Mónica García-Barriuso

TL;DR: It is affirmed that the folk medicine is still very much alive in the Arribes del Duero-ARD, above all as regards the treatment of certain common afflictions or unimportant ailments.

TL;DR: The collection and consumption of wild (including naturalized) and semi-domesticated (cultivated and reverted to wild status, and neglected cultivated plants for food) edible plants in the rural communities of the Arribes del Duero (western Spain) were analysed.

TL;DR: The plant resources still used, or that have been used up until recently, for the treatment of the health and comfort of animals in a region in the central-western part of the Iberian Peninsula, the Arribes del Duero are analyzed.

TL;DR: The traditional use of 22 vascular plants as remedies to prevent or treat external parasites, and control mosquitoes, flies and other nuisance insects in the Arribes del Duero Natural Park may be paramount in the control of potential populations of vectors of emerging diseases in the Mediterranean region without harming the environment.

TL;DR: Examples of polyploids in other genera support the idea that this phenomenon, and in particular infrageneric polyploidy, may have contributed to the evolutionary diversification of orchids in the Iberian Peninsula.