Indigenous knowledge on use values of Karvan district plants, Iran

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• 作者：Habib Yazdanshenas ; Elham Shafeian…
• 刊名：Environment, Development and Sustainability
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：August 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：18
• 期：4
• 页码：1217-1238
• 全文大小：1,209 KB
• 刊物类别：Earth and Environmental Science
• 刊物主题：Environment
  Environmental Management
  Economic Growth
  Ecology
  Economic Geology
  Environmental Economics
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-2975
• 卷排序：18

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Traditional and indigenous knowledge on plants usage is a valuable source of information from cultural and natural perspectives, reflecting society’s complicated and close relationship with the environment. Communities have a valuable source of traditional knowledge on the utilization of natural resources, and it is worth to be documented and preserved for current and future applications. We conducted this research to collect and identify plant species of Karvan District and document the traditional knowledge on their use and consumption values. Regarding the results, 150 plant species are used by local communities, more than 30 % of which are directly consumed as food, 24 % (37 species) are used as medicinal plants, and 16.3 % are applied for decoration purposes; 58.6 % of the species are consumed in the raw form, and the remaining is processed before consumption. Leaves (35 %), seeds (21 %) and flowers (21 %) are the most frequent parts of the plants that are used. High number of young emigrants to industrialized areas in seek of job opportunities is threatening this precious source of indigenous knowledge. Attempts to preserve this empirical source of information by encouraging trans-generational knowledge transmission would help to maintain it for future applications.KeywordsPlant speciesKarvanIndigenous knowledgeUse values