RESEARCH ARTICLE Artisans and dugout canoes reveal pieces of Atlantic Forest history LaõÂs Lima de Paula1☯, Michele Dechoum2³, Viviane Stern Fonseca-Kruel3³, 3³ 1,2☯ Neusa Tamaio , Natalia HanazakiID * 1 Programa de PoÂs-GraduacËão em Biologia de Fungos, Algas e Plantas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, FlorianoÂpolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, 2 Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia, Programa de PoÂs- GraduacËão em Ecologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, FlorianoÂpolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, 3 Instituto Jardim BotaÃnico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil a1111111111 ☯ These authors contributed equally to this work. a1111111111 ³ These authors also contributed equally to this work. a1111111111 *
[email protected] a1111111111 a1111111111 Abstract Dugout canoes are boats made from a single tree trunk. Even with the modernization of fish- ing, they are still made and used for artisanal fishing on the coast of southern and southeast- OPEN ACCESS ern Brazil and in other regions of the world. Various tree species are used to construct these Citation: de Paula LL, Dechoum M, Fonseca-Kruel canoes and choosing a species is related to characteristics of the location, available raw VS, Tamaio N, Hanazaki N (2019) Artisans and dugout canoes reveal pieces of Atlantic Forest materials and purpose of the boat. Our objective was to better understand the variation in history. PLoS ONE 14(6): e0219100. https://doi. dugout canoes in relation to tree species, tree size and fishing use, over time, along a org/10.1371/journal.pone.0219100 coastal strip of southern and southeastern Brazil within the Atlantic Forest domain. We inter- Editor: Rainer Bussmann, Missouri Botanical viewed 53 artisans and analyzed 358 canoes that ranged from 1 to around 200 years old.