Traditional knowledge and cultural importance of Borassus aethiopum Mart. in Benin: interacting effects of socio-demographic attributes and multi-scale abundance

• Main Authors: Kolawolé Valère Salako (Author), Francisco Moreira (Author), Rodrigue Castro Gbedomon (Author), Frédéric Tovissodé (Author), Achille Ephrem Assogbadjo (Author), Romain Lucas Glèlè Kakaï (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Eliciting factors affecting distribution of traditional knowledge (TK) and cultural importance of plant resources is central in ethnobiology. Socio-demographic attributes and ecological apparency hypothesis (EAH) have been widely documented as drivers of TK distribution, but thei...