Aspects of Brazilian Floristic Diversity: From Botany to Traditional Communities

ISBN-13: 9783031074523 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 268 str.

Maria Franco Trindade Medeiros; Bárbara de Sá Haiad

Opis

Aspects of Brazilian Floristic Diversity: From Botany to Traditional Communities offers a unique approach in floristic diversity of the Neotropical region, specifically encompassing the Brazilian flora. This volume combines both theoretical and applied aspects of scientific making knowledge in different perspectives of Botanical Science. In this volume, botanical specialists discuss the many different approaches of taxonomic, reproductive, ecological and ethnobotanical aspects of Brazilian floristic diversity, thereby enlightening the global interest in Neotropical species, in particular those from the Brazilian territory. The book addresses relevant questions from many points of view, including anatomy, reproduction, palinology, conservation and ethnobotany, creating an in-depth perception of the flora in its complexity constitution.

The book provides a comprehensive outlook on Botany Sciences, considering the history and traditional knowledge of plants, and relating it to contemporary problems and concerns of flora conservation today. With this current perspective, this book reaches a vast audience from the research lines of Botany, and encompasses a broader and interdisciplinary understanding of Aspects of Brazilian Floristic Diversity.

Spis treści

SECTION I: ANGIOSPERMS REPRODUCTIVE ASPECTS

CHAPTER 01 – Flowering phenology in a Restinga community: seven years of study

CHAPTER 02 – Dioecy: the dimorphic sexual system and pollination in the restinga vegetation

CHAPTER 03 – Male and female sterility in flowering plants

CHAPTER 04 – Floral glands: morphological and functional diversity

SECTION II: TAXONOMIC ASPECTS

CHAPTER 05 – Phytoplankton taxonomic richness in Brazilian inland waters: a large-scale overview

CHAPTER 06 – Diversity of noxious phytoplankton in Brazilian coastal waters: current knowledge, gaps and future directions

CHAPTER 07 – From Vriesea to Vrieseeae: growing knowledge about evolution and diversification of tillandsioid bromeliads

CHAPTER 08 – The Importance of Palynology to Taxonomy

SECTION III: ECOLOGICAL AND CONSERVATION ASPECTS

CHAPTER 09 – Ecological Palynology

CHAPTER 10 – Serra dos Órgãos National Park (PARNASO) in the history of the first national parks and the national Museum first proposal at 1933

SECTION IV: ETHNOBOTANICAL ASPECTS

CHAPTER 11 – Scientific Exploration Commission (1859-1861): Freire Alemão and the invisible network of collaborators

CHAPTER 12 – The former Imperial Plant Nursery of Quinta da Boa Vista

CHAPTER 13 – The use of medicinal plants by two rural quilombola communities from Piranga municipality, Minas Gerais state, southeastern Brazil

CHAPTER 14 – “‘Mulungu’ is the wood to make the ‘mamulengo’”: The sharing of knowledge between teachers and “mamulengueiros” in a participatory workshop

CHAPTER 15 – Concluding reflections on Aspects of Brazilian Floristic Diversity: From Botany to Traditional Communities

O autorze

Maria Franco Trindade Medeiros, graduated in Biological and Environmental Sciences, Master's and PhD in Biological Sciences (Botany) and Postdoctoral fellow in Botany and Ecology. Educator at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (2012), Federal University of Campina Grande (2013-2018) and National Museum/ Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (since 2018), belonging to its Department of Botany and Postgraduate Program in Biological Sciences (Botany). She has held the Secretariat and Presidency of Brazilian Society of Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology (2009-2010, 2011-2012) and representative of the Ethnobotany Group of the Botanical Society of Brazil (2015-2017). She promoted scientific exhibitions in the Monasteries of São Bento, Brazil (Olinda – PE, 2011; Rio de Janeiro – RJ, 2013) and another one during the National Congress of Botany (Santos – SP, 2015), with the exhibition of items of biocultural collections of some institutions. Her interdisciplinary perspective of investigation searches for a dialog between Ethnoscience, with emphasis on Ethnobotany, History, Museology, Education and Biocultural Heritage.

Bárbara de Sá Haiad is a professor at the Botany Department and at the Postgraduate Program in Biological Sciences (Botany), National Museum/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), supervising Undergraduate, Master's, and Doctoral students. She holds a degree in Biological Sciences (Ecology) from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, a master’s degree and a PhD in Biological Sciences (Botany) from the same University, and a Postdoctoral fellow in Plant Secretory Structures at the São Paulo State University. She is interested on embryophyte morphology, with emphasis on reproductive axis’ anatomy, mainly on floral anatomy, development and floral secretory structures.