Landscape-scale concordance between local ecological knowledge for tropical wild species and remote sensing of land cover.

ABSTRACT: Monitoring the status of species is crucial for biodiversity conservation and sustainable resource management in tropical forests, but conventional in situ monitoring methods are impractical over large scales. Scientists have resorted to two potentially complementary approaches: local ecological knowledge (LEK) and remote sensing. To gauge the potential of combining LEK and remote sensing for assessing species status at landscape scales, a large-scale assessment of the reliability of both measures is critical but hampered by the lack of ground-level data. We conducted a landscape-scale assessment of LEK and remote sensing, using a survey of over 900 communities (a near census in our study area) and nearly 4,000 households in 235 randomly selected communities in the Peruvian Amazon-the larg

SUBMITTER: Takasaki Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9546624 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature