ReviewPloS one2018
Global trends of local ecological knowledge and future implications.
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57 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Indigenous and local knowledge inclusion in forest fauna research: A systematic review in the tropics.Ambio · 2026Pooled it
- Advancing Marine Mammal Conservation Through Omics Tools and Integration of Indigenous Ecological Knowledge.Molecular ecology · 2026Review
- Nine Centuries, Seven Words: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Temporal Evidence for the Erosion of Gallo-Lucanian Plant Heritage in Inland Southern Italy.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- To document traditional ethnobotanical knowledge of medicinal plants used by indigenous and saint communities of Chitrakoot, India.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2026Article
- Assessment of the perceptions and practices of traditional hemorrhoid healers in the North Gondar Zone, Ethiopia.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2026Article
- Young adults in eastern Germany know dandelion and sparrows but few farmland species.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2026Article
- When minority language persistence is not enough: the decline of foraging knowledge in German- and Ladin-speaking Alpine communities of Northern Italy.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2026Article
- Ethnobotanical assessment of wild edible plants and indigenous knowledge in Tegedie District, Ethiopia.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2026Article
- Ethnobotanical study of wild edible plants in Dabat District, Ethiopia.Tropical medicine and health · 2026Article
- Avian diversity and ethnoornithology in Pawukon - a 19th-Century Javanese manuscript : informing contemporary conservation of vulnerable species.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2026Article
- Indigenous peoples and local community reports of climate change impacts on biodiversity.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2026Review
- Searching for a ghost?! The vain ethnobotany of foraging in three coastal Mediterranean areas.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2026Article
- Therapeutic Potential ofJournal of inflammation research · 2026Review
- Traditional ecological knowledge and mental health education for sustainable community well-being.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Indigenous oral traditions and psychological well-being under modernization: from external valuation to relational selfhood.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Review
- Global Prevalence and Clinical Consequences of Traditional Eye Medicine: A Descriptive Review.Clinical optometry · 2026Review
- Leveraging the potential of wild food for healthy, sustainable, and equitable local food systems: learning from a transformation lab in the Western Cape region.Sustainability science · 2026Article
- Interview-based sighting history to investigate the historical range and dynamics of dugongs in China.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Diachronic changes in local food heritage: the ethnobiology of wild foods in central Tuscany.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2025Article
- Phylogenetic Perspectives and Ethnobotanical Insights on Wild Edible Plants of the Mediterranean, Middle East, and North Africa.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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Abstract
Local and indigenous knowledge is being transformed globally, particularly being eroded when pertaining to ecology. In many parts of the world, rural and indigenous communities are facing tremendous cultural, economic and environmental changes, which contribute to weaken their local knowledge base. In the face of profound and ongoing environmental changes, both cultural and biological diversity are likely to be severely impacted as well as local resilience capacities from this loss. In this global literature review, we analyse the drivers of various types of local and indigenous ecological knowledge transformation and assess the directionality of the reported change. Results of this analysis show a global impoverishment of local and indigenous knowledge with 77% of papers reporting the loss of knowledge driven by globalization, modernization, and market integration. The recording of this loss, however, is not symmetrical, with losses being recorded more strongly in medicinal and ethnobotanical knowledge. Persistence of knowledge (15% of the studies) occurred in studies where traditional practices were being maintained consiously and where hybrid knowledge was being produced as a resut of certain types of incentives created by economic development. This review provides some insights into local and indigenous ecological knowledge change, its causes and implications, and recommends venues for the development of replicable and comparative research. The larger implication of these results is that because of the interconnection between cultural and biological diversity, the loss of local and indigenous knowledge is likely to critically threaten effective conservation of biodiversity, particularly in community-based conservation local efforts.
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