Research Article
Ethnobotanical Study on Medicinal Plants Used by the Local Communities of Ameya District, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia
Table 7
Ranking of threats to medicinal plants cited by 11 key respondents (values 1–6: 1 = the least destructive and 6 = the most destructive).
| | Medicinal plant | Respondents (R1–R11) | Total | Rank | | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | R7 | R8 | R9 | R10 | R11 |
| | Agricultural expansion | 5 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 54 | 1st | | Overgrazing | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 48 | 2nd | | Drought | 3 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 46 | 3rd | | Deforestation | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 44 | 4th | | Firewood collection | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 26 | 5th | | Construction use | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 6th |
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