Ethnobiology has emerged as an important transdisciplinary field that addresses the epistemic and political value of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) through an integration of biological and social sciences. In North and Latin America, ethnobiology encompasses a diversity of approaches towards TEK but there is no consensus on how TEK relates to biological and anthropological research. The aim of this article is to develop an account that helps to map integration strategies in ethnobiological approaches in North and Latin America that jointly embrace biology, anthropology, and TEK. Borrowing the notion of ‘styles of reasoning’ and the framework of integrative pluralism from philosophy of science, we argue that ethnobiologists across the Americas have developed heterogeneous research programs. At the same time, we argue that these styles of reasoning tend to converge in prioritizing biological perspectives and are often limited in their understandings of cultural practices due to a lack of substantive ethnographic methods.

民族生物学已成为一个重要的跨学科领域，它通过生物学和社会科学的融合来解决传统生态知识（TEK）的认识论和政治价值。在北美和拉丁美洲，民族生物学涵盖了多种针对TEK的方法，但是就TEK与生物学和人类学研究的关系尚无共识。本文的目的是开发一个帐户，该帐户有助于在北美洲和拉丁美洲共同包含生物学，人类学和TEK的民族生物学方法中绘制整合策略图。我们从科学哲学中借用了“推理方式”的概念和综合多元性的框架，我们认为，美洲的民族生物学家已经制定了不同的研究计划。与此同时，