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Fifty plants that changed the course of history
[This] is a beautifully presented guide to the plants that have had the greatest impact on human civilization. Weaving together strands of economic, political, and industrial history, each entry is a fascinating look at the most influential plants known to mankind. -- P. [4] of cover.
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Edible and Useful Plants of the Southwest
All around us there are wild plants useful for food, medicine, and clothing, but most of us don’t know how to identify or use them. Delena Tull amply supplies that knowledge in this book, which she has now expanded to more thoroughly address plants found in New Mexico and Arizona, as well as Texas. Extensively illustrated with black-and-white drawings and color photos, this book includes the following special features: Recipes for foods made from edible wild plantsWild teas and spicesWild plant dyes, with instructions for preparing the plants and dying wool, cotton, and other materialsInstructions for preparing fibers for use in making baskets, textiles, and paperInformation on wild plants used for making rubber, wax, oil, and soapInformation on medicinal uses of plantsDetails on hay fever plants and plants that cause rashesInstructions for distinguishing edible from poisonous berriesDetailed information on poisonous plants, including poison ivy, oak, and sumac, as well as herbal treatments for their rashes
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Wild Apples Are Not That Wild: Conservation Status and Potential Threats of Malus sieversii in the Mountains of Central Asia Biodiversity Hotspot
As one of the global biodiversity hotspots, the mountains of Central Asia are home to a large number of wild fruit species. Although the hotspots are constantly being seriously affected by climate and land-use changes, effective assessments of the impacts of these changes for the dominant species of wild fruit forests, wild apple (Malus sieversii), have been limited. We compiled 8344 occurrence records for wild apple across its whole distribution ranges from field surveys and herbarium and literature records. After data thinning to reduce sampling bias, we used ensemble niche models to project current and future suitable habitats, examined the importance of environmental factors, and assessed whether current national protected areas (PAs) are effective in protecting the suitable habitats. We found that the distribution of wild apple is currently fragmented. Under future scenarios, it would shift 118–227 km towards high latitudes and ~200 m towards high elevations, losing nearly 27–56% of suitable habitats in the south, and gaining some habitats in the north. The increased temperature and expansion of cropland contributed to these shifts. Nevertheless, about 13% of the suitable habitats are covered by existing PAs and less than 25% of suitable habitats will be protected in the future. The cold spots for protecting intact wild fruit forests are located in Xinjiang, China and Kyrgyzstan. Overall, we provide a detailed evaluation of the impacts of climate and land-use changes on current and future distributions of wild apple in Central Asia. Considering that this species faces a greater risk of habitat loss in the south of Central Asia, we advocate developing effective in situ conservation strategies with long-term monitoring that will provide deep insights into the fate of wild fruit forests.
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The Utilization Of Useful Plant Species Based On Socio-Cultural Of Tenganan Pegringsingan Bali Aga Village, District Of Karangasem, Bali
The purposes of this research were to know the composition of useful plant species and their utilization by the community based on socio cultural of Tenganan Pegringsingan Bali Aga Village. This research was an explorative research. The location of this research was in Bukit Kangin, Tenganan Pengringsingan Village, District of Karangasem. There were two kinds of population in this research; they were the plant vegetation and the community of Tenganan Pegringsingan Village. The plant vegetation was all of the plant species in the forest area of Bukit Kangin. Meanwhile, the social culture population was all of the Tenganan Pegringsingan people. The vegetation samples of this research were all the plant species covered by the 100 squares with size 20×20 m2. Meanwhile, the social culture samples were: The Village Officials (5 pax), The Traditional Village Officials (5 pax), The Community Figures (10 pax), Shamans (2 pax), Offering Artisan (2 pax), and The General Community Members (20 pax). The total sample were 44 persons. The data retrieval of this study was using square method. The square placement was done by using systematic sampling technique [11], [12], [13], [14] [15]. The interview, observation and questionnaires were used to retrieve socio-cultural data [16], [17]. Furthermore, the data were analized descriptively. The results of this research were: 1) There were 77 plants species in Bukit Kangin, Tenganan Pegringsingan Village, Sub-District of Manggis, District of Karangasem. Those 77 species on the data were included into 40 families with total of 2.574 individuals; 2) There were 46 species out of the 77 plant species in Bukit Kangin classified as useful for religious offerings (Hindu), medications, food, housing, clothing and industrial needs. For more detail of their utilization, it can be summarized as follows: for religious offerings (Hindu) there were 29 plants species (35.80%), for medications there were 18 plants species (27.70%), for food there were 17 plants species (20.99%), for housing there were 13 plants species (16.05%), for clothing and industrial needs there were 2 plants species; and 3) Based on the category of the plant organs/parts utilization can be summarized as follow leaves utilization were 23 plants species (32.40%), stem utilization were 18 plants species (25.35%), fruits utilization were 22 species (30.99%), flowers utilization were 4 species (5.64%), roots and seeds utilization were 2 plant species (2.81%). It could be recommended a further more specific and in-depth study on the utilization of those plant species is needed to be done.
