Dynamics of medicinal plants knowledge and commerce in an urban ecosystem (Pernambuco, Northeast Brazil)

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 178, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 179-202

  Monteiro, Julio Marcelino ^a   Ramos, Marcelo Alves ^b   Araújo, Elcida De Lima ^b   Amorim, Elba Lúcia Cavalcanti ^c   Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PIAUÍ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Ethnobotany; Semiarid; Traditional markets

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; DATA SETS; ETHNOBOTANY; MEDICINAL PLANTS; NORTHEAST BRAZIL; NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL; PERNAMBUCO; QUANTITATIVE TOOL; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; SEASONALITY; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS; SEMIARID; SPECIES RICHNESS; TRADITIONAL MARKETS; TREE SPECIES; URBAN ECOSYSTEM;

BIODIVERSITY; CLAY PRODUCTS; COMMERCE; CONSERVATION; EMPLOYMENT; FORESTRY;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BIODIVERSITY; ETHNOBOTANY; HERB; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICINAL PLANT; SPECIES RICHNESS; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; URBAN ECOSYSTEM;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTIVATED SPECIES; DRUG INDICATION; ECOSYSTEM; ETHNOBOTANY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MARKETING; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; PLANT MORPHOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; URBAN AREA;

BIODIVERSITY; BRAZIL; CITIES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

BIODIVERSITY; CLAY; COMMERCE; CONSERVATION; EMPLOYMENT; FORESTRY; PLANTS;

BRAZIL; PERNAMBUCO;

EID: 79960406422     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-010-1681-3     Document Type: Article

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