Participatory research among the Kaiabi people at Xingu Indigenous Park in the southern Brazilian Amazon was conducted to support sound natural resource management. We studied aspects of the ethnoecology of an understory herbaceous plant, arumã (Ischnosiphon gracilis, Marantaceae), used in basketry weaving by Kaiabi men. Results of a three-year survey comparing arumã populations and of a transplanting experiment evaluating the growth of arumã seedlings in four different habitat types are presented. These, combined with discussions with Kaiabi communities and with results of studies conducted in other parts of the Amazon Basin, support a five-year rotating management strategy that allows for regeneration of harvested arumã populations.
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1 March 2006
PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT OF ARUMÃ (ISCHNOSIPHON GRACILIS [Rudge] Köern., MARANTACEAE) BY THE KAIABI PEOPLE IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON
SIMONE FERREIRA DE ATHAYDE,
GERALDO MOSIMANN DA SILVA,
JEWYT KAIABI,
MYAUIUP KAIABI,
HELDER ROCHA DE SOUZA,
KÁTIA ONO,
EMILIO M. BRUNA
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Amazonian ethnobotany
Ischnosiphon spp
Kaiabi
non-timber forest products
participatory forestry management