摘要：Natural resource scientists and managers increasingly recognize traditional ecologicalknowledge (TEK) for its potential contribution to contemporary natural resource management (NRM) and,through this, to more resilient social-ecological systems. In practice, however, inadequate cross-culturalmeans to organize and communicate TEK can limit its effective inclusion in management decisions.Indigenous seasonal knowledge involving temporal knowledge of biota, landscapes, weather, seasonalcycles, and their links with culture and land uses is one type of TEK relevant to this issue. We reviewedthe literature on Australian Aboriginal seasonal knowledge to characterize contemporary and potentialapplications to NRM. This knowledge was often documented through cross-cultural collaboration in theform of ecological calendars. Our analysis revealed a variety of basic and applied environmental informationin Aboriginal seasonal descriptions and calendars that can contribute directly to NRM. Documentedapplications have been limited to date, but include fire management, inclusion as general material in NRMplans, and interpretative information about environments. Emerging applications include watermanagement and climate change monitoring. Importantly, seasonal knowledge can also contributeindirectly to NRM outcomes by providing an organizing framework for the recovery, retention, and cross-cultural communication of TEK and linking to its broader cultural and cosmological contexts. We concludethat by facilitating the combination of experiential with experimental knowledge and fosteringcomplementarity of different knowledge systems, Aboriginal seasonal knowledge can increasinglycontribute to more resilient social-ecological outcomes in NRM. Nevertheless, the seasonal frameworkshould augment, rather than override, other approaches to cross-cultural NRM such as those with spatialand/or social-ecological emphasis
