Natural regeneration as a tool for large‐scale forest restoration in the tropics: prospects and challenges

RL Chazdon, MR Guariguata - Biotropica, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
A major global effort to enable cost‐effective natural regeneration is needed to achieve
ambitious forest and landscape restoration goals. Natural forest regeneration can potentially …

Theories and major hypotheses in ethnobotany

OG Gaoue, MA Coe, M Bond, G Hart, BC Seyler… - Economic Botany, 2017 - Springer
Ethnobotany has evolved from a discipline that largely documented the diversity of plant use
by local people to one focused on understanding how and why people select plants for a …

[图书][B] Second growth: the promise of tropical forest regeneration in an age of deforestation

RL Chazdon - 2019 - degruyter.com
For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost
exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these “pristine” …

[图书][B] The experiential Caribbean: Creating knowledge and healing in the early modern Atlantic

PF Gómez - 2017 - books.google.com
Opening a window on a dynamic realm far beyond imperial courts, anatomical theaters, and
learned societies, Pablo F. Gomez examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to …

Medicinal plants of the caatinga (semi-arid) vegetation of NE Brazil: a quantitative approach

UP De Albuquerque, PM De Medeiros… - Journal of …, 2007 - Elsevier
The caatinga (semi-arid vegetation) is a Brazilian biome with a significant but poorly studied
biodiversity closely associated with a diverse cultural heritage. The present work focused on …

[图书][B] The Maya forest garden: Eight millennia of sustainable cultivation of the tropical woodlands

A Ford, R Nigh - 2016 - books.google.com
The conventional wisdom says that the devolution of Classic Maya civilization occurred
because its population grew too large and dense to be supported by primitive neotropical …

Biodiversity, traditional medicine and public health: where do they meet?

RRN Alves, IML Rosa - Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine, 2007 - Springer
Given the increased use of traditional medicines, possibilities that would ensure its
successful integration into a public health framework should be explored. This paper …

Ethnomedicinal study of plants used by Sheko ethnic group of Ethiopia

M Giday, Z Asfaw, Z Woldu - Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 2010 - Elsevier
AIM OF THE STUDY: This study was conducted to document and evaluate knowledge on
medicinal plant use by Sheko ethnic group in Southwest Ethiopia. MATERIALS AND …

Re-examining hypotheses concerning the use and knowledge of medicinal plants: a study in the Caatinga vegetation of NE Brazil

UP De Albuquerque - Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine, 2006 - Springer
Abstract Background The Caatinga (dry land vegetation) is one of the most characteristic
vegetation types in northeastern Brazil. It occupies a large percentage of the semi-arid …

The future is written: impact of scripts on the cognition, selection, knowledge and transmission of medicinal plant use and its implications for ethnobotany and …

M Leonti - Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 2011 - Elsevier
AIM OF THE STUDY: Apart from empirically learned medicinal and pharmacological
properties, the selection of medicinal plants is dependent on cognitive features, ecological …