Threatened and less known ethnomedicinal plants of an Indo-Burma hotspot region: Conservation implications

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 178, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 53-62

  Rai, Prabhat Kumar ^a   Lalramnghinglova, H ^a  

^a MIZORAM UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Biodiversity science; Conservation; Ethnomedicinal plants; Sustainable; Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK)

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL RELEVANCE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; ETHNOMEDICINAL PLANTS; HOT SPOT; HUMAN WELFARE; SUSTAINABLE; SUSTAINABLE USE; TRADITIONAL ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE;

CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

BIODIVERSITY;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMONITORING; CONSERVATION STATUS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICINAL PLANT; NEW RECORD; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES INVENTORY; SUSTAINABILITY;

ARTICLE; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG UTILIZATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); INDIA; MEDICINAL PLANT; PLANT MORPHOLOGY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

ADULT; AGED; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

INDIA; MIZORAM;

EID: 79960416609     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-010-1670-6     Document Type: Article

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