Knowledge of Native Edible Plants in a Monoculture Plantation-Dominated Landscape

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3276926
AutoresSantiago A Parra (University of Chile), Santiago Parra (0000-0002-9247-5489, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, autor correspondente), Mauricio Folchi (0000-0002-7293-3913, University of Chile), Javier A Simonetti (0000-0002-4526-104X, University of Chile)
Ano2019
Volume39
Fascículo4
Páginas567
Data de publicação2019-12-20
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Ethnobiology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0278-0771 • E-ISSN: 2162-4496
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2993/0278-0771-39.4.567
OpenAlexW2995217522
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas57

The loss of forests is a factor that could account for the loss of local knowledge about edible plants. In Chile, the replacement of native vegetation by monoculture plantations of exotic trees has been the main cause of forest loss in recent times. We assess whether this loss of forests affects knowledge of wild edible plants by conducting household surveys in coastal rural localities in south-central Chile, subject to different degrees of replacement of forests. Based on the extinction of experience concept, we analyzed changes in knowledge of edible plants, as well as their gathering and use, through interviews comprised of freelisting and open-ended questions. Our results suggest that loss of native vegetation leads to a reduction in knowledge and use of native edible plants by the local population, but that this reduction occurs at a slower pace than land-use change. Individuals exposed to abundant native forest cover in the past have greater knowledge of edible plants today

Agroforestry · Biology · Geography · Introduced species · Land use · Monoculture · Native forest · Native plant · Traditional knowledge · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation · Ecology