What matters when prioritizing a medicinal plant? A study of local criteria for their differential use

What matters when prioritizing a medicinal plant? A study of local criteria for their differential use

ABSTRACT The ethnobotanical literature lacks joint analyses of the factors that may influence the differential use of medicinal plants. This study intends to fill that void by evaluating the local criteria for the differential use of medicinal plants in a rural community in Northeastern Brazil. We c...

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Main Authors:	Carina Silva Santos, Fernanda Novais Barros, Marcelo de Paula, Juliana Rando, Viviany Teixeira do Nascimento, Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Sociedade Botânica do Brasil 2018-02-01
Series:	Acta Botânica Brasílica
Subjects:	differential use evolutionary ethnobiology human ecology socio-ecological systems traditional ecological knowledge
Online Access:	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-33062018000200297&lng=en&tlng=en

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