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Integrating ecological monitoring and local ecological knowledge to evaluate conservation outcomes [PDF]

, 2021
AbstractSuccessful conservation of long-lived species requires reliable understanding of long-term trends and historical baselines. Using a green turtle (Chelonia mydas) foraging aggregation in the northern Gulf of California, Mexico as case study, we integrated scientific monitoring data with historic catch rate reconstructions derived from Local ...
Michelle María Early-Capistrán, Elena Solana-Arellano, F. Alberto Abreu-Grobois, Gerardo Garibay-Melo, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Andrea Sáenz-Arroyo, Nemer E. Narchi   +6 more
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Ecological Knowledge and Management of Fauna Among the Mexicatl of the Sierra Negra, México: An Interpretive Approach

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Generally motivated by the relevance of animals in human subsistence, the management of fauna has taken different shapes throughout the world. This study aims to analyse a typology of management forms, exploring their relationship with the motivation to ...
Mariana Zarazúa-Carbajal, Mariana Zarazúa-Carbajal, Michelle Chávez-Gutiérrez, Juan Luis Peña-Mondragón, Alejandro Casas   +4 more
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Time travelling through local ecological knowledge regarding an endangered species [PDF]

Science of The Total Environment, 2020
European freshwater pearl mussel (Margaritifera margaritifera) populations are declining despite a growing effort to conserve them. Here we used a combination of local ecological knowledge (LEK) and field sampling to assess past and current distribution and conservation status of this endangered species in Cávado and Neiva Rivers (Portugal).
Ronaldo Sousa, Joana Garrido Nogueira, Fernando Miranda, Amílcar Teixeira   +3 more
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Shared but Threatened: The Heritage of Wild Food Plant Gathering among Different Linguistic and Religious Groups in the Ishkoman and Yasin Valleys, North Pakistan

Foods, 2020
A wild food ethnobotanical field study was conducted in the Ishkoman and Yasin valleys, located in the Hindukush Mountain Range of Gilgit-Baltistan, northern Pakistan.
Muhammad Abdul Aziz, Arshad Mehmood Abbasi, Zahid Ullah, Andrea Pieroni   +3 more
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‘Knowledge Making’: Issues in Modelling Local and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge [PDF]

Human Ecology, 2015
Modelling, particularly computer-based modelling, is increasingly used in political, managerial, and scientific contexts to enable and justify decisions. Technocratic decision makers also aspire to understand and incorporate local knowledge, albeit at times only superficially. We analyse one consequence of this situation – ongoing attempts to formalise,
Barber, M., Jackson, S.
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Feeding the Future with the Past: Incorporating Local Ecological Knowledge in River Restoration

Resources, 2020
Despite many years of experience in the river restoration field, which has become one of the most promising areas of water resources management, significant challenges and problems remain.
Ewelina Szałkiewicz, Joanna Sucholas, Mateusz Grygoruk   +2 more
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The UN local communities and Indigenous peoples' platform: A traditional ecological knowledge-based evaluation [PDF]

, 2019
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. © 2019 The Authors.
Johnson M., Kimmerer R.W., Nadasdy P., Sachs W., Simpson L., Smith L., Tomlinson L.   +6 more
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Ethnobotanical contributions to global fishing communities: a review

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2023
Background Ethnobotanical knowledge about the role of plants in fisheries provides valuable ecological information vital for sustainable management of local resources; however, it is diluted and understudied globally.
Jimlea Nadezhda Mendoza, Natalia Hanazaki, Baiba Prūse, Agnese Martini, Maria Viktoria Bittner, Sophia Kochalski, Edison Macusi, Aimee Ciriaco, Giulia Mattalia, Renata Sõukand   +9 more
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Using local experts as benchmarks for household local ecological knowledge: scoring in South African savannas [PDF]

, 2010
It is well recognised that local ecological knowledge is an important facet of natural resource management in rural regions of the developing world. However, techniques to assess levels and to integrate it into formal or informal management approaches ...
Shackleton, C M (Charles Michael), Steele, M Z   +1 more
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Histoire et épistémologie des savoirs locaux et autochtones

Revue d'ethnoécologie, 2012
In this paper, we will attempt an anthropological history of the concept of “local knowledge”, from the first research dedicated to the botanical or zoological knowledge of “traditional” peoples carried out in the 50’s, to the outburst of interest on ...
Marie Roué
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