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A Potential Nature-Based Solution to Enhance Calliandra houstoniana var. calothyrsus Seed Germination With Biostimulant: A Case Study of East Kalimantan, Indonesia

open access: yesInternational Journal of Forestry Research
Technological support is needed to ensure the sustainability of Red Calliandra (Calliandra houstoniana var. calothyrsus) as a biomass source for wood pellets.
null Idris   +16 more
doaj   +1 more source

Towards a historical ecology of intertidal foraging in the Mafia Archipelago: archaeomalacology and implications for marine resource management

open access: yes, 2019
Understanding the timing and nature of human influence on coastal and island ecosystems is becoming a central concern in archaeological research, particularly when investigated within a historical ecology framework.
Boivin, N.   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Beyond food and medicine, but necessary for life, too: other folk plant uses in several territories of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
53 p., mapa, tablas, gráfico -- La licencia Creative Commons de los datos que se han utilizado en este artículo es: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/[Background] Ethnobotanical academic research, particularly in European industrialised ...
Bonet, Maria Angels   +7 more
core   +1 more source

A manifesto for plant science education

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 2, Page 422-432, March 2026.
Plants provide oxygen, food, shelter, medicines and environmental services, without which human society could not exist. Tackling pressing and global challenges requires well‐trained plant scientists and plant‐aware individuals. This manifesto provides a practical evidence‐based vision to strengthen plant science education, focussed on five strategic ...
Elizabeth Alvey   +42 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ancient Plant DNA as a Window Into the Cultural Heritage and Biodiversity of Our Food System

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020
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 evolutionary interface of plants and humans.
Natalia A. S. Przelomska   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Medicinal plants used by women in Mecca: urban, Muslim and gendered knowledge [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Background: This study explores medicinal plant knowledge and use among Muslim women in the city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Ethnobotanical research in the region has focused on rural populations and male herbal healers in cities, and based on these few ...
A Begossi   +63 more
core   +1 more source

Use of an Adaptive-Vegetation Model to Restore Degraded Tropical Peat Swamp Forest to Support Climate Resilience

open access: yesLand
Climate change poses significant challenges to ecosystems globally, demanding innovative methods for environmental conservation and restoration. Restoration initiatives require significant amounts of appropriate vegetation that is both adaptive and ...
I. Wayan Susi Dharmawan   +19 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ethics in Ethnobiology Publication

open access: yesEthnobiology Letters, 2012
With the recent multiplication of traditional and electronic venues for publishing in ethnobiology, the social sciences, the life sciences, and related fields, it is increasingly important that authors practice self-diligence to ensure that the contents ...
James R. Welch
doaj   +1 more source

Context and semantics in exchange networks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The NETSEED project deals with strengthening management of agro-biodiversity through social networks using an interdisciplinary method for analyzing how local seed systems impact the diversity of domesticated plants.
Clouvel, Pascal, Martin, Pierre
core  

The construction of biodiversity in conservation policy discourse: A multiscalar analysis

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, Volume 8, Issue 2, February 2026.
This article examines how biodiversity is constructed in conservation policy discourses globally and in biodiversity priority countries, using Africa and Zambia as a case study, through critical discourse analysis and critical insights from political ecology.
Tiza I. Mfuni   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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