Figure 1.
Map showing location of study site in central Guyana, South America [67].
Figure 2.
Map showing location of study villages in the Rupununi, Guyana [68].
Table 1.
Number of households in each village, income and ethnicity class in a study of the North Rupununi, Guyana.
Figure 3.
Floristic diversity and species richness in 4 forest types including ex-farm plots, North Rupununi, Guyana.
(Representing the 15 dominant species).
Figure 4.
PCA ordination of floristic data (15 dominant tree species) for 4 forest types including ex-farm plots, North Rupununi Guyana.
Key: Aa: A. aculeatum, Ag: A. gynacanthum, Am: A. maripa, Bg: B. guianensis, Bt: B. stipulacea, Cc: C. commune, Cm: C. multiflora, Es: E. subglandulosa, Es: E. subglandulosa, Hs: H. spathocircinata, Ls: L. sapotis, Me: M. excels, Ob: O. bacaba.
Table 2.
Interquartile range for the dominant 15 tree species) for 4 forest types and farm plots in the North Rupununi, Guyana.
Table 3.
Number of species used by participants in the North Rupununi, Guyana for each resource use category defined in the study.
Figure 5.
Most commonly caught fish species in each of three villages, North Rupununi Guyana.
(Representing 1 percent or more of fish caught in all three communities during the sample year).
Figure 6.
Seasonal and inter-community differences in fish consumption (kg/C.U./week) for three villages, North Rupununi, Guyana.
Figure 7.
Patterns of animal resource use amongst Amerindian groups, North Rupununi, Guyana.
A) Household consumption of mammal meat in the three classes of traditional origins, B) Capture of mammals in four income classes in the North Rupununi, Guyana.
Figure 8.
Patterns of wildfruit and palm use by Amerindian groups, North Rupununi, Guyana.
A) Wild fruits consumed in three villages (representing more than 1% of total consumption, B) Consumption of Attalea maripa by ethnicity.
Figure 9.
Number of locations for timber collection by income class for Amerindians, North Rupununi, Guyana.
Columns with the same letter do not differ according to Tukey's multiple range test.
Figure 10.
Farm contiguity in the North Rupununi Guyana, by ethnicity and income class.
A) Number of contiguous neighbouring farms by ethnicity class of owning household, B) Number of contiguous neighbouring farms by income class of owning household in the North Rupununi, Guyana (Differences significant by Tukey's post hoc, 2>3 P = 0.013, 2>4 P = 0.028).