Indigenous communities

Litter decomposition Cu2+ 0.50 mg/g soil Indigenous community Scots pine needle litter 61... 

Cu2+ 20 pM Indigenous community Leaf litter immersed in stream 63... 

Acidogenesis Cd2+ 258 pM Indigenous community Glucose-acclimated seed sludge 67... 

Nitrogen transformation Cd2+ 0.040 mg/g soil Indigenous community Soils receiving sewer/ industrial wastewater 69... 

Once the indigenous community of microorganisms has become acclimated to the degradation of a chemical at an interface and the activity becomes marked, the community may retain its active state for some time. Too little information is presently available to permit generalizations to be made among compounds regarding the duration of the beneficial influence of prior additions of the compound. It is presently not clear why a microbial community which has acclimated to a particular substrate loses that activity. This could be a result of the decline in numbers or biomass of the responsible microorganisms or a loss of the metabolic activity in the absence of the specific compound. 

Rosenthal JP, Politics, cultute, governance in the development of prior informed consent in indigenous communities, Curr Anthropol4S7. 3— A2, 2006. 

There has been very little research conducted on the morama bean, largely because it is found in the wild and only consumed by a small percentage of the population in the coimtries where found. However, in these areas, it is used by indigenous communities as a source of food, feed, shelter, and medicine, thus contributing to improve the quality of life in traditional agricultural and forest systems in various ways. The morama has enormous potential value that needs to be exploited for the... 

Zawawi, Ibrahim 2001. Voices of the Crocker Range Indigenous Communities in Sabah. Social Narratives of Transitioin in Tambunan and its Neighbours. Kuching Institute of East Asian Studies, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. Zenner, Walter 1991. Minorities in the Middle a Cross-cultural Analysis. Albany State University of New York Press. 

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