The individual of a species is the basic unit which responds to climate and UV-B changes,
and it responds over a wide range of time scales. The diversity of animal, plant and microbial …

Recent environmental changes are having, and are expected to continue to have, significant
impacts in the Arctic as elsewhere in the world. Detecting those changes and determining …

Sacred Ecology examines bodies of knowledge held by indigenous and other rural peoples
around the world, and asks how we can learn from this knowledge and ways of knowing …

Inuit hunting traditions are rich in perceptions, practices and stories relating to animals and
human beings. The authors examine key figures such as the raven, an animal that has a …

Connecting indigenous and scientific observations and knowledge has received much
attention in the Arctic, not least in the area of climate change. On some levels, this …

From ethnographies of hunting to sophisticated harvesting and ecological research, human-
animal interaction has been a long-standing primary focus of research on Canadian Inuit …

Recent advances in technology and quantitative methods have led to the emergence of a
new field of study that stands to link insights of researchers from two closely related, but …

Meaning is conveyed by context. Northern landscapes associated with oral traditions
provide rich contexts for understanding archaeological features and their spatial and …

We address first, the lack of documented indigenous knowledge of climate change in
Nunavik, Quebec, regarding impacts on plants; and second, the frequent underutilization of …

Environmental manipulation experiments showed that species respond individualistically to
each environmental-change variable. The greatest responses of plants were generally to …