Medicinal plants and cultural variation across dominican rural, urban, and transnational landscapes

Traveling Cultures and Plants: The Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacy of Human Migrations

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages 14-38

  Ososki, Andreana L ^a,b   Balick, Michael J ^c   Daly, Douglas C ^b  

^a The New York Botanical Garden ^*  (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC BOTANY   (United States)

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