Selected Guidelines for Ethnobotanical Research

Download or read book Selected Guidelines for Ethnobotanical Research written by Miguel N. Alexiades (ed) and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conducting ethnobotanical research; Protocol for conducting ethnobotanical research in the tropics; Professional ethics and ethnobotanical research; Collecting ethnobotanical data: an introduction to basic concepts and techniques; Collecting plant specimens; Standard techniques for collecting and preparing herbarium specimens; Collecting palm specimens; Recommendations for collecting mushrooms; Guidelines for collecting bryophytes; Collecting bulk specimens: methods and environmental precautions; Quantitative methods in ethnobotanical fieldwork; Some quantitative methods for analyzing ethnobotanical knowledge; Behavioral orientations toward ethnobotanical quantification; Beyond nomenclature and use: a review of ecological methods for ethnobotanists.