Can wood quality justify local preferences for firewood in an area of caatinga (dryland) vegetation?

Ramos, Marcelo Alves; Medeiros, Patrícia Muniz de; Almeida, Alyson Luiz Santos de; Feliciano, Ana Lícia Patriota; Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino

doi:10.1016/j.biombioe.2007.11.010

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“…Ferraz et al 2006, Florentino et al 2007, Lucena et al 2007, 2008, Monteiro et al 2006, Ramos et al 2008a, 2008b, Sá et al 2009). Lucena et al (2012b) identified that one of the most important species for the community Pau D'Arco (Itaporanga, Paraíba state) was in the list of endangered species, according to IBAMA and MMA (2008).…”

Section: Implications For Conservationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In order to understand the relationship between knowledge and the use of natural resources of the Caatinga by human populations, studies with an ethnobotanical approach have been carried out in this natural environment, from general surveys to hypothesis tests, to identify use pressures on biodiversity and suggest sustainable and conservationist alternatives (Florentino et al 2007, Lucena et al 2012a, Lucena et al 2012b, Lucena et al 2014, Monteiro et al 2008, Ramos et al 2008a, 2008b, Ribeiro et al 2014a, 2014b, Sá et al 2009). …”

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“…The first ethnobotanical studies documented knowledge that traditional populations retained about their biodiversity. Inthe 1990s, there was an increase in this research field at the time statistical tests, quantitative indexes, and hypothesis tests were adopted in investigations (Ferraz et al 2005, Hanazaki et al 2006, La Torre-Cuadros & Islebe 2003, Lucena et al 2007, Luoga et al 2000, Oliveira et al 2010, Phillips & Gentry 1993a, 1993b, Ramos et al 2008a, 2008b, Ribeiro et al 2014a, 2014b, Shanley & Rosa 2004. Standing out in this context are the use value index and the ecological apparency hypothesis.…”

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Ecological Apparency Hypothesis and Plant Utility in the Semiarid Region of Brazil

Guerra

Carvalho

Ribeiro

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Ethnobot. Res. App.

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The ecological apparency hypothesis seeks to understand the dynamics of use that a particular species has through its availability in vegetation areas. According to this hypothesis, apparent plants are the most collected and used by humans. This hypothesis was tested in the rural community of Santa Rita, municipality of Congo, in Cariri microregion (Paraíba state, Northeast Brazil). We calculated the use value (UV) for each species. For the phytosociological inventory, we adopted the point-quadrant method, plotting 500 points distributed in the vegetation areas of the community, registering the perimeter measurements and height of 2000 plants. Interviews were conducted with householders, totaling 98 informants (41 men and 57 women), and 24 species, 21 genera, and 11 families were recorded. The cited species were grouped into 11 utility categories. The Spearman correlation coefficient was used to correlate phytosociological and ethnobotanical data. The use values of the species did not correlate with phytosociological parameters. Regarding the use categories, there were positive correlations for fuel (UV with dominance and basal area), construction (UV with all phytosociological parameters), fodder (UV with all parameters), and poison/abortion categories (UV with density and frequency). Ecological apparency significantly explained the local importance of useful plants in fuel, construction, and fodder categories, and less significantly for poison/abortion.

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Section: Implications For Conservationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Ecological Apparency Hypothesis and Plant Utility in the Semiarid Region of Brazil

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“…Local preferences regarding the selection of wood species for firewood has received a range of attention from scholars including studies designed to compare physical and chemical properties with localized preferences (Chettri & Sharma 2007, Ramos 2008 …”

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An Ethnobotany of Firewood in Osage Big Moon Peyotism: Practical knowledge, ritual participation, and aesthetic preference

Swan

Simons

2014

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“…These have recorded a wide diversity of species known for their potential utility, both timber use and non-timber uses (Albuquerque 2009, Florentino et al 2007, Lucena et al 2012b, 2012c, Monteiro et al 2008, Nascimento et al 2012, Ramos & Albuquerque 2012, Ramos et al 2008a, 2008b, Sá e Silva et al 2008. Based on information from the mentioned studies, further studies are required that seek to record knowledge about useful species in regions that have not been investigated yet, as well as the dynamics of use and extraction of plant resources, with the prospect of examining the frequency and extent of collection and the distribution and availability of these plants in the local vegetation.…”

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Ecological Apparency Hypothesis and Availability of Useful Plants: Testing different seu values

Ribeiro

Carvalho

Alves

et al. 2014

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The present study tested the ecological apparency hypothesis in a Brazilian rural community. It used the use value to test the information gained through three types of calculations (UV change , UV general , UV potential ). A vegetation inventory was performed in two areas near Capivara, Paraí-ba, Brazil, and 112 informants were interviewed. For the hypothesis test, the Spearman correlation coefficient was used to correlate the phytosociological (vegetation) and ethnobotanical data (use value). The study recorded 25 useful species in the first site and 20 in the second site. Positive correlations were found in the first site, between the UV g to basal area and dominance, and between the UV c and basal area, dominance, and importance value. In the second site, between the UV g and both basal area and dominance and between UV c and basal area, density, and dominance. Apparency explained the local importance of useful plants in construction, technology, and fuel, but was not explanative of medicine. Also, important responses were observed for the different use values.

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Can wood quality justify local preferences for firewood in an area of caatinga (dryland) vegetation?

Cited by 116 publications

References 18 publications

Ecological Apparency Hypothesis and Plant Utility in the Semiarid Region of Brazil

Ecological Apparency Hypothesis and Plant Utility in the Semiarid Region of Brazil

An Ethnobotany of Firewood in Osage Big Moon Peyotism: Practical knowledge, ritual participation, and aesthetic preference

Ecological Apparency Hypothesis and Availability of Useful Plants: Testing different seu values

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