Ethnopharmacological survey of medicinal plants used by traditional healers and indigenous people in chittagong hill tracts, bangladesh, for the treatment of snakebite. [PDF]
Snakebites are common in tropical countries like Bangladesh where most snakebite victims dwell in rural areas. Among the management options after snakebite in Bangladesh, snake charmers (Ozha in Bengali language) are the first contact following a snakebite for more than 80% of the victims and they are treated mostly with the help of some medicinal ...
Kadir MF +5 more
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Background: Byttneria herbacea Roxb., family Malvaceae, a branched herb with perennial woody rootstock, known as Samara- khadyam, is available in India. It has been provided with copious therapeutic claims in Indian traditional medical systems as some of them are well-documented as ...
R. Acharya, T. Sharma
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This synopsis presents diagnostic characters and comments on morphological variability, distribution, and conservation of species of Byttnerieae (Malvaceae, Byttnerioideae) from the Atlantic Forest.
Matheus Colli-Silva, José Rubens Pirani
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Medicinal Plants for the Treatment of Local Tissue Damage Induced by Snake Venoms: An Overview from Traditional Use to Pharmacological Evidence. [PDF]
Snakebites are a serious problem in public health due to their high morbimortality. Most of snake venoms produce intense local tissue damage, which could lead to temporary or permanent disability in victims. The available specific treatment is the antivenom serum therapy, whose effectiveness is reduced against these effects.
Félix-Silva J +3 more
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Composition and Host-Use Patterns of a Scarab Beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) Community Inhabiting the Canopy of a Lowland Tropical Rainforest in Southern Venezuela [PDF]
The adult scarab beetle fauna of the canopy in a lowland tropical rainforest in southern Venezuela was observed and collected by means of a 42 m-tall tower crane for a complete year.
Kirmse, Susan, Ratcliffe, Brett C.
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Sterculiaceae endémicas del Perú
La familia Sterculiaceae es reconocida en el Perú por presentar alrededor de 12 géneros y 74 especies (Brako & Zarucchi, 1993; Ulloa Ulloa et al., 2004), principalmente arbustos y árboles.
Blanca León
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Lianas Suppress Seedling Growth and Survival of 14 Tree Species in a Panamanian Tropical Forest [PDF]
Lianas are a common plant growth form in tropical forests, where they compete intensely with trees, decreasing tree recruitment, growth, and survival. If the detrimental effects of lianas vary significantly with tree species identity, as is often assumed,
Andrade +65 more
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Floristic survey of the herbaceous-shrub layer of a gallery forest in Alto Paraíso de Goiás - Go, Brazil [PDF]
Flowering species of the herbaceous and shrubby layer were sampled in a gallery forest at Portal da Chapada, Alto Paraíso de Goiás-GO in the Chapada dos Veadeiros during 12 months growing within 4.5 meters on either side of a raised pathway 2.4 Km long.
Chaves, Eduardo +1 more
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The study was conducted to determine the factors that influenced liana species richness and structure in forests of different disturbance intensities (high, moderate, and low disturbance forests) in the Southern Scarp Forest Reserve, Ghana. Within each forest, lianas (dbh ≥2 cm) were enumerated in six 25 × 20 m2 plots located along transects.
Patrick Addo-Fordjour +6 more
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Cobertura vegetal do Parque Estadual Pantanal do Rio Negro (PEPRN) - MS. [PDF]
Este trabalho tem por objetivo a elaboração do mapa da cobertura vegetal na escala de 1:50.000 do Parque Estadual Pantanal do Rio Negro, MS, para fins de plano de manejo.
ABDON, M. de M. +5 more
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