The influence of visual stimuli in ethnobotanical data collection using the listing task method

Field Methods

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 76-86

  Miranda, Tatiana Mota ^a   De Mello Amorozo, Maria Christina ^b   Govone, José Sílvio ^b   Miranda, Daniela Mota ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^c Opus Software ^*

Author keywords

Ethnobotany; Field methods; Listing tasks; Visual stimuli

Indexed keywords

EID: 41649102613     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: 15523969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X06295987     Document Type: Article

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