Local knowledge reconstructs historical resource use
Leandro Castello,
Eduardo G Martins,
Michael G Sorice
et al.
Abstract:Information on natural resource exploitation is vital for conservation but scarce in developing nations, which encompass most of the world and often lack the capacity to produce it. A growing approach to generate information about resource use in the context of developing nations relies on surveys of resource users about their recollections (recall) of past harvests. However, the reliability of harvest recalls remains unclear. Here, we show that harvest recalls can be as accurate to data collected by standardi… Show more
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