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How would citizen science involving direct interaction with wildlife be regulated?

Published online: 26 Nov 2020

Authors: Palmer, A. & Reynolds, S. J. & Lane, J. & Dickey, R. & Greenhough, B.

Content type: Blog

This article describes the current regulations and questions on how best to regulate the capture and handling of wild animals by citizen scientists in...

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Searching for resilience: addressing the impacts of changing disturbance regimes on forest ecosystem services.

Published online: 03 Feb 2016

Authors: Seidl, R. & Spies, T. A. & Peterson, D. L. & Stephens, S. L. & Hicke, J. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The provisioning of ecosystem services to society is increasingly under pressure from global change. Changing disturbance regimes are of particular co...

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Defining socioecological reciprocity: intentionality, mutualism or collateral effect.

Published online: 22 May 2025

Authors: Vaccaro, I.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

This perspective piece discusses the history of the use of the term 'reciprocity' across environmental social sciences in the analysis of the interact...

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Guides to better science: Promoting your research.

Published online: 28 Jun 2022

Published by: British Ecological Society

Content type: Educational material

The purpose of this guide is to give everyone working in science a way of using the different tools that are available, to make sure their research re...

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Communicating nature during lockdown - how conservation and outdoor organisations use social media to facilitate local nature experiences.

Published online: 23 Nov 2022

Authors: Arts, I. & Duckett, D. & Fischer, A. & Wal, R. van der

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Social media impact not only our communication and social interactions but also our relationships to the natural environment. Social media can increas...

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Ocean-scale footprint of a highly mobile fishing fleet: social-ecological drivers of fleet behaviour and evidence of illegal fishing.

Published online: 22 Oct 2021

Authors: Collins, C. & Nuno, A. & Benaragama, A. & Broderick, A. & Wijesundara, I. & Wijetunge, D. & Letessier, T. B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Managing the footprint of highly mobile fishing fleets is increasingly important due to continuing declines in fish populations. However, social-ecolo...

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Changes in the users of the social-ecological system around a reciprocal human-dolphin relationship.

Published online: 22 May 2025

Authors: Cantor, M. & Santos-Silva, B. & Daura-Jorge, F. G. & Machado, A. M. S. & Peterson, D. & Da-Rosa, D. X. & Simões-Lopes, P. C. & Valle-Pereira, J. V. S. & Zank, S. & Hanazaki, N.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

In contrast to many contemporary negative human-nature relationships, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities have stewarded nature through cultural ...

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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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A framework for contextualizing social-ecological biases in contributory science data.

Published online: 09 Jul 2024

Authors: Carlen, E. J. & Estien, C. O. & Caspi, T. & Perkins, D. & Goldstein, B. R. & Kreling, S. E. S. & Hentati, Y. & Williams, T. D. & Stanton, L. A. & Roches, S. des & Johnson, R. F. & Young, A. N. & Cooper, C. B. & Schell, C. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Contributory science-including citizen and community science-allows scientists to leverage participant-generated data while providing an opportunity f...

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Ecological restoration and estuarine management: placing people in the coastal landscape.

Published online: 26 Mar 2008

Authors: Weinstein, M. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Amid signs that estuarine ecosystems are increasingly degraded and may reach new thresholds of irreversible decline, restoration ecologists and coasta...

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