What is it about?
This article evaluates the status of understory plant species in terms of threat from human harvesting for medicines and other uses. The threat assessment was conducted to make a decision about what species may require restoration action to bring densities back to the natural, undisturbed state. It found that two out of the three species assessed need restoration interventions to return abundances and distributions to the natural state.
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Why is it important?
This is one of the few examples illustrating the threat paused by harvesting for non-timber forest products to understory plants in tropical forests.
Perspectives
Assessment of the threat paused by harvesting of forest understory plants for non-timber forest products are rare. Therefore, restoration needs for such species may remain unnoticed. This is one example showing that such evaluations are needed in the quest to prevent local extinctions of such species from occurring.
Dr William Olupot
Nature and Livelihoods
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This page is a summary of: Evaluating the status of forest understory plants on high demand in an “open access” setting for restoration and community engagement, Heliyon, April 2019, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e01468.
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