Using folk taxonomies to understand stakeholder perceptions for species conservation

Are folk taxonomies “memes”?

This commentary stresses the importance of Atran’s work for the development of a new cognitive anthropology, but questions both his particular use of Dawkins’s “meme” model and the general usefulness of the meme model for understanding folk-taxonomies as cultural phenom-

Ethnopedology and Folk Soil Taxonomies

The Cultural Perceptions, Folk Taxonomies and the Relationship with Alternative Medicine Practices Among Hong Kong People

Using physiology to understand climate-driven changes in disease and their implications for conservation

Controversy persists regarding the contributions of climate change to biodiversity losses, through its effects on the spread and emergence of infectious diseases. One of the reasons for this controversy is that there are few mechanistic studies that explore the links among climate change, infectious disease, and declines of host populations. Given that host-parasite interactions are generally m...

Using Taxonomies for Product Recommendation

In this work we take advantage of valuable information encoded in taxonomies to improve the quality of recommender systems. We present three strategies that explore the use of taxonomies: (i) category descriptors, (ii) classification features and (iii) category filters. We provide a real-case study over the book domain, in which the recommendation target is a set of 100 news page from The New Y...