Table 1.
Culture/Geographic location | Livestock speciesa | Plant speciesa | Reference |
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Navajo or Diné/Southwestern United States | Sheep | Cleome lutea, Chenopodium album, Descurainia pinnata, Sisymbrium altissimum, Polygonum aviculare, Amaranthus graecizans, Salsola iberica, Halogeton glomeratus, Malva neglecta, Gilia aggregate, Erodium cicutarium, Nicotiana attenuata | Kuznar, 2001 |
Rarámuri or Tarahumara/Sierra Tarahumara, Northern Mexico | Goats, sheep cattle | Brassica campestris | Bye, 1979 |
Aymara/Asana Valley, Southern Peru | Goats, sheep, cattle, camelids | Chenopodium spp., Dunalia brachycantha, Mutisia acuminata, Cantua candelilla | Kuznar, 1993 |
aThe mutualisms among humans (culture), herbivores (livestock species) and plants are enlisted; only the most common species as reported by the authors are provided.