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 …

The ecology has witnessed a strong conceptual shift regarding the transition from human-
free to human-dominated ecosystems. Nevertheless, human beings are still treated as …

Resilience is related to the ability of a system to adjust to disturbances. The Utilitarian
Redundancy Model has emerged as a tool for investigating the resilience of local medical …

Ethnopharmacological and ethnobotanical approaches are described in the literature as
efficient to identify plants of interest for phytochemical and pharmacological studies. In the …

The interaction of people with the natural environment is ancient. Humans have great power
to transform the natural environment and to interfere with the food chain and the processes …

The interest in theoretical frameworks that improve our understanding of social-ecological
systems is growing within the field of ethnobiology. Several evolutionary questions may …

Ethnopharmacological relevance This study sought to understand the role of plants and
animals in traditional medical systems and evaluate the capacity of these systems to absorb …

Background This study aims to understand how the stem bark of Stryphnodendron
rotundifolium Mart. is used by a rural community in the savanna of Northeastern Brazil …

Much of the Brazilian semiarid region faces a considerable process of degradation of natural
resources, and ethnobotanical studies have collaborated with important information about …

The utilitarian redundancy model (URM) is one of the recent contributions to ethnobiology.
We argue that URM can be applied to access use-pressure on plant species, the resilience …