Assistant Professor Arizona State University, Hawaii, United States
Indigenous communities have multi-generational relationships with landscapes while practice-based communities focus on species specific skills and trade knowledge. These communities value intimacy with seasonal patterns and populations due to cultural or economic interdependence. Plant invasion management, where removal goals overlap, benefits through early detection, pooled resources, prolonged presence and observation of landscapes, active removal, and through these actions reduction by practitioner use. To enhance invasive removal in community practice, increased biosecurity measures, direct pathways of communication with decision makers, and frequent data sharing with users may increase engagement, and more importantly build valued understandings with indigenous and practice -based communities.
