Knowledge, use and management of native wild edible plants from a seasonal dry forest (NE, Brazil)

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Cruz, Margarita P ^a,b   Peroni, Nivaldo ^c   Albuquerque, Ulysses P ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b Colombian Society of Ethnobiology ^*  (Colombia)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Consumption; Ethnobotany; Food plants; Human ecology; Rural communities

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; ECOSYSTEM; EDIBLE PLANT; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; SEASON; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREE;

BRAZIL; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; PLANTS, EDIBLE; SEASONS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TREES;

EID: 84888186983     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4269-9-79     Document Type: Article

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