Local Ecological Knowledge on Climate Prediction and Adaptation: Agriculture-Wildlife Interface Perspectives from Africa

Kupika, Olga L.; Nhamo, Godwell; Gandiwa, Edson; Kativu, Shakkie

doi:10.1201/b21965-12

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“…In terms of methods, phenology includes a range of approaches to analysis, including statistical methods (Hudson, 2010; Pearse et al, 2017), interpretation of long-term phenological data (Lawrence, 2009; Miller et al, 2021), futures modelling (Veloz et al, 2012) and physiological analysis (Hänninen, 1995). Underpinning these analyses are also many different forms of data collection.…”

Section: Phenology: Definitions and Understandingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…An important focus is the recording of the dates of standardised ‘phenophases’, such as bud burst in plants or key reproductive events in animals, often conducted via long-term observation of particular individuals. Here, phenological recording may involve citizen scientists, such as those contributing to the UK Woodland Trust's Nature's Calendar project (Collinson and Sparks, 2008; Lawrence, 2009), hired recorders, and/or academic researchers. Indeed it has been this history of close working with ‘amateurs’ that has at times placed phenology in uneasy relationship with other areas in biology and ecology (Macfarlane, 2021).…”

Section: Phenology: Definitions and Understandingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As a result, our scoping study looked carefully at the literature available on traditional phenological knowledge (TPK)sometimes known as ethnophenology, defined by ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabham as "the cultural perception of the timing of recurrent natural history events" (2010: 1). Within this framework we find work arguing for a deeper engagement with traditional ecological knowledge, as well as TPK, in order to understand phenological changes at the (human) community and local ecosystem levels (Turner and Spalding, 2013;Kupika et al, 2019;Kenote, 2020). Many benefits arising from the integrative approaches to seasonal and phenological time within TPK are described, including new data sets and novel indicators for tracking changes caused by climate heating, such as looking to indicator species like night-flowering jasmine (Acharya, 2011) or red millipedes to predict rainfall (Fitchett and Ebhuoma, 2018).…”

Section: Indigenous Phenological Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

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Multi-species, ecological and climate change temporalities: Opening a dialogue with phenology

Bastian

Hawitt

2022

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Many scholars have argued that climate change is, in part, a problem of time, with ecological, political and social systems thought to be out of sync or mistimed. Discussions of time and environment are often interdisciplinary, necessitating a wide-ranging use of methods and approaches. However, to date there has been practically no direct engagement with the scientific field of phenology, the study of life-cycle timing across species, including plants, animals and insects. In this article, we outline how phenology can offer novel inroads to thinking through temporal relations across species and environments. We suggest that greater engagement with this field will enable scholars working across the humanities and social sciences to incorporate detailed studies of environmental timings which shed light on individual species, as well as wide-ranging species interactions. Following an overview of phenological research from both western scientific and indigenous knowledge perspectives, we report on a scoping exercise looking at where phenology has appeared in environmental humanities literature to date. We then offer an illustration that puts phenological perspectives into conversation with plant studies in order to indicate some of the useful affordances phenological perspectives offer, namely those of comprehending time as co-constructed across species and as flexible and responsive to environmental changes. We conclude by offering a number of further potential connections and suggestions for future research, including calling for more exploration of how environmental humanities approaches might produce critical contributions to phenology in their turn.

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