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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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Harnessing practitioner knowledge to inform the conservation of a protected species, the hazel dormouse Muscardinus avellanarius.

Published online: 28 Jun 2023

Authors: Phillips, B. B. & Crowley, S. L. & Bell, O. & McDonald, R. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

(1). Conservation decisions are typically constrained by the availability of published evidence. Practitioners and non-academic experts often possess ...

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Who knows, who cares? Untangling ecological knowledge and nature connection among Amazonian colonist farmers.

Published online: 29 Oct 2021

Authors: Mikołajczak, K. & Lees, A. C. & Barlow, J. & Sinclair, F. & Almeida, O. T. de & Souza, A. C. & Parry, L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

1. Conservationists often assume that connection with and caring about nature's well-being is strongly linked to ecological knowledge. Existing eviden...

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Exploring farmers' agrobiodiversity management practices and knowledge in clove agroforests of Madagascar.

Published online: 25 Oct 2021

Authors: Mariel, J. & Carrière, S. M. & Penot, E. & Danthu, P. & Rafidison, V. & Labeyrie, V.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Interactions between farmers and agrobiodiversity are key drivers of agroecosystems sustainability and of the resilience of such systems to perturbati...

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Boundary spanning increases knowledge and action on invasive species in a changing climate.

Published online: 11 Nov 2024

Authors: Evans, A. E. & Colberg, E. M. & Allen, J. M. & Beaury, E. M. & Brown-Lima, C. & Morelli, T. L. & Bradley, B. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Challenges associated with global change stressors on ecosystems have prompted calls to improve actionable science, including through boundary-spannin...

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Can managers inform models? Integrating local knowledge into models of red deer habitat use.

Published online: 15 Apr 2009

Authors: Irvine, R. J. & Fiorini, S. & Yearley, S. & McLeod, J. E. & Turner, A. & Armstrong, H. & White, P. C. L. & Wal, R. van der

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Many ecologically based wildlife-habitat models provide only limited explanations of the observed data because they do not take account of the way in ...

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A systematic map of knowledge exchange across the science-policy interface for forest science: how can we improve consistency and effectiveness?

Published online: 22 Jun 2023

Authors: Westwood, A. R. & Hutchen, J. & Kapoor, T. & Klenk, K. & Saturno, J. & Antwi, E. K. & Egunyu, F. & Cortini, F. & Robertson, M. & Noble, S. le & Wang, J. & Falconer, M. & Nguyen, V. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Knowledge produced by scientists is essential to the policy and practice of managing natural resources, including forests. However, there has never be...

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Indonesia Rural Economic Development Series. Growing plants on a barren hill: local knowledge as part of land restoration in Sumba Timur, Indonesia.

Published online: 14 Aug 2019

Authors: Mulyoutami, E. & Purnomosidhi, P. & Suryadi, A. & Nugky, I. & Hanggawali, D. N. & Sabastian, G. E. & Anggrayani, S. & Roshetko, J. M.

Content type: Bulletin

Implementation of land restoration needs to be adjusted to local conditions to be more efficient and effective. Local communities are the actors with ...

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People-nature interactions through the Lens of local ecological knowledge: an illustration on agroforests in Madagascar.

Published online: 28 Sep 2021

Published by: British Ecological Society

Authors: Mariel, J. & Carrière, S. M. & Penot, E. & Danthu, P. & Rafidison, V. & Labeyrie, V.

Content type: Blog

This research deals with farmers' knowledge on plant diversity management in agroforests through the case study of the Betsimisaraka farmers on the No...

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Ecosystem functions and services in urban stormwater ponds: co-producing knowledge for better management.

Published online: 26 Jul 2024

Authors: Marques, P. & Illyes, E. & McCauley, S. & Jackson, D. A. & Michalakos, D. & Ferzoco, I. M. C. & Timms, L. & Murray, R. L. & MacFarlane, Z. S. & Duval, T. P. & Dolson, R. & Din, S. & Pebesma, D. & Kirkwood, A. E. & Turner, N. A. & Clayton, J. & Horton, K. & Boston, C. M. & Sapozhnikova, E. & Cadotte, M. W. & Mandrak, N. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Urban stormwater management ponds (SWMPs) are widely employed for stormwater control, but knowledge about their contributions to urban ecosystem funct...

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