Does the local availability of woody Caatinga plants (Northeastern Brazil) explain their use value?

Economic Botany

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 347-361

  De Lucena, Reinaldo Farias Paiva ^a   Araújo, Elcida De Lima ^a   De Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Caatinga; Ecological "apparency"; Local populations; Quantitative ethnobotany; Tropical forests; Use value

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349143970     PISSN: 00130001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1663/0013-0001(2007)61[347:DTLAOW]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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