J Engel
Biographic Data
| ID | 74052 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Engel |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Engel |
| SIGNATURE | ENGEL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8078-9309 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Palikur traditional roundwood construction in eastern French Guiana
BACKGROUND: Palikur Amerindians live in the eastern part of French Guiana which is undergoing deep-seated changes due to the geographical and economic opening of the region. So far, Palikur's traditional ecological knowledge is poorly documented, apart from medicinal plants. The aim of this study was to document ethnobotanical practices related to traditional construction in the region. METHODS: A combination of qualitative and quantitative metho…
Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition
Past human influences on Amazonian forest The marks of prehistoric human societies on tropical forests can still be detected today. Levis et al. performed a basin-wide comparison of plant distributions, archaeological sites, and environmental data. Plants domesticated by pre-Columbian peoples are much more likely to be dominant in Amazonian forests than other species. Furthermore, forests close to archaeological sites often have a higher abundanc…
Susan E. Cayleff. Nature’s Path
Mainstream medicine in the nineteenth century was a pretty brutal affair. When doctors were not opening patients’ veins (to “let” blood), they were applying leeches, blistering skin, and dosing patients with emetics and purgatives to induce them to vomit and excrete toxins out of their systems. Few patients benefited from these “heroic” treatments, and more than a few died. George Washington’s demise, for example, was most probably due to the thr…
Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora
Introduction Recent decades have seen a major international effort to inventory tree communities in the Amazon Basin and Guiana Shield (Amazonia), but the vast extent and record diversity of these forests have hampered an understanding of basinwide patterns. To overcome this obstacle, we compiled and standardized species-level data on more than half a million trees in 1170 plots sampling all major lowland forest types to explore patterns of commo…
Doctors and Reformers
Marktlücken als Chancen für Geographieabsolventen
No abstract available
Sprachverstandnis und biblisches Horen bei Augustin
Palikur traditional roundwood construction in eastern French Guiana
BACKGROUND: Palikur Amerindians live in the eastern part of French Guiana which is undergoing deep-seated changes due to the geographical and economic opening of the region. So far, Palikur's traditional ecological knowledge is poorly documented, apart from medicinal plants. The aim of this study was to document ethnobotanical practices related to traditional construction in the region. METHODS: A combination of qualitative and quantitative metho…
Sprachverstandnis und biblisches Horen bei Augustin
Marktlücken als Chancen für Geographieabsolventen
No abstract available
Doctors and Reformers
Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora
Introduction Recent decades have seen a major international effort to inventory tree communities in the Amazon Basin and Guiana Shield (Amazonia), but the vast extent and record diversity of these forests have hampered an understanding of basinwide patterns. To overcome this obstacle, we compiled and standardized species-level data on more than half a million trees in 1170 plots sampling all major lowland forest types to explore patterns of commo…
Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition
Past human influences on Amazonian forest The marks of prehistoric human societies on tropical forests can still be detected today. Levis et al. performed a basin-wide comparison of plant distributions, archaeological sites, and environmental data. Plants domesticated by pre-Columbian peoples are much more likely to be dominant in Amazonian forests than other species. Furthermore, forests close to archaeological sites often have a higher abundanc…
Susan E. Cayleff. Nature’s Path
Mainstream medicine in the nineteenth century was a pretty brutal affair. When doctors were not opening patients’ veins (to “let” blood), they were applying leeches, blistering skin, and dosing patients with emetics and purgatives to induce them to vomit and excrete toxins out of their systems. Few patients benefited from these “heroic” treatments, and more than a few died. George Washington’s demise, for example, was most probably due to the thr…
Palikur traditional roundwood construction in eastern French Guiana
BACKGROUND: Palikur Amerindians live in the eastern part of French Guiana which is undergoing deep-seated changes due to the geographical and economic opening of the region. So far, Palikur's traditional ecological knowledge is poorly documented, apart from medicinal plants. The aim of this study was to document ethnobotanical practices related to traditional construction in the region. METHODS: A combination of qualitative and quantitative metho…
Biology (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Plant and animal studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Amazon rainforest (2 works) · Amazonian (2 works) · Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Plant Diversity and Evolution (2 works) · Abundance (ecology) (1 work)