Matrices | Variables | Description |
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Management Intensity (Response Matrix Y) | Life cycle | Annual or perennial. |
Method of reproduction | Sexual, asexual or both. | |
Reproductive System | Mostly self-incompatible or Mostly self-compatible. | |
Maintenance Labours | Cleaning or weeding, grooves water penetration, apply fertilizer, fumigation, etc. | |
Artificial selection | If selection criteria are recognized by specific characteristic. | |
Collective regulation | Existence of rules governing access to the resource and how it is applied. | |
Using Tools | Types of tools used in resource extraction. | |
Proximity to site collects | Distance in meters from households to the extraction sites. | |
Time spent in collecting | Minutes, hours, and days. | |
Management types | Conditions of a plant’s management, whether gathered, tolerated, promoted, protected or cultivated. | |
Ecological (Matrix X) | Spatial distribution | Percentage of plots in which each species is present. |
Temporal distribution | Harvested parts are available continuously throughout the year or only seasonally. | |
Lyfe cycle | Annual or perennial. | |
Reproductive System | Mostly self-incompatible or Mostly self-compatible. | |
Ecological Dominance Index | Value calculated from the frequency, biomass, coverage and density. | |
Usefulparts | Mostly vegetative parts, mostly reproductive parts or whole individuals. | |
Frecuency | Proportion of presence in the quadrants of each sampling. | |
Cover | Percentage of cover in three quadrants of 1m2 for annuals. | |
Biomass | Calculated from the hedges and the diameter at breast height for perennials. | |
Density | Number of individuals per hectare. | |
Sociocultural and economic (Matrix W) | Consumption | Number of people consuming any edible species considered in this study. |
Frequency of use | Consumption over the year. | |
Last day of consumption | Days, weeks, months or years. | |
Uses | Number of uses that have a species. | |
Useful parts | Mostly vegetative parts, mostly reproductive parts or whole individuals. | |
NumberUsefulParts | Total number useful parts. | |
Commercialization | Local market presence. | |
Medicinal use | Medicinal use edible addition. | |
Average price | Average price of a plant species in all markets. | |
Sales Volume | Total sales volume in local market. | |
People who sell | People in the community who market some resource. |