Integrating traditional ecological knowledge into academic research at local and global scales

UP Albuquerque, D Ludwig, IS Feitosa… - Regional Environmental …, 2021 - Springer
Researchers have become increasingly concerned with the relation between traditional
ecological knowledge (TEK) and academic ecological knowledge (AEK). TEK includes …

The functional roles of surgeonfishes on coral reefs: past, present and future

SB Tebbett, AC Siqueira, DR Bellwood - Reviews in Fish Biology and …, 2022 - Springer
Surgeonfishes have had a long evolutionary history that has been closely linked with coral
reef ecosystems. Today they are a key component of reef fish assemblages, playing a …

Measurement and implications of marine food security in the Western Indian Ocean: an impending crisis?

SFW Taylor, MJ Roberts, B Milligan, R Ncwadi - Food Security, 2019 - Springer
Ten percent of the world's population depends on the ocean for a readily accessible source
of protein and employment. Coastal ecosystems and the communities that rely upon them …

Large-scale patterns of benthic marine communities in the Brazilian Province

AW Aued, F Smith, JP Quimbayo, DV Candido… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
As marine ecosystems are influenced by global and regional processes, standardized
information on community structure has become crucial for assessing broad-scale …

Driving small-scale fisheries in develo** countries

SW Purcell, RS Pomeroy - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Small-scale fisheries (SSFs) engage the vast majority of the world's fishers but are struggling
to keep pace with coastal populations, and stocks are declining to levels that threaten …

A cultural framework for Indigenous, Local, and Science knowledge systems in ecology and natural resource management

J Varghese, SS Crawford - Ecological Monographs, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The relationship between Indigenous, Local, and Science knowledge systems has
been the subject of much debate over the past few decades, especially in ecology and …

Socio-ecological perspectives of engaging smallholders in environmental-friendly palm oil certification schemes

N Saadun, EAL Lim, SM Esa, F Ngu, F Awang, A Gimin… - Land use policy, 2018 - Elsevier
The majority of smallholders in palm oil producing countries are not involved in palm oil
certification schemes. The schemes are jointly developed by environmental NGOs …

Spatial patterns of fish standing biomass across Brazilian reefs

RA Morais, CEL Ferreira, SR Floeter - Journal of Fish Biology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
A large fish‐count dataset from the Brazilian province was used to describe spatial patterns
in standing biomass and test if total biomass, taxonomic and functional trophic structure vary …

Predicting species distribution from fishers' local ecological knowledge: a new alternative for data-poor management

PFM Lopes, JT Verba, A Begossi… - Canadian Journal of …, 2019 - cdnsciencepub.com
Many develo** countries lack information to manage their endangered species, urging the
need for affordable and reliable information. We used Bayesian hierarchical spatial models …

[HTML][HTML] Seeing beneath disputes: A transdisciplinary framework for diagnosing complex conservation conflicts

HL Harrison, PA Loring - Biological Conservation, 2020 - Elsevier
Conservation conflicts are pressing social and environmental sustainability issues, and the
complex underlying causes and escalating factors of such conflicts can often be difficult to …