The relationship between plants used to sustain finches (Fringillidae) and uses for human medicine in southeast Spain
Empreu sempre aquest identificador per citar o enllaçar aquest ítem
http://hdl.handle.net/10045/33187
Títol: | The relationship between plants used to sustain finches (Fringillidae) and uses for human medicine in southeast Spain |
---|---|
Autors: | Belda, Antonio | Peiro, Victoriano | Seva Román, Eduardo |
Grups d'investigació o GITE: | Ecología Espacial y del Paisaje (EEP) | Zoología de Vertebrados |
Centre, Departament o Servei: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Ecología |
Paraules clau: | Fringillidae | Plants | Relationship | Human medical uses |
Àrees de coneixement: | Ecología |
Data de publicació: | 2012 |
Editor: | Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
Citació bibliogràfica: | BELDA, Antonio; PEIRÓ, Victoriano; SEVA, Eduardo. “The relationship between plants used to sustain finches (Fringillidae) and uses for human medicine in southeast Spain”. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine Vol. 2012 (2012), Article ID 360913, 13 pp. doi:10.1155/2012/360913 |
Resum: | We analyzed plants that are traditionally used by wild bird hunters and breeders to capture and promote captive breeding of Fringillidae (finches or songbirds) in the province of Alicante, Spain. The majority of plants used in songbird breeding have medicinal properties in traditional human medicine (48 different uses); thus, another main goal was to show their relationships with human medical uses. We compiled a list of 97 plant species from 31 botanical families that are used to attract finches and identified 11 different use categories for these plants in finch keeping. The most common uses were for trapping birds and as a source of food for birds in captivity. Cannabis sativa has the greatest cultural importance index (CI = 1.158), and Phalaris canariensis (annual canary grass or alpist) was the most common species used to attract Fringillidae and was used by all informants (n = 158). Most of the 97 species are wild plants and mainly belong to the families Compositae, Gramineae, Cruciferae, and Rosaceae and also have medicinal properties for humans. In the study area, the intensification of agriculture and abandonment of traditional management practices have caused the population of many songbirds to decline, as well as the loss of popular ethnographic knowledge. |
Patrocinadors: | This study was supported by the WADI Project (INCO2003-MPC2-015226), financed by the European Commission. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/33187 |
ISSN: | 1741-427X (Print) | 1741-4288 (Online) |
DOI: | 10.1155/2012/360913 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipus: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Drets: | Copyright © 2012 Antonio Belda et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Revisió científica: | si |
Versió de l'editor: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/360913 |
Apareix a la col·lecció: | INV - EEP - Artículos de Revistas INV - ZV - Artículos Científicos |
Arxius per aquest ítem:
Arxiu | Descripció | Tamany | Format | |
---|---|---|---|---|
2012_Belda_Peiro_Seva_ECAM.pdf | 5,02 MB | Adobe PDF | Obrir Vista prèvia | |
Aquest ítem està subjecte a una llicència de Creative Commons Llicència Creative Commons