Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Importance of Balanites aegyptiaca (L.) Delile (Zygophyllaceae) in the Ouadi-Rimé Ouadi-achim Wildlife Reserve and Its Surroundings in North-Central Chad
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In Chad, Balanites aegyptiaca is a highly useful species that is conserved by farmers in agroforestry parks, but its long-term survival is under threat. The aim of this study is to understand endogenous knowledge about B. aegyptiaca. Surveys were conducted among local populations. Ethnobotanical surveys were carried out from July to August 2024 among 220 people of two sexes living in the Ouadi-Rimé Ouadi-Achim Wildlife Reserve. The results of these ethnobotanical surveys reveal several methods of exploitation and a good knowledge of the species among the local population. The plant is used in a number of areas, including health and food. The park reserve located in the Sahelian sector is the priority site in terms of repopulating B. aegyptiaca. The soap plant must be the subject of assisted regeneration and protection against over-exploitation throughout its distribution area in Chad.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".