This book opens readers' eyes to the enormous resources of the Earth's rain forests and the potential impact of their destruction in terms of human health.
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Provides a comprehensive encyclopedia of essential facts and data with which to enhance research reports and lectures. . . . It provides an excellent introduction for those with an interest in the topic. -- Times Higher Education Supplement
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Michael J. Balick is director and philecology curator at the New York Botanical Garden Institute of Economic Botany, and adjunct professor in forestry at Yale University and the City University of New York.
Elaine Elisabetsky is professor at the Laboratório de Ethnofarmacologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil.
Saraah A. Laird is research fellow at the Rainforest Alliance, and former director of the Rainforest Alliance's Periwinkle Project.
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SOMETIME in prehistory, in the part of the world that is now the country of Peru, a raging storm felled a giant tree that came to rest in a pool of stagnant water. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
buccal sores, official medicinal plants, natural products drug discovery research, forest herbarium, voucher herbarium specimens, biotic samples, plant collection program, pharmaceutical prospecting, biochemical resources, extractive communities, biodiversity prospecting, conserved wildlands, proprietary screens, plantas medicinais, novel lead compounds, medicinal plant research, rain forest products, medicinal plant use, high taxonomic diversity, botanical institutions, novel chemical compounds, chemical prospecting, ethnobotanical data, ethnobotanical research, natural products research Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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SOMETIME in prehistory, in the part of the world that is now the country of Peru, a raging storm felled a giant tree that came to rest in a pool of stagnant water. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
buccal sores, official medicinal plants, natural products drug discovery research, forest herbarium, voucher herbarium specimens, biotic samples, plant collection program, pharmaceutical prospecting, biochemical resources, extractive communities, biodiversity prospecting, conserved wildlands, proprietary screens, plantas medicinais, novel lead compounds, medicinal plant research, rain forest products, medicinal plant use, high taxonomic diversity, botanical institutions, novel chemical compounds, chemical prospecting, ethnobotanical data, ethnobotanical research, natural products research Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Costa Rica, National Cancer Institute, Madre de Dios, Shaman Pharmaceuticals, Economic Botany, Academic Press, Puerto Maldonado, Southeast Asia, University of Illinois, World Bank, New World, South America, World Resources Institute, Ciba Foundation Symposium, Harvard University, Cancer Research, Puerto Rico, Bishop Museum, National Institutes of Health, Arnold Arboretum, Bureau of Census, Conservation International, Missouri Botanical Garden New!
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- Rain Forest (Extraordinary) by Robin Wasserman on page 333, page 402, and page 407
- Economic and Medicinal Plant Research, Volume 6 by H. Wagner on page 134, page 172, and page 218
- Conservation of Medicinal Plants by Olayiwola Akerele on page 218, and page 309
- Plants in the Development of Modern Medicine by Tony Swain on page 217, and page 218
- Methods in Cancer Research by Harris Busch on page 93, and page 136
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- Biodiversity and Human Health by Francesca Grifo on 4 pages
- Political Ecology Across Spaces, Scales, and Social Groups by Susan Paulson on page 253, page 254, and page 255
- Biodiversity: New Leads for the Pharmaceutical and Agrochemical Industries (Special Publication) by S. Wrigley on page 212, and page 223
- Traditional Medicinal Plants and Malaria (Traditional Herbal Medicines for Modern Times) by Merlin Willcox on page 226, and page 227
- So Fruitful a Fish (Biology and Resource Management Series) by Carlos Araujo-Lima in Front Matter
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