What’s in a name? Revisiting medicinal and religious plants at an Amazonian market

Abstract Background In spite of an increasing number of ethnobotanical market surveys in the past decades, few studies compare changes in plant species trade over time. The open-air market Ver-o-Peso (VOP) in Belém, located near the mouth of the Amazon River in the state of Pará, Brazil, is known fo...

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Main Authors: Isabela Pombo Geertsma, Mariana Françozo, Tinde van Andel, Mireia Alcántara Rodríguez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-02-01
Series:Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13002-021-00433-4