Publications by authors named "Marta Maria A Souza"
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- The study combines ethnobotanical and ecological knowledge to identify priority species for conservation in the Chapada Araripe region, focusing on woody medicinal plants.
- A total of 107 species were documented, finding that only 59% in cerrado and 38% in carrasco areas matched with local availability from phytosociological surveys.
- The research highlights a disconnect between the medicinal use of certain species and their real availability, emphasizing the importance of prioritizing conservation efforts to prevent negative impacts on local ecosystems and economies.
Medicinal plants play a crucial role in the search for components that are capable of neutralizing the multiple mechanisms of fungal resistance. (Kunth) O. Berg is a plant native to Brazil used as both food and traditional medicine to treat diseases and symptoms such as stomach ache and diarrhea, whose symptoms could be related to fungal infections from the genus .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study aims to investigate the diversity of native medicinal plants in a caatinga area, verifying the versatility of species and concordance of use among the informants, in the Angico de Cima community, in the city of Aurora, Ceará, Brazil. Ethnobotanical data were obtained through semi-structured interviews with key informants, adopting the snowball technique. The Relative Importance (RI) and Consensus Factor among Informants (ICF) were analyzed to indicate the most versatile species with the highest agreement of use, respectively.
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