Ecological apparency, ethnobotanical importance and perceptions of population status of wild-growing medicinal plants in a reserve of south-central Mexico

• Main Authors: Elinor Josefina López-Patiño (Author), Heike Vibrans (Author), Sergio Moctezuma-Pérez (Author), María Cristina Chávez-Mejía (Author)
• Format: Knjiga
• Izdano: BMC, 2022-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Teme: article
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Abstract Background The apparency hypothesis in ethnobotany (common plants are used more than less frequent ones) has been studied mostly by comparing usefulness with woody plant density, or large plants (trees) with herbs, with uneven results. Here, we explore the hypothesis for wild-growing medici...