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Ethnobotany and Management of Dimorphandra gardneriana in a Protected Area of Chapada do Araripe Semiarid Ceará, Northeastern Brazil

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The development of conservation strategies for nontimber forest products requires the characterization of the management systems and ethnoecological knowledge of the used species, as well as the analysis of the biological impacts of these processes. This study aimed to evaluate management systems and extractivist areas and related ethnoecological knowledge of Dimorphandra gardneriana (fava d’anta) in the semiarid region of Ceará, Northeast of Brazil. Fava d’anta produces fruits with high concentration of bioflavonoids, substances with various pharmacological properties, being exploited by extractivist communities in the mosaic of protected areas in Chapada do Araripe, Ceará. Ethnoecological knowledge has been concentrated on collectors who have been in activity for a longer time and/or plant the species. We identified three management systems that can impact in different ways on fava d’anta populations, depending on the area and level of human interference with the species. The extractivists respect the zoning of protected areas and do not enter in the full protection area, choosing areas with the highest tree density. The different systems produce a mosaic that creates different extraction opportunities and modifications to the local landscape and to fava d’anta populations. Factors that may have effects on the conservation of the species are the lack of supervision and overexploitation of the resource in native areas, while the factors that affect the health of extractivists are the infrastructure of the work and exposure to wild environments.

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Thanks are due to the extractivist communities which accepted to participate in the present study, to Flona Araripe-Apodi managers, which provided support throughout the study, and to professors Luiz Marivando Barros and Antônia Eliene Duarte, for logistic support. Data of the present study are derived from the first author’s master’s thesis, which received a scholarship from the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES).

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    Micaelle Sônia de Alcântara, Reinaldo Farias Paiva de Lucena & Denise Dias da Cruz

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de Alcântara, M.S., de Lucena, C.M., de Lucena, R.F.P. et al. Ethnobotany and Management of Dimorphandra gardneriana in a Protected Area of Chapada do Araripe Semiarid Ceará, Northeastern Brazil. Environmental Management 65, 420–432 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-020-01253-0

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