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Keeping It Living
The European explorers who first visited the Northwest Coast of North America assumed that the entire region was virtually untouched wilderness whose occupants used the land only minimally, hunting and gathering shoots, roots, and berries that were peripheral to a diet and culture focused on salmon. Colonizers who followed the explorers used these claims to justify the displacement of Native groups from their lands. Scholars now understand, however, that Northwest Coast peoples were actively cultivating plants well before their first contact with Europeans. This book is the first comprehensive overview of how Northwest Coast Native Americans managed the landscape and cared for the plant communities on which they depended.
Bringing together some of the world's most prominent specialists on Northwest Coast cultures,Keeping It Livingtells the story of traditional plant cultivation practices found from the Oregon coast to Southeast Alaska. It explores tobacco gardens among the Haida and Tlingit, managed camas plots among the Coast Salish of Puget Sound and the Strait of Georgia, estuarine root gardens along the central coast of British Columbia, wapato maintenance on the Columbia and Fraser Rivers, and tended berry plots up and down the entire coast.
With contributions from ethnobotanists, archaeologists, anthropologists, geographers, ecologists, and Native American scholars and elders,Keeping It Livingdocuments practices, many unknown to European peoples, that involve manipulating plants as well as their environments in ways that enhanced culturally preferred plants and plant communities. It describes how indigenous peoples of this region used and cared for over 300 different species of plants, from the lofty red cedar to diminutive plants of backwater bogs.
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Grasses
Grasses explains the history of our relationship with these humble yet vital plants from the end of the last Ice Age to the present day, exploring how these staple crops bear the mark of human influence more visibly than any other plant and how we, in turn, are motivated to protect green space such as public parks. This symbolic connection must be understood against the background of climate change, since humans will need to find a way to balance their need for grass as food, as living space and potentially even as fuel. Mixing biology, sociology and cultural history, and featuring numerous botanical images as well as many fine examples from art and culture, Grasses is a must-have for gardeners, food lovers and environmentalists alike.
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Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask
Mary Siisip Geniusz has spent more than thirty years working with, living with, and using the Anishinaabe teachings, recipes, and botanical information she shares inPlants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask. Geniusz gained much of the knowledge she writes about from her years as an oshkaabewis, a traditionally trained apprentice, and as friend to the late Keewaydinoquay, an Anishinaabe medicine woman from the Leelanau Peninsula in Michigan and a scholar, teacher, and practitioner in the field of native ethnobotany. Keewaydinoquay published little in her lifetime, yet Geniusz has carried on her legacy by making this body of knowledge accessible to a broader audience.
Geniusz teaches the ways she was taught-through stories. Sharing the traditional stories she learned at Keewaydinoquay's side as well as stories from other American Indian traditions and her own experiences, Geniusz brings the plants to life with narratives that explain their uses, meaning, and history. Stories such as \"Naanabozho and the Squeaky-Voice Plant\" place the plants in cultural context and illustrate the belief in plants as cognizant beings. Covering a wide range of plants, from conifers to cattails to medicinal uses of yarrow, mullein, and dandelion, she explains how we can work with those beings to create food, simple medicines, and practical botanical tools.
Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Askmakes this botanical information useful to native and nonnative healers and educators and places it in the context of the Anishinaabe culture that developed the knowledge and practice.
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