Biological and cultural bases of the use of medicinal and food plants

Evolutionary Ethnobiology

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 175-184

  Júnior, Washington Soares Ferreira ^a   De Oliveira Campos, Letícia Zenóbia ^a   Pieroni, Andrea ^b   Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GASTRONOMIC SCIENCES   (Italy)

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EID: 84955724005     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-19917-7_13     Document Type: Chapter

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