Can apparency affect the use of plants by local people in tropical forests?

Interciencia

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 506-511

  De Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino ^a,b   De Lucena, Reinaldo Farias Paiva ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Apparency; Ethnobotany; Medicinal plants

Indexed keywords

EID: 24144485354     PISSN: 03781844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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