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Acknowledgments

The authors thank ICMBio-Ceará, the authorization granted to us for the effectuation of the study and the logistics that facilitated our work. We are grateful to the guards of IBAMA in people, Rivaldo, Luiz, Edvan, Thiago, and Gilmário, whose support and availability always helped. We also thank the residents of the community Horizonte who voluntarily agreed to participate in our study, especially the person of Edilma who spared no efforts to develop this work. We acknowledge CNPq for the productivity grant awarded to ELA, PFML and UPA and CAPES for the scholarship granted to ISF. We also thank Mr. Antônio Nunes for the assistance provided in the field during the data collection. This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001.

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Financial support from FACEPE (Foundation for Support of Science and Technology) to the Project Núcleo de Pesquisa em Ecologia, conservação e Potencial de Uso de Recursos Biológicos no Semiárido do Nordeste do Brasil (Center for Research in Ecology, Conservation and Potential Use of Biological Resources in the Semi-Arid Region of Northeastern Brazil-APQ-1264-2.05/10).

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  1. Centro de Biociências- Departamento de Botânica, Laboratório de Ecologia e Evolução de Sistemas Socioecológicos, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, PE, CEP: 50670-901, Brazil

    Ivanilda Soares Feitosa & Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

  2. Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Piauí (UFPI), Floriano, PI, CEP: 64800-000, Brazil

    Júlio Marcelino Monteiro

  3. Departamento de Biologia, Laboratório de Ecologia Vegetal de Ecossistemas Naturais, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco (UFRPE), Recife, PE, CEP: 52171-900, Brazil

    Elcida Lima Araújo

  4. Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Natal, CEP: 59078-900, Brazil

    Priscila F. M. Lopes

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Feitosa, I.S., Monteiro, J.M., Araújo, E.L. et al. Optimal Foraging Theory and Medicinal Bark Extraction in Northeastern Brazil. Hum Ecol 46, 917–922 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-018-0037-4

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