology of Cassava (Manihot Esculenta Crantz, Euphorbiaceae) in Traditional Agroecosystems: Seed and Seedling Biology of a Vegetatively Propagated Domesticated Plant 1
Genetic Diversity of Traditional South American Landraces of Cassava (Manihot Esculenta Crantz): An Analysis Using Microsatellites
Heterogeneity in Ethnoecological Knowledge and Management of Medicinal Plants in the Himalayas of Nepal: Implications for Conservation
Ghimire, S., D. McKey and Y. Aumeeruddy-Thomas 2004. Heterogeneity in ethnoecological knowledge and management of medicinal plants in the himalayas of nepal: implications for conservation. Ecology and Society 9(3): 6. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-00708-090306
Domestication and Diversity in Manioc (Manihot esculentaCrantz ssp.esculenta, Euphorbiaceae)
Recent work reviewed here offers new insights into the evolution of manioc (Manihot esculenta) under domestication and contributes to current scientific efforts aimed at documenting forms of environmental management, local knowledge systems, and cultural practices that enhance genetic diversity. This work shows that human and natural selection jointly shape manioc diversity through (1) the overall cultivation system, which is highly adapted to en…
Pre-Columbian agricultural landscapes, ecosystem engineers, and self-organized patchiness in Amazonia
The scale and nature of pre-Columbian human impacts in Amazonia are currently hotly debated. Whereas pre-Columbian people dramatically changed the distribution and abundance of species and habitats in some parts of Amazonia, their impact in other parts is less clear. Pioneer research asked whether their effects reached even further, changing how ecosystems function, but few in-depth studies have examined mechanisms underpinning the resilience of …
Late Holocene Neotropical agricultural landscapes: Phytolith and stable carbon isotope analysis of raised fields from French Guianan coastal savannahs
Seed exchange networks for agrobiodiversity conservation. A review
Peer Reviewers
Farmer seed networks make a limited contribution to agriculture? Four common misconceptions
Paysages bioculturels et biomimétisme à un niveau écosystémique
In a wide range of environments —but which all have in common the scarcity of some key resource that is crucial for life— there have emerged ecosystems that show remarkably regular spatial patterns in the distribution of vegetation, in topography, or both. These patterns have been shown to result from the activities of organisms that can be classed as “ecosystem engineers.” In these constraining environments, “engineer” organisms, acting in conce…
Cerritos, tolas, tesos, camellones y otros montículos de las Tierras Bajas de Sudamérica
Se analizan los paisajes producidos por la ocupación humana pré-histórica en las tierras bajas de Amazonia y del Cono Sur; evaluando sus similitudes y relaciones con montículos de origen natural. Se describen aspectos específicos de cada escenario y se interpreta el proceso cultural de formación de estos asentamientos con montículos, a partir de información reciente. Se exponen aspectos de otras ingenieras ambientales implementadas por especies a…
Les systèmes agricoles du passé peuvent-ils inspirer la transition écologique: Plaisirs et périls d’une archéologie appliquée
L’archéologie a un rôle unique à jouer dans la conception de la transition vers des modes de vie plus durables. Cependant, elle a jusqu’à présent eu peu d’impact dans les discussions sur les stratégies capables de faire face aux grands défis sociétaux : comment assurer la sécurité alimentaire, s’adapter au changement climatique, bâtir des systèmes agricoles résilients ? Le présent article explore les raisons qui sont à l’origine de cette situatio…
Agricultural innovation and environmental change on the floodplains of the Congo River
Climate-driven environmental changes bring new risks but also opportunities to populations living along the world's major rivers. Based on ethnoecological fieldwork, in this paper we examine how people living in the cuvette centrale of the Congo basin have adopted flood-recession agriculture on islands in the Congo River, taking advantage of a secular shift since the 1980s in the hydrological regime of the Congo River. Analyses of the hydrologica…
Archaeology and ethnography demonstrate a human origin for Amazonian Dark Earths
Archaeological research provides clear evidence that the widespread formation of Amazonian Dark Earths (ADEs) in tropical lowland South America was concentrated in the Late Holocene, an outcome of sharp demographic growth that peaked towards 1000 BP. In their recent paper, however, Silva et al. propose that the high fertility of ADE is not of anthropic origin but instead the result of alluvial deposition starting in the Middle Holocene (8200-4200…
