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Table 7 Habitat set of Csángó habitat terms applied to highly disturbed areas, their meanings and English equivalents (literal translations of names are given in parentheses)

From: Multidimensionality and scale in a landscape ethnoecological partitioning of a mountainous landscape (Gyimes, Eastern Carpathians, Romania)

Csángó habitat names

Meanings and English equivalents

épületek mellett, házak szélén 3

Close to buildings and houses (the same)

istállók körül, mellett 3

Around the barn, close to the barn (the same)

út mellett, útszéleken 2,3

On road edges (next to roads / along roads)

ösvenyek mentin 2,3

Along paths, a trampled habitat (along paths)

kert mellyéke 2

Along a fence (the same)

sánc, árok 3

Ditch, along ditches (ditch)

  1. Superscripts indicate scale: 1macrohabitat; 2mesohabitat; 3microhabitat.