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Evidence for conservation and sustainable use in a fragment of the Atlantic forest in southeastern Brazil by a traditional human group

Overview of attention for article published in SpringerPlus, September 2012
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Title
Evidence for conservation and sustainable use in a fragment of the Atlantic forest in southeastern Brazil by a traditional human group
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SpringerPlus, September 2012
DOI 10.1186/2193-1801-1-21
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Alexandre Gabriel Christo, Rejan R Guedes-Bruni, Felipe de Araújo Pinto Sobrinho, Ary Gomes da Silva, Ariane Luna Peixoto

Abstract

The use of forest resources by a rural community adjacent to a Biological Reserve was examined using quantitative methods based on the consensus of six local specialists. Plants with trunk diameters at 1.3 m above soil level (DBH) ≥ 5 cm were sampled in 0.5 ha of forest and their use-value (UV) were calculated and associated with their structural descriptors. A total of 129 species were identified, and 69 of them having known uses. The species with largest UV were: Xylopia sericea, Lecythis lanceolata and Guarea macrophylla. The results demonstrated that neither the degree of recognition of taxa by the local specialists nor their use-versatility depended on their abundance in nature. The results corroborate the hypothesis that richness of a plant family is a predictive character of its cultural importance and the community recognizes the value of conserving the forest remnants.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Uganda 1 3%
Netherlands 1 3%
Kenya 1 3%
Brazil 1 3%
United States 1 3%
Unknown 30 86%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Doctoral Student 6 17%
Researcher 5 14%
Student > Bachelor 4 11%
Professor 4 11%
Other 3 9%
Other 9 26%
Unknown 4 11%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 14 40%
Environmental Science 9 26%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 2 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 3%
Unspecified 1 3%
Other 2 6%
Unknown 6 17%
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#20,167,959
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#1,460
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#153,176
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#12
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