Australian Native Plants: Cultivation and Uses in Alternative Medicine and the Food IndustryThis book is an important contribution to the literature of medicinal and nutritional plants. It introduces native food crops that are commercially grown in Australia that possess nutritional a...
Their knowledge of medicinal plants used for treating illness is valuable, and they have a great understanding of the ecology (生态学) of the Amazon rainforest. As a result, they are a great storehouse of the knowledge about the forest. They know the medicinal functions of plants and ...
Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities have been harnessing the powers of native ingredients for tens of thousands of years, by using Indigenous produce – whether sea creatures, land animals, insects or plants – for both food and medicine. Today “bush tucker”, as it’...
As an island continent, Australia experiences diversified climatic conditions, giving a unique botanical diversity with many plants native to Australia. Australian flora including native fruits have been used for many years as food and medicine. Many native fruits have unique qualities and potential uses...
According to the modified clonal selection theory originally postulated by the Australian immunologist Sir Macfarlane Burnet (for which he was awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine), a lymphocyte is potentially able to secrete one particular, specific humoral, or free-circulating, ant...
cairica had been growing, the plants aboveground and most roots in 9 plots were cleared to mimic the real situation when the plants were weeded out artificially. Of the 9 plots, 3 plots were used to sow seeds of P. lobata (63 seeds/2 m2), 3 plots to sow seeds of P. scandens (...
1994a. How environmental and disturbance factors influence species composition in temperate Australian grasslands. Journal of Vegetation Science 5: 373– 384. CrossRef McIntyre S. and Lavorel S. 1994b. Predicting richness of native, rare, and exotic plants in response to habitat and disturbance ...
Toad and Snake avoidance training for fido - for those that want to make sure both your pup and the endangered Sonoran Desert Toad can coexist on the same property. hop to all the links: I've been getting more questions about native plants so some links have been added that are plant...
Dubbed the 'honeypot effect'—a team of scientists from around Australia have shown that providing woody habitat, or 'snags', for native fish in the Murray River increases their population size.
thentraditionalmust beold. One of the most persistent stereotypes of Native peoples is that we live in the past. Anthropologist Beatrice Medicine (Sihasapa Lakota, 1923–2005) used the term “ethnographic present” to describe how tribes are presented in the literature as forever frozen in a pr...