Local knowledge and the use of plants in rural communities in the montane forests of northwestern Argentina
Local knowledge and the use of plants in rural communities in the montane forests of northwestern Argentina
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DOI：
10.2307/3673853
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发表时间：
1997-08-01
影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
Grau, A
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作者：
Hynes, AL;Brown, AD;Grau, A
作者采访了阿根廷西北部亚热带山地森林中的成年人和儿童，试图评估他们的植物学知识程度。四个地方，代表一个渐进的地理隔离梯度进行了采样。提到了181个不同用途的物种（72个栽培物种和109个野生物种）。隔离梯度没有显示出对所提到的物种数量的任何影响。除了药用植物，孩子们提到的物种至少和成年人一样多。结果表明，不那么孤立的村庄可能是重要的民族植物学知识的保护非常孤立的。在民族植物学研究中应考虑儿童，因为他们有可能获得高质量的植物学信息，采样工作相对较低。
The authors interviewed adults and children in the subtropical montane forests of northwestern Argentina, in an attempt to assess their degree of botanical knowledge. Four localities, representing a gradient of progressive geographic isolation were sampled. One hundred and eighty-one species of different categories of use were mentioned (72 cultivated and 109 wild). The isolation gradient did not show any effect on the number of species mentioned. Except for medicinal plants, children mentioned at least as many species as did adults. The results suggest that the less isolated villages may be as important for conservation of ethnobotanical knowledge as very isolated ones. Children should be considered in ethnobotanical studies because of their potential for obtaining high quality botanical information, with a relatively low sampling effort.