- Title
- Detecting change in local ecological knowledge: an application of an index of taxonomic distinctness to an ethnoichthyological classification in the Solomon Islands
- Creator
- Aswani, Shankar
- Creator
- Ferse, Sebastian C A
- Creator
- Stäbler, Moritz
- Creator
- Chong-Montenegro, Carolina
- Date Issued
- 2020
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179059
- Identifier
- vital:40103
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106865
- Description
- The global accelerating loss of biodiversity is having immediate repercussions for ecosystems and human wellbeing, particularly in areas where people depend intimately on their natural environment for their livelihoods. Dovetailing this loss is the demise of local/traditional knowledge systems resulting from factors such as changing lifestyle and the transformation of local belief systems. While the importance of local ecological knowledge (LEK) for documentation of biodiversity and environmental change and development of management responses is well established, quantitative tools to analyze and systematically compare LEK are scarce. In this research, we analyze the complexity of local ecological knowledge used by respondents to classify locally-recognized marine species. We do so by applying a modified index of taxonomic distinctness to an ethnoichthyological classification in coastal communities in the Solomon Islands. In addition, we assess simple taxonomic diversity (richness in locally-recognized species names) by comparing taxonomies collected in 1992–1995 and 2014–2015.
- Format
- 10 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Ecological Indicators
- Relation
- Aswani, S., Ferse, S.C., Stäbler, M. and Chong-Montenegro, C., 2020. Detecting change in local ecological knowledge: an application of an index of taxonomic distinctness to an ethnoichthyological classification in the Solomon Islands. Ecological Indicators, 119, p.106865
- Relation
- Ecological Indicators volume 119 number p.106865 December 2020 1470-160X
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- Publisher
- Rights
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