Urban Ethnobotany is a discipline of relatively recent development, allowing new questions and interesting challenges from both theoretical and methodological point of view. This has become evident from the development of ...

Up until now, the plant pharmacopoeia of the Chayahuita, an ethnic group from the Peruvian Amazon, has been poorly defined. This paper details the uses of medicinal plants within this community, as recorded in two villages ...

A summary is presented of the most important ways in which ferns have been important to humanity. Many of these categories are positive such as the use of ferns for subsistence. On the negative side is their role as weeds ...

Curriculum Maira Fernández Zequeira, Instituto de Ecología y Sistemática, Cuba, especialidad, botánica. Curriculum Maira Fernández Zequeira, Institute of Ecology and Systematics, Cuba, specialty, botany.