@article{fdi:010060322,
  title = {{U}se and knowledge of forest plants among the {R}ibeirinhos, a traditional {A}mazonian population},
  author = {{C}ouly, {C}laire and {S}ist, {P}.},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{T}his study assessed the ethnobotanical use and knowledge of forest plant diversity among the {R}ibeirinhos, a traditional population of the {B}razilian {A}mazon living in a protected area ({T}apajs {N}ational {F}orest, {W}est of {P}ara), and compared the importance of forest plants used in their daily activities with the use of cultivated plants (agrobiodiversity) from their home gardens and swidden-fallows. {W}e used two complementary quantitative ethnobotanical methods, based on (i) daily scan observations in 14 families' homes, and (ii) ethnobotanical inventories of trees, palms and lianas of {DBH} a parts per thousand yen 5 cm in 23 plots each of 0.1-ha, set up in three types of forests. {A}nalyses of the ethnobotanical surveys in the plots showed that most forest species (120 out of the 140 inventoried, i.e. 86 %) were acknowledged to be useful by the informants (use value > 0) and accounted for 91.2 % of the inventoried individuals measuring {DBH} a parts per thousand yen 5 cm. {H}owever, daily observations of plant gathering in homes showed that only a few forest species considered 'useful' were used daily, whilst species cultivated in gardens and swidden-fallows represented the majority of species used. {T}he {R}ibeirinhos were also found to know as much about using forest plant diversity, if not more, than other traditional groups from {A}mazonia or from other tropical regions of {S}outh {A}merica, including the {A}merindians. {T}he article concludes with some recommendations for adapting development practices to local uses of plant diversity in this protected area.},
  keywords = {{A}mazon forest ; {T}raditional ecological knowledge ({TEK}) ; {E}thnobotany ; {F}orest plant diversity ; {A}grobiodiversity ; {R}ibeirinhos ; {AMAZONIE} ; {BRESIL}},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{A}groforestry {S}ystems},
  volume = {87},
  numero = {3},
  pages = {543--554},
  ISSN = {0167-4366},
  year = {2013},
  DOI = {10.1007/s10457-012-9575-8},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010060322},
}