Cultural Importance Indices: A Comparative Analysis Based on the Useful Wild Plants of Southern Cantabria (Northern Spain)1
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...To estimate the cultural significance of each species, we used the Cultural Importance Index (CI), whose definition and use are discussed in another paper [see [ 46 ]], with the following formula:...
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...Pakistan has a rich floral diversity, represented by approximately 1572 genera and around 6000 wild plant species, which are mostly common in the Hindukush, Himalaya and Karakorum regions [6-8]....
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...The latter value, which is also called “number of use-reports,” is widely used by authors who followed the Informant Consensus Factor (Canales et al. 2005; Case et al. 2006; Kufer et al. 2005; Monteiro et al. 2006) defined by Heinrich et al. (1998)....
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...Heinrich et al. (1998) explain that “culturally important plants are those that are used by a large number of people for the same category of use,” assuming the idea of cultural consensus for evaluating the importance of plants for people....
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...Obviously, this was the aim of Prance et al. (1987) in the first definition of the UV index and of Phillips and Gentry (1993a) in their subsequent modification of the index....
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...It can be considered as a redefinition of the use-value of Phillips and Gentry (1993a), grouping the information in a more reasonable way for most ethnobotanical studies, i.e., by plants and use-categories....
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...In order to obtain a more objective index, Phillips and Gentry (1993a) modified the index of Prance et al. (1987) by including the number of informants citing a given plant-use....
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...…totally convinced with any of the existing indices, we constructed the cultural importance index (CI), which could be regarded as a simplification of the cultural value of ReyesGarcía et al. (2006) and eventually as a redefinition of the Phillips and Gentry’s use-value (Phillips and Gentry 1993a)....
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...Diverse indices have considered both variables, such as the UV index (Phillips and Gentry 1993a), the RI index (Pardo-de-Santayana 2003a), and the CV index (Reyes-García et al. 2006)....
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...…stated that indices based on “cultural consensus” do not take into consideration relevant cultural aspects such as intensity, types, and multiplicity of uses; role in narratives, ceremonies, or in symbolism; naming and terminology in a language (Albuquerque et al. 2006; Garibaldi and Turner 2004)....
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