The conservation of native priority medicinal plants in a Caatinga area in Ceará, northeastern Brazil



Título del documento: The conservation of native priority medicinal plants in a Caatinga area in Ceará, northeastern Brazil
Revista: Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias
Base de datos: PERIÓDICA
Número de sistema: 000417607
ISSN: 0001-3765
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Instituciones: 1Universidade Regional do Cariri, Centro de Ciencias Biologicas e da Saude, Crato, Ceara. Brasil
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Periodo: Dic
Volumen: 89
Número: 4
Paginación: 2675-2686
País: Brasil
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Experimental
Resumen en inglés Much of the Brazilian semiarid region faces a considerable process of degradation of natural resources, and ethnobotanical studies have collaborated with important information about the use and traditional knowledge, serving as a tool to design conservation strategies of native plant species. Thus, this study aimed to determine medicinal species meriting conservation priorities in a “Caatinga” area in the northeastern of Brazilian territory. The ethnobotanical data were collected through semi-structured interviews with key subjects selected through the “snowball” technique. The availability and species conservation priority was verified by relative density, risk of collection, local use and use of diversity in the forest fragment sampled. It was recorded 42 native medicinal plants and conservation priority score was calculated for seven species, including Mimosa tenuiflora, Hymenaea courbaril, Ximenia americana and Amburana cearensis need immediate conservation and attention, since their collection does not occur in a sustainable way. In order to ensure the perpetuation of the species and the sustainability of traditional therapeutic practice there needs to be a development of conservation practices of caatinga remaining to better conserve the species of the biome
Disciplinas: Biología
Palabras clave: Ecología,
Etnobotánica,
Plantas medicinales,
Biodiversidad,
Conservación de recursos
Keyword: Ecology,
Ethnobotany,
Medicinal plants,
Biodiversity,
Resource conservation
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