Integrating traditional ecological knowledge with adaptive restoration

Integrating Soil Ecological Knowledge into Restoration Management

The variability in the type of ecosystem degradation and the specificity of restoration goals can challenge restorationists’ ability to generalize about approaches that lead to restoration success. The discipline of soil ecology, which emphasizes both soil organisms and ecosystem processes, has generated a body of knowledge that can be generally useful in improving the outcomes of restoration d...

Rediscovery of Traditional Ecological Knowledge as Adaptive Management

Indigenous groups offer alternative knowledge and perspectives based on their own locally developed practices of resource use. We surveyed the international literature to focus on the role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in monitoring, responding to, and managing ecosystem processes and functions, with special attention to ecological resilience. Case studies revealed that there exists a div...

Integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Ecological Science: a Question of Scale

The benefits and challenges of integrating traditional ecological knowledge and scientific knowledge have led to extensive discussions over the past decades, but much work is still needed to facilitate the articulation and co-application of these two types of knowledge. Through two case studies, we examined the integration of traditional ecological knowledge and scientific knowledge by emphasiz...

Application of Ecological Knowledge to Habitat Restoration

Reinterpreting change in traditional ecological knowledge.

Much research on traditional ecological knowledge (hereafter TEK) has centred in 1) documenting fading knowledge (e.g., Ferguson and Messier 1997; Pieroni et al. 2004), 2) understanding the parallel changes in biological and cultural diversity (Maffi 2005; Harmon and Loh 2010), and 3) assessing the processes and drivers of change that lead to the loss of TEK (Benz et al. 2000; Kingsbury 2001; G...