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Flora of Chiapas Part 1. Introduction to the Flora of Chiapas@@@Flora of Chiapas Part 2. Pteridophytes
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The importance of weeds in ethnopharmacology.
TL;DR: Data is presented showing the significant representation of weeds in the medicinal floras of the Highland Maya in Chiapas, Mexico and in the Medicinal flora of Native North Americans as a whole.
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Anthropogenic disturbance and tree diversity in Montane Rain Forests in Chiapas, Mexico
TL;DR: The influence of anthropogenic disturbance on forest structure and composition in the highly populated Montane Rain Forests of northern Chiapas, Mexico was studied, with a high number of understory trees species in QPF, and an impoverished composition in PF.
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Biological diversity in the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, Mexico
Patricia Dávila,Marîa del Coro Arizmendi,Alfonso Valiente-Banuet,José Luis Villaseñor,Alejandro Casas,Rafael Lira +5 more
TL;DR: A general overview of the biological knowledge of the floristic province of the Tehuacan-Cuicatlan Valley in central-southern Mexico is presented in this paper.
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Land use and deforestation in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico
TL;DR: Deforestation rates and land-use changes related to environmental factors (slope angle and soil type), in addition to some local population and economic attributes, were estimated from Landsat MSS satellite images of two municipalities of different sizes and for a greater portion of the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico as discussed by the authors.
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Patterns in species richness and distribution of vascular epiphytes in Chiapas, Mexico
TL;DR: Assessment of regional patterns in the distribution and species richness of vascular epiphytes with an emphasis on forests that differ in altitude and the amount of rainfall in Chiapas confirmed the presumed presence of a belt of high diversity at mid-elevations in neotropical mountains.
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The Lacandon Rain Forest
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a sketch of the physiogeographic features of the Lacandon forest, in general, and of the northern region, in particular, with descriptions of vegetations formations and climate of this region.
9 Applying Succession Models
TL;DR: In this article, an individual tree-based gap model is applied to the specific case of montane forests in Chiapas, Mexico, and shown that the recovery rate of tropical montane forest following disturbance is likely to be very low, even when a source of colonists is assumed to exist nearby.
Survival and growth of tree seedlings in anthropogenically
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of human disturbance on regeneration, survival and growth of naturally established tree seedlings were evaluated during a 3-yr period in three forest stands which varied in frequency and intensity of human disturbances.
Semillas utilizadas para elaborar artesanías
TL;DR: The authors identify, caracterizan, e ilustran, las principales especies botanicas cuyas semillas utiliza la comunidad lacandona en la selva del mismo nombre in el estado de Chiapas, Mexico, for la elaboración de artesanias, principalmente collares y pulseras.
Nuevo registro de Bdallophytum oxylepis (Malvales: Cytinaceae) para Chiapas A new record of Bdallophytum oxylepis (Malvales: Cytinaceae) for Chiapas
TL;DR: The parasitic plant Bdallophytum oxylepis is recorded for the first time in the state of Chiapas, previously known from a few localities in the states of Jalisco, Michoacan, and Oaxaca.