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T1  - An empirically tested overlap between indigenous and scientific knowledge of a changing climate in Bolivian Amazonia 
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UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/311383 
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A1  - Fernandez-Llamazares Onrubia, Alvaro; Garcia, Raquel; Diaz-Riviriego, Isabel; Cabeza-Jaimejuan, Maria Del Mar; Pyhälä, Aili Adelita; Reyes-Garcia, Victoria 
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Y1  - 2017 
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AB  - Existing climate data for Bolivian Amazonia rely on observations from a few sparse weather stations, interpolated on coarse-resolution grids. At the same time, the region hosts numerous indigenous groups with rich knowledge systems that are hitherto untapped in the quest to understand local climate change. Drawing on an empirical dataset of climate change observations by an Amazonian native society, we assess the potential use of indigenous knowledge for complementing available climate data. We ... 
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KW  - 1172 Environmental sciences; Climate data; Ethnoclimatology; Ground-truthing; Indigenous observations; Interpolation; Local environmental knowledge; 5143 Social and cultural anthropology 
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