Does science replace traditions? Correlates between traditional Tibetan   culture and local bird diversity in Southwest China

doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2011.10.027

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	Does science replace traditions? Correlates between traditional Tibetan culture and local bird diversity in Southwest China
	Shen, Xiaoli ; Li, Sheng ; Chen, Nyima ; Li, Shengzhi ; McShea, William J. ; Lu, Zhi
刊名	生物保护
	2012
关键词	Traditional ecological knowledge Scientific ecological knowledge Traditional practice index Knowledge-attitudes-behaviors Point count BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION SACRED GROVES ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT EDUCATION BEHAVIOR ATTITUDE SYSTEMS FOREST SITES
DOI	10.1016/j.biocon.2011.10.027
英文摘要	A positive relationship between traditional cultures and biodiversity exists worldwide, but when traditional and formal conservation institutions coexist, how they interact and affect biodiversity remains poorly studied. From 2005 to 2007, we studied the relationship between Tibetan traditional practices and biodiversity. Specifically, how traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and scientific ecological knowledge (SEK) affect local biodiversity by affecting people's attitudes and behaviors towards conservation. We interviewed 331 villagers in nine Tibetan villages in Sichuan Province, China. We used proxy questions to measure the traditional practices, TEK, SEK, conservation attitudes and behaviors of village residents. Meanwhile, we assessed the bird diversity around the villages by stratified sampling and point counts. The results indicate traditional practices exhibited a strong positive correlation with TEK, but a negative correlation with formal education and SEK. The villagers with high traditional practices had more positive attitudes towards conservation and more actively participated in conservation than villagers with low traditional practices, and villagers with medium traditional practices were the least concerned about, or participated in, conservation activities. Bird species richness, abundance, and the Shannon-Wiener diversity index were positively correlated with the traditional practice index of each village. The results of a negative binomial regression showed the traditional practice index was a positive correlative factor of bird species richness, while formal education was not a significant variable, after controlling for other potential sampling and environment factors. Government-sponsored conservation education was somewhat successful in raising people's environmental awareness, but these efforts have yet to correlate with enhanced biodiversity measures. (c) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.; http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000301092400022&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=8e1609b174ce4e31116a60747a720701 ; Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology; Environmental Sciences; SCI(E); SSCI; 16; ARTICLE; 1; 160-170; 145
语种	英语
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.pku.edu.cn/handle/20.500.11897/236332]
专题	生命科学学院
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Shen, Xiaoli,Li, Sheng,Chen, Nyima,et al. Does science replace traditions? Correlates between traditional Tibetan culture and local bird diversity in Southwest China[J]. 生物保护,2012.
APA	Shen, Xiaoli,Li, Sheng,Chen, Nyima,Li, Shengzhi,McShea, William J.,&Lu, Zhi.(2012).Does science replace traditions? Correlates between traditional Tibetan culture and local bird diversity in Southwest China.生物保护.
MLA	Shen, Xiaoli,et al."Does science replace traditions? Correlates between traditional Tibetan culture and local bird diversity in Southwest China".生物保护 (2012).