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

• Published in: Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências Vol. 89; no. 4; pp. 2675 - 2685
• Main Authors: SANTOS, MARIA O., ALMEIDA, BIANCA V. DE, RIBEIRO, DAIANY A., MACÊDO, DELMACIA G. DE, MACÊDO, MÁRCIA J.F., MACEDO, JULIMERY G.F., SOUSA, FRANCISCA F.S. DE, OLIVEIRA, LIANA G.S. DE, SARAIVA, MANUELE E., ARAÚJO, THATIANE M.S., SOUZA, MARTA M.A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Brazil Academia Brasileira de Ciências 01.10.2017
• Subjects: availability; biodiversity conservation; MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES; therapeutic practices; therapeutic practices; availability; biodiversity conservation

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,...