Fig 1.
Map of the Thal desert area.
Fig 2.
Ethnobotanical survey and data collection.
Fig 3.
Different steps in the collection and identification of grasses.
Table 1.
Relative abundance categories and coverage in the study area.
Fig 4.
Education levels of participants.
Table 2.
Demography of participants of the study area.
Table 3.
Pair wise ranking of wild palatable plants from all districts of Thal.
Fig 5.
Co-relation used for pairwise comparison of different grasses.
Fig 6.
Prioritizing of fodder grasses based on RFC.
Fig 7.
Grouping of ethnobotanically used fodder grasses based on cluster analysis.
Table 4.
List of the collected grasses, ethnobotanical and ethno veterinary data, abundance; focal persons count (FC) and relative frequency citation (RFC) of fodder grasses from the area of Thal desert area, Punjab Pakistan.
Table 5.
Respondent consensus factor for grasses used by animals.
Table 6.
Pairwise comparison (PWC) based on similar RFC vales of fodder grasses.
Fig 8.
Grasses preference by animals.
Table 7.
Frequency analysis for palatability, parts used for eating and feeding methods and relative abundance of fodder grasses.
Fig 9.
Frequency of milk producing species according to participants ranking.
Table 8.
Results of ANTHROPAC analysis of overall salience index of milk for producing species.
Fig 10.
Percentage of species in each group.
Fig 11.
Availability of grasses in the study area.
Fig 12.
People use livestock for improving their economic life in Thal Desert.
Table 9.
Grasses use in ethno-veterinary and ethnobotanical uses of grasses.