Fig. 1

A Non-metric multidimensional ordination of ethnospecies and ethnogenera of fish cited during the free listing task by 91 interviewees from the fishing community of Siribinha, northeast Brazil. The arrows along the axes indicate significant positive or negative Pearson correlations (p > 0.00047 after Bonferroni correction for multiple comparisons) between individual fish or factors and the axes. For conciseness, only fish with r > 0.45 are shown. B Boxplots showing the median number of fish cited during the free listing tasks by gender and type of activity. Boxes enclose the median (thick line), the mean (thin dashed line), and the 25 and 75 percentiles