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Well grounded: indigenous peoples' knowledge, ethnobiology and sustainability.

Published online: 08 Aug 2022

Authors: Turner, N. J. & Cuerrier, A. & Joseph, L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

The biological knowledge and associated values and beliefs of Indigenous and other long-resident Peoples are often overlooked and underrepresented in ...

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Knowledge of nature and the nature of knowledge: student natural history knowledge and the significance of birds.

Published online: 08 Aug 2022

Authors: Gosler, A. G. & Tilling, S. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

We studied the natural history knowledge (NHK) of students (18-19 years), considering the salience of nature expressed through the knowledge of names ...

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How do young identify plants? Using the drawing method to explore early ethnobotanical knowledge in Madagascar.

Published online: 09 Nov 2024

Authors: Porcher, V. & Gallois, S. & Reyes-García, V. & Raketabakoly, S. C. & Alvarez-Fernández, S. & Carrière, S. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

In small-scale societies, people learn to identify plant species during childhood. Plant recognition is an important baseline knowledge, immediately u...

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Communities' perceptions and knowledge of ecosystem services: evidence from rural communities in Nigeria.

Published online: 29 Apr 2015

Authors: Zhang, W. & Kato, E. & Bhandary, P. & Nkonya, E. & Ibrahim, H. I. & Agbonlahor, M. & Ibrahim, H. Y.

Content type: Bulletin

This research has been undertaken to improve our understanding of stakeholders' knowledge and perception about ecosystem services (ES), which provides...

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Indigenous knowledge of key ecological processes confers resilience to a small-scale kelp fishery.

Published online: 22 Oct 2021

Authors: Kobluk, H. M. & Gladstone, K. & Reid, M. & Brown, K. & Krumhansl, K. A. & Salomon, A. K.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Feedbacks between social and ecological processes can lead to sustainable stewardship practices that support ecological resilience among harvested pop...

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Citizen science promotes knowledge, skills and collective action to monitor and protect freshwater streams.

Published online: 17 Dec 2024

Authors: Gönner, J. von & Masson, T. & Köhler, S. & Fritsche, I. & Bonn, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Citizen science has great potential to foster ecological knowledge, skills and collective action for biodiversity conservation. To date, however, ther...

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Approaches and methods used to bring together indigenous and environmental science knowledge in environmental research: a systematic map protocol.

Published online: 11 Jul 2024

Authors: Pirie, E. & Whillans, T. & Knopp, J. & Furgal, C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

The bringing together of multiple knowledge sources, such as Indigenous knowledge (IK) and Environmental science Knowledge (ESK), is a topic of consid...

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Predicting animal abundance through local ecological knowledge: an internal validation using consensus analysis.

Published online: 15 Jul 2024

Authors: Braga-Pereira, F. & Mayor, P. & Morcatty, T. Q. & Pérez-Peña, P. E. & Bowler, M. T. & Mattos Vieira, M. A. R. de & Nóbrega Alves, R. R. da & Fa, J. E. & Peres, C. A. & Tavares, A. S. & Mere-Roncal, C. & González-Crespo, C. & Bertsch, C. & Rodriguez, C. R. & Bardales-Alvites, C. & Muhlen, E. von & Paim, F. P. & Tamayo, J. S. & Valsecchi, J. & Gonçalves, J. & Torres-Oyarce, L. & Lemos, L. P. & Gilmore, M. P. & Correa, M. A. & Perez, N. C. A. & Puertas, P. & Bizri, H. R. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Given the ongoing environmental degradation from local to global scales, it is fundamental to develop more efficient means of gathering data on specie...

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Plant diversity and generation of ecosystem services at the landscape scale: expert knowledge assessment.

Published online: 01 Aug 2012

Authors: Quijas, S. & Jackson, L. E. & Maass, M. & Schmid, B. & Raffaelli, D. & Balvanera, P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

In spite of the increasing amount of experimental evidence on the importance of plant species richness for ecosystem functioning at local scales, its ...

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A systematic review of transparency in the methods of expert knowledge use.

Published online: 28 Aug 2019

Authors: Drescher, M. & Edwards, R. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The use of expert knowledge (EK) as an alternative to empirical data is increasing in the ecological disciplines in response to the growing need for r...

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