Journal article
Pastoralists as optimal foragers? Reoccupation and site selection in the deserts of post-Soviet Kazakhstan
- Abstract:
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This study explores the drivers of site selection amongst livestock owners under conditions of increasing animal numbers following a low point in the 1990s. Our major goal was to understand whether livestock owners are acting as 'optimal foragers', targeting areas of highest forage availability as they colonise previously empty areas. The results presented here suggest that they do not. Initially, distance from home settlement was the dominant determinant of site occupancy, with closer sites ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Springer US Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Human Ecology Journal website
- Volume:
- 45
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 5–21
- Publication date:
- 2016-01-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-11-17
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1572-9915
- ISSN:
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0300-7839
- Source identifiers:
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660154
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- pubs:660154
- Deposit date:
- 2016-11-18
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- Robinson et al
- Copyright date:
- 2016
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Copyright © 2016 The authors.
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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