Abstract
In order to understand the particular challenges that medicinal plant conservation and management raise at the global level, it is necessary to address issues pertaining their distribution and the environments where they grow. When reviewing medicinal plant studies from eight countries in four regions we found that a high proportion of the reported medicinal plants had wide distributions across countries and continents. Most plants are found wild (40.5%) or naturalized (33.9%), while only 3.3% are cultivated. Since many species are distributed in wild conditions, cultivated and naturalized in several continents, conservation and management interventions would be best served through collaboration between host countries.
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M.Aguilar Støen has received support from the Norwegian Research Council project number 158984/510.
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Aguilar-Støen, M., Moe, S.R. Medicinal plant conservation and management: distribution of wild and cultivated species in eight countries. Biodivers Conserv 16, 1973–1981 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-006-9125-7
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