Transforming ethnobotany for the new millennium
Transforming ethnobotany for the new millennium
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DOI：
10.2307/2399968
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发表时间：
1996-01-01
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Balick, MJ
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作者：
Balick, MJ
在过去的几十年里，民族植物学已经从一个主要关注在特定地理区域或单个部落中列出有用植物的学科发展成为一个多学科的奋进，专注于了解植物和人之间的关系。民族植物学家参与的项目范围从社区一级的种质资源保护到多国生物多样性勘探。对民族植物学重新产生的兴趣和活动的一个结果是公众对生物科学这一分支的认识有所提高。利用当代民族植物学范式的几个项目进行了讨论，包括在美国西部的原位种质资源保护。这些研究包括墨西哥的民族植物学市场调查、墨西哥的沙巴棕榈资源的管理和利用、新热带地区的定量研究以及萨摩亚与药物开发有关的民族药理学研究。还审查了伯利兹民族植物学项目对研究和保护传统药物以及在伯利兹发展民族生物医学森林保护区的多学科办法。当代民族植物学研究的价值不仅在于它们所解决的研究问题，而且是促进人们对生物多样性价值的认识和支持其保护的一种方式。
In the past several decades, the science of ethnobotany has evolved from a discipline primarily concerned with making lists of useful plants in a particular geographic region or among an individual tribe, to a multidisciplinary endeavor focused on understanding the relationship between plants and people. Ethnobotanists are involved in projects ranging from community level germplasm conservation to multinational biodiversity prospecting. One result of the renewed interest and activity in ethnobotany has been the increased public awareness of this branch of biological science. Several projects utilizing the contemporary ethnobotanical paradigm are discussed, including in-situ germplasm conservation in the western United States. ethnobotanical market surveys in Mexico, the management and use of Sabal palm resources in Mexico, quantitative studies in the Neotropics, and ethnopharmacological studies linked to drug development in Samoa. The Belize Ethnobotany project's multidisciplinary approach to the study and conservation of traditional medicines and the development of an ethno-biomedical forest reserve in Belize are also reviewed. Contemporary ethnobotanical studies have value not only for the research questions they address, but as a way of catalyzing awareness of the value of biological diversity and support for its conservation among a broad range of people.