We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Spatial distribution and habitats of useful plants: an initial assessment for conservation on an indigenous territory, Panama .
- Authors
Dalle, Sarah Paule; López, Heraclio; Díaz, Domingo
- Abstract
Studies the spatial patterns of a group useful plant species on the territory of a Kuna community in the province of Darien, Panama in order to examine the spatial distribution of forest resources on local territories and to understand the factors controlling such distributions. A stratified random sampling scheme that was used to survey the distribution and abundance of the species across an area around the village; Data on the physical environment as well as the geographic coordinates of the sample plots that were also obtained; A series of canonical analyses that was conducted to evaluate the species?environment relationships and to identify spatial structures in the species distributions left unexplained by the environmental variables; Distinct distribution patterns that were identified among the species; Explanation of distinct distribution patterns by land-use, the degree of canopy closure and topography; Significant spatial structures, independent of the measured environmental variables, that were related to anthropogenic pressure and an edaphic gradient, and the habitat associations of the individual species that were described; Results obtained from this case study that suggest that land-use dynamics may play a predominant role in structuring inhabited landscapes, and that diversity in distribution patterns and habitat associations will require a combination of spatially explicit management strategies to ensure the local resource base.
- Subjects
PANAMA; PLANTS; FORESTS &; forestry; SPECIES; ANTHROPOGENIC soils
- Publication
Biodiversity & Conservation, 2002, Vol 11, Issue 4, p637
- ISSN
0960-3115
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1023/A:1015544325763