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Ethnoichthyology of freshwater fish in Europe: a review of vanishing traditional fisheries and their cultural significance in changing landscapes from the later medieval period with a focus on northern Europe [PDF]

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2020
Background Fishing is probably one of the oldest economic activities in the history of humankind. Lakes, rivers and streams in Europe are important elements in the European landscape with a rich diversity of fish and other aquatic organisms.
Ingvar Svanberg, Alison Locker
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Ichthyological ethnoknowledge of the “piabeiros” from the Amazon region, Brazil [PDF]

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2021
Background The capture of ornamental fish is one of the main economic activities of riverine families in the Amazon. However, studies regarding the local ecological knowledge of workers in this activity are still incipient.
Daniel da Silva Ladislau, Maiko Willas Soares Ribeiro, Philip Dalbert da Silva Castro, Jackson Pantoja-Lima, Paulo Henrique Rocha Aride, Adriano Teixeira de Oliveira   +5 more
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Integrated pond aquaculture and regional identity: ethnobiology of the golden humped tench of Poirino highlands, Northwest Italy [PDF]

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2022
Background Social–ecological systems are based on particular species and on their direct and human-mediated interactions. The ‘golden humped tench’ or tinca gobba dorata, a variety of tench—Tinca tinca (L., 1758)—traditionally bred in artificial ponds ...
Alessandro Delpero, Gabriele Volpato
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Patterns in fish naming ability in two fishing communities of Myanmar [PDF]

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2023
Background To date, there is little reliable information on the fish names used by two fishing communities of Myanmar, namely Intha (Inle Lake) and Rakhine (Bay of Bengal).
Aung Si, Aung Kyawphyo
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Fishers' knowledge about fish trophic interactions in the southeastern Brazilian coast. [PDF]

J Ethnobiol Ethnomed, 2015
Data derived from studies of fishers' local ecological knowledge (LEK) can be invaluable to the proposal of new studies and more appropriate management strategies.
Ramires M, Clauzet M, Barrella W, Rotundo MM, Silvano RA, Begossi A.   +5 more
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Fishers' knowledge on the coast of Brazil. [PDF]

J Ethnobiol Ethnomed, 2016
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)Although fishers' knowledge has been recently considered into management programmes, there is still the need to establish a ...
Begossi A, Salivonchyk S, Lopes PF, Silvano RA.   +3 more
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Interdependencies between Indigenous peoples, local communities, and freshwater systems in a changing Amazon. [PDF]

Conserv Biol
Abstract Globally, Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPs and LCs) are fighting for the recognition of their knowledge and decision‐making authority in freshwater conservation. In the Amazon, decision‐making around freshwater management and conservation has often overlooked Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) and the connections between ...
Athayde S, Utsunomiya R, Victoria-Lacy L, Beveridge C, Jenkins CN, Laufer J, Heilpern S, Olivas P, Anderson EP.   +8 more
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Caatinga revisited: ecology and conservation of an important seasonal dry forest. [PDF]

ScientificWorldJournal, 2012
Besides its extreme climate conditions, the Caatinga (a type of tropical seasonal forest) hosts an impressive faunal and floristic biodiversity. In the last 50 years there has been a considerable increase in the number of studies in the area. Here we aimed to present a review of these studies, focusing on four main fields: vertebrate ecology, plant ...
de Albuquerque UP, de Lima Araújo E, El-Deir AC, de Lima AL, Souto A, Bezerra BM, Ferraz EM, Maria Xavier Freire E, Sampaio EV, Las-Casas FM, de Moura GJ, Pereira GA, de Melo JG, Alves Ramos M, Rodal MJ, Schiel N, de Lyra-Neves RM, Alves RR, de Azevedo-Júnior SM, Telino Júnior WR, Severi W.   +20 more
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Amazonian fish migration as a social–cultural–ecological process

People and Nature
In this study, we highlight the rich perspectives and explanations of fish migration held by Indigenous groups across the Amazon. We present the aspects of Indigenous cosmological stories, drawing from our exploratory review of cultural ethnographies and
LuLu Victoria‐Lacy, Thiago B. A. Couto, Natalia C. Piland, Jesús Dámaso, Stephannie Fernandes, Simone Athayde, Elizabeth P. Anderson   +6 more
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Variations in vernacular naming of important species across three fishing villages of Chilika Lagoon, India [PDF]

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Background Chilika Lagoon, India, is a biodiversity hotspot that is home to over 200 fish species and supports the livelihoods of over 400 000 fishers.
Natasha R. Serrao, Prateep Kumar Nayak
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