A New Application for the Optimal Foraging Theory: The Extraction of Medicinal Plants
A New Application for the Optimal Foraging Theory: The Extraction of Medicinal Plants
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Cairo, Egypt: Hindawi Publishing Corporation
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Cairo, Egypt: Hindawi Publishing Corporation
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The Optimal Foraging Theory was used to identify possible patterns in bark extraction and the selective cutting of Anadenanthera colubrina (Angico), a medicinal plant. The hypotheses were built on two approaches: selection of collection place and bark exploitation occurrence in only one of these resource areas. The results suggest that the distance...
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A New Application for the Optimal Foraging Theory: The Extraction of Medicinal Plants
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TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_3178232
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_3178232
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1741-427X
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1741-4288
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10.1155/2012/364564
