Methods and Techniques in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology

Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, PhDUniversidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Área de Botânica, Departamento de Biologia, Laboratório de Etnobotânica Aplicada, Recife, Pernambuco, BrazilLuiz Vital Fernandes Cruz da Cunha, PhDUniversidade Católica de Pernambuco, Departmento de Ciências Biológicas, Recife, BrazilReinaldo Farias Paiva Lucena, PhDUniversidade Federal da Paraíba, Centro de Ciências Agrárias, Departamento de Fitotecnia e Ciências Ambientais, Setor de Ecologia e Biodiversidade, Laboratório de Etnoecologia, Areia, Paraíba, BrazilRômulo Romeu Nobrega Alves, PhDUniversidade Estadual da Paraíba, Departamento de Biologia, Grupo, Campina Grande, Paraiba, Brazil

• Selection of Research Participants.- Methods and Techniques Used to Collect Ethnobiological Data.- Participatory Methods in Ethnobiological and Ethnoecological Research.- Oral History in Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology.- Procedures for Documentary Analysis in the Establishment of Ethnobiological Information.- Use of Visual Stimuli in Ethnobiological Research.- Methods in Research of Environmental Perception.- Methods for Data Collection in Medical Ethnobiology.- Introduction to Botanical Taxonomy.- Analysis of Vegetation in Ethnobotanical Studies.- Techniques for Collecting and Processing Plant Material and their Application in Ethnobotany Research.- An Introduction to Zoological Taxonomy and the Collection and Preparation of Zoological Specimens.- Sampling in Ethnobotanical Studies of Medicinal Plants.- Indigenous Populations - Some Peculiarities.- Participatory Mapping of the Terrestrial Landscape in Brazil: Experiences and Potentialities.- Chemical Tools Applied to Ethnobotanical Studies.- In vitro and in vivo Antibacterial and Antifungal Screening of Natural Plant Products: Prospective Standardization of Basic Methods.- Urban Ethnobotany: Theoretical and Methodological Contributions.- The Dynamics of Use of Non-traditional Ethnobiological Products: Some Aspects of Study.- Plant Anatomy in Ethnobotanical Research: Micrographic Techniques and Applications.- Methods and Techniques for Research on the Supply Chains of Biodiversity Products.- Methods and Techniques Applied to Ethnobotanical Studies of Timber Resources.- Ethnobiological Research in Public Markets.- Techniques for Analysis of Quantitative Ethnobiological Data: Use of Indices.- Ecological Methods in Ethnobotanical and Ethnobiological Research: Using Diversity Measurements and Richness Estimators.- Principles of Inferential Statistics Applied to Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology.- Problems and Perspectives in the Publication of Ethnobiological Studies.- “Returning” Ethnobiological Research to the Communities.

"This new book is another publication in our discipline reviewing and suggesting methods and procedures for data collection and techniques for data analyses, among other issues. ... The book combines chapters that will be of more interest for natural science researchers with others that will be more useful for social science researchers." (Manuel J. Macia, Economic Botany, Vol. 70 (2), 2016)