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Table 3 Non-structured interview thematic guide and semi-structured interview basic format

From: Process and dynamics of traditional selling wild edible mushrooms in tropical Mexico

Thematic guide

Semi-structured interview basic format*

General information:

-Market kind

-Market rhythm

-Stand organization

-Type of product sold

-Sellers origin: geographic and ethnic

-Products geographical origin

-Other sellers activities

Ethnomycological information:

-Mushrooms species sold

-Mushrooms species used but not sold

-Gender patterns

-Ethnicity of mushrooms sellers

-Mushroomers presence

-Stand dynamics

-What mushrooms do you sell?

-Why do you sell these kinds of mushrooms?

-Do you sell other kind of products?

-Does anybody sell only mushrooms?

-Why you sell mushrooms?

-Are you acquainted with someone who knows much about mushrooms?

-How many people sell mushrooms here?

-Who sells mushrooms, women or men?

-Where are mushrooms sellers from?

-Do you gather mushrooms?

-Do you gather mushrooms alone?

-What time do you invest gathering mushrooms?

-Do you gather mushrooms every day?

-Where do you gather mushrooms?

-Do you gather anything else?

-Who buys you the mushrooms?

-Why don't all mushrooms sellers gather them?

  1. *Questions were not asked literally, but rather were adapted according to the context and circumstances of interviews.