Ethnobiology or ethnoecology?

Abstract

Ethnobiology and ethnoecology form a hybrid knowledge fi eld, which is marked by interfaces involving the natural and social sciences. In addition, it is directly related to local cultural knowledge and practices and efforts for nature conservation. Thus, a quite complex and rich epistemological scenario is present. In this context of porous boundaries between disciplines, it is not correct to state that ethnobiology is part of ethnoecology, or vice versa. These areas are connected and are not related by inclusion or opposition, but by complementarity.