Reversing extinction trends: new uses of (old) herbarium specimens to accelerate conservation action on threatened species

G Albani Rocchetti, CG Armstrong, T Abeli… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Although often not collected specifically for the purposes of conservation, herbarium
specimens offer sufficient information to reconstruct parameters that are needed to …

Challenges in developing medicinal plant databases for sharing ethnopharmacological knowledge

SS Ningthoujam, AD Talukdar, KS Potsangbam… - Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: Major research contributions in
ethnopharmacology have generated vast amount of data associated with medicinal plants …

Local knowledge and conservation of seagrasses in the Tamil Nadu State of India

AF Newmaster, KJ Berg, S Ragupathy… - Journal of Ethnobiology …, 2011 - Springer
Local knowledge systems are not considered in the conservation of fragile seagrass marine
ecosystems. In fact, little is known about the utility of seagrasses in local coastal …

DNA barcoding discriminates a new cryptic grass species revealed in an ethnobotany study by the hill tribes of the Western Ghats in southern India

S Ragupathy, SG Newmaster… - Molecular ecology …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Our research brought together traditional aboriginal knowledge (TK) and scientific
knowledge (SK) to explore the relationship between scientific and aboriginal systems of …

Sustainability of wild plant use in the Andean Community of South America

L Kor, K Homewood, TP Dawson, M Diazgranados - Ambio, 2021 - Springer
Overexploitation is the second biggest driver of global plant extinction. Meanwhile, useful
plant species are vital to livelihoods across the world, with global conservation efforts …

Advances in ethnobiological field methods

JR Stepp - Field methods, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
This article serves as an introduction for a special issue of Field Methods titled “Field
Methods in Ethnobiology.” The contribution of ethnobiological research to the development …

Ancient plant DNA as a window into the cultural heritage and biodiversity of our food system

NAS Przelomska, CG Armstrong… - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Since the beginning of the ancient DNA revolution in the 1980s, archeological plant remains
and herbarium specimens have been analyzed with molecular techniques to probe the …

Ewé: a web-based ethnobotanical database for storing and analysing data

E do Nascimento Fernandes de Souza, JA Hawkins - Database, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Ethnobotanical databases serve as repositories of traditional knowledge (TK), either at
international or local scales. By documenting plant species with traditional use, and most …

[图书][B] In the herbarium: The hidden world of collecting and preserving plants

MC Flannery - 2023 - books.google.com
How herbaria illuminate the past and future of plant science Collections of preserved plant
specimens, known as herbaria, have existed for nearly five centuries. These pressed and …

The fine scale ethnotaxa classification of millets in southern India

JR Maloles, K Berg, S Ragupathy… - Journal of …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
This research explores variation in minor millets in the context of traditional knowledge (TK)
and scientific knowledge (SK), including ethnobotany genomics, in southern India. In order …