Making the most of grasslands and heathlands: Unearthing the links between soil paring-and-burning, plaggen cultivation, and raised-field agriculture
Compared to traditional (pre-industrial) forest-based agricultural systems, traditional agriculture as practiced in grasslands and heathlands has been neglected, both by agronomists and by ethnoecologists. Examining the diversity of soil-preparation techniques used to cultivate grasslands and heathlands, and the farming systems, both past and present, in which they are enmeshed, opens up unexplored vistas in comparative agriculture. Techniques an…
Soil animals and archaeological site formation processes, with a particular focus on insects
Archaeological sites are formed not only by human activities, but also by natural processes acting on sediments during their deposition and ever since. Translating archaeological data into inferences about human behavior requires taking these processes into account. Bioturbation is the most important of the many ways that soil animals affect site formation. Bioturbating animals are diverse; I focus on ants, termites, and earthworms, the most wide…
Semi-Domesticated Crops Have Unique Functional Roles in Agroecosystems: Perennial Beans ( Phaseolus dumosus and P. coccineus ) and Landscape Ethnoecology in the Colombian Andes
Semi-domesticated plants are good resources for agroecology, because they can survive without human intervention and can be managed together with non-domesticated plants. To explore the ecological know-how underlying farmer management of semi-domesticates at the landscape level, we compared how Yanacona Indigenous People in the southwestern Colombian Andes manage two semi-domesticated species of Phaseolus beans, both locally named cacha (Phaseolu…
Thinking outside the Continent and outside the Box: Cross-Continental Comparative Studies Can Enrich Studies of Pre-Columbian Raised-Field Agriculture
Despite an attempt at intercontinental synthesis by Denevan and Turner ( 1974 ) almost 50 years ago, studies of agricultural raised fields (RF) in the Neotropics and in Africa and New Guinea are separate research traditions, with almost no communication between them. Neotropical studies refer to “raised-field agriculture” and almost exclusively concern archaeological systems in wetlands. Studies in Africa and New Guinea refer to “mound” or “ridge…
Interpreting landscapes of pre-Columbian raised-field agriculture using high-resolution LiDAR topography
Extensive areas of seasonally flooded savannas in South America are covered with vestiges of pre-Columbian raised fields. The present-day state of these vestiges depends on both initial human agency and the balance between erosion and accumulation by soil organisms. We investigated the taphonomic determinants of mound-shaped raised fields in the Llanos de Mojos, Bolivia, using high-resolution digital terrain models produced by LiDAR mounted on an…
Historical Ecology in Amazonia
Social strategies to access land influence crop diversity in northwestern Morocco
Much evidence supports the ecological and agronomic benefits of diversity, of both crops and environments, for building resilience and sustainability in agroecosystems. Farmers' knowledge about crop diversity is well‐documented, but aside from studies on how farmers exchange seeds and knowledge through networks, the interactions of social factors and the diversity of crops and cultivated environments have been mainly overlooked. One factor receiv…
Navigating human–plant reciprocity: Commercial harvesting by professionals of a medicinal plant fosters multi‐actor landscape management
Studies of human–nature relationships increasingly recognise not only nature's contributions to people but also the positive contributions of human practices to ecosystems. The concept of reciprocal contributions emphasises positive human–nature relationships. But trade‐offs between natural elements implies that human favouring of one element (e.g. via the protection of its habitat) can be detrimental to others. Discussing the concept of reciproc…
Reflections on the future of European ethnobiology
In recent years, ethnobiology has undergone significant transformation. A renewed research framework has emerged that prioritizes an ethics of care-one that emphasizes relationships, interdependence, and responsibility towards both human and non-human others throughout all stages of research. This paradigm shift, led largely by Indigenous scholars and researchers from the Global South, invites European ethnobiologists to critically reflect on how…
Biology (16 works) · Ecology (15 works) · Geography (15 works) · Agroforestry (11 works) · Agriculture (10 works) · Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory (9 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Environmental Science (7 works) · Botany (6 works)