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When alien plants become health hazards: An applied study on toxic and allergenic risks in Italy
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Alien plants are often studied for their ecological harm, but their risks to human and animal health remain poorly documented. This study provides the first comprehensive catalogue of poisonous and allergenic alien plants in Italy, identifying which species are dangerous, where they grow and who is most at risk—from children in city parks to pets and ...
Giulio Barone +3 more
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Bio-Inoved: Jurnal Biologi-Inovasi Pendidikan, 2021 The people of Kandangan Baru Village have traditional wisdom in utilizing plants. The plants are used as medicine or economic materials. One of them is Claoxylon indicum in the Bukit Tamiang Forest, Tanah Laut Regency which can be used as a value of ...
Rahmi Murdiyanti +2 more
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WorldCuP: A database of checklists documenting the World's Cultivated Plants and their distributions
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Human life would be unrecognizable without the benefits of cultivated plants, including crops, ornamentals, or plants with other uses. Despite their importance in daily life and prevalence across landscapes, we know surprisingly little about global cultivated plant distributions.
Nicole L. Kinlock +2 more
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Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2021 Background The phytotherapeutic knowledge of the Kongo people in the territories of Kisantu and Mbanza-Ngungu in Kongo-Central Province (DR Congo) is rapidly eroding.
Kibungu Kembelo Pathy +4 more
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Land, Gendered Labor, and Empire‐Making in Central Sudan
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article offers an analysis of Gulf‐Arab and more specifically Emirati empire‐making in central Sudan, by focusing ethnographic attention on an Emirati‐owned farm in the Gezira region as a key site of capitalist extraction and imperial ambition.
Nisrin Elamin
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Journal of Ethnobiology and EthnomedicineAim Biocultural legacy practices are intricately tied to forestry resources, ethnic identity, and social cohesiveness. This study aims to determine the plant cultural values of forest resources and identify plant cultural indicators in each ethnic group,
Shiekh Marifatul Haq +5 more
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Beings of a Feather: Learning About the Lives of Birds with Amazonian Peoples
Ethnobiology Letters, 2016 This article is a memoir of the author's fieldwork experiences studying traditional knowledge of bird species in the Peruvian Amazon. It describes his growth as a researcher, in light of the practical and methodological challenges of carrying out this ...
Kevin Jernigan
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This paper analyzes two disparate experiences of buprenorphine, a medication for opioid addiction, in California. Within the context of the U.S. War on Drugs and after decades of criminalization, buprenorphine represents a shift toward outpatient medical treatment of opioid addiction, but it has been unequally distributed and experienced ...
Lauren Textor
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Is Ethnobotany an Ecological Science? Steps towards a complex Ethnobotany
Ethnobiology and Conservation, 2012 There are different links between ecology and ethnobotany. In principle, because they have common interests, like the conservation of plant resources. Nevertheless, the consolidation of the ecology as a science of synthesis that is based on the complexity of relationships between organisms and their surroundings, allows the ecology to provide a ...
Hurrell, Julio Alberto +1 more
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Bothalia: African Biodiversity & Conservation, 2011 Metathelypteris burrowsiorum, a new species from Swaziland and a first genus record for southern Africa.
N. R. Crouch
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