Medicinal Plant Use and Diversity in the Urban Area of Idiofa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02780771241303900" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02780771241303900</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02780771241303900" target="_blank" >10.1177/02780771241303900</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Medicinal Plant Use and Diversity in the Urban Area of Idiofa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Original language description

Medicinal plants are being used by communities worldwide to treat various conditions, diseases, and illnesses. Nevertheless, knowledge of their use is rapidly declining due to factors like accelerated urbanization, globalization, and biodiversity loss. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, deforestation, and urbanization are the main drivers of biodiversity loss. In order to gain insight into how urban communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo use medicinal plants, we conducted an ethnobotanical study in the municipality of Idiofa, Kwilu Province. We conducted 30 semistructured interviews with residents of Idiofa. Medicinal plant use was recorded through free-listing, and data on plants used, administration methods, and sources of used plants were collected. We analyzed use values, informants agreement ratios, plant locations, and plant distributions. In total, we recorded 99 plant species from 46 plant families used in 330 preparations to treat 112 conditions. Anthropized habitats were the primary source of medicinal plants, and the set of plant species collected from these habitats was subject to biotic homogenization, a process whereby native biotas are systematically replaced by cosmopolitan non-natives. The reflection of this biodiversity in the plant use repertoires of our participants suggests that the use of easily accessible plant species is being adopted by the inhabitants of Idiofa. We hypothesize that the loss of natural ecosystems and habitats, along with the homogenization of the present plant biodiversity in anthropized and urban areas, might therefore be important but overlooked drivers of spatial ethnobotanical use and knowledge homogenization.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40101 - Agriculture

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Ethnobiology

ISSN

0278-0771

e-ISSN

0278-0771

Volume of the periodical

neuvedeno

Issue of the periodical within the volume

neuvedeno

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85212143273