Ecological understandings of Indigenous landscape management shape the study of Pacific yew (Taxus brevifolia)

• Main Author: Reynolds, Geneviève
• Other Authors: Starzomski, Brian M.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: ecology; ethnobotany; ethnoecology; botany; British Columbia; Central Coast; yew; Pacific yew; Taxus brevifolia; taxol; Indigenous ecological knowledge; Indigenous landscape management; Nutt; Pacific; First Nations
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1828/14181

Indigenous landscape management has transformed ecosystems for millennia, with long-lasting impacts on the productivity and abundance of plant species. While western science based ecological research is beginning to investigate these impacts, less abundant species of cultural importance remain under...