Local Ecological Knowledge associated with family farming in Agreste Potiguar
Ethnobiology; Ethnobotanical; Biocultural Memory ; Phylogeny;Ecosystem services
Local Ecological Knowledge (LEK) is increasingly important within science to discuss the conservation of biological resources and ecosystem processes. Here in this thesis, we describe how LEK contributions and potential for building hypotheses in ethnobotanical use, phylogenetic structuring within the optimization of use and for the rescue of biocultural memory; and the insight to assess ecosystem services. The initial objective of the thesis is the Local Ecological Knowledge of the relationship between farmers and wood and medicine plants, filling a gap in ethnobotanical work in the Agreste Potiguar region. Within this first main objective, we have specific questions: 1) What are the social characteristics associated with the most specialized informants in the use of wood from the analysis of phylogeny? 2) How is the pattern of species dispersion along the phylogeny created from the knowledge of farmers for various diseases distributed over 11 parts of the human body system and 10 morphological structures of the plants mentioned? The second main objective is to know two parts, in the way of life of the communities they perceive the Local Ecological Knowledge. For the specific purpose of this second part, we will classify as consensus analyses for four classifications associated with ecosystem services. The results show that there are patterns of dispersion within the ecophylogeny of the species built from the citation of family farmers in the rural region of the state for wood and medicinal uses. Within medicinal uses, plant morphological structures tend to form a more phylogenetic pattern than human body systems. Regarding the perception of ecosystem services, both agricultural and environmental actors have different perceptions about the immaterial mechanisms associated with conservation and Local Ecological Knowledge. We ask the actors, researchers associated with conservation and the rural world to respect and guarantee all the rights included so that the Indigenous Community of Catu, perhaps the only one within this rural territory, can reproduce its activities and ways of life, because it is around this territory that farmers cite more species associated with biocultural memory.