Ethnobiology of Mountain Communities in Asia

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Natural resources and associated biological diversity provide the basis of livelihood for human population, particularly in the rural areas and mountain regions across the globe. Asia is home to the world's highest mountain regions including the Himalayas, Karakorum and Hindukush. These regions are renowned around the globe because of their unique beauty, climate, and biocultural diversity. Because of geoclimatic conditions, the mountains of Asia are medicinal and food plant diversity hot spots. The indigenous communities residing in the valleys of these mountains have their own culture and traditions, and have a long history of interaction with the surrounding plant diversity. Local inhabitants of these mountains areas possess significant traditional knowledge of plant species used as food, medicine, and for cultural purposes. So far, many workers have reported traditional uses of plant species from different regions of Asia including some mountain areas; however, there is not one inclusive document on the ethnobotany of mountains in Asia. This book provides a comprehensive overview on ethno-ecological knowledge and cross cultural variation in the application of plant species among various communities residing in the mountains of Asia; cross cultural variation in traditional uses of plant species by the mountain communities; high value medicinal and food plant species; and threats and conservation status of plant species and traditional knowledge. This book should be useful to researchers of biodiversity and conservation, ethnobiologists, ethnoecologists, naturalists, phytochemists, pharmacists, policy makers, and all who have a devotion to nature.

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Preface.- Afghanistan.- Azerbaijan.- Bangladesh.- Bhutan.- Brunei Darussalam.- Cambodia.- China.- Cyprus.- India.- Indonesia.- Iran.- Iraq.- Israel.- Japan.- Jordan.- Korean.- Kyrgyzstan.- Laos.- Lebanon.- Malaysia.- Mauritius.- Myanmar. -Nepal.- Pakistan.- Palestine.- Philippines.- Russia.- Saudi Arabia.- Singapore.- South Korea.- Sri Lanka.- Taiwan.- Tajikistan.- Thailand.- Turkey.- Uzbekistan.- Vietnam.- Index.List of possible contributors Afghanistan Jens Soelberg, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmarkjso@sund.ku.dk2.           Azerbaijan N. Mehdiyeva, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan, Naiba_m@mail.ru Bangladesh Jamil A. Shilpi, Khulna University, Khulna-9208, Bangladesh, jamilshilpi@yahoo.com Bangladesh Mohammad Fahim Kadir, University of Dhaka, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh, fakaphdu@gmail.com, fahimkadir@yahoo.comBhutan Phurpa Wangchuk, University of Wollongong, Australia, phurpaw@yahoo.com Rinchen Dorji, Fern ethnobotany, rdmagma@gmail.com Brunei Darussalam Norhayati Ahmad, University Brunei Darussalam, norhayati.ahmad@ubd.edu.bn Stuart J. Davies, University Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam, sdavies@oeb.harvard.edu Cambodia Ida Theilade, University of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 25, 1958 Frederiksberg, Denmark, n.turreira@gmail.com, idat@ifro.ku.dk Samnang Nguon, University of Battambang, Sangkat Prek Preah Sdach, Battambang City, Battambang Province, Cambodia, sciencesconf.org:botatropasia China Chunlin Long, Kunming Institute of Botany, Kunming 650201, China, long@mail.kib.ac.cn; chunlinlong@hotmail.comChunyan Yan, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou 510006, PR China, ycybridge@163.com Dayuan Xue, Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, China, fdzh@vip.sina.com; xuedayuan@hotmail.com Fu wu Xing, South China Botanical Garden, Guangzhou 510650, China, xinfw@scib.ac.cn Hu Pan, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Pharmaceutical Development,  Lanzhou 730050, PR China, shangxf928@126.com XIAO Pei-gen, Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Beijing 100193, China, huangluqi@263.net Zhongzhen Zhao, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, China, zhongzhenzhao2@gmail.com Cyprus Andreas Lardos, University of London, 29-39 Brunswick Square, London, andreas.lardos@bluewin.ch Demetra Paraskeva-Hadjichambi, Agricultural Research Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus, d.chadjihambi@cytanet.com.cy India Chandra Prakash Kala, Indian Institute of Forest Management, Madhya Pradesh India, cpkala@yahoo.co.uk D. Dhyani, G.B. Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development, Uttarakhand India, drddhyani@gmail.com Harsh Singh, CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute,  Uttar Pradesh, India, harshchamlegi@gmail.com Hemalatha S, Hindu University, Varanasi-221005, India, shemalatha.phe@itbhu.ac.inMarimuthu Anandharaj, Gandhigram Rural Institute-Deemed University, Tamilnadu, India, birundhashankari@gmail.com anandharaj49@gmail.com Nima D Namsa, Tezpur University, Assam  India, ndnamsa@yahoo.co.in Prakash C. Phondani, G. B. Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development, Kosi-Katarmal, Almora, Uttarakhand, India, prakashphondani@gmail.com Ramachandra Naik M., Kuvempu University, Jnana Sahyadri, Shankaraghatta , Karnataka, rcnaik1@gmail.com Ramandeep Singh, Sunrise University, Rajasthan, India, ramandeep_pharma@yahoo.comSumeet Gairola, CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Jammu 180001, India, sumeetgairola@iiim.ac.in Sobhan Kr. Mukherjee, University of Kalyani West Bengal, India, sobhankr@gmail.com, sobhankr@klyuniv.ac.inIndonesia Marina Silalahi, University Kristen Indonesia, Cawang 13510, Indonesia, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jep.2015.09.009 Iran Abdolbaset Ghorbani, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, bghorbani@itmrc.orgF. Khajoei Nasab, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran, farzaneh.khajoei@yahoo.com Farzaneh Naghibi, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, fnaghibi@itmrc.org, fnaghibi@yahoo.com Mahmoud Rafieian-Kopaei, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran, rafieian@yahoo.com Mohammad Sadegh Amiri, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran, M.S. Amiri@pnu.ac.ir Peyman Rajaei, Islamic Azad University, Kerman, Iran, rajaeipeyman@gmail.com Seyyed Ali Noorhosseini, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran, noorhosseini.sa@gmail.com Iraq Hiwa M. Ahmed, Polytechnic University, Kurdistan, Iraq, hiwa2009@yahoo.com Hugo de Boer, Uppsala University, Norbyvagen 18D, SE75236 Uppsala, Sweden, hugo.deboer@ebc.uu.se Saman A. Ahmad, Sulaimani University, Sulaimani, Kurdistan, Iraq, samanchnaraye@gmail.com Israel Amots Dafni, University of Haifa, Haifa, 31905, Israel, adafni@research.haifa.ac.il Japan Reika Abe, Kochi University, Nankoku, Kochi 783-8502, Japan, reikaabe7@gmail.com Jordan Oraib Nawash, The Royal Botanic Garden, P.O. Box 99, Amman 11910, Jordan, onawash@royalbotanicgarden.com Saleh Al- Quran, Mutah University, Karak, Jordan, salquran@gmail.com Talal Aburjai, University of Jordan, Amman 11942, Jordan, aburjai@ju.edu.jo Korea Homervergel G. Ong, Hallym University, Chuncheon City, Republic of Korea, ydkim@hallym.ac.kr Hyun Kim, Jeonju University, 303 Cheonjam-ro, Wansan-gu, Jeonju 560-759, Republic of Korea, hyunk@jj.ac.kr Kyrgyzstan Zbynek Polesny, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamycka 129, 165 21 Prague 6-Suchdol, Czech Republic polesny@ftz.czuLaos Cory William Whitney, Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences, Germany, cory.whitney@hsrw.eu Djaja Doel Soejarto, University of Illinois at Chicago, dds@uic.edu Lebanon Baydoun SA, Beirut Arab University, Taanayel, Lebanon, safaa.baydoun@bau.edu.lbMalaysia Jamia Azdina Jamal, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Jalan Raja Muda Abdul Aziz, 50300 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, jamia@pharmacy.ukm.my Mongolia Khasbagan, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot 010022, PR China, khasbagan@126.comMauritius M. Fawzi Mahomoodally, University of Mauritius, Reduit, Mauritius,  f.mahomoodally@uom.ac.mu Theeshan Bahorun, University of Mauritius, Réduit, Mauritius, tbahorun@uom.ac.mu Myanmar Young-Dong Kim, Chuncheon City, Republic of Korea, ydkim@hallym.ac.kr Nepal Birendra Malla, Kathmandu University, PO Box 6250, Kathmandu, Nepal, b.malla@nins.edu.np Julie A. Hawkins, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6BX, UK, j.a.hawkins@reading.ac.uk Maan Bahadur Rokaya, Charles University Praha, Czech Republic, rokayamaan@gmail.com Nawal Shrestha, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China, nawalshrestha@gmail.com Rajendra Acharya, Madan Bhandari Memorial Baneshwor, Kathmandu, Nepal, acharya.raj2010@gmail.com Ripu M Kunwar, Ethnobotanical Society

