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Past, present and future of local crop evolution

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Promoting agrobiodiversity is a promising strategy for mitigating the negative effects of climate change on global food security. We highlight the central role evolutionary processes play in harnessing the potential of local crops by integrating genomics, archaeology, ethnobotany and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK).
Nataly Allasi Canales, Philippa Ryan, Amy Jackson, Hong Phuong Le, James Borrell, Aaron Davis, Rafal M. Gutaker   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using remote sensing and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) to understand mangrove change on the Maroochy River, Queensland, Australia

, 2018
Mangrove forests support a variety of ecosystem functions and services imperative for ecosystem health. Despite the importance of mangroves, however, mangrove forests worldwide are under threat from human development and climate change.
Sidle, R, Leon, Javier, Pearce, T, Pearce, Tristan, Matthew I. Brown, Brown, Matthew I., Sidle, Roy, Wilson, R, Brown, MI, Wilson, Rachele, Tristan Pearce, Javier Leon, Rachele Wilson, Roy Sidle, Leon, J   +14 more
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Local Knowledge and Conservation of Seagrasses in the Tamil Nadu State of India

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2011
Local knowledge systems are not considered in the conservation of fragile seagrass marine ecosystems. In fact, little is known about the utility of seagrasses in local coastal communities.
Newmaster AF, Berg KJ, Ragupathy S, Palanisamy M, Sambandan K, Newmaster SG   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Cultural Transmission of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Cerekang, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

SAGE Open, 2023
This article explores how traditional ecological knowledge in Cerekang, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, is culturally transmitted as a strategy for cultural survival amidst internal and external challenges such as social, ecological, and political changes ...
Andi Muhammad Akhmar, Fathu Rahman, Supratman, Husain Hasyim, Muhammad Nawir   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Proposing a Framework to Center Justice in Ambitious Science Teaching

Science Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Though educators and researchers have developed shared theory and language for priorities necessary to disrupt the status quo toward more equitable science education, we lack a tool that organizes sets of teaching practices across an instructional unit to support enactment and rehearsal.
April Luehmann, Gena Merliss, Todd Campbell, Déana Scipio, Yang Zhang, Hannah Cooke, Elizabeth Wilson, Priya Pugh, Adma Gama‐Krummel   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Stepping out of our paradigm: a path for the integration of scientific and traditional ecological knowledge in natural resource management [PDF]

, 2010
The call for the integration of scientific and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) in natural resource and environment management (NREM) is now stronger than ever. Australian central and state governments have indicated that "knowledge integration" in
Butler, James R.A., Gratani, Monica
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Management in the millennium -- traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) : a framework for sustainable business management

, 1999
As the millennium ends, ecological damage continues at an unprecedented rate and the need for sustainable management is evident. Yet managers often lack a practical template--how do they "walk the talk" of sustainability?
GAIL WHITEMAN, Whiteman, Gail
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Neolithic Bird Folk of the Mongolian Gobi Desert: Climate Change, Ecological Knowledge and Intangible Heritage in an Ancient Persistent Place

Heritage
There were profound changes in climate and landscape throughout the Early to Late Holocene in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia. The transmission of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) among ancient hunter–gatherer societies is key for resilient adaptations
Arlene M. Rosen, Julia Clarke, James Eighmey, Jennifer Farquhar, Dalantai Sarantuya, Tserendagva Yadmaa   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Australian Aboriginal Peoples' Seasonal Knowledge: a Potential Basis for Shared Understanding in Environmental Management

Ecology and Society, 2011
Natural resource scientists and managers increasingly recognize traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) for its potential contribution to contemporary natural resource management (NRM) and, through this, to more resilient social-ecological systems.
Suzanne M. Prober, Michael H. O'Connor, Fiona J. Walsh   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Differential loss of components of traditional ecological knowledge following a primate extinction event [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2018
Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), an important component of the modern conservation toolkit, is being eroded in indigenous communities around the world.
Samuel T. Turvey, Jessica V. Bryant, Katherine A. McClune   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source