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New Guinean mangroves — traditional usage and chemistry of natural products

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Mangroves belong to those ecosystems that are presently in danger of being extinguished or at best overexploited over most of their distribution range. They are used a.o. as sources of timber of wood for paper and pulp production or for coastal aquaculture. To fully assess their intrinsic value and to maintain their role in coastal protection as well as their high and at some taxonomic levels still largely unknown biodiversity it appears to be useful to look into other potential uses of mangroves. One of these might lie in the fact that they have been used traditionally as sources of non-wood forest products, food and pharmacological agents. In this presentation we combine ethnobotanical and ethnopharmacological aspects of New Guinean mangroves with information on the natural products chemistry of the same species. So far limited attempts have been made to chemically characterise mangroves in New Guinea. Hence most of the chemical data will be taken from other areas.

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    Gerd Liebezeit

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Liebezeit, G., Rau, M.T. New Guinean mangroves — traditional usage and chemistry of natural products. Senckenbergiana maritima 36, 1–10 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03043698

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