ENG: Following up on my previous post about the tropical woody bamboo species richness in Bolivia, I would like to discuss the relationship between bears and bamboos in the Bolivian Andes. I recently read this fascinating article by The Nature Conservancy, that published a map of the potential distribution of the Andean spectacled bear known […]
Month: June 2025
Tropical Woody Bamboo Species Richness Map
ENG: As I write my academic monograph, I am currently working on a chapter about mapping musical bamboos. Here, I would like to share some information about my map of woody bamboo species richness, which I produced using species modelling software and a geographic information system (GIS). The exact methodology can be found in Appendix […]
Musical Bamboo Podcast
ENG: In May, my colleague Celia Fritze-Nabjinsky and I worked on a podcast about the musical bamboos of the Bolivian Andes and the use of digital methods. The podcast (in German) will be published soon as part of a contribution to a podcast edited volume within the Digital Humanities project “From Global to Local” at […]
Upcoming Presentation in CAS-E
ENG: I will be presenting at a very interesting workshop, organized by the Center for Advances Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (here). The paper is titled “The Dilemmas of Secrecy: Musical Bamboos and the Becoming of Hidden EcologicalKnowledge in the Bolivian Andes”. Below you find the preliminary programme with […]
The Musical Bamboos of the Bolivian Andes 