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The Validity Ethnobotany Book of Claoxylon indicum in the Bukit Tamiang Forest Area, Tanah Laut Regency

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, Sri Amintarti, Dharmono Dharmono   +2 more
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Looking backward to move forward: Enhancing metadata in scientific collections through interdisciplinary collaboration

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Early modern herbaria house important and useful data on historic environments. However, their contents are often inhospitable to scientific use. Despite this challenge, once their contents have been deciphered, such specimens present novel research opportunities.
Madeline E. White, Stephen A. Harris
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Ethnobotanical characterization of medicinal plants used in Kisantu and Mbanza-Ngungu territories, Kongo-Central Province in DR Congo

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, Nzuki Bakwaye Flavien, Belesi Katula Honoré, Wouter Vanhove, Van Damme Patrick   +4 more
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Perspectives and behaviors surrounding planting practices in North America inform genetic conservation realities for American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius)

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
American ginseng is a shade‐obligate, North American medicinal plant that is widely traded and used internationally. To meet global demand, ginseng is cultivated in forest farms in the Appalachian region of the USA and field‐based artificial shade farms in two regions: Ontario, Canada and Wisconsin, USA. We conducted social research leveraging in‐depth
Rachel E. Palkovitz, Mary K. Shenk, Eric P. Burkhart   +2 more
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Plant cultural indicators of forest resources from the Himalayan high mountains: implications for improving agricultural resilience, subsistence, and forest restoration

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Aim 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, Aadil Abdullah Khoja, Muhammad Waheed, Andrea Pieroni, Manzer H. Siddiqui, Rainer W. Bussmann   +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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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, Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino de   +1 more
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Governance and infrastructure as pillars of performance: A socio‐ecological analysis of Ethiopian botanical gardens

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
While botanical gardens are often perceived merely as recreational spaces for a weekend walk, in the Global South, they are true lifelines for nature and for the people who depend on it. Our research in Ethiopia explored what actually keeps these gardens running long‐term.
Getahun Hassen, Haile Ketema, Getahun Haile, Mitiku Muanenda   +3 more
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Pteridophyta–Thelypteridaceae

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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Correction to: Ethnobotanical characterization of medicinal plants used in Kisantu and Mbanza-Ngungu territories, Kongo-Central Province in DR Congo

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2021
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.
Kibungu Kembelo Pathy, Nzuki Bakwaye Flavien, Belesi Katula Honoré, Wouter Vanhove, Patrick Van Damme   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source