Invisible contaminants and food security in former coal mining areas of Santa Catarina, Southern Brazil [PDF]
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2020 Background Mining activities have environmental impacts due to sediment movement and contamination of areas and may also pose risks to people’s food security.
Graziela Dias Blanco +5 more
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Estudos botânicos nos documentos educacionais: uma análise à luz da Etnobotânica
Revista Insignare Scientia, 2021 Resumo: Este estudo se pauta na investigação de documentos educacionais no âmbito das Ciências da Natureza (CN) identificando e (re)conhecendo como o tema Etnobotânica está descrito e em quais perspectivas pedagógicas está pautado.
Francieli Luana Sganzerla +2 more
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What the iberian conquest bequeathed to us: the fruit trees introduced in argentine subtropic-their history and importance in present traditional medicine. [PDF]
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2013 This contribution presents information about the history of introduction, establishment, and local appropriation of Eurasian fruit trees—species and varieties of the genera Prunus and Citrus—from 15th century in two rural areas of Northern Argentina. By means of an ethnobotanical and ethnohistorical approach, our study was aimed at analysing how this ...
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Do socioeconomic factors and local human preference determine the hybridization of knowledge in local medical systems? [PDF]
Journal of Ethnobiology and EthnomedicineBackground Hybridization between the local medical systems (LMSs) and biomedicine has been the focus of different studies in ethnobiology, primarily due to the increasing access to biomedicine by indigenous peoples and local communities.
Jorge Izaquiel Alves de Siqueira +4 more
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Which approach is more effective in the selection of plants with antimicrobial activity? [PDF]
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2013 The development of the present study was based on selections using random, direct ethnopharmacological, and indirect ethnopharmacological approaches, aiming to evaluate which method is the best for bioprospecting new antimicrobial plant drugs. A crude extract of 53 species of herbaceous plants collected in the semiarid region of Northeast Brazil was ...
Silva AC +7 more
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Functional foods and nutraceuticals in a market of bolivian immigrants in Buenos Aires (Argentina). [PDF]
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2012 This paper presents the results of a research in urban ethnobotany, conducted in a market of Bolivian immigrants in the neighborhood of Liniers, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (Argentina). Functional foods and nutraceuticals belonging to 50 species of 18 families, its products, and uses were recorded.
Pochettino ML +5 more
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Applied ethnobotany to gastric ulcer and pharmacological evaluation of Solanum stipulaceum
Acta Brasiliensis, 2017 The popular knowledge about medicinal plants has helped the bioprospecting strategies of species and directed to a discovery of new pharmacological activities. The aim of this study was to identify medicinal species used against gastric ulcer in the Vila
Cirlane Alves Araújo de Lima +6 more
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The trade in medicinal animals in northeastern Brazil. [PDF]
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2012 Over the centuries, a significant part of the Brazilian fauna is widely sold, more specifically in retail stores or street markets. The objective was to characterize the sale of medicinal animals in five large northeast cities. Information about the sale of zootherapeutic items was obtained in the cities of Aracaju‐SE, Fortaleza‐CE, Maceio‐AL, Recife ...
Ferreira FS +4 more
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Testing a global standard for quantifying species recovery and assessing conservation impact
Conservation Biology, Volume 35, Issue 6, Page 1833-1849, December 2021., 2021 Abstract Recognizing the imperative to evaluate species recovery and conservation impact, in 2012 the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) called for development of a “Green List of Species” (now the IUCN Green Status of Species).
Molly K. Grace +201 more
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Biodiversidade Brasileira, 2012 A investigação e valorização do conhecimento, uso e manejo tradicional de recursos vegetais pode colaborar para a efetividade de unidades de conservação de uso sustentável, pois possibilitam o envolvimento das comunidades locais nos processos de manejo e
Natalia Hanazaki +5 more
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