Towards exploration of plant-based ethno-medicinal knowledge of rural community: Basis for biodiversity conservation in Bangladesh

New Forests

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 243-260

  Chowdhury, Mohammad Shaheed Hossain ^a   Koike, Masao ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Indigenous knowledge; Informants' consensus factor; Medicinal plants

Indexed keywords

ALLIUM SATIVUM; BANGLADESH; BIO-ACTIVE; BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; CONSERVATION STRATEGIES; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; FOREST RESOURCES; GROWTH FORM; INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE; MEDICINAL PLANTS; PHARMACEUTICAL SECTOR; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS; RURAL COMMUNITY; SEXUAL PROBLEM;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; HEALTH CARE;

GENE TRANSFER;

BIOACTIVITY; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ETHNOBOTANY; EXPLORATION; FOREST RESOURCE; HEALTH CARE; MEDICINAL PLANT; PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY; RURAL AREA; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

BANGLADESH;

ALLIUM SATIVUM; EMBLICA;

EID: 77955309077     PISSN: 01694286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11056-010-9197-9     Document Type: Article

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