IADIZA   20886
INSTITUTO ARGENTINO DE INVESTIGACIONES DE LAS ZONAS ARIDAS
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
Students? familiarity and initial contact with species in the Monte desert (Mendoza, Argentina)
Autor/es:
CAMPOS CLAUDIA M.; GRECO SILVIA E.; CIARLANTE, J.J.; BALANGIONE, M.; BENDER, J.B.; NATES, J.; LINDEMANN-MATTHIES, P.
Revista:
JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS
Editorial:
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
Referencias:
Lugar: AmsterdamKidlington; Año: 2012 vol. 82 p. 98 - 105
ISSN:
0140-1963
Resumen:
This study investigates how familiarity and initial contact with species can be explained by socialdemographicvariables in an arid environment of Argentina. Our main objectives were to investigatewhich species children are familiar with, and analyse the effect of place of residence, sex and age onstudents? knowledge and initial contact with species. In total, 1746 students between 7 and 18 years oldparticipated in the study, from 25 urban and 19 rural schools. Students were asked to write down tenanimals and ten plants, and to indicate where they had seen them for the first time. Children were able toname an important number of species but they were mostly acquainted with exotic ones. Familiaritywith species and the use of different sources of information can be explained by interactions between thestudied factors, while place of residence was not as significant as we expected. Sex was an importantexplanatory variable, likely influenced by differences in roles and children activities? preferences. It isnecessary to improve the knowledge on native species, particularly those with conservation problems byusing information sources close to nature, without neglecting the knowledge of the exotic species thatchildren showed more familiarity from everyday life.