Besides its extreme climate conditions, the Caatinga (a type of tropical seasonal forest)
hosts an impressive faunal and floristic biodiversity. In the last 50 years there has been a …

Given the importance of studying the knowledge, beliefs, and practices of migrant
communities to understand the dynamics of plant resource use, we reviewed the scientific …

OBJECTIVES: Many species of the Caatinga flora are used as medicines in local
communities. In recent decades, the knowledge and use of these species has been …

Abstract The Inclusion and Selection of Medicinal Plants in Traditional Pharmacopoeias—
Evidence in Support of the Diversification Hypothesis. An ethnobotanical study with …

Local people's perceptions of plant species are an important source of information on
species distribution and rarity, as well as long-term vegetation change. This study involves …

Background Growing interest is on food tree species in general, and particularly indigenous
fruit tree species in developing countries since they are inherent to most tropical landscapes …

Wood fuel remains the most widely used domestic fuel amongst resource poor groups in
many low-income countries, despite the environmental and health problems associated with …

The ecological apparency hypothesis in ethnobotanical studies predicts that the apparent
plants (ie, the most easily found in the vegetation) would be the most commonly collected …

Caatinga (dryland) plants used as fuel by rural communities were examined to verify the
criteria that determined the preference and use of each species, as well as the techniques …

Ethnobiology as a discipline has evolved increasingly to embrace theory‐inspired and
hypothesis‐driven approaches to study why and how local people choose plants and …