Ethnobotanical knowledge is vastly under-documented in northwestern South America.

A main objective of ethnobotany is to document traditional knowledge about plants before it disappears. However, little is known about the coverage of past ethnobotanical studies and thus about how well the existing literature covers the overall traditional knowledge of different human groups. To br...

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Main Authors: Rodrigo Cámara-Leret, Narel Paniagua-Zambrana, Henrik Balslev, Manuel J Macía
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3887111?pdf=render