Indigenous knowledge of key ecological processes confers resilience to a small-scale kelp fishery

1. Feedbacks between social and ecological processes can lead to sustainable stewardship practices that support ecological resilience among harvested populations. This is evident along the world’s coast lines, where Indigenous knowledge systems have facilitated millennia of human nature coexistence. However, social-ecological conditions globally are quickly shifting, posing challenges for coastal Indigenous communities where customary harvest of ocean resources, such as kelps, need to adapt to growing markets, novel climates and changing governance regimes. Consequently, a pressing need exists to determine how specific ecological and social variables drive key dynamics within coupled human-ocean systems. 2. Motivated by the information needs of an Indigenous community on Canada’s Pacific Coast, we co-designed a traditional harvest experiment, field surveys, and semi-directed interviews with Indigenous resource users and managers to measure the ecological resilience of the feather boa ke...1. 社会过程与生态过程之间的反馈作用，可催生可持续的管护实践，助力被开发种群的生态恢复力（ecological resilience）。这一现象在全球海岸线区域尤为显著：当地原住民知识体系（Indigenous knowledge systems）已推动了数千年的人与自然共生历程。然而，全球范围内的社会-生态系统状况正快速变化，给沿海原住民社区带来了诸多挑战——这些社区的传统海洋资源采收活动，如海带（kelps）采收，需适配不断扩张的市场、全新的气候环境以及持续变革的治理体制。因此，当下亟需明确特定生态与社会变量如何驱动耦合人类-海洋系统（coupled human-ocean systems）内的关键动态过程。 2. 受加拿大太平洋海岸某原住民社区的信息需求所驱动，我们与该社区联合设计了传统采收实验、实地调研，以及针对原住民资源使用者与管理者的半结构化访谈，以测定羽毛状（feather boa）类群的生态恢复力[原文内容截断]。