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Provedor de dados: | 39
País: | Brazil
Título: | What are the drivers of popularity and versatility of medicinal plants in local medical systems?
Autores: | Caetano,Roberta de Almeida; Albuquerque,Ulysses Paulino de; Medeiros,Patrícia Muniz de.
Data: | 2020-06-01
Ano: | 2020
Palavras-chave: | Ethnobiology; Local pharmacopoeias; Quantitative ethnobotany; Seasonally dry tropical forests; Socioecological systems.
Resumo: | ABSTRACT The cultural importance of medicinal plants has been measured in terms of popularity (number of people who know a plant) and versatility (number of therapeutic indications mentioned for a plant). Previous works have provided evidence about some drivers of medicinal plant importance, such as attributes of availability, efficiency, palatability and taste. The present study tested whether local perception of efficiency, availability (ease of acquisition), palatability (degree of pleasantness), and taste influence the popularity and versatility of medicinal plants in two rural communities of Buíque, Brazil. Free-listing was applied to identify the medicinal plants known/utilized in the communities, while semi-structured interviews were performed to collect more information about the plants. Informants participated in exercises to score the plant-parts that they knew and used. Statistical analysis was performed through multiple linear regressions, with none of the models retaining all variables as explanatory for popularity and versatility. However, availability and efficiency jointly explained versatility in one of the communities, while palatability was inversely related to versatility and popularity in the other. This study demonstrated that the studied individuals select plants differently, which makes exposing the driving forces of such differences a challenge.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-33062020000200256
Editor: | Sociedade Botânica do Brasil
Relação: | 10.1590/0102-33062019abb0233
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Acta Botanica Brasilica  v.34 n.2 2020
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess