Rebecca Bliege Bird
@parnajarlpa.bsky.social
Anthropologist at Penn State studying and posting about indigenous land/resource ecology, behavioral ecology, cooperation, sharing, costly signaling, women’s hunting, fire ecology, plant dispersal. Also a feminist.
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Seed dispersal by Martu peoples promotes the distribution of native plants in arid Australia
Many Indigenous peoples recognise that the abundance and fertility of some local ‘wild’ plants are dependent on their intervention. The loss of these types of ecological services due to the spread of ...
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Check out this blog post summarizing our latest paper on anthropogenic seed dispersal!Indigenous landscape fire and seed dispersal promotes native plants and increases access to traditional foods in desert Australia. Link to paper at the top of the post. 🧪