Background The shifting baseline syndrome is a concept from ecology that can be analyzed
in the context of ethnobotanical research. Evidence of shifting baseline syndrome can be …

Background This study aimed to investigate the local botanical knowledge of native food
plants in three rural communities, located in the semiarid region of Paraíba State, Brazil …

Abstract Are Mixtec Forgetting Their Plants? Intracultural Variation of Ethnobotanical
Knowledge in Oaxaca, Mexico. Erosion of ethnobotanical knowledge in indigenous …

People interact with the landscape and use its resources on a daily basis. An ecotope is the
smallest ecological place culturally recognized within a landscape. Many ecotopes reveal …

Abstract The Huasteca region of Mexico is one of the most biologically and culturally diverse
in the country. In this study, we set out to identify and analyze biodiversity knowledge and …

We documented harvesting, food preparation, and toxic risks of the poisonous chamal
cycad, Dioon edule, in San Luis Potosi state, Mexico—one of a handful of places in Latin …

La etnobiología estudia la relación entre los seres humanos y su entorno biológico, esta
relación incluye al cono-cimiento tradicional como un conjunto de saberes milenarios que …

Cycads (Cycadales) are an ancient order of gymnosperms, one family of which is endemic
to Mexico. Historically, although never domesticated, in ancient Mesoamerica and modern …

Chayote (Sicyos edulis) has been identified, based on the concentrations of genetic
diversity, as a cultigen native to southern Mexico and Guatemala. However, a pan …

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