RFCs

<p>is an ethnobotany data set with column 1 'informant' and 2 'sp_name' as row identifiers of informants and of species names respectively.
The rest of the columns are the identified ethnobotany use categories. The data should be populated with counts of uses per person (should be 0 or 1 values).</p>

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<p>This function allows you to calculate the relative frequency of citation (RFC) per species published by Pardo-de-Santayana (2003).</p>

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Quantitative

ethnobotany

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Calculate common quantitative ethnobotany indices to assess the cultural significance of plant species based on informant consensus. The package closely follows the paper by Tardio and Pardo-de-Santayana (2008). Tardio, J., and M. Pardo-de-Santayana, 2008. Cultural Importance Indices: A Comparative Analysis Based on the Useful Wild Plants of Southern Cantabria (Northern Spain) 1. Economic Botany, 62(1), 24-39. <DOI:10.1007/s12231-007-9004-5>.

RFCs: Relative Frequency of Citation (RFC)

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