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

Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino; Ludwig, David; Feitosa, Ivanilda Soares; Moura, Joelson Moreno Brito; Gonçalves, Paulo Henrique Santos; Silva, Risoneide Henriques da; Silva, Taline Cristina da; Gonçalves‐Souza, Thiago; Júnior, Washington Soares Ferreira

doi:10.1007/s10113-021-01774-2

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“…The gap between the PA managers' perception and professional monitoring results comes from missing reference situations for the species and habitats, making any inter-temporal and inter-spatial comparison complicated. Therefore, we need rigid accuracy testing rules and solid reference baselines for the data inputs from 'citizen science' since any misjudgment about species, or habitat change can lead to inadequate management response [47][48][49][50][51][52].…”

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Current Trends and Issues in Research on Biodiversity Conservation and Tourism Sustainability

2022

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The rationale of this article is the need to elicit the trending themes relevant to the latest research on biodiversity conservation and tourism sustainability. Hence, the purpose of this study: stocktaking of cutting-edge research articles in this field and eliciting the critical trends and issues shaping the knowledge, future research, and technical development perspectives on biodiversity conservation and tourism sustainability. The focus is on the trends, which are pivotal for achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals until 2030. A hierarchical cluster analysis was undertaken with a KH Coder 3.0 tool to elicit topical co-occurrence networks for thematic words in academic papers from 2015 to 2020 on the topic, quarried from Google Scholar. The article’s main findings are the seven identified major trending research themes on biodiversity conservation and tourism sustainability: (1) Community-based tourism development; (2) National Park management for tourism; (3) Sustainable tourist motivation; (4) Biodiversity conservation and ecotourism; (5) Landscape and land use changes; (6) Visitor satisfaction monitoring; and (7) Ecotourism modelling. The article’s main conclusion is that the criteria and conditions for responsible low-key tourism in protected areas, both for biodiversity and local communities, are pivotal factors to consider for future research on biodiversity conservation and tourism sustainability.

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2022

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“…On the other hand, disregarding that local populations depend on biodiversity for a living could hamper our ability to produce socially inclusive theories. In fact, recently the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services has argued that the traditional ecological knowledge is a missing component in applied sciences and in the decision-making process (see also IPBES, 2018;Jack et al, 2020;Albuquerque et al, 2021). This has raised two pertinent issues for promoting a program that incorporates local knowledge into biodiversity disciplines: (1) How can the fields of ethnobiology and biodiversity be integrated to better understand how landscapes, animals, and plants have been used and domesticated?…”

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Editorial: Integrating traditional ecological knowledge into ecology, evolution, and conservation

Gonçalves‐Souza

Alves²,

Albuquerque³

et al. 2022

Front. Ecol. Evol.

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“…This has prompted the use of alternative and less invasive methods, such as Local Ecological Knowledge (LEK) in elephant ecology (Biru and Bekele, 2012;Buchholtz et al, 2020). LEK provide reliable, timely and cost-effective data from communities living nearby and interacting with nature (Albuquerque et al, 2021;Allendorf et al, 2020;Brittain et al, 2020;Buchholtz et al, 2020;Pan et al, 2016;Service et al, 2014). LEK surveys can reduce the risk of research equipment such as camera traps being stolen (such as, Caravaggi et al, 2017).…”

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“…LEK surveys can facilitate the rapid understanding of threats to wildlife, resulting in faster decision-making (Albuquerque et al, 2021;Buchholtz et al, 2020;Haenn et al, 2014). For example, LEK has been used for rapid assessment of the status and threats to pangolin (Manis pentadactyla) (Nash et al, 2016) and to study range shift of grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) (Service et al, 2014), wildlife presence and abundance, and identification of areas where conservation actions are needed (Allendorf et al, 2020), occupancy and distribution of wildlife (Haenn et al, 2014;Service et al, 2014), and even to study elephant diet in Ethiopia (Biru and Bekele, 2012) and to predict landscape use by elephants in Botswana (Buchholtz et al, 2020).…”

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Combining local ecological knowledge and field investigations to assess diet composition and feeding habit of forest elephants in Campo-Maan National Park, Southern Cameroon

Djoko¹,

Weladji²,

Paré³

2022

Int. J. Biodivers. Conserv.

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Forest elephants are nocturnal and elusive animals, making it difficult to perform direct observations on them. Data on elephants' diet and feeding habit are lacking despite most forest elephants' habitats being lost to anthropogenic activities; yet such knowledge may be important for their conservation, particularly in a human dominated landscape. Local ecological knowledge and field investigations were combined to assess diet composition and feeding habit of forest elephants in Campo-Ma'an landscape. The study also aimed to evaluate the level of concordance between the two approaches. The study reports that forest elephants in Campo-Ma'an feed on 87 plants species, including crops. Twenty-two of these plant species were reported by both methods, most of them being potential drivers of humanelephant conflict as they are simultaneously used by humans and elephants. Also, field investigations revealed that, to satisfy their energy requirements, forest elephants relied mostly on leaves and fruits during the wet seasons and mostly on barks from trees during the dry seasons. Overall, the two methods appeared to be complementary, despite field investigations yielding fewer species, as we only covered the park partially. We suggest that combining both methods could be a cost-efficient way to address forest elephants ecological and management questions.

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

Cited by 42 publications

References 75 publications

Current Trends and Issues in Research on Biodiversity Conservation and Tourism Sustainability

Current Trends and Issues in Research on Biodiversity Conservation and Tourism Sustainability

Editorial: Integrating traditional ecological knowledge into ecology, evolution, and conservation

Combining local ecological knowledge and field investigations to assess diet composition and feeding habit of forest elephants in Campo-Maan National Park, Southern Cameroon

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