1996 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Carrying Capacity of the African Tropical Rainforest
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06041046
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for international Scientific Research
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | Field Research |
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| Research Institution | Hamamatsu Uiversity School of medicine |
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Principal Investigator |
SATO Hiroaki Faculty of Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine Associate Professor, 医学部, 助教授 (40101472)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
エンゴラ オエップ カメルーン国科学技術省科学技術協力局, 研究員
ACHILLE Biko カメルーン国, 科学技術省, 研究員
SAWADA Masato Faculty of Education, Yamaguchi University, 教育学部, 講師 (30211949)
HOSHINO Jirou College of Liberal arts, Himeji Dokkyou University, 一般教育部, 助教授 (60199479)
KAWAMURA Kyouhei faculty of Education, Yamanashi University, 教育学部, 教授 (60126646)
CHUJYOU Hiroyoshi College of International Studies, Chubu University, 国際関係学部, 教授 (80207315)
TERASHIMA Hideaki Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Kobe Gakuin University, 人文学部, 教授 (10135098)
OYEP Engola Department of Cooperation of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Tec
BIKOI Achille Department of Cooperation of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Tec
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| Project Period (FY) |
1994 – 1996
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| Keywords | Cameroon / Congo / tropical rainforest / land-us systems / carrying capacity / sustainable use of forests / forest depletion / hunter-gatherers / slash-and-burn horticulturalists |
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| Research Abstract |
Aiming to find out the ways in which forest dwellers can sustainably use forest resources without their depletion, we conducted a series of field surveys concerning the carrying capacity of the African tropical rainforest.We investigated resource-using activities, land-use systems, ethnoscientific knowledges of plant and animal resources and population dynamics of forest dwellers including two groups of hunter-gatherers, e.g.the Baka and the Aka generally known as pygmies and some groups of slash-and-burn horticulturalists and productivity of some natural or cultivated food resources in southern Cameroon where a drier type of rainforests predominants and northern Congo where a more humid type of rainforests predominants from 1994 to 1996. Besides above items, we researched the physical and physiological condition of the Baka hunter-gatherers living in south Cameroon in 1996. We are examining the capacity of the african rainforest based on these data.
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