Asthma costs and social impact

C Nunes, AM Pereira, M Morais-Almeida - Asthma research and practice, 2017 - Springer
In recent decades, both asthma prevalence and incidence have been increasing worldwide,
not only due to the genetic background, but mainly because of the effect of a wide number of …

Caatinga revisited: ecology and conservation of an important seasonal dry forest

UP de Albuquerque, E de Lima Araujo… - The Scientific World …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

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 …

Medicinal plants with bioprospecting potential used in semi-arid northeastern Brazil

SL Cartaxo, MM de Almeida Souza… - Journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
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 …

Medicinal plant knowledge and its erosion among the Mien (Yao) in northern Thailand

K Srithi, H Balslev, P Wangpakapattanawong… - Journal of …, 2009 - Elsevier
ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: We studied local knowledge and actual uses
of medicinal plants among the Mien in northern Thailand, documenting traditional medical …

A new approach to study medicinal plants with tannins and flavonoids contents from the local knowledge

TA de Sousa Araújo, NL Alencar… - Journal of …, 2008 - Elsevier
AIM OF THE STUDY: The present work tested the power of different methodological
strategies for identifying plants that could be interesting in terms of their phenolic …

Avanços nas pesquisas etnobotânicas no Brasil

FC Oliveira, UP Albuquerque… - Acta botanica …, 2009 - SciELO Brasil
A Etnobotânica moderna é produto de mudanças históricas ocorridas dentro e fora da
academia. O trabalho buscou traçar a trajetória dessa disciplina e suas tendências no …

Is the use-impact on native caatinga species in Brazil reduced by the high species richness of medicinal plants?

UP de Albuquerque, RF de Oliveira - Journal of ethnopharmacology, 2007 - Elsevier
A study of the diversity of uses of medicinal plants and the traditional knowledge associated
with the caatinga vegetation was undertaken in the semi-arid region of Pernambuco State …

[PDF][PDF] Dynamics of Brazilian Caatinga–A review concerning the plants, environment and people

E de Lima Araújo, CC de Castro… - Functional …, 2007 - researchgate.net
The Caatinga is a xerophyte, deciduous plant formation that occupies more than 50% of the
northeastern region of Brazil (approximately 800.000 km2). This formation presents a high …

Chronic anthropogenic disturbance causes homogenization of plant and ant communities in the Brazilian Caatinga

JD Ribeiro-Neto, X Arnan, M Tabarelli… - Biodiversity and …, 2016 - Springer
Although chronic anthropogenic disturbance (CAD) represents a significant threat to the
integrity of tropical biotas, few efforts have been made to understand its impacts. We address …