Local Knowledge and Conservation Priorities of Medicinal Plants near a Protected Area in Brazil

Table 2

Analysis of variance of the mean distribution of knowledge on medicinal plants by age class and gender of informants from the Macaúba, Barbalha, Ceará, Northeast Brazil site (NI = total informants, SD = standard deviation, NIM = Number of woman informants, and NIH = number of man informants).

Age class (years)	NI	Average number of ethnospecies citations	Average number of citations		NIM	NIH
			Men	Women
		X±SD	X±SD	X±SD
21 – 30	13	7.07±4.42A	8.0±0Aa	6.8±5.7Aa	10	3
31 – 40	15	13.46±8.12 AB	13.5±5.1Aa	13.5±9.18Ba	11	4
41 – 50	22	12.18±6.42AB	11.8±6.82Aa	12.5±6.36Ba	12	10
51 – 60	18	11.88±7.63AB	13.3±5.98Aa	10.12±9.43Ba	8	10
61 – 70	26	19.07±11.63B	16±6.04Aa	21.71±14.79Ba	14	12
>71	33	18.84±13.76B	21.1±15.36Aa	17.0±12.40Ba	18	15

Different capital letters between lines and within the same column, as well as different lowercase letters between columns and within the same row indicate significant differences by Kruskal-Wallis and Student-Newman-Keuls a posteriori at 5%.