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Table 3 Spearman correlations among eight indices of traditional ecological knowledge (n = 375).

From: Evaluating indices of traditional ecological knowledge: a methodological contribution

  

THEORETICAL DIMENSION

PRACTICAL DIMENSION

  

(1)

(2)

(2)

(3)

(3)

(3)

(4)

 

Index

Agreement with experts

Ecological cultural knowledge

Ecological knowledge

Average plants used

Total plants used

Total species used

Skills using plants

THEORETICAL

(1)Cultural knowledge of uses

0.855***

0.050

0.179***

0.385***

0.404***

0.281***

0.174***

 

(1)Agreement with experts

 

0.136***

0.319***

0.412***

0.483***

0.393***

0.217***

 

(2)Ecological cultural knowledge

  

0.556***

0.102**

0.139***

0.097*

0.148***

 

(2)Ecological knowledge

   

0.146***

0.212***

0.241***

0.140***

PRACTICAL

(3)Average plants used

    

0.952***

0.557***

0.243***

 

(3) Total plants used

     

0.659***

0.221***

 

(3) Total species used

      

0.104**

  1. Notes: *, **, and *** significant at the ≤ 10%, ≤ 5% or ≤ 1% level. (1) Data collected with multiple-choice task on uses of wild plants; (2) Data collected with multiple-choice task on ecology of wild plants; (3) Data collected with interviews of reported use of plants; (4) Data collected with questionnaire on skills