caa a22 4500 477046487 CHVBK 20180405111331.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19961001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02866520 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02866520 Voeks R. Department of Geography, California State University, 92634, Fullerton, CA aut Tropical Forest Healers and Habitat Preference [Elektronische Daten] [R. Voeks] As Preferências dos Curandeiros nas Matas Tropicals Tropical forests represent repositories of medicinal plant species and indigenous ethnomedical knowledge. These biotic and cognitive resources are threatened by forest removal and culture change. It has, however, yet to be demonstrated quantitatively that tropical pharmacopoeias are concentrated in primary as opposed to disturbed forests, nor that folk ethnomedical knowledge is disappearing. I examined these questions by means of a useful species enumeration of 1-hectare primary and secondary forest plots, and a survey of the regional plant pharmacopoeia of the Atlantic forests of Bahia, Brazil, a region that has witnessed significant human and biological modification. Healers demonstrated a strong preference for disturbed over primary forest. Second growth forest plots yielded 2.7 times the number of medicinal species identified in primary forest plots. The regional survey likewise elicited an ethnoflora characterized by herbaceous, weedy, cultivated, and exotic taxa. These results may reflect the availability and intrinsic medicinal value of disturbance species, as well as the increasing rarity of the region's primary forests. They may also represent the long term outcome of culture change, cognitive erosion, and reformulation of the region's perceived healing flora. The New York Botanical Garden, 1996 ethnomedicine nationallicence primary forest nationallicence secondary forest nationallicence Bahia nationallicence Economic Botany Springer-Verlag 50/4(1996-10-01), 381-400 0013-0001 50:4<381 1996 50 12231 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02866520 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02866520 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Voeks R. Department of Geography, California State University, 92634, Fullerton, CA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Economic Botany Springer-Verlag 50/4(1996-10-01), 381-400 0013-0001 50:4<381 1996 50 12231 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer