- ScholarSpace Home
- →
- Department of Botany
- →
- Browsing Department of Botany by Title
JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.
Browsing Department of Botany by Title
-
(Botany Department, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2012)Quantitative ethnobotanical analysis of indigenous use and management practices of wild edible plants (WEPs) by transhumant and settled farmers was conducted to compare WEPs and associated indigenous knowledge (IK). Household ...
-
(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2010)An ethnomedicinal survey conducted in two sub-districts (upazillas) each of three districts of Bangladesh revealed that there is both inter- and intra-district variation between the choices of medicinal plants selected by ...
-
(Botany Department, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2012)We compare cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) diversity, local knowledge and management practices in two eastern Indonesian populations that differ both ecologically and socioculturally (Nuaulu on the island of Seram, and ...
-
(Botany Department, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2012)The plant kingdom is a producer of poisons from a variety of toxic species. Nevertheless prevention of plant poisonings in Argentina is disregarded. As children are more affected, an evaluation of the dangerous plants ...
-
(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2005)Richard Evans Schultes, padre de la etnobotánica moderna, arribó a Colombia en 1941 y emprendió durante 50 años la más extensa y completa investigación de la flora y las culturas indígenas en el noroeste amazónico colombiano. ...
-
(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2005)Richard Evans Schultes, the father of modern ethnobotany, arrived in Colombia in 1941. Over a period of 50 years, Schultes carried out the most extensive research of his era on the plants and cultures of the Colombian part ...
-
(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2006)Maianthemum G. Weber ex Wigg. (Liliaceae) is a popular wild vegetable in Southwest P.R. China, the consumption and trade of which has recently been stimulated by local government polices and increasing tourism. We interviewed ...
-
(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2011)An integrated approach of participatory rural appraisal (PRA), participatory environmental valuation (PEV), household survey, group discussions and forest walks with knowledgeable people was used in an ethnobotanical survey ...
-
(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2010)Malaria continues to be a major health challenge worldwide especially due to the increasingly fast development of resistance of Plasmodium falciparum to the drugs currently in use. A total of 17 plant species belonging to ...
-
(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2007)An early English explorer of North America, Captain John Smith reported use of a wild food called mattoume by native inhabitants of Virginia. Botanical identification of mattoume has been a mystery. In an attempt to solve ...
-
(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2004)Fifty years ago Carl Sauer suggested, controversially and on the basis of theory rather than evidence, that South-east Asia was the source area for agriculture throughout the Old World, including the Pacific. Since then, ...
-
(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2005)The study of cultivated plants from markets places can reveal interesting information on the interactions and relationships between people and plants. Despite this, cultivated plants are often overlooked and not vouchered ...
-
(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2005)The current status of medicinal plants used by traditional Vaidyas was studied in Uttaranchal state of India. Information was gathered using semi-structured questionnaires among 60 traditional Vaidyas. They were questioned ...
-
(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2009)Banana phytoliths are considered a suitable tool in archaeology to track the history of the human populations involved in banana cultivation and dispersal throughout the tropical world. This study is confined to an initial ...
-
(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2006)Enset plant diversity and maintenance were investigated through interviews, quantitative and qualitative plant morphological analysis, nutritional analysis and field observations. Forty-two enset varieties were identified ...
-
Do They Really “Know Nothing”? An inquiry into ethnobotanical knowledge of students in Arizona, USA (University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2010)Recent research indicates differences in what children know and how they learn about plants when compared to their parents and grandparents. Ethnobotanical research was conducted with students in Ajo, Arizona, U.S.A, a ...
-
(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2009)
-
(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2005)Use of traditional medicine is prevalent among rural communities of Africa. They have immense knowledge on ethno-medicine but its use is rapidly diminishing partly due to lifestyle changes and exposure to Western ideologies. ...
-
(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2004)
-
(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2008)Some Nigerian medicinal plants are popular among traditional producers of phytotherapies in the treatment of sexually related infections. For this study we used modified agar disk, agar spot and agar well-diffusion methods, ...