Overview
- Describes the latest research on the most important plants in this region
- Includes biology, anthropology, agronomy, biochemistry, and environmental sciences
- Features contributions by leading scholars from this region
Part of the book series: Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions (ETMORE)
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The field (and thus the market) of ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology has grown considerably in recent years. Student interest is on the rise, attendance at professional conferences has grown steadily
, and the number of professionals calling themselves ethnobotanists has increased significantly (the various societies (Society for Economic Botany, International Society of Ethnopharmacology, Society of Ethnobiology, International Society for Ethnobiology, and many regional and national societies in the field currently have thousands of members). Growth has been most robust in BRIC countries.
The objective of this new MRW on Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions is to take advantage of the increasing international interest and scholarship in the field of mountain research. We anticipate including the best and latest research on a full range of descriptive, methodological, theoretical, and applied research on the most important plants for each region. Each contribution will be scientifically rigorous and contribute to the overall field of study.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Alejandro Casas is a Mexican researcher, with bachelor and master’s degrees in Biological Sciences from the Faculty of Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a doctoral degree in Plant Sciences from the University of Reading, UK. Since 1997 he is fulltime Researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad (Institute of Research on Ecosystems and Sustainability), at UNAM, campus Morelia, in the state ofMichoacán. He is member of the National System of Researchers, with the highest level (level 3). Dr. Casas has conducted research in the following fields: (1) ecology, culture, and evolution of biodiversity under processes of domestication, (2) management of ecosystems and landscape domestication, (3) ecology for the sustainable management of biotic resources and ecosystems, (4) in situ management of genetic resources, and (5) ethnoecology and biocultural heritage. His research group has made theoretical contributions on the evolutionary mechanisms operating on current processes of domestication, as well as on the origins of food production, agriculture, and domestication in the Neotropics. Also, his group has made contributions to understand biocultural processes generating agrobiodiversity and the bases for their conservation, models of sustainable use of non-timber forest products and agroforestry systems. His work has been mainly conducted in regions of Mexico and Peru and has collaborated in studies in Brazil. The results of his research have been published in nearly 200 peer reviewed articles, more than 100 book chapters, and 13 books that have been authored or edited. These and other works can be consulted and downloaded from ResearchGate (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/ Alejandro-Casas/research)
Dr. Casas is section editor of the journals Botanical Sciences Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution and Ethnobotany Research and Applications and member of the Mexican, Latin American, and international societies of botany, ecology, and ethnobiology. He was promoter of the Biosphere Reserve Tehuacán-Cuicatlán, Director of the Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas (CIEco), and promoter of the creation of the Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad (IIES) and the Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores (ENES), UNAM-Morelia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Mexico
Editors: Alejandro Casas, José Juan Blancas Vázquez
Series Title: Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99357-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Reference Module Biomedical and Life Sciences
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99356-6Published: 01 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-99357-3Published: 31 May 2023
Series ISSN: 2523-7489
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7497
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIV, 1583
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations, 499 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography, Plant Anatomy/Development, Plant Physiology, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Plant Pathology