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Local Ecological Learning: Creating Place-based Knowledge through Collaborative Wildlife Research on Private Lands
Wildlife across all land tenures is under threat from anthropogenic drivers including climate change, invasive species, and habitat loss. This study...
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Local ecological knowledge and wise use of ephemeral wetlands: the case of the Cowal system, Australia
Ephemeral wetlands are important ecologically but are often jurisdictionally complex and under-studied. Forms of local knowledge, including local...
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Uplifting local ecological knowledge as part of adaptation pathways to wildfire risk reduction: A case study in Montseny, Catalonia (Spain)
Living with wildfires in an era of climate change requires adaptation and weaving together many forms of knowledge. Empirical evidence of knowledge...
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Local Governance, Ecological Knowledge, and Spatial Models: Assessing Resource Access in a Forest Commons
Local ecological knowledge informs how natural resource patches are identified and valued across a landscape by communities that rely on them....
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Local Ecological Knowledge and Attitudes Towards Sapajus flavius in a Key Area for Primate Conservation
Nonhuman primates play an important role in the culture of many human societies and in ecosystem functions and services. However, the populations of...
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Local Ecological Knowledge, Catch Characteristics, and Evidence of Elasmobranch Depletions in Western Ghana Artisanal Fisheries
We relied on local knowledge of fishers in five coastal communities in Ghana to investigate ecological factors that affect fishing for elasmobranchs...
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Local Ecological Knowledge Indicates Pathways Towards Equitable and Sustainable Management of the Sudano-Guinean Savanna
Strategies for equitably managing savannas are urgently needed as these ecosystems undergo significant social and ecological changes that threaten...
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Indigenous and Local Knowledge Contributions to Social-Ecological Systems’ Management
Social-ecological systems are complex and adaptive, for which their governance requires holistic understanding of the different components of the...
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Integrating local ecological knowledge and remote sensing reveals patterns and drivers of forest cover change: North Korea as a case study
Satellite-based remote sensing approaches provide a cost-efficient means to collect information on the world’s forests and to repeatedly survey...
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The local medicinal plant knowledge in Kashmir Western Himalaya: a way to foster ecological transition via community-centred health seeking strategies
BackgroundThe mountainous region of Kashmir is a biodiversity hotspot, with diverse local communities and a rich cultural history linked to nature....
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Mitochondrial DNA and local ecological knowledge reveal two lineages of leatherback turtle on the beaches of Oaxaca, Mexico
Despite multiple conservation efforts of the Mexican government, the leatherback turtle is at serious risk of extinction. In this study, we...
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Indigenous Ecological Knowledge: a Transformative Approach to Biodiversity Legislation in Nigeria
Indigenous communities worldwide have cultivated and preserved invaluable ecological knowledge on biodiversity conservation long before the...
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Harvesting Bertholletia excelsa Bonpl. in a western Amazon rural community: local ecological knowledge and meaning to “nut-crackers”
IntroductionThe collection of Bertholletia excelsa Bonpl. (castanha-da-Amazônia; Brazil nuts) seeds make up part of the everyday activities of the...
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Socio-Ecological Approach to a Forest-Swamp-Savannah Mosaic Landscape Using Remote Sensing and Local Knowledge: a Case Study in the Bas-Ogooué Ramsar Site, Gabon
Studies of landscape dynamics in protected areas often rely exclusively on remotely-sensed data, leading to bias by neglecting how local inhabitants,...
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Dark local knowledge: the yet-to-be scientifically discovered and locally acknowledged aspects of local knowledge systems
This essay brings forward the idea that there is more than meets the eye in local knowledge systems than what science can show us now. To comprehend...
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Ecosystem service evaluation based on local knowledge of residents using spatial text-mining
This study aims to evaluate the ecosystem services of Upo wetland, one of the best-known Ramsar sites in Korea, reflecting the characteristics of the...
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Map** local knowledge through spatial text mining
The ecological knowledge of local residents in a given area is valuable information that can supplement physical environmental data. Like ecosystems,...
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Indigenous Peoples and local communities report ongoing and widespread climate change impacts on local social-ecological systems
The effects of climate change depend on specific local circumstances, posing a challenge for worldwide research to comprehensively encompass the...
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Silvopastoralism, local ecological knowledge and woodland trajectories in a category V- type management area
Preserving landscape heritage elements and indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) is an increasingly popular approach in conservation. We focus on a...
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The local ecological knowledge of butterfly diversity is derived from utilitarian purposes in Southwest China’s biodiversity hotspot
Local ecological knowledge (LEK) is considered useful for biodiversity monitoring and conservation management. However, LEK may provide limited...
