Comparison of medicinal plant knowledge between rural and urban people living in the Biosphere Reserve “Bioma Pampa­Quebradas del Norte”, Uruguay: an opportunity for biocultural co...

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Castiñeira Latorre, Elena; Canavero, Andrés; Pochettino, María Lelia
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2018
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The Biosphere Reserve, UNESCO, “Bioma Pampa­Quebradas del Norte”, Rivera Department is an important reservoir of biocultural diversity of Uruguay. With the objective of contributing to its recognition and valuation, we describe the diversity of medicinal plants used by local communities in rural or urban settlements at the Reserve, from a quali­quantitative ethnobotanical approach. We estimated and compared species richness of alien and native medicinal plants mentioned by the 13 urban and 31 rural people in semi­structured interviews selected by snowball sampling. We found that the diversity of medicinal plants comparing urban and rural areas did not present significant differences. However, rural areas report more native species as consequence of a higher environmental offer of medicinal plants and the prevalence of cultural elements of native peoples; in contrast, the construction of homegardens within a pluricultural context in urban areas promotes the incorporation of alien species in the local herbalist. Finally, we emphasize the possibility of integrating the official medicinal system with the traditional medicinal systems based in plants, contributing to the programs of conservation of biocultural heritage and primary health care as posed by the World Health Organization in its Traditional Medicine Strategy 2014­2023.
Laboratorio de Etnobotánica y Botánica Aplicada
Materia
Ciencias Naturales
Ethnobotany
Medicinal Plants
Traditional Knowledge
Alien Species
Rarefaction Curves
Protected Areas
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Comparison of medicinal plant knowledge between rural and urban people living in the Biosphere Reserve “Bioma Pampa­Quebradas del Norte”, Uruguay: an opportunity for biocultural conservation
title Comparison of medicinal plant knowledge between rural and urban people living in the Biosphere Reserve “Bioma Pampa­Quebradas del Norte”, Uruguay: an opportunity for biocultural conservation
spellingShingle Comparison of medicinal plant knowledge between rural and urban people living in the Biosphere Reserve “Bioma Pampa­Quebradas del Norte”, Uruguay: an opportunity for biocultural conservation
Castiñeira Latorre, Elena
Ciencias Naturales
Ethnobotany
Medicinal Plants
Traditional Knowledge
Alien Species
Rarefaction Curves
Protected Areas
title_short Comparison of medicinal plant knowledge between rural and urban people living in the Biosphere Reserve “Bioma Pampa­Quebradas del Norte”, Uruguay: an opportunity for biocultural conservation
title_full Comparison of medicinal plant knowledge between rural and urban people living in the Biosphere Reserve “Bioma Pampa­Quebradas del Norte”, Uruguay: an opportunity for biocultural conservation
title_fullStr Comparison of medicinal plant knowledge between rural and urban people living in the Biosphere Reserve “Bioma Pampa­Quebradas del Norte”, Uruguay: an opportunity for biocultural conservation
title_full_unstemmed Comparison of medicinal plant knowledge between rural and urban people living in the Biosphere Reserve “Bioma Pampa­Quebradas del Norte”, Uruguay: an opportunity for biocultural conservation
title_sort Comparison of medicinal plant knowledge between rural and urban people living in the Biosphere Reserve “Bioma Pampa­Quebradas del Norte”, Uruguay: an opportunity for biocultural conservation
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Castiñeira Latorre, Elena
Canavero, Andrés
Pochettino, María Lelia
author Castiñeira Latorre, Elena
author_facet Castiñeira Latorre, Elena
Canavero, Andrés
Pochettino, María Lelia
author_role author
author2 Canavero, Andrés
Pochettino, María Lelia
author2_role author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias Naturales
Ethnobotany
Medicinal Plants
Traditional Knowledge
Alien Species
Rarefaction Curves
Protected Areas
topic Ciencias Naturales
Ethnobotany
Medicinal Plants
Traditional Knowledge
Alien Species
Rarefaction Curves
Protected Areas
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv The Biosphere Reserve, UNESCO, “Bioma Pampa­Quebradas del Norte”, Rivera Department is an important reservoir of biocultural diversity of Uruguay. With the objective of contributing to its recognition and valuation, we describe the diversity of medicinal plants used by local communities in rural or urban settlements at the Reserve, from a quali­quantitative ethnobotanical approach. We estimated and compared species richness of alien and native medicinal plants mentioned by the 13 urban and 31 rural people in semi­structured interviews selected by snowball sampling. We found that the diversity of medicinal plants comparing urban and rural areas did not present significant differences. However, rural areas report more native species as consequence of a higher environmental offer of medicinal plants and the prevalence of cultural elements of native peoples; in contrast, the construction of homegardens within a pluricultural context in urban areas promotes the incorporation of alien species in the local herbalist. Finally, we emphasize the possibility of integrating the official medicinal system with the traditional medicinal systems based in plants, contributing to the programs of conservation of biocultural heritage and primary health care as posed by the World Health Organization in its Traditional Medicine Strategy 2014­2023.
Laboratorio de Etnobotánica y Botánica Aplicada
description The Biosphere Reserve, UNESCO, “Bioma Pampa­Quebradas del Norte”, Rivera Department is an important reservoir of biocultural diversity of Uruguay. With the objective of contributing to its recognition and valuation, we describe the diversity of medicinal plants used by local communities in rural or urban settlements at the Reserve, from a quali­quantitative ethnobotanical approach. We estimated and compared species richness of alien and native medicinal plants mentioned by the 13 urban and 31 rural people in semi­structured interviews selected by snowball sampling. We found that the diversity of medicinal plants comparing urban and rural areas did not present significant differences. However, rural areas report more native species as consequence of a higher environmental offer of medicinal plants and the prevalence of cultural elements of native peoples; in contrast, the construction of homegardens within a pluricultural context in urban areas promotes the incorporation of alien species in the local herbalist. Finally, we emphasize the possibility of integrating the official medicinal system with the traditional medicinal systems based in plants, contributing to the programs of conservation of biocultural heritage and primary health care as posed by the World Health Organization in its Traditional Medicine Strategy 2014­2023.
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