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Analysis of umbu (Spondias tuberosa Arruda (Anacardiaceae)) in different landscape management regimes

A process of incipient domestication?

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Plant domestication is an evolutionary process guided by human groups who modify the landscape for their needs. The objective of this study was to evaluate the phenotypic variations between populations of Spondias tuberosa Arruda (umbuzeiro) when subjected to different local landscape management strategies. The influence of the landscape management system on these populations was evaluated in five identified regional units (mountains, base of mountains, pastures, cultivated areas and home gardens). Ten individuals were randomly selected from each region and subjected to morphological and chemical fruit analysis. The diversity index, based on Simpson’s index, was determined for the different populations. We then evaluated the morphological differences between the individual fruits from the distinct landscape areas. We observed no significant differences in morphological diversity between the areas studied. Our data suggest that the umbuzeiro specimens in this region may be in the process of incipient domestication.

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The authors would like to thank the municipal prefecture of Altinho and particularly the Secretary of Agriculture and Production, Sr. Miguel Andrade Jr., for logistical support; Profa Rejane Jurema Mansur Custódio Nogueira, Laboratório of Fisiologia Vegetal/UFRPE, for her help and permission to use the equipment for morphometric and chemical analyses; Prof. Egídio Neto, Laboratório of Chemical vegetal/UFRPE, and Profa Lília Wiladino, Laboratório of Cultura of Tecidos Vegetais/UFRPE, for the use of their laboratories for the morphometric analyses; CNPq for the master’s level grant to the first author for financial support (“Edital Universal”) and for a research productivity grant to U.P. Albuquerque; all of the members of the Laboratório of Ethnobotanical Aplicada/UFRPE for their invaluable help and contributions to the analyses; and the community of Carão for their help, receptivity, and efforts in sharing their knowledge.

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  1. Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Piauí (UFPI), Campus Professora Cinobelina Elvas, BR 135, CEP 64900-000, Bom Jesus, Piauí, Brazil

    Ernani Machado de Freitas Lins Neto

  2. Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Edifício Fritz Muller, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, CEP 88040-970, Brazil

    Nivaldo Peroni

  3. Departamento de Nutrição, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Av. Prof. Nelson Chaves s/n, Cidade Universitária, CEP 50670-901, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

    Christine Maria Carneiro Maranhão

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    Ulysses Paulino de Albuquerque

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de Freitas Lins Neto, E.M., Peroni, N., Maranhão, C.M.C. et al. Analysis of umbu (Spondias tuberosa Arruda (Anacardiaceae)) in different landscape management regimes. Environ Monit Assess 184, 4489–4499 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-011-2280-7

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