Useful plants of the semi-arid northeastern region of Brazil - A look at their conservation and sustainable use

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 125, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 281-290

  Lucena, Reinaldo F P ^a   Albuquerque, Ulysses P ^a   Monteiro, Júlio M ^a   Almeida, Cecília De Fátima B R ^a   Florentino, Alissandra T N ^a   Ferraz, José Serafim Feitosa ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biological conservation; Caatinga; Non timber resources; Quantitative ethnobotany; Timber resources

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HARDWOODS; PLANTS (BOTANY); TIMBER; VEGETATION;

BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION; NON-TIMBER RESOURCES; QUANTITATIVE ETHNOBOTANY; SEMI-ARID REGION; TIMBER RESOURCES;

CONSERVATION;

BIOFUEL;

BIODIVERSITY; CAATINGA; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ETHNOBOTANY; NATURE CONSERVATION; NONTIMBER FOREST PRODUCT; SEMIARID REGION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SUSTAINABILITY;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; BUILDING MATERIAL; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; PLANT ECOLOGY; RURAL AREA; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SEMIARID CLIMATE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VEGETATION; WOODY PLANT; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DESERT CLIMATE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; PLANT; TREE;

ANADENANTHERA; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; FORESTS; LUMBER; PLANTS; SCHINOPSIS;

BRAZIL; PERNAMBUCO; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANADENANTHERA COLUBRINA; ASTRONIUM URUNDEUVA; SCHINOPSIS BRASILIENSIS;

BIODIVERSITY; BRAZIL; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DESERT CLIMATE; PLANTS; TREES;

EID: 34247631749     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-006-9521-1     Document Type: Article

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