Ethnobotany, Traditional Knowledge, and Diachronic Changes in Non-Timber Forest Products Management: A Case Study of Himatanthus drasticus (Apocynaceae) in the Brazilian Savanna1

Economic Botany

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 110-120

  Baldauf, Cristina ^a,b   Maës dos Santos, Flavio Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b Federal University of Semiarid Region (UFERSA)   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cerrado; conservation; ethnoecology; harvesting; janaguba; Medicinal plants

Indexed keywords

APOCYNACEAE; HIMATANTHUS;

EID: 84879249524     PISSN: 00130001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12231-013-9228-5     Document Type: Article

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