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A Comparison of Useful Pteridophytes between Two Amerindian Groups from Amazonian Bolivia and Ecuador

scholarly article by Manuel J Macía published January 2004 in American Fern Journal

Amazon tree dominance across forest strata

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Amerindian and Afro-American Perceptions of Their Traditional Knowledge in the Chocó Biodiversity Hotspot

scientific article published in 2016

An ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plants commercialized in the markets of La Paz and El Alto, Bolivia

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Annual Rainfall and Seasonality Predict Pan-tropical Patterns of Liana Density and Basal Area

Are ecologically important tree species the most useful? A case study from indigenous people in the Bolivian Amazon.

scientific article published on March 2014

Are floristic and edaphic patterns in Amazonian rain forests congruent for trees, pteridophytes and Melastomataceae?

scholarly article by Kalle Ruokolainen et al published January 2007 in Journal of Tropical Ecology

Availability, diversification and versatility explain human selection of introduced plants in Ecuadorian traditional medicine

scientific article published on 8 September 2017

Biogeographical patterns of liana abundance and diversity

scholarly article published 18 October 2014

Challenges and opportunities for the Bolivian Biodiversity Observation Network

Changing indigenous cultures, economies and landscapes: The case of the Tsimane’, Bolivian Amazon

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Chemical composition, nutritional evaluation, and economic prospects ofSpondias purpurea (Anacardiaceae)

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Commonness and rarity determinants of woody plants in different types of tropical forests

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Commonness patterns and the size of the species pool along a tropical elevational gradient: insights using a new quantitative tool

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Congruence between floristic patterns of trees and lianas in a southwest Amazonian rain forest

scholarly article by Manuel J Macía et al published August 2007 in Ecography

Continuity and change in hunting behaviour among contemporary indigenous peoples

Determinants of tree species turnover in a southern Amazonian rain forest

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Disentangling environmental and spatial processes of community assembly in tropical forests from local to regional scales

scientific article published in 2015

Does participatory mapping increase conflicts? A randomized evaluation in the Bolivian Amazon

Ecological community traits and traditional knowledge shape palm ecosystem services in northwestern South America

scholarly article by Rodrigo Cámara Leret et al published December 2014 in Forest Ecology and Management

Economic botany of Spondias purpurea (Anacardiaceae) in ecuador

scholarly article by Manuel J Macía published in October 2000

Economic use of totorilla (Juncus arcticus, Juncaceae) in Ecuador

scholarly article by Manuel J Macía published April 2001 in Economic Botany

Elevation and latitude drives structure and tree species composition in Andean forests: Results from a large-scale plot network

scientific article published on 20 April 2020

Elevational gradients in β-diversity reflect variation in the strength of local community assembly mechanisms across spatial scales

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Elevational range sizes of woody plants increase with climate variability in the Tropical Andes

scientific article published on 27 December 2023

Enhanced land use/cover classification of heterogeneous tropical landscapes using support vector machines and textural homogeneity

Ethnobotanical knowledge is vastly under-documented in northwestern South America

scientific article published on 09 January 2014

Exploring indigenous landscape classification across different dimensions: a case study from the Bolivian Amazon

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Floristic diversity, composition and dominance across Amazonian forest types respond differently to latitude

scientific article published on 16 January 2023

FunAndes – A functional trait database of Andean plants

scientific article published in 2022

Fundamental species traits explain provisioning services of tropical American palms

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Geospatial patterns in traditional knowledge serve in assessing intellectual property rights and benefit-sharing in northwest South America

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Global patterns of tree density are contingent upon local determinants in the world’s natural forests

scientific article published on 13 January 2023

Harvesting of Geonoma macrostachys Mart. leaves for thatch: an exploration of sustainability

scientific article published in 2002

High overlap between traditional ecological knowledge and forest conservation found in the Bolivian Amazon.

scientific article published on 12 March 2018

Indigenous land reconfiguration and fragmented institutions: A historical political ecology of Tsimane' lands (Bolivian Amazon)

Land tenure and forest cover change. The case of southwestern Beni, Bolivian Amazon, 1986–2009

Linking Patterns and Processes of Tree Community Assembly Across Spatial Scales in Tropical Montane Forests

scientific article published in 2020

Local and regional dominance of woody plants along an elevational gradient in a tropical montane forest of northwestern Bolivia

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New categories for traditional medicine in the Economic Botany Data Collection Standard

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Niche breadth of oligarchic species in Amazonian and Andean rain forests

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Oligarchic dominance in western Amazonian plant communities

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Oligarchic patterns in tropical forests: role of the spatial extent, environmental heterogeneity and diversity

Palm Uses in Northwestern South America: A Quantitative Review

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Patterns of Medicinal Use of Palms Across Northwestern South America

Phylogenetic patterns of rarity in a regional species pool of tropical woody plants

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Secular trends on traditional ecological knowledge: An analysis of different domains of knowledge among Tsimane' men

scientific article published on October 2013

Shifting dynamics of climate-functional groups in old-growth Amazonian forests

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Shifts in indigenous culture relate to forest tree diversity: a case study from the Tsimane', Bolivian Amazon.

scientific article published on June 2015

Soil and Geographic Distance as Determinants of Floristic Composition in the Azuero Peninsula (Panama)

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Spatial distribution and floristic composition of trees and lianas in different forest types of an Amazonian rainforest

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Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

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The evolutionary assembly of forest communities along environmental gradients: recent diversification or sorting of pre‐adapted clades?

scientific article published on 11 August 2021

The influence of socioeconomic factors on traditional knowledge: a cross scale comparison of palm use in northwestern South America

scientific article published in 2014

The socioeconomic context of the use of Euterpe precatoria Mart. and E. oleracea Mart. in Bolivia and Peru

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Un Protocole Standard pour la Collecte de Données Ethnobotaniques et les Variables Socio-Economiques sur les Palmiers à Travers les Tropiques

Understanding transmission of traditional knowledge across north-western South America: a cross-cultural study in palms (Arecaceae)

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Woody plant taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity decrease along elevational gradients in Andean tropical montane forests: Environmental filtering and arrival of temperate taxa

scientific article published in July 2024

Woody plants diversity, floristic composition and land use history in the Amazonian rain forests of Madidi National Park, Bolivia

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