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About Dr. Rainer W. BussmannDr. Bussmann earned his M.Sc. (Diploma) in Biology at Universität Tu¨bingen, Germany, in 1993 and his doctorate at Universität Bayreuth, Germany, in 1994. He is an ethnobotanist and vegetation ecologist, and currently Affiliate Scientist at Museo Nacional de Historia Natural in La Paz, Bolivia, and co-director of Saving Knowledge, La Paz, Bolivia, as well as Principal Scientist at the Department of Ethnobotany, Institute of Botany, Ilia State University, both of which he co-founded. Before retiring from Missouri Botanical Garden, Dr. Bussmann was director of the William L. Brown Center at Missouri Botanical Garden, William L. Brown Curator of Economic Botany, and Senior Curator. Before accepting the directorship of WLBC, he held academic appointments as Research Fellow in Geography and the Environment at University of Texas at Austin from 2006 to 2007, as Associate Professor of Botany and Scientific Director of Harold Lyon Arboretum at University of Hawaii from 2003 to 2006, and as Assistant Professor at University of Bayreuth from 1997 to 2003, following a postdoc at the same institution from 1994 to 1997. He holds affiliate faculty appointments at Washington University St. Louis, USA; University of Missouri St. Louis, USA; Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, USA; Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil; Universidád Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Perú; and at Ilia State University, Republic of Georgia, and serves as external thesis advisor at multiple other universities worldwide. His work focuses on ethnobotanical research, and the preservation of traditional knowledge, in Bolivia, Peru, Madagascar, the Caucasus, and the Himalayas. To date, Dr. Bussmann has authored over 250 peer reviewed papers, over 900 book chapters, and authored or edited over 35 books.Dr. Bussmann is a past President of the Society for Economic Botany and has served as board/council member of the International Society for Ethnopharmacology, Society of Ethnobiology, Botanical Society of America, and International Society of Ethnobiology. See more of his work on his website (https://www.cejaandina.org/rainer-w-bussmann/) and download publications from ResearchGate (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rainer_Bussmann).Dr. Rainer W. BussmannPrincipal Scientist, Department of Ethnobotany, Institute of Botany, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, GeorgiaDirector, Saving Knowledge, La Paz, Boliviarainer.bussmann@iliauni.edu.geAbout Dr. Arshad Mehmood AbbasiDr. Arshad Mehmood Abbasi is working as Assistant Professor of Environmental Sciences at COMSATS University, Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus-Pakistan. Dr. Abbasi received his PhD in Ethnobotanical and Nutraceuticals aspects of plant species of Lesser Himalayas, Pakistan from Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad Pakistan in 2013. He served as post-doctorate research fellow in the School of Food Science in South China University of Technology from 2014-2016. Dr. Abbasi research is mainly focused on: plant resource utilization by mountain communities of Himalayan region of Pakistan with particular reference to ethnobotanical and nutraceuticals aspects. To date Dr. Abbasi has authored 90+ research articles and 4 Book Chapters. Dr. Abbasi has also two international books in his credit: “Medicinal Plant Biodiversity of Lesser Himalayas-Pakistan” and Wild Edible Vegetables of Lesser Himalayas: Ethnobotanical and Nutraceutical Aspects published by Springer, USA in 2012 and 2015, respectively. So far, Dr. Abbasi has been awarded three outstanding research awards by Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan, Best researcher awards (2017 & 2019) by host University and foreign expert certificate by Chinese Government along with many other certificates. Dr. Abbasi is also serving as volunteer editor and reviewer of several journals of international repute including Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicines, Journal of Herbal Medicine, Food Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Biology, European Journal of Medicinal Plants, Pakistan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine and Pakistan Journal of Botany among several others. Dr. Abbasi is also member of International Society of Ethnobiology; Society of Ethnobiology, University of North Texas, USA; American Chemical Society (ASC) and Institutional APIFP Champion: Asia Pacific Institute of Food Professionals.Dr. Arshad Mehmood AbbasiDepartment of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad Abbottabad Campus, 22060 Pakistan Email: Arshad799@yahoo.com 

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• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9783030554934
• Collana: Ethnobiology
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm Ø 846 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: XIV, 439 p. 152 illus., 148 illus. in color.
• Pagine Arabe: 439
• Pagine Romane: xiv