Summary of plant species regarded as important as reported by the residents of Community Baboon Sanctuary, Belize

Summary of plant species regarded as important as reported by the residents of Community Baboon Sanctuary (CBS), Belize through in person, semi-structured interviews conducted from 2014 to 2015. Thirty-five local residents participated and named 52 species of importance. Use Value (UV) and Importance Value (IV) were calculated.

We calculated Species UV using the equation,

UVis = (∑ Uis) / (nis)

UVis = Species Use Value for each plant mentioned by community member
Uis = ∑ of total benefits mentioned by all community members for individual plant species
nis = Total number of plants mentioned as important in all surveys

Importance Value (Byg & Balslev 2001) focuses on human values measuring the proportion of community members who regard a plant species as most important. Importance Values (IV) range between 0 and 1 and are calculated using the equation,

IVs = nis / n

IVs = Importance Value for each plant mentioned by community member
nis = Number of community members consider species important
n = Total number of community members interviewed