Recent climate-driven ecological change across a continent as perceived through local ecological knowledge. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 Documenting effects of climate change is an important step towards designing mitigation and adaptation responses. Impacts of climate change on terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystems have been well-documented in the Northern Hemisphere, but long-term ...
Suzanne M Prober +5 more
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Estimating an Elephant Population Size Through Local Ecological Knowledge [PDF]
BiologyIn planning and monitoring measures to protect wildlife in an area, it is important to have a reliable baseline estimate of population size and trends.
Michael Wenborn +2 more
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Global trends of local ecological knowledge and future implications. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Local and indigenous knowledge is being transformed globally, particularly being eroded when pertaining to ecology. In many parts of the world, rural and indigenous communities are facing tremendous cultural, economic and environmental changes, which ...
Shankar Aswani +2 more
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The influence of urbanization on local ecological knowledge: a systematic review [PDF]
Journal of Ethnobiology and EthnomedicineUrbanization is a complex and multifaceted process studied across various scientific disciplines. However, in ethnobiology, research on the impacts of urbanization on local ecological knowledge (LEK) often lacks standardization and tends to focus ...
Juliana Melo Linhares Rangel +2 more
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Local knowledge in ecological modeling [PDF]
Ecology and Society, 2018 Local people and scientists both hold ecological knowledge, respectively stemming from prolonged day-to-day contact with the environment and from systematic inquiry based on the scientific method.
Annie Claude Bélisle +3 more
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Local Ecological Knowledge Reveals Change in Seagrass Social–Ecological Systems
Oceans, 2022 It is widely recognized that humanity is currently facing multiple planetary crises, including the widespread loss of biodiversity and a rapidly changing climate. The impacts of these crises are often far reaching and threaten food security (SDG goal two:
Benjamin L. H. Jones +7 more
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Effects of fisheries management on local ecological knowledge [PDF]
Ecology and Society, 2018 Local ecological knowledge, or the collective perceptions held by a particular group about their environment, results from the transmission of cultural knowledge from one generation to the next, combined with regular and persistent interactions between ...
Emily R. Farr +2 more
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Local knowledge, know‐how and knowledge mobilized in a globalized world: A new approach of indigenous local ecological knowledge [PDF]
People and Nature, 2020 More than 30 years after the 1988 Declaration of Belém, which we can consider an important outcome of socio‐environmental movements, this reflexive paper proposes new ways of approaching indigenous local knowledge (ILK) related to the living environment ...
Mélanie Congretel, Florence Pinton
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Environmental Change in Southern Appalachia: Local Ecological Knowledge across Residential Groups. [PDF]
Ambio, 2022 This paper examines how residents of Southern Appalachia observe changes in their natural environment, the values that they assign to plants and animals in that environment, and their understandings and explanations of environmental change. We use semi-structured interviews and participant observation to determine that multigenerational residents and ...
Welch-Devine M +3 more
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Arctic Borderlands Ecological Knowledge Cooperative: can local knowledge inform caribou management?
Rangifer, 2013 While quantitative analyses have traditionally been used to measure overall caribou herd health, qualitative observational data can also provide timely information that reflects what people on the land are observing.
Don E. Russell +3 more
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