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December 31, 2005Ethnobotany Research and ApplicationsOpen Access

Knowledge and Consumption of Wild Plants: A comparative study in two Tsimane' villages in the Bolivian Amazon

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VRVictòria Reyes-GarcíaVVVincent VadezTHTomás Huanca

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Comparative study reveals ethnobotanical knowledge correlates with plant use in remote forest communities but decouples with market access, suggesting a metric to track knowledge loss.

Key Points

  • To determine whether theoretical ethnobotanical knowledge directly corresponds to the actual consumption and use of wild and semi-domesticated plants across communities with varying levels of market integration.
  • Evaluated ethnobotanical knowledge and plant usage patterns among 132 adults from two native Tsimane' foraging-farming villages in the Bolivian Amazon.
  • Compared plant utilization across two villages differing in physical proximity to market towns and relative reliance on forest resources.
  • Adults in the isolated village demonstrated significantly greater ethnobotanical knowledge and used more wild plants than those in the village closer to market infrastructure.
  • Individual ethnobotanical knowledge correlated positively with plant use in the pooled sample and in the isolated village, but decoupled in the village with reduced forest dependence.

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Reyes-García et al. (2005) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a17eeceaeefdf6d9c1329fdhttps://doi.org/10.17348/era.3.0.201-208
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