“…As predicted by the utilitarian redundancy model, redundancy contributes to the resilience of a species use system, as the more resources available for a given function, the greater the probability that each function will be met (Albuquerque & Oliveira, 2007; Medeiros et al, 2020; Nascimento et al, 2015). As a basis for comparison, there are some studies that analysed the redundancy of medicinal and timber knowledge systems and found results very similar to ours, both in the number of species for each function (Díaz‐Reviriego et al, 2016; Santoro et al, 2015) and in the Uredit value of medicinal (Medeiros et al, 2020) and firewood plants (Pedraza et al, 2022). Despite the relative scarcity of natural resources characteristic of the vegetation and climate of the Patagonian steppe, based on the URM, we can say that redundancy as an indicator of resilience processes in plant knowledge systems analysed in our study is similar to those found in other socio‐ecological systems, such as those of the Brazilian semiarid region (Medeiros et al, 2020; Pedrosa et al, 2022) and the Bolivian Amazon (Díaz‐Reviriego et al, 2016).…”