Mollusk shells from burials of tuzovskiye bugry-1 As indicators of ethno-cultural processes In southern siberia and western central asia In the 3rd millennium bc

Kiryushin, Yu.F.; Kiryushin, K. Yu.; Schmidt, A.V.; Kuzmenkin, D.V.; Abdulganeyev, M.T.

doi:10.1016/j.aeae.2011.08.004

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“…The majority of these records relate to FB shells and pearls, mostly from the order Unionida, as burial objects used by ancient human communities in e.g. Egypt (Burleigh, 1983), Mongolia (Kiryushin et al ., 2011), Russia (Korolev et al ., 2018) and Argentina (Fabra, Gordillo & Piovano, 2012). More recently, from the 18th to the early 20th centuries, harvested freshwater pearls, particularly from M. margaritifera , have been used as decoration on various objects of religious significance (Strack, 2015).…”

Section: Cultural Ecosystem Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A global synthesis of ecosystem services provided and disrupted by freshwater bivalve molluscs

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Identification of ecosystem services, i.e. the contributions that ecosystems make to human well-being, has proven instrumental in galvanising public and political support for safeguarding biodiversity and its benefits to people. Here we synthesise the global evidence on ecosystem services provided and disrupted by freshwater bivalves, a heterogenous group of >1200 species, including some of the most threatened (in Unionida) and invasive (e.g. Dreissena polymorpha) taxa globally. Our systematic literature review resulted in a data set of 904 records from 69 countries relating to 24 classes of provisioning (N = 189), cultural (N = 491) and regulating (N = 224) services following the Common International Classification of Ecosystem Services (CICES). Prominent ecosystem services included (i) the provisioning of food, materials and medicinal products, (ii) knowledge acquisition (e.g. on water quality, past environments and historical societies), ornamental and other cultural contributions, and (iii) the filtration, sequestration, storage and/or transformation of biological and physico-chemical water properties. About 9% of records provided evidence for the disruption rather than provision of ecosystem services. Synergies and trade-offs of ecosystem services were observed. For instance, water filtration by freshwater bivalves can be beneficial for the cultural service 'biomonitoring', while negatively or positively affecting food

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Section: Cultural Ecosystem Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%