Overview
- Editors:
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Reinaldo Farias Paiva de Lucena
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Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, Federal University of Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil
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Denise Dias da Cruz
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Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, Federal University of Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil
- Gives the latest research on the most important plants for this mountainous region
- Written by experts from different fields
- Heavily illustrated
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About this book
Research in recent years has increasingly shifted away from purely academic research, and into applied aspects of the discipline, including climate change research, conservation, and sustainable development. It has by now widely been recognized that “traditional” knowledge is always in flux and adapting to a quickly changing environment. Trends of globalization, especially the globalization of plant markets, have greatly influenced how plant resources are managed nowadays. While ethnobotanical studies are now available from many regions of the world, no comprehensive encyclopedic series focusing on the worlds mountain regions is available in the market. Scholars in plant sciences worldwide will be interested in this website and its dynamic content.
The field (and thus the market) of ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology has grown considerably in recent years. Student interest is on the rise, attendance at professional conferences has grown steadily, and the n
umber of professionals calling themselves ethnobotanists has increased significantly (the various societies (Society for Economic Botany, International Society of Ethnopharmacology, Society of Ethnobiology, International Society for Ethnobiology, and many regional and national societies in the field currently have thousands of members). Growth has been most robust in BRIC countries.
The objective of this new MRW on Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions is to take advantage of the increasing international interest and scholarship in the field of mountain research. We anticipate including the best and latest research on a full range of descriptive, methodological, theoretical, and applied research on the most important plants for each region. Each contribution will be scientifically rigorous and contribute to the overall field of study.
Table of contents (113 entries)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xxviii
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Regions
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- Henrique Fernandes de Magalhães, Ernane Nogueira Nunes, Bartolomeu Israel de Souza, Ramon Santos Souza, Denise Dias da Cruz, Reinaldo Farias Paiva de Lucena
Pages 3-22
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Plant Uses and Ecosystems
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- Luciana Vitor da Silva Sousa, Letícia Zenóbia de Oliveira Campos, Alessandra Freire de Oliveira Martins, Ernani Machado de Freitas Lins Neto
Pages 25-42
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- Carlos Henrique Tavares Mendes, Maria Lorena da Silva, Paula Thayanne da Mata, Marcelo Alves Ramos, Taline Cristina Silva
Pages 43-57
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- Maiara Bezerra Ramos, Kamila Marques Pedrosa, Sérgio de Faria Lopes
Pages 59-71
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- José Rodrigues de Almeida Neto, Roseli Farias Melo de Barros
Pages 73-87
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- Érica Andrade de Vieira, Cristiani Viegas Brandão Grisi, Nataly Albuquerque dos Santos, Angela Maria Tribuzy de Magalhães Cordeiro
Pages 89-104
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- Cristiani Viegas Brandão Grisi, Polyana dos Santos Ferreira, Nataly Albuquerque dos Santos, Angela Maria Tribuzy de Magalhães Cordeiro
Pages 105-115
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- Rejane Magalhães de Mendonça Pimentel, Clébio Pereira Ferreira, Milena Dutra da Silva, Maria das Graças Santos das Chagas, Janaína Vital de Albuquerque, Luiz Henrique Gonçalves da Silva
Pages 117-128
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Plant Profiles
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Front Matter
Pages 129-129
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- Kamila Marques Pedrosa, Camilla Marques de Lucena, Ramon Santos Souza, Denise Dias da Cruz, Reinaldo Farias Paiva de Lucena
Pages 131-135
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- Maria Luíza Dias Correia, Ramon Santos Souza, Denise Dias da Cruz, Reinaldo Farias Paiva de Lucena
Pages 137-141
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- Maria Luíza Dias Correia, Ramon Santos Souza, Denise Dias da Cruz, Reinaldo Farias Paiva de Lucena
Pages 143-146
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- Ezequiel da Costa Ferreira, Ramon Santos Souza, Denise Dias da Cruz, Reinaldo Farias Paiva de Lucena
Pages 147-153
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- Ezequiel da Costa Ferreira, Ramon Santos Souza, Denise Dias da Cruz, Reinaldo Farias Paiva de Lucena
Pages 155-160
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- João Everthon da Silva Ribeiro, Ramon Santos Souza, Denise Dias da Cruz, Reinaldo Farias Paiva de Lucena
Pages 161-164
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- João Everthon da Silva Ribeiro, Ernane Nogueira Nunes, Ramon Santos Souza, Denise Dias da Cruz, Reinaldo Farias Paiva de Lucena
Pages 165-169
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- Maria Luíza Dias Correia, Ramon Santos Souza, Denise Dias da Cruz, Reinaldo Farias Paiva de Lucena
Pages 171-176
About the editors
Dr. Reinaldo Farias Paiva de Lucena has a degree in Licentiate and Bachelor in Biological Sciences from the State University of Paraíba (2002), Master's (2005) and Doctorate (2009) in Botany from the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (UFRPE). He completed a Postdoctoral internship (2014-2015) at the Ecosystems Research Institute and Sustainability at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelia campus. Between 2009 and 2020 he was a professor and researcher at the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB). Since December 2020 he has been an associate professor and researcher at the Institute of Biosciences at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS). Currently he is a supervisor of the Master's/Doctorate in Development and Environment Network (PRODEMA) at UFPB on Campus I (João Pessoa) and a permanent professor in the Graduate Programs in Natural Resources at UFMS (master's degree) and in the Graduate Program in Plant Biology at UFMS (master's degree). Furthermore he served as Research Associate at the Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis in the United States (2014-2018). He works as a consultant for Capes, Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel in the Environmental Sciences Area and Advisor to the Rector of the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul. He is a Director of Agrotec: bioeconomy in agribusiness, Embrapii unit of UFMS. He is interested in researching on topics: climate change, management and domestication of genetic resources, evolutionary ethnobiology, bioeconomics, and use and conservation of biodiversity in Brazilian biomes.
Dr. Denise Dias da Cruz has a degree in Licentiate and Bachelor in Biological Sciences (2000) from the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Masters (2003) and Doctorate (2007) in Ecology from the State University of Rio de Janeiro. She completed a postdoctoral internship at the Department of Botany at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Currently she is Associate Professor at the Department of Systematics and Ecology at the Federal University of Paraíba, teaching courses in the field of Ecology at undergraduate and graduate levels (PRODEMA - Regional Graduate Program in Development and Environment/UFPB). She is supervisor of the Master's/Doctorate in the PRODEMA
and editor-in-chief of Gaia Scientia. She has experience in Ecology, with an emphasis on Plant Ecology and Ethnobotany, working mainly on the following topics: phenology, reproductive biology, pollination, animal/plant interaction, and more recently, landscape ecology and ecosystem services. Since 2010, she has been develo** research in the area of ethnobotany and its relationship with the conservation of plant resources.