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Indigenous Forest Knowledge

Indigenous Forest Knowledge is a body of ecological knowledge, practices, and beliefs developed, preserved, and transmitted by indigenous peoples through long-term, place-based interactions with forest environments, distinguished by its holistic, culturally embedded, and adaptive understanding of forest ecosystems.

511

Publications

25.8K

Citations

1.5K

Authors

621

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

122

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Publications

511

How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human

Piergiorgio Di Giminiani · Ethnos · 2014 · 946 citations

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How forests think: toward an anthropology beyond the human

Choice Reviews Online · 2013 · 764 citations

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Indigenous management of tropical forest ecosystems: the case of the Kayap� indians of the Brazilian Amazon

Darrell A. Posey · Agroforestry Systems · 1985 · 514 citations

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Amazonia 1492: Pristine Forest or Cultural Parkland?

Michael Heckenberger, Afukaka Kuikuro, Urissap’a Tabata Kuikuro et al. · Science · 2003 · 498 citations

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The Indian as an Ecological Factor in the Northeastern Forest

Gordon M. Day · Ecology · 1953 · 404 citations

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Authors

1.5K

  1. FS
    Fergus Sinclair

    Bangor University, United Kingdom

    7 publications · 329 citations

    7

    h-index

  2. DW
    D.H. Walker

    Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia

    6 publications · 305 citations

    6

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  3. VR
    Victoria Reyes‐García

    Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

    6 publications · 303 citations

    6

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  4. MJ
    Manuel J. Macía

    Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

    5 publications · 248 citations

    5

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  5. BR
    Bhesh Raj Thapa

    Tribhuvan University, Nepal

    5 publications · 237 citations

    5

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1–5 of 1.5K

Institutions

621

  1. University of British Columbia

    Vancouver, Canada

    10 h-index

    22 publications

    1.3K citations

  2. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

    Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain

    9 h-index

    21 publications

    852 citations

  3. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    6 h-index

    9 publications

    420 citations

  4. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

    Canberra, Australia

    6 h-index

    6 publications

    305 citations

  5. US Forest Service

    Washington, United States

    6 h-index

    9 publications

    478 citations

  6. Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

    Florianópolis, Brazil

    6 h-index

    17 publications

    463 citations

  7. Bangor University

    Bangor, United Kingdom

    6 h-index

    6 publications

    305 citations

  8. University of Manitoba

    Winnipeg, Canada

    5 h-index

    12 publications

    738 citations

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Venues

  1. Forest Ecology and Management

    26 publications · 1.7K citations

    23

    h-index

  2. Ecology and Society

    15 publications · 968 citations

    15

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  3. Forest Policy and Economics

    FPE · 16 publications · 690 citations

    14

    h-index

  4. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 14 publications · 2.2K citations

    13

    h-index

  5. Human Ecology

    13 publications · 581 citations

    12

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