Ethnopharmacological relevance We provide an extensive summary of the in vitro
antibacterial properties of medicinal plants popularly used in Mexico to treat infections, and …

AIM OF THE STUDY: Apart from empirically learned medicinal and pharmacological
properties, the selection of medicinal plants is dependent on cognitive features, ecological …

The knowledge systems and practices of Indigenous Peoples and local communities play
critical roles in safeguarding the biological and cultural diversity of our planet. Globalization …

Charles Darwin changed the course of scientific thinking by showing how evolution
accounts for the stunning diversity and biological complexity of life on earth. Recently, there …

Over 30% of the 7,400 languages in the world will no longer be spoken by the end of the
century. So far, however, our understanding of whether language extinction may result in the …

This paper introduces the special feature of Ecology and Society entitled “Traditional
Ecological Knowledge and Global Environmental Change. The special feature addresses …

Somewhere in Africa, more than a million years ago, a line of apes began to rear their young
differently than their Great Ape ancestors. From this new form of care came new ways of …

There is controversy about whether traditional medicine can guide drug discovery, and
investment in bioprospecting informed by ethnobotanical data has fluctuated. One view is …

As biological and linguistic diversity, the world's cultural diversity is on decline. However, to
date there are no estimates of the rate at which the specific cultural traits of a group …

Much research on traditional ecological knowledge (hereafter TEK) has centred in 1)
documenting fading knowledge (eg, Ferguson and Messier 1997; Pieroni et al. 2004), 2) …