Hi Dwaipayan Sinha and Priya Dharshana,

Thanks for starting this thread.

I always advise people to begin within a theoretical framework to generate a great research question. Ethnobotany theory and social ecological theory are good places to start. Gaoue et al. (2017) and Albuquerque and Hurrell (2010) offer a good overview of ethnobotany theory. For social ecological theory maybe check out Albuquerque et al. (2019). These papers are also good sources of approaches in ethnobotany and can help in formulating useful research questions.

Albuquerque and Hurrell (2010) Chapter Ethnobotany: one concept and many interpretations

Albuquerque et al. (2019)

Article Social-Ecological Theory of Maximization: Basic Concepts and...

Gaoue et al. (2017)

Article Theories and Major Hypotheses in Ethnobotany

I put together an R package to calculate the most common indices used in quantitative ethnobotany. These basically follow the informant consensus methods from anthropology.

Method Package 'ethnobotanyR' Version 0.1.5

This is a work in progress and the latest version is always on github:

http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/CWWhitney/ethnobotanyR/blob/master/vignettes/ethnobotanyr_vignette.html

Sir..,Kindly refer this article

Hi Dwaipayan Sinha and Priya Dharshana,

Thanks for starting this thread.

I always advise people to begin within a theoretical framework to generate a great research question. Ethnobotany theory and social ecological theory are good places to start. Gaoue et al. (2017) and Albuquerque and Hurrell (2010) offer a good overview of ethnobotany theory. For social ecological theory maybe check out Albuquerque et al. (2019). These papers are also good sources of approaches in ethnobotany and can help in formulating useful research questions.

Albuquerque and Hurrell (2010) Chapter Ethnobotany: one concept and many interpretations

Albuquerque et al. (2019)

Article Social-Ecological Theory of Maximization: Basic Concepts and...

Gaoue et al. (2017)

Article Theories and Major Hypotheses in Ethnobotany

I put together an R package to calculate the most common indices used in quantitative ethnobotany. These basically follow the informant consensus methods from anthropology.

Method Package 'ethnobotanyR' Version 0.1.5

This is a work in progress and the latest version is always on github:

http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/CWWhitney/ethnobotanyR/blob/master/vignettes/ethnobotanyr_vignette.html

You can measure biodiversity using indices such as Shannon or Simpson

About your question, I think you need to figure out what is your hypothesis (purpose). For example, you want to see how important the plant is for the community? or How different the traditional knowledge in two different villages or in different age groups. Each quantification indicator should be used to support your hypothesis.

Sir,

Thank you for your response.

I have performed the study on one area amongst various age groups.

The people of that area use a number of plants for their daily usage ranging from medicinal,food or household. I would've thankful if you kindly guide me what is the best way to project this finding.