Traditional Ecological Knowledge: A cumulative body of knowledge and beliefs, handed down through generations by cultural transmission, about the relationships of living with one another and with their environment (Berkes 1993:3). [CAM]

Traditional Environmental Knowledge (TEK) has been defined by Berkes (1993:3) as “a cumulative body of knowledge and beliefs, handed down through generations by cultural transmission, about the relationship of living beings with one another and with their environment.” References cited: Berkes, Fikret. 1993. Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Perspective. In Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Concepts and Cases, J. T. Inglis, ed. Ottawa: International Development Research Centre and the Canadian Museum of Nature, pp. 1-9. [GEW]

Transect walks, employed in complement with interviewing and other methods, engage informants in marking boundaries of political, social or religious territories or points of transition between different types of natural resources. [CR]

Traveling herbarium is used to assess the reliability of surveys on use patterns of medicinal plants. Plant specimens are collected by local research collaborators and informants, affixed to botanical mounting paper, and sealed for use in field interviews with informants who did not participate in the initial collection of species. [KM]