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Ixcatec ethnoecology: plant management and biocultural heritage in Oaxaca, Mexico

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, July 2016
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Title
Ixcatec ethnoecology: plant management and biocultural heritage in Oaxaca, Mexico
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Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, July 2016
DOI 10.1186/s13002-016-0101-3
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Selene Rangel-Landa, Alejandro Casas, Erandi Rivera-Lozoya, Ignacio Torres-García, Mariana Vallejo-Ramos

Abstract

Studying motives of plant management allows understanding processes that originated agriculture and current forms of traditional technology innovation. Our work analyses the role of native plants in the Ixcatec subsistence, management practices, native plants biocultural importance, and motivations influencing management decisions. Cultural and ecological importance and management complexity may differ among species according with their use value and availability. We hypothesized that decreasing risk in availability of resources underlies the main motives of management, but curiosity, aesthetic, and ethical values may also be determinant. Role of plants in subsistence strategies, forms of use and management was documented through 130 semi-structured interviews and participant observation. Free listing interviews to 38 people were used to estimate the cognitive importance of species used as food, medicine, fuel, fodder, ornament and ceremonial. Species ecological importance was evaluated through sampling vegetation in 22 points. Principal Components Analysis were performed to explore the relation between management, cultural and ecological importance and estimating the biocultural importance of native species. We recorded 627 useful plant species, 589 of them native. Livelihood strategies of households rely on agriculture, livestock and multiple use of forest resources. At least 400 species are managed, some of them involving artificial selection. Management complexity is the main factor reflecting the biocultural importance of plant species, and the weight of ecological importance and cultural value varied among use types. Management strategies aim to ensure resources availability, to have them closer, to embellish human spaces or satisfying ethical principles. Decisions about plants management are influenced by perception of risk to satisfy material needs, but immaterial principles are also important. Studying such relation is crucial for understanding past and present technological innovation processes and understand the complex process of developing biocultural legacy.

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Unknown 137 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 26 19%
Student > Bachelor 19 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 9%
Researcher 11 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 8%
Other 25 18%
Unknown 32 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 48 35%
Environmental Science 23 17%
Social Sciences 8 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 3%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 2%
Other 14 10%
Unknown 37 27%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 August 2022.
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#6,337,545
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#232
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#107,488
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Outputs of similar age from Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
#2
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