Traditional medicinal plant use of indigenous communities in gurage zone, Ethiopia
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41340%2F20%3A85241" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41340/20:85241 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://ethnobotanyjournal.org/index.php/era/article/view/1749" target="_blank" >http://ethnobotanyjournal.org/index.php/era/article/view/1749</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.32859/ERA.19.41.1-31" target="_blank" >10.32859/ERA.19.41.1-31</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Traditional medicinal plant use of indigenous communities in gurage zone, Ethiopia
Original language description
Background, The traditional use of medicinal plants for curing and preventing illnesses has been paramount and widely practiced in Ethiopia for generations. This study was carried out in Gurage zone, Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region, Ethiopia. The study aims to document the state of traditional knowledge related to local plant uses for medicine and examine how the communities value and relate to medicinal plants.Methods, Ethnobotanical data were collected using semi-structured interviews, in which 240 informants were involved. For data analysis, descriptive statistics and ethnobotanical indices, including informant consensus factors (ICF) and use preference were used.Conclusions: The richness of medicinal plant species recorded from the study area reflects the dependence of the communities on plant resources of their natural surroundings. Combined effect of various threatening factors are posing threat as a result widely used medicinal plants are becoming locally rare which calls fo
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
40101 - Agriculture
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Ethnobotany Research and Applications
ISSN
1547-3465
e-ISSN
1547-3465
Volume of the periodical
19
Issue of the periodical within the volume
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Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
33
Pages from-to
1-33
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85090754621