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Traditional knowledge and cultural importance of Borassus aethiopum Mart. in Benin: interacting effects of socio-demographic attributes and multi-scale abundance
| dc.contributor.author | Salako, Kolawole Valère | |
| dc.contributor.author | Moreira, Francisco | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gbedomon, Rodrigue Castro | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tovissodé, Frédéric | |
| dc.contributor.author | Assogbadjo, Achille Ephrem | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kakai, Romain Lucas Glèlè | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-05T09:26:09Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-06-05T09:26:09Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
| dc.description | Research | pt_PT |
| dc.description.abstract | Background: Eliciting factors affecting distribution of traditional knowledge (TK) and cultural importance of plant resources is central in ethnobiology. Socio-demographic attributes and ecological apparency hypothesis (EAH) have been widely documented as drivers of TK distribution, but their synergistic effect is poorly documented. Here, we focused on Borassus aethiopum, a socio-economic important agroforestry palm in Africa, analyzing relationships between the number of use-reports and cultural importance on one hand, and informant socio-demographic attributes (age category and gender) on the other hand, considering the EAH at multi-scale contexts. Our hypothesis is that effects of socio-demographic attributes on use-reports and cultural importance are shaped by both local (village level) and regional (chorological region level) apparency of study species. We expected so because distribution of knowledge on a resource in a community correlates to the versatility in the resource utilization but also connections among communities within a region. Methods: Nine hundred ninety-two face-to-face individual semi-structured interviews were conducted in six villages of low versus high local abundance of B. aethiopum spanning three chorological regions (humid, sub-humid and semiarid) also underlying a gradient of increasing distribution and abundance of B. aethiopum. Number of use-reports and score of importance of uses of B. aethiopum were recorded in six use-categories including medicine, food, handcraft, construction, firewood, and ceremonies and rituals. Data were analyzed using Poisson and ordered logistic models | pt_PT |
| dc.description.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.citation | Salako et al. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2018) 14:36 | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1186/s13002-018-0233-8 | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/15557 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | pt_PT |
| dc.publisher | BMC | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Borassus aethiopum Mart. | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Benin | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | ethnobotany | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | knowledge distribution | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | wild palm | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | conservation | pt_PT |
| dc.title | Traditional knowledge and cultural importance of Borassus aethiopum Mart. in Benin: interacting effects of socio-demographic attributes and multi-scale abundance | pt_PT |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.title | Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine | pt_PT |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt_PT |
| rcaap.type | article | pt_PT |