Sebsebe Demissew

TL;DR: The first public product of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is its Conceptual Framework as discussed by the authors, which will underpin all IPBES functions and provide structure and comparability to the syntheses that will produce at different spatial scales, on different themes, and in different regions.

TL;DR: The notion of nature's contributions to people (NCP) was introduced by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) as mentioned in this paper, a joint global effort by governments, academia, and civil society to assess and promote knowledge of Earth's biodiversity and ecosystems and their contribution to human societies.

TL;DR: The documented medicinal plants can serve as a basis for further studies on the regions medicinal plants knowledge and for future phytochemical and pharmacological studies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors described 15 major vegetation types in Ethiopia and mapped the potential distribution of the 15 natural vegetation types based on many years of field work by the two senior authors (Ib Friis and Sebsebe Demissew).

TL;DR: This work would not have been possible without the collaboration of all the informants, who shared with us their knowledge and helped on the authors' gathering trips.