Ethnobotanical Knowledge Complexity in a Conservation Area of Northern Uruguay: Interlocutors-Medicinal Plant Network and the Structural Patterns of Interaction

With the aim of generating a strategy for biocultural conservation, we explore the structure and robustness of the botanical medical systems in the Biosphere Reserve “Bioma Pampa-Quebradas del Norte,” Uruguay, combining ethnobotanical hypotheses and network theory. We report a heterogeneous distribu...

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Autores principales: Castiñeira Latorre, Elena, Canavero, Andrés, Arim, Matías
Formato: Articulo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2020
Materias:
Botánica
Botanical medical systems
Resilience
Knowledge erosion
Medicinal plants
Network analysis
Biocultural conservation
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/130959
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topic Botánica
Botanical medical systems
Resilience
Knowledge erosion
Medicinal plants
Network analysis
Biocultural conservation
spellingShingle Botánica
Botanical medical systems
Resilience
Knowledge erosion
Medicinal plants
Network analysis
Biocultural conservation
Castiñeira Latorre, Elena
Canavero, Andrés
Arim, Matías
Ethnobotanical Knowledge Complexity in a Conservation Area of Northern Uruguay: Interlocutors-Medicinal Plant Network and the Structural Patterns of Interaction
topic_facet Botánica
Botanical medical systems
Resilience
Knowledge erosion
Medicinal plants
Network analysis
Biocultural conservation
description With the aim of generating a strategy for biocultural conservation, we explore the structure and robustness of the botanical medical systems in the Biosphere Reserve “Bioma Pampa-Quebradas del Norte,” Uruguay, combining ethnobotanical hypotheses and network theory. We report a heterogeneous distribution of knowledge of medicinal plants with a potential limit to the individual knowledge (truncated–power-law). The robustness analysis in the face of alternative potential scenarios of system degradation indicates that the ethnobotanical system presents a high level of resistance to the loss of agents and medicinal plants species, but also a nonlinear response with a threshold of degradation after which an abrupt collapse in system structure is expected. To counter these threats at the Biosphere Reserve, we propose to promote ethnobotanical knowledge transmission and sustainable development in rural areas, and to encourage the development of strategies for the conservation of medicinal plants.
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author Castiñeira Latorre, Elena
Canavero, Andrés
Arim, Matías
author_facet Castiñeira Latorre, Elena
Canavero, Andrés
Arim, Matías
author_sort Castiñeira Latorre, Elena
title Ethnobotanical Knowledge Complexity in a Conservation Area of Northern Uruguay: Interlocutors-Medicinal Plant Network and the Structural Patterns of Interaction
title_short Ethnobotanical Knowledge Complexity in a Conservation Area of Northern Uruguay: Interlocutors-Medicinal Plant Network and the Structural Patterns of Interaction
title_full Ethnobotanical Knowledge Complexity in a Conservation Area of Northern Uruguay: Interlocutors-Medicinal Plant Network and the Structural Patterns of Interaction
title_fullStr Ethnobotanical Knowledge Complexity in a Conservation Area of Northern Uruguay: Interlocutors-Medicinal Plant Network and the Structural Patterns of Interaction
title_full_unstemmed Ethnobotanical Knowledge Complexity in a Conservation Area of Northern Uruguay: Interlocutors-Medicinal Plant Network and the Structural Patterns of Interaction
title_sort ethnobotanical knowledge complexity in a conservation area of northern uruguay: interlocutors-medicinal plant network and the structural patterns of interaction
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url http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/130959
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