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Research in recent years has increasingly shifted away from purely academic research and into applied aspects of the discipline, including climate change research, conservation, and sustainable development. It has by now widely been recognized that "traditional" knowledge is always in flux and adapting to a quickly changing environment. Trends of globalization, especially the globalization of plant markets, have greatly influenced how plant resources are managed nowadays. While ethnobotanical studies are now available from many regions of the world, no comprehensive encyclopedic series focusing on the world's mountain regions is available in the market. Scholars in plant sciences worldwide will be interested in this website and its dynamic content.
The field (and thus the market) of ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology has grown considerably in recent years. Student interest is on the rise, attendance at professional conferences has grown steadily, and the number of professionals calling themselves ethnobotanists has increased significantly (the various societies (Society for Economic Botany, International Society of Ethnopharmacology, Society of Ethnobiology, International Society for Ethnobiology, and many regional and national societies in the field currently have thousands of members). Growth has been most robust in BRIC countries.
The objective of this new reference work on the ethnobotany of mountain regions is to take advantage of the increasing international interest and scholarship in the field of mountain research. The publisher anticipates including the best and latest research on a full range of descriptive, methodological, theoretical, and applied research on the most important plants for each region. Each contribution will be scientifically rigorous and contribute to the overall field of study.
Dr Reinaldo Farias Paiva de Lucena has a degree in Licentiate and Bachelor in Biological Sciences from the State University of Paraiba (2002), a Master's (2005) and a Doctorate (2009) in Botany from the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (UFRPE). He completed a Postdoctoral internship (2014-2015) at the Ecosystems Research Institute and Sustainability at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Morelia campus. Between 2009 and 2020 he was a professor and researcher at the Federal University of Paraiba (UFPB). Since December 2020 he has been an associate professor and researcher at the Institute of Biosciences at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS). Currently, he is a supervisor of the Master's/Doctorate in Development and Environment Network (PRODEMA) at UFPB on Campus I (Joao Pessoa) and a permanent professor in the Graduate Programs in Natural Resources at UFMS (master's degree) and in the Graduate Program in Plant Biology at UFMS (master's degree). Furthermore, he served as a Research Associate at the Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis in the United States (2014-2018). He works as a consultant for Capes, Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel in the Environmental Sciences Area and Advisor to the Rector of the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul. He is a Director of Agrotec: bioeconomy in agribusiness, Embrapii unit of UFMS. He is interested in researching topics: climate change, management and domestication of genetic resources, evolutionary ethnobiology, bioeconomics, and the use and conservation of biodiversity in Brazilian biomes.
Dr Denise Dias da Cruz has a degree in Licentiate and Bachelor in Biological Sciences (2000) from the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Masters (2003) and Doctorate (2007) in Ecology from the State University of Rio de Janeiro. She completed a postdoctoral internship at the Department of Botany at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Currently, she is an Associate Professor at the Department of Systematics and Ecology at the Federal University of Paraiba, teaching courses in the field of Ecology at undergraduate and graduate levels (PRODEMA - Regional Graduate Program in Development and Environment/UFPB). She is a supervisor of the Master's/Doctorate in the PRODEMA and editor-in-chief of Gaia Scientia. She has experience in Ecology, with an emphasis on Plant Ecology and Ethnobotany, working mainly on the following topics: phenology, reproductive biology, pollination, animal/plant interaction, and more recently, landscape ecology and ecosystem services. Since 2010, she has been developing research in the area of ethnobotany and its relationship with the conservation of plant resources.
