caa a22 4500 445806737 CHVBK 20180317145158.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10745-011-9413-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10745-011-9413-z Artists as Harvesters: Natural Resource Use by Indigenous Woodcarvers in Central Arnhem Land, Australia [Elektronische Daten] [Jennifer Koenig, Jon Altman, Anthony Griffiths] Plant resources are used, managed and conserved by local communities in many parts of the world. However, very few studies have examined the site-specific factors and mechanisms that affect resource extraction. We apply methodology from the social and biological sciences to examine the cultural and socio-economic factors that influence the harvest practice and resource use of indigenous wood carvers in the Maningrida region of central Arnhem Land. Woodcarvers from this region use a small number of carving timbers with two species dominant, Bombax ceiba and Brachychiton diversifolius. There were many cultural differences in harvest practice, with artists from the Kuninjku/Kunibeidji language community harvesting a greater number of tree species, larger quantities per harvest trip and smaller sized stems. Socio-economic factors also played an important role in facilitating the collection of stems as artists owning a vehicle acquired more stems than those who did not. Harvest sites closest to the township of Maningrida had higher visitation frequencies than those further away. These influences on harvest practice have significant implications for the ecological sustainability of timber harvesting in this region and we highlight the need to examine such localised factors when assessing the sustainability of indigenous wildlife harvests. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2011 Non-timber forest products nationallicence Resource use nationallicence Woodcarving nationallicence Ethnobotany nationallicence Timber harvest nationallicence Central Arnhem Land, Australia nationallicence Koenig Jennifer Research Institute for Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, NT 0909, Darwin, Australia aut Altman Jon Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National University, ACT 0200, Canberra, Australia aut Griffiths Anthony Department of Natural Resources, Environment, the Arts and Sport, PO Box 496, NT 0831, Palmerston, Australia aut Human Ecology Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 39/4(2011-08-01), 407-419 0300-7839 39:4<407 2011 39 10745 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-011-9413-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-011-9413-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Koenig Jennifer Research Institute for Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, NT 0909, Darwin, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Altman Jon Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National University, ACT 0200, Canberra, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Griffiths Anthony Department of Natural Resources, Environment, the Arts and Sport, PO Box 496, NT 0831, Palmerston, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Human Ecology Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 39/4(2011-08-01), 407-419 0300-7839 39:4<407 2011 39 10745